MEFS™
Minnesota Executive Function Scale
Unlock Your Child’s Potential with MEFS™
Quick, reliable, and research-based, the Minnesota Executive Function Scale helps you understand a child’s cognitive skills and guide meaningful growth every step of the way.
What is MEFS™ App
- The Minnesota Executive Function Scale, or “MEFS™ App,” is a simple, fun-to-use iOS and Android Tablet app that measures Executive Function skills in children as young as age two into adulthood.
The MEFS™ App gives a direct behavioral measure of Executive Function skills.
Originally developed by Dr. Stephanie M. Carlson & Dr. Philip Zelazo for academic research, the benefit to the broader education community was quickly discovered.
Quickly understand and support children’s executive function with reliable, actionable insights.
Early Intervention
The MEFS™ App can be used for children as young as two years old increasing potential for academic and life success!
Efficient
The MEFS™ App offers measurements in less than 5 minutes and private, protected data output is available immediately.
Easy
The MEFS™ App engages children effectively via a “game-like” experience & gives evaluators all necessary tools to administer without guesswork.
Flexible
The MEFS™ App offers benefits across many child-focused entities including parents, teachers, schools, school districts, and clinical researchers.
“Of all the assessment tools we have used, the MEFS™ App is the easiest to use and has the most timely customer service.”
Molly Scott – Teachers College, Columbia University
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Validity of the 
App™
Content
Assesses Executive Functioning skills like working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility in one brief, composite score measure.
Convergent
The MEFS™ App is highly correlated with other Executive Function assessments including the NIH Toolbox Battery of Executive Function Measures, Executive Function Touch Battery, and the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders task. The MEFS™ App is briefer than any other measure; designed for a younger/less advantaged starting point; more sensitive to gradual changes, and normed starting at 24 months of age. The MEFS™ App is the only Executive Function measure supported by training, professional development, intervention activities, and data analytics based on over 100,000 test results.
Divergent
The MEFS™ App is not strongly correlated with IQ, and it predicts outcomes over and above IQ, suggesting it is measuring a distinct construct.
Criterion
The MEFS™ App is not strongly correlated with IQ, and it predicts outcomes over and above IQ, suggesting it is measuring a distinct construct.
External
Children who are known to have difficulty with Executive Function perform more poorly on the MEFS™ App (e.g. socioeconomic disadvantage, ADHD symptoms).
The MEFS™ App Technical Report
Explore the MEFS™ Technical Report on performance outcomes, the 2021 updated norming sample, reliability, validity, correlations, case studies, and more.
Growth Charts
The MEFS™ Growth Charts (monthly and half-yearly versions) are based on our 2021 youth norms.
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