For scoring, the AWMA procedure was applied. For the Forward and Backward Digit Recall tasks
and the Dot Matrix task, this entailed scoring trials as incorrect if children omitted one or more of
the digits/dots, if the sequence was incorrect, or if one or more digits/dots were recalled incorrectly.
If children repeated the first four trials within a block correctly, they automatically received a score of
6 and continued with the next block. Testing stopped after three incorrect trials within one block. The
scores could range from 0 to 42. Identifying the odd-one-out in the Odd-One-Out task was monitored,
but errors were not included in the recall scores. Psychometric quality of the working memory measures
was evaluated by Alloway (2007) and found to be satisfactory (for further details, see also
Automated Working Memory Assessment (AWMA)—Reliability and Validity, 2014).