Type of Project: In-house project
Plan-A-Day for assessing planning competencies

Description / Topics

With "Plan-A-Day" (PAD), we present a new computerbased diagnostic tool for assessing planning competencies. The instrument is based on classical "daily errands" tasks, but is at the same time optimized with respect to several aspects. Semantic embedding is done according to a working environment. Subjects have to organize tasks like having a talk with a customer in the cafeteria, going to a meeting at the meeting hall, or picking up the daily news at the internal post office. Besides a training unit, there are two daily plans to solve. This repeated measurement should increase reliability of indicators. The different tasks have one of three types of priority (without, with low, and with high priority). The daily tasks are constructed in such a way that you could not solve all tasks for the day. There exists a "Joker" which can be used once during each day and which allows to drastically reduce driving time between the different locations. Based on the data registration during the planning phase, one can construct process oriented measures of planning competencies. This overcomes the current limitations of result oriented measures. The implemented tasks can be easily changed.

Start:

1 Jan 2007


End:

31 Dec 2013


Project Management:

  • Funke, Joachim, Prof. Dr.

Employees:

  • Holt, Daniel, MA, MSc.

Institutions:

Universität Heidelberg
Psychologisches Institut
Hauptstr. 47-51
69117 Heidelberg
Telephone: 06221 547-388 E-Mail: E-mail: joachim.funke@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Homepage: https://www.psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de/ae/allg/...

Funke, J.; Krüger, T. (1995): "Plan-A-Day": Konzeption eines modifizierbaren Instruments zur Führungskräfte-Auswahl sowie erste empirische Befunde. In: Funke, J.; Fritz, A. (Eds.), Neue Konzepte und Instrumente zur Planungsdiagnostik (pp. 97-120). Bonn: Deutscher Psychologen Verlag.

Funke, J. (2003): Problemlösendes Denken. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Rodewald, K., Rentrop, M., Holt, D., Backenstraß, M., Roesch-Ely, D., Funke, J., Weisbrod, M., & Kaiser, S. (2010). Targeting planning and problem-solving versus basic cognition in cognitive remediation for patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 117, 393-394.

Holt, D. V., Rodewald, K., Rentrop, M., Funke, J., Weisbrod, M., & Kaiser, S. (2011): The Plan-a-Day approach to measuring planning ability in patients with schizophrenia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 17, 1-9.

Reference Number:

R/FO1531


Last Update: 15 Nov 2012