Method
Participants
Participants were 30, English-speaking children (13 male) in Grade 2 with a mean age of 7 years and 3 months (range: 6 years, 8 months to 7 years, 9 months). Participants were from a single school in a large Canadian city. Ethics approval was obtained from the ethics committees of both the University of Toronto and the Toronto District School Board. A recruitment letter and parental consent form was sent to the homes of every child in Grade 2. All participants with parental consent participated in the study and provided verbal assent immediately prior to their participation. Only data from neurologically typical children are included in the reported results—neurological state was determined by asking teachers if the participant was formally assessed as neurologically atypical (e.g., assessed as having/being: a mild intellectual disability, Downs Syndrome, on the autism spectrum). The study took place in the first half of the 2013-2014 academic year.
RQ3. Do application complexity and children’s cognitive ability interact?