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Do Different Cognitive Domains Mediate the Association between Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and Adolescents' Off-Task Behaviour in the Classroom?
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Ludyga, Sebastian; Gerber, Markus; Brand, Serge; Möhring, Wenke; Pühse, Uwe – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: Accumulating evidence suggests that adolescents' moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is associated with less off-task behaviour in the classroom. However, the contribution of cognitive functions to this relation still remains unclear. Executive function and aspects of social cognition, which appear to be correlated with MVPA,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Physical Activity Level, Physical Activities, Executive Function
How Executive Functions Contribute to Reading Comprehension
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Nouwens, Suzan; Groen, Margriet A.; Kleemans, Tijs; Verhoeven, Ludo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Executive functions have been proposed to account for individual variation in reading comprehension beyond the contributions of decoding skills and language skills. However, insight into the direct and indirect effects of multiple executive functions on fifth-grade reading comprehension, while accounting for decoding and language…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Reading Skills
The Role of Executive Function in Reading Comprehension among Beginning Readers
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Hung, Cathy On-Ying – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Empirical evidence supports the importance of executive function (EF) in reading, but the underlying mechanism through which EF contributes to the reading process is unclear. The present study examined the direct and indirect effects of EF on reading comprehension through the indirect pathway of language and cognitive skills (i.e., syntactic…
Descriptors: Role, Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading
The Mediating Role of Metacognition in the Relationship between Executive Function and Self-Regulated Learning
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Follmer, D. Jake; Sperling, Rayne A. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: Researchers have demonstrated significant relations among executive function, metacognition, and self-regulated learning. However, prior research emphasized the use of indirect measures of executive function and did not evaluate how specific executive functions are related to participants' self-regulated learning. Aims: The primary…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Executive Function, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
The Relation between Executive Functioning, Reaction Time, Naming Speed, and Single Word Reading in Children with Typical Development and Language Impairments
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Messer, David; Henry, Lucy A.; Nash, Gilly – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: Few investigations have examined the relationship between a comprehensive range of executive functioning (EF) abilities and reading. Aims: Our investigation identified components of EF that independently predicted single word reading, and determined whether their predictive role remained when additional variables were included in the…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Executive Function, Reaction Time
The Development of Executive Functions and Early Mathematics: A Dynamic Relationship
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Van der Ven, Sanne H. G.; Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Boom, Jan; Leseman, Paul P. M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: The relationship between executive functions and mathematical skills has been studied extensively, but results are inconclusive, and how this relationship evolves longitudinally is largely unknown. Aim: The aim was to investigate the factor structure of executive functions in inhibition, shifting, and updating; the longitudinal…
Descriptors: Animals, Primary Education, Factor Structure, Inhibition