ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1540817
Computerized Attention Measure: A Web-based Open-source Test Battery to Evaluate Students Attention
Provisionally accepted
Mathieu Pinelli*
Estelle Palluel*
Philippe Dessus
Gwenaelle Joet
Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub
Julien Vincent Brugniaux
Sophie Portrat- Université Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
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Measuring attention at school is essential given the relationship between attention, learning and school achievement. In this paper, we present a new battery called Computerized Attention Measure (CAM), which includes 8 web-based tasks we developed to measure several dimensions of attention that are crucial for school. Two studies were conducted to test the psychometric qualities of the CAM-battery in preteens during school time. In the first study, we studied completion rate, reliability, validity of the CAM and overall behavioural performances in a sample of 646 preteens. A second study involving 202 preteens was conducted to replicate the main findings of Study 1 and to test the psychometric qualities of a new task assessing divided attention. These evaluations of the CAM-battery showed variability in completion, but stable psychometric properties indicated by behavioral performance and internal consistency, while validity was supported by inter-task relationships, supporting its applicability in school settings. Future work will need to be cautious in completion during group sessions to reduce loss of data and to evaluate the stability of results over time with test-retest reliability. Despite some limitations, the CAM-battery appears to meet several important criteria for evaluating preteens' attentional performance in a school setting.
Keywords: Computerized measurement, Attention, Education, cognitive assessment, Preteens
Received: 06 Dec 2024; Accepted: 07 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Pinelli, Palluel, Dessus, Joet, Eichenlaub, Brugniaux and Portrat. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Mathieu Pinelli, Université Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Estelle Palluel, Université Grenoble Alpes, Saint Martin d'Hères, France
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