This document discusses executive functioning and its assessment in psychoeducational domains. It defines executive functioning and outlines key characteristics like initiation, working memory, inhibition and planning. It describes the relationship between executive functioning and intelligence, working memory, and academic skills like reading, writing and math. It cautions that no single test can measure executive functioning and recommends using a framework and multiple measures to assess different domains like verbal productivity, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control. Behavioral questionnaires are also recommended to measure real-world executive functioning.

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