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Bialystok, Ellen; Shorbagi, Sadek Hefni – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
In contrast to research that examines the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) and bilingualism on development by comparing clearly disparate groups, the present study investigated the role of subtle differences in these experiences for their joint impact on performance on a verbal fluency task and an executive function (EF) task. The study…
Descriptors: Young Children, Socioeconomic Status, Bilingualism, Differences
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Urlings, Corrie C.; Coppens, Karien M.; Borghans, Lex – Computers in the Schools, 2019
We explored the potential of a robotics application in education as a measurement tool of child executive functioning skills. Sixty-five kindergarteners received assignments to go through a maze with a programmable robot, the Bee-Bot. Via observation we quantified how they solved these tasks. Their performance was successfully aggregated into a…
Descriptors: Robotics, Kindergarten, Programming, Problem Solving