Summary information

Study title

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

Creator

Bayley, S, University of Cambridge

Study number / PID

855929 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-855929 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

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.

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Methodology

Data collection period

27/02/2018 - 23/03/2018

Country

Rwanda

Time dimension

Not available

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Not available

Sampling procedure

Not available

Kind of data

Numeric
Text

Data collection mode

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. Further details of how the tasks were administered are set out in the accompanying documents and description.

Funding information

Grant number

ES/J500033/1

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available for download to users registered with the UK Data Service.

Related publications

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