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Take the REFS Self-Test
Relative Executive Functioning Skills Self-Test
Executive functioning skills are crucial for students' success both in school and everyday life. These skills include abilities like prioritizing, focusing, organizing, and managing time and emotions. Strong executive functioning skills make it easier to start and complete assignments, stay organized, and manage stress. For students, building these skills can help them achieve their goals with greater confidence and ease.
Our Executive Functioning Self-Test is designed to help students understand their current executive functioning strengths and identify areas where they may benefit from focused improvement.
This self-test gives personalized insights across ten key areas, which are explained in more detail below. While it is a self-assessment tool, optimized for students between ages 12 and 20, and its accuracy is therefore limited by your responses, it has proven to be a valuable resource for identifying relative strengths and weaknesses. Many students find it useful for setting specific, achievable goals in their areas of need.
How It Works:
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Step 1: Click the link below to start the test.
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Step 2: Enter your email address at the beginning of the survey so that we can send you your results.
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Step 3: Complete the self-test to assess your executive functioning skills.
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Step 4: Within 1-2 days of your submission, we’ll send a detailed results report to the email address you provided.
Take the first step towards understanding and improving your executive functioning skills! Click the link below to begin your self-test.
Aim/Prioritization
The ability to set goals, identify the most important tasks, and focus on what matters most to achieve those goals.
Emotional Control
The skill of managing emotions effectively; ability to wilfully control emotions, either to raise or reduce excitement levels.
Inhibition
The skill of controlling impulses and resisting distractions to stay focused on a task.
Task Initiation
The ability to start tasks independently without procrastinating or needing constant reminders.
Shift/Cognitive Flexibility
The ability to adapt to new situations, switch between tasks, and think about problems in different ways.
Working Memory
The capacity to hold and manipulate information in one’s mind while completing tasks or solving problems.
Planning
The skill of breaking down tasks into steps and creating a strategy to complete them efficiently.
Task Completion
Resilience; the commitment to follow through and finish tasks, even when they are challenging or require sustained effort.
Organization of Materials
The ability to keep track of materials, supplies, and personal items to stay prepared and efficient.
Self-monitoring/Reflection
The ability to assess one’s progress, identify mistakes, and adjust strategies to improve performance.
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