Diligo 2.0: A digital assessment tool for geometric and emotional skills in preschoolers

Preschoolers have to face an important turning point during the introduction to primary school, which requires a set of skills to ease the transition from kindergarten. This transition has an important role on the future development of the child’s personality and academic results. To cope with this challenge, there are some skills that can be assessed and trained in early childhood. Diligo 2.0 is an Agent-Based game developed for Android devices to be a monitoring tool to assess in 5-years-olds, emotional competences and geometric and spatial thinking. These two sets of skills are some of the core abilities useful for the child to successfully access primary school. Diligo 2.0 is also designed to assess the child attitude to engage in slow or fast thinking activities. The assessment of these skills can be both normative and ipsative, depending on the use of it as an inter-individual or an intra-individual comparison assessment tool.