Executive Function Skills Questionnaire & Student Self-Assessment

Support students’ executive functioning with this easy-to-use Executive Function assessment tool designed for both parents and children.

This resource includes a parent questionnaire for teachers and a student self-assessment, giving you a well-rounded picture of a child’s executive function strengths and needs across settings.

Grounded in the 11 Executive Function skills outlined by Dawson & Guare (2018), this tool helps educators better understand how students manage planning, organization, emotional control, attention, and follow-through—skills that are essential for success at school and beyond.

What’s Included:

• Parent Executive Function Questionnaire
  Designed to gather meaningful insights from families about how a child’s executive function skills show up at home.
• Child-Friendly Executive Function Self-Assessment
  Encourages student reflection and self-awareness using developmentally appropriate language.
• Covers 11 Executive Function Skills, including:
  • Response Inhibition
  • Working Memory
  • Emotional Control
  • Flexibility
  • Sustained Attention
  • Task Initiation
  • Planning & Prioritizing
  • Organization
  • Time Management
  • Goal-Directed Persistence
  • Metacognition

Why Teachers Love This Resource:

• Supports IEPs, SST/RTI, and classroom planning
• Encourages home–school collaboration
• Helps identify strengths as well as areas for growth
• Useful for Special Education Resource Teachers (SERT), CYWs, EAs, and Classroom Teachers
• No prep—print and go

Perfect For:

• Primary and junior elementary students
• Students with ADHD, ASD, learning differences, or executive functioning challenges
• Teachers looking for a clear, practical executive function assessment without lengthy scoring systems

Use this Executive Function questionnaire as a starting point for meaningful conversations, goal-setting, and targeted support while empowering students to better understand how their brains work.