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Developing Preschool Children's Computational Thinking and Executive Functions: Unplugged vs. Robot Programming Activities
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Xinli Zhang; Yuchen Chen; Lailin Hu; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Yun-Fang Tu – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Background: In the digital age, fostering young children's computational thinking (CT) and executive functions (EFs) through programming has emerged as a significant research issue. While unplugged programming activities are commonly adopted in preschools, robot programming activities have recently gained attention for the potential to enhance…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computation, Executive Function, Programming
Stimulation of Inhibitory Control in School Children: Measuring the Effect of a Pilot Intervention Study Using a Digital Game in Elementary School
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Bernardo Benites de Cerqueira; Andressa Aparecida Garces Gamarra Salem; Caroline de Oliveira Cardoso; Rochele Paz Fonseca; João Batista Mossmann; Débora Nice Ferrari Barbosa – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Executive Functions are essential for good school performance as well as for the proper development of individuals' socio-affective, vocational, academic, and planning skills. Investigations with digital games aimed at stimulating inhibitory control of the executive functions in the school environment, especially with typically developing children…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Pilot Projects
The Role of Theory of Mind, Executive Functions, and Central Coherence in Reading Comprehension for Children with ASD and Typical Development
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Yael Kimhi; Yifat Mirsky; Nirit Bauminger-Zviely – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have challenges in reading comprehension, especially when implicit information in narrative texts is involved. Three interrelated factors influencing reading comprehension have been proposed to explain these challenges: Theory of Mind -- ToM; executive functions -- EF; and central coherence -- CC.…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Grade 3, Children, Reading Comprehension
Performance- and Report-Based Measures of Executive Function as Predictors of Children's Academic Skills
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Christopher DeCamp; Sarah V. Alfonso; Christopher J. Lonigan – Grantee Submission, 2025
Objective: Executive Function (EF) is thought to be a core component of various cognitive processes. Two common ways to measure EF are through report-based measures that assess EF by collecting informant(s) reports on children's behaviors, and performance-based measures that assess EF through the completion of a task related to EF dimension(s).…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Reading Skills, Mathematics Skills
Same Spelling, Different Meaning: An EF-Based Homograph Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers
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Rachel Schiff; Shani Levy-Shimon; Lior Oanunu Shashoua; Ayelet Sasson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a multi-component homograph processing intervention complemented by Executive Function (EF) skills on the performance of struggling readers. The researchers focused on measuring improvements in literacy, metalinguistic abilities, cognitive/EF skills acquired during the intervention, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
Early Skills Predict Fourth-Grade Post-COVID-19 Academic, Inhibitory Control, and Social-Emotional Outcomes for Students from Diverse Home Language Backgrounds
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Robert C. Pianta; Arya Ansari; Jessica E. Whittaker; Virginia Vitiello; Margaret Burchinal – Elementary School Journal, 2025
The study examines students' skills at kindergarten entry and gains in skills across the kindergarten through first-grade period (pre-COVID-19) for predicting literacy, language, math, inhibitory control, and social-adjustment outcomes in the spring of fourth grade, after schools reopened. In a large US school district, longitudinal data were…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Student Development, Grade 4
Developmental Assets at Preschool Entry That Support Dual Language Learners' Academic Development through the First Grade
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Christina Stephens; Robert C. Pianta; Jessica E. Whittaker; Virginia E. Vitiello – Grantee Submission, 2025
Dual language learner children (DLLs) benefit from early childhood education (ECE) and learning multiple languages, but research has predominantly focused on English monolingual children, with limited insight on the ECE and early development of DLLs. This study investigated whether DLLs' developmental assets assessed at pre-k entry (i.e. English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning