A dataset of cognitive tests with various variables for dyslexic children, Iran 2023
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The primary hypothesis posited that the Program for Attentive Rehabilitation of Inhibition and Selective Attention (PARISA) would significantly improve inhibitory control and reading abilities in students with dyslexia. This study's dataset shows all the test results of various cognitive tests measuring inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and reading ability. This data shows that PARISA significantly improves aspects of inhibition control, cognitive flexibility, and reading ability in students with dyslexia. The Excel file of the dataset neatly presents all of the variables and related data for the active control group and the experiment group in the pretest and posttest stages. There are also several separate notepads with raw data for each test and participant. This study employed a semi-experimental design, specifically a pre-test-post-test format with an active control group. The research population comprised Iranian elementary school students aged 8 to 11 years old with dyslexia, sampled in 2023. Using purposive sampling, 30 students (16 girls and 14 boys) from the Tehran metropolitan area were selected. These participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention or active control group. Participants were excluded if they had any documented history of psychiatric, neurological, or developmental disorders, as reported by the admitting institution. The assessment tools utilized in both the pre-test and post-test phases included the Farsi Apra reading test, WCST, the go/no-go test, and the Stroop task. Any willing researcher can interpret this dataset by entering pretest and posttest data for each variable in a data analysis tool. The data is stored in a concise and clear manner for any user. Further, you can check the raw data from notepads and compare it manually with the data stored in the Excel file. For the reading ability test, since the test materials were paper-based and in Farsi, therefore, no analysis can be derived from the data. However, I have put all the data required in the Excel file.
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This study employed a semi-experimental design, specifically a pre-test-post-test format with an active control group. The research population comprised Iranian elementary school students aged 8 to 11 years old with dyslexia, sampled in 2023. Using purposive sampling, 30 students (16 girls and 14 boys) from Tehran metropolitan area were selected. These participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention or active control group. Participants were excluded if they had any documented history of psychiatric, neurological, or developmental disorders, as reported by the admitting institution. The assessment tools utilized in both the pre-test and post-test phases included the Farsi Apra reading test, WCST, the go/no-go test, and the Stroop task. Attentive Rehabilitation of Recognition of Emotional Face (AREF) was implemented on active control group to preserve their inhibition control abilities. The inhibitory control training protocol, known as the Program for Attentive Rehabilitation of Inhibition and Selective Attention (PARISA), was implemented on the experimental group. Apra Farsi reading ability assessment test In this test, the materials are extracted from the list of words found in the Persian books of the first to fifth grade. In this test, participants read a series of cards with Farsi texts. The quality of their reading, pronunciation, speed, accuracy, and the number of mistakes is evaluated. The go/no-go task The go/no-go task has been mostly used to assess the response inhibition. In other words, the inability to inhibit the response to a ‘no-go’ stimulus is regarded as inhibition failure, which is caused by a deficit of attention or an inability in the speed-accuracy interaction. The Stroop task The Stroop task, or color-word test, is a task that measures interference inhibition. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) was devised in 1948 by Grant and Berg as an index of abstract reasoning, concept formation, and response strategies to changing contextual contingencies. This assessment is designed to evaluate cognitive flexibility. Statistical analysis The normality of the data was tested using Kolmogorov-Smirnov (P > 0.05). The normality of error variances was justified by Levene’s test (P > 0.05). The assumption of homogeneity of covariance matrices determined that covariance matrices are equal and the ANCOVA can be calculated. For data analysis, SPSS-27 was used.