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The Development of Uncertainty Monitoring during Kindergarten: Change and Longitudinal Relations with Executive Function and Vocabulary in Children from Low-Income Backgrounds
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Christopher R. Gonzales; Alexis Merculief; Megan M. McClelland; Simona Ghetti – Child Development, 2022
Children's ability to monitor subjective feelings of uncertainty (i.e., engage in uncertainty monitoring) is a central metacognitive skill. In the current study, we examined the development of uncertainty monitoring as well as its relations with vocabulary and executive function development in children (N = 137, 52% female) from predominately…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Metacognition, Executive Function, Vocabulary Development
A Deeper Dive, a Wider Pool: Preschool Benefits Sustain to First Grade on a Broader Set of Outcomes
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Johnson, Anna D.; Partika, Anne; Martin, Anne; Horm, Diane; Phillips, Deborah A. – Child Development, 2023
The current study provides new evidence on the sustained benefits of preschool attendance on a broader range of skills--both academic and executive functioning (EF)--than many prior studies have examined. Using propensity score methods, we predicted children's (N = 920, M age at 1st = 6.5 years) literacy, language, math, and EF skills in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Skill Development, Academic Ability, Executive Function
Antiracism Defined as Equitable Sociocultural Interactions in Prekindergarten: Classroom Racial Composition Makes a Difference
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Curenton, Stephanie M.; Rochester, Shana E.; Sims, Jacqueline; Ibekwe-Okafor, Nneka; Iruka, Iheoma U.; García-Miranda, Arlene G.; Whittaker, Jessica – Child Development, 2022
This study used secondary data from the My Teaching Partner-Math/Science 2013-2016 randomized control trial to explore whether equitable sociocultural classroom interactions (see Curenton et al., 2019) were associated with the skills of 105 four- and five-year-olds (52% boys; drawn from 20 unique video recordings of preschool teachers/classrooms;…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racial Discrimination, Preschool Education, Racial Composition
Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public-School System
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Courtier, Philippine; Gardes, Marie-Line; Van der Henst, Jean-Baptiste; Noveck, Ira A.; Croset, Marie-Caroline; Epinat-Duclos, Justine; Léone, Jessica; Prado, Jérôme – Child Development, 2021
Previous research on Montessori preschool education is inconsistent and prone to analytic flexibility. In this preregistered study, disadvantaged preschoolers in a French public school were randomly assigned to either conventional or Montessori classrooms, with the latter being adapted to French public education. Adaptations included fewer…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged, Public Schools
Preschool Self-Regulation and Preacademic Skills as Mediators of the Long-Term Impacts of an Early Intervention
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McCoy, Dana C.; Gonzalez, Kathryn; Jones, Stephanie – Child Development, 2019
This study explores children's early academic and self-regulatory skills as potential pathways through which a preschool enrichment program--the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP)--may contribute to low-income children's long-term outcomes (N = 466; M[subscript age] at baseline = 4.10 years). We find that CSRP's impact on high school grades…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Early Intervention, Self Management
Impacts of a Prekindergarten Program on Children's Mathematics, Language, Literacy, Executive Function, and Emotional Skills
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Weiland, Christina; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Child Development, 2013
Publicly funded prekindergarten programs have achieved small-to-large impacts on children's cognitive outcomes. The current study examined the impact of a prekindergarten program that implemented a coaching system and consistent literacy, language, and mathematics curricula on these and other nontargeted, essential components of school readiness,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Skills, Emotional Development
Longitudinal Antecedents of Executive Function in Preschoolers
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Conway, Anne; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Child Development, 2012
Despite an extensive history underscoring the role of social processes and child contributions to the development of executive functions (C. Lewis & J. Carpendale, 2009; L. S. Vygotsky, 1987), research on these relations is sparse. To address this gap, 68 mother-child dyads were examined to determine whether maternal attention-directing behaviors…
Descriptors: Conflict, Inhibition, Longitudinal Studies, Executive Function