DEVELOPMENT LEVEL OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN POINTS OF THE YOUNG SCHOOL

Abstract

The executive functions are a group of mental processes that enable the achievement of a task or goal. In this paper, the focus are the main three of these functions, which are attention, inhibitory control, and working memory, and their maturity in different stages of the chilean school British Royal School. For this, we divided the tested students into four groups from fifth to twelfth grade, depending on their grade level. Then they, the students, their parents and homeroom teacher each took the Comprehensive Executive Function Inventory (CEFI) in its adapted version, answering about the student in question. The objectives were to determine the development of these and if there were any significant changes in said development, and to see if the three informants´ answers were similar of not. The findings summarized that, there were, in fact, changes in advancement depending on the grades, and also that there were significant differences in each of the informants´ answers in some level grades. These all could be due to the ages of the students, as well as their environment and maturity.