EYT Child Self-Regulation & Behaviour Questionnaire (CSBQ)

The Child Self-Regulation & Behaviour Questionnaire (CSBQ) is a parent- or educator-report questionnaire consisting of 33 items pertaining to children’s everyday behaviours related to children’s self-regulation and social development (e.g., ‘persists with difficult tasks’ and ‘waits their turn in activities’). For each item the respondent selects one of five options to indicate whether the statement is ‘Not true’ to ‘Very true’ about the child. This takes approximately 5 minutes to complete per child. The CSBQ produces measures of self-regulation (i.e., behavioural, cognitive and emotional), sociability, externalising, internalising and prosocial behaviour.

The 'Early Years Toolbox' (EYT, for short) is comprised of six brief, engaging game-like assessments of young children’s self-regulation, executive functioning and vocabulary. These games are based on well-established and widely used measures for young children (e.g., go/no-go, dimensional change card sort), yet have been adapted and optimised on the basis of 20+ years of research experience with this age group.

NOTE FOR RESEARCHERS. If using this app for research and/or publication purposes, please cite the following as the original source articles (please feel free to contact us for copies of these articles):

Howard, S. J., & Okely, T. (2015). Catching fish and avoiding sharks: Investigating factors that influence developmentally appropriate measurement of preschoolers’ inhibitory control. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 33(6), 585-596.

Howard, S. J., & Melhuish, E. (2015). An Early Years Toolbox (EYT) for assessing early executive function, language, self-regulation, and social development: Validity, reliability and preliminary norms. Manuscript submitted for publication.