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Regine Cassandra Lau; Peter J. Anderson; Susan Gathercole; Joshua F. Wiley; Megan Spencer-Smith – Child Development, 2025
Most cognitive training programs are adaptive, despite limited direct evidence that this maximizes children's outcomes. This randomized controlled trial evaluated working memory training with difficulty of activities presented using adaptive, self-select, or stepwise compared with an active control. At baseline, immediately, and 6-months…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Children, Thinking Skills
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Carr, Martha; Alexeev, Natalia; Wang, Lu; Barned, Nicole; Horan, Erin; Reed, Adam – Child Development, 2018
Through five waves of data collection, this longitudinal study investigated the development of spatial skills in 304 elementary school children (M[subscript age] = 7.64 years) as they progressed from the second to fourth grade. The study focused on whether multiple latent classes with different developmental profiles best explain development.…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Skill Development, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Achievement