<p>Eye tracking + Posner queuing seems to predict it decently well</p>
<p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205/full" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205/full</a></p>
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<p>Numerous studies conducted within the recent decades have utilized the Posner cuing paradigm for eliciting, measuring, and theoretically characterizing attentional orienting.</p>
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<p>Example of study:</p>
<p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32984203/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32984203/</a></p>
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<p>To elicit endogenous and exogenous shifts of attention, we thus used a modified version of Posner's cueing task. We compared oculomotor performance measured by an eye tracker in a group of 31 children with ADHD (mean age = 9.1 ± 1.3 years) and age-, sex-, and IQ-matched typically developing children [...]</p>
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belkarx
<p>Not affiliated with psychology in any way, so my knowledge is essentially zero.
I am looking for a way to measure change in my ability to focus during a fast. This is simply for a personal experiment.
I had a look online and could not find a standardised tests used in research.</p>
<p>Any help in finding one is appreciated. Thanks</p>
<p>EDIT: edited to clarify that I am not looking for life advice. I am looking for a standardized test used in psychology research to measure my ability to focus (concentration a task?).</p>

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Related: [Neurophysiological indications of focus and motivation](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/8925/7001)
Arnon Weinberg
<test><concentration><standardized>
Is there a standardised test for focus?
TheStressTensor
# Is there a standardised test for focus?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-01-05)

Not affiliated with psychology in any way, so my knowledge is essentially zero.
I am looking for a way to measure change in my ability to focus during a fast. This is simply for a personal experiment.
I had a look online and could not find a standardised tests used in research.

Any help in finding one is appreciated. Thanks

EDIT: edited to clarify that I am not looking for life advice. I am looking for a standardized test used in psychology research to measure my ability to focus (concentration a task?).

**Tags:** test, concentration, standardized

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Related: [Neurophysiological indications of focus and motivation](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/q/8925/7001)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2023-01-06. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Eye tracking + Posner queuing seems to predict it decently well

<https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205/full>

> Numerous studies conducted within the recent decades have utilized the Posner cuing paradigm for eliciting, measuring, and theoretically characterizing attentional orienting.

Example of study:

<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32984203/>

> To elicit endogenous and exogenous shifts of attention, we thus used a modified version of Posner's cueing task. We compared oculomotor performance measured by an eye tracker in a group of 31 children with ADHD (mean age = 9.1 ± 1.3 years) and age-, sex-, and IQ-matched typically developing children [...]


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