Fast, playful and accurate: A new cognitive development test for preschoolers
Cognitive development in preschool is an important indicator of school readiness. It is in this period that possible developmental difficulties can be reliably detected and the necessary support can be given to the child in time. In the Czech environment, there is still no consensus on what tools to use for assessing school readiness, and the available methods are not very reliable and tend to be used rather unsystematically. Modern approaches such as adaptive testing and tablet-based administration are common abroad - and it is this gap that a team of Czech researchers, including Hynek Cígler from INPSY, decided to fill with a new tool called Brief Adaptive Nonverbal Test (BANT).