The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children

By Philip David Zelazo. Nature Protocols, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Executive function predicts school readiness in autistic and typical preschool children (2017, background): “50** Less is More Note: eDCCS = Dimensional Change Card Sort task (Zelazo, 2006)”
Executive Function Skills and School Success in Young Children Experiencing Homelessness (2012, methodology): “The second EF task, the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS; Zelazo, 2006), assessed cognitive flexibility.”
A Developmental Perspective on Executive Function (2010, methodology): “, Zelazo, P. D., & Lewis, M. D. (2006). Neural”
Latent structure of executive function in five- and six-year-old children: A longitudinal study (2014, neutral): “Dimensional change card sort (DCCS) (Zelazo, 2006).”
Executive function: Reflection, iterative reprocessing, complexity, and the developing brain (2015, methodology): “The IR model builds in part on the Levels of Consciousness model (Zelazo, 2004), the Cognitive Complexity and Control theoryRevised (Zelazo, Muller, Frye, & Marcovitch, 2003), and related theoretical models of EF (e.g., Bunge & Zelazo, 2006; Marcovitch & Zelazo, 2009).”
Executive function in the first three years of life: precursors, predictors and patterns (2016, background): “The most well-established of these attentional set shifting tasks is the Dimensional Change Card Sort Test (DCCS) in which children must switch from sorting cards using one set of dimensions (e.g. sort by colour) to another (e.g. sort by shape) (Zelazo, 2006).”
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011). User's Manual for the ECLS-K:2011 Kindergarten Data File and Electronic Codebook, Public Version. NCES 2015-074. (2015, methodology): “Two measures of executive function were included in fall and spring of kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, and in the spring of third, fourth, and fifth grades: the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) (Zelazo 2006; Zelazo et al. 2013), assessing children’s cognitive flexibility, and the Num”
Specifying Links Between Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind during Middle Childhood: Cognitive Flexibility Predicts Social Understanding (2015, background): “One hundred participants sorted cards facedown into three trays based on specified dimensional rules (similar to Deák, 2003; Hund & Bock, 2009; Zelazo, 2006).”
The Co-Occurring Development of Executive Function Skills and Receptive Vocabulary in Preschool-Aged Children: A Look at the Direction of the Developmental Pathways. (2014, background): “23: 4–21 (2014) DOI: 10.1002/icd 1995; Zelazo, 2006), children were shown target cards that varied along the dimensions of colour and shape (e.g. red and blue, and rabbits and boats).”
Executive Function: Implications for Education. NCER 2017-2000. (2016, methodology): “For example, in the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task (Zelazo 2006), participants are required to match a 9 stimulus flexibly, such as sorting a red rabbit first with a blue rabbit (by shape) and then with a red car (by color).”