Rwanda Primary School Pupils’ Cognitive Flexibility and Learning Outcomes, 2018

This dataset records responses from 306 public primary school children during data collection in Rwanda in 2018. Specifically, each pupil completed two assessments to measure their cognitive flexibility (the Dimension Change Card Sort (DCCS) and Flexible Item Selection Task (FIST)), one measure of their non-verbal reasoning (the Object Pattern-Based Reasoning Assessment (OPRA)) and one measure of their wider executive function and problem-solving skills (the Tower of Hanoi (TOH)). The participants also completed up to four tasks to ascertain their basic reading skills and answered questions from a survey examining different family and background characteristics. All children were assessed and surveyed one-to-one in their mother tongue, Kinyarwanda. Data are only provided for pupils who consented to take part in the research.

本数据集记录了2018年在卢旺达收集数据期间，306名公立小学儿童的应答情况。具体而言，每名学生完成了两项用于评估其认知灵活性（cognitive flexibility）的测试——维度变化卡片分类任务（DCCS）与灵活项目选择任务（FIST），一项评估非言语推理（non-verbal reasoning）的测试——基于物体模式的推理评估（OPRA），以及一项评估更广泛的执行功能（executive function）与问题解决能力的测试——河内塔任务（TOH）。参与者还完成了至多四项旨在确定其基本阅读技能的任务，并回答了一项调查中的问题，该调查旨在考察不同的家庭及背景特征。所有儿童均以其母语基尼亚卢旺达语（Kinyarwanda）接受了一对一的评估与调查。仅提供那些同意参与研究的学生的数据。