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Lillie Moffett; Christina Weiland; Meghan P. McCormick; JoAnn Hsueh; Catherine Snow; Jason Sachs – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Prior research has demonstrated the importance of young children's executive functioning (EF) skills for their success in schooling and beyond. However, the field lacks an understanding of how children's EF skills manifest in context. In the present study, we relate children's classroom off-task behavior to their EF skills.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preschool Children, Time on Task, Executive Function
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Michelle N. Maurer – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Fluent and legible handwriting is associated with longer texts and higher text quality and is therefore an important goal in the primary school curriculum. While girls' handwriting tends to be more proficient than boys', potential differences in the correlates of girls' and boys' early handwriting are poorly understood. In this…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Skills, Psychomotor Skills, Executive Function
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Ahmad Ahmadi; Susan S. Chuang; Megan McClelland; Christopher R. Gonzales; Ahmad Beh-Pajooh – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Executive Function (EF) and Early Math (EM) are foundational skills for children's school success. Interventions have shown to foster these skills, but their effectiveness in less developed countries remains unknown. This study examined the initial efficacy of an eight-week EF and an EM skills program for young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
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Kälin, Sonja; Roebers, Claudia M.; Oeri, Niamh – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine persistence development during the transition to school. The sample consisted of N = 88 children from Caucasian, middle-class families (51% female). Participants were recruited through advertisement in public kindergartens and were tested twice, in kindergarten (mean…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Student Adjustment, Profiles, Kindergarten
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Yan Jiang; Alison Wishard Guerra; Shana R. Cohen; Timothy T. Brown; Naomi T. Lin; Monica Molgaard; John Iversen – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Early elementary school is a crucial time for the development of executive functions, but less is known about the impact of parent-child narratives on executive function development in children of this age group. This study aims to investigate the influence of parental scaffolding styles in parent-child co-constructed narratives…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Parents as Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Kook, Janna Fuccillo – Early Education and Development, 2023
Recent research has provided mixed evidence on the promise of classroom-based interventions for supporting young children's development of executive functions (EF). To advance intervention efforts, it is necessary to identify specific types of interactions that might support the development of EF in early childhood. Through a correlational design,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
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Lynn S. Brann; Rachel A. Razza; Caitlin S. Smith – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Early childhood is a critical period for the development of eating behaviors and novel approaches are needed to promote healthy food acceptance among preschoolers. This pilot study examined the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a 6-week mindful eating and yoga intervention targeting children's self-regulation of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intervention, Executive Function, Eating Habits
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Zachary S. Gold; Yasmina Bayoun; Nina Howe; Kristen A. Dunfield – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: There are sparse data on children's use of executive function (EF) and spatial skills in block play. However, there are important implications for studying EF and spatial skills with blocks across cultures, especially regarding best practices for supporting social-cognitive development in under-resourced populations and…
Descriptors: Toys, Cross Cultural Studies, Play, Preschool Children
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Ezra Mauer; Emily Mak; Yuuko Uchikoshi; Rufan Luo; Qing Zhou – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: In the context of parent-child book sharing, cultural influences on cognitive distancing language and associations with child executive function (EF) have been understudied. This study examined cultural group similarities/differences in parent and child book-sharing distancing language among preschool-aged dual language learners…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation, Books, Reading Aloud to Others
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Bauer, Rebecca H.; Gilpin, Ansley Tullos – Early Education and Development, 2023
During imaginative play, children may learn foundational skills important for academic success. Indeed, imaginative children, high in fantasy orientation (FO), may have advantages in skills that support positive classroom and social behavior. Yet findings are mixed regarding the classroom behavior of children high in fantasy orientation. The…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Cognitive Ability, Interpersonal Competence
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Ekerim Akbulut, Müge; Etel, Evren; Tahiroglu, Deniz; Selçuk, Ayse Bilge – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The Children's Social Understanding Scale (CSUS) assesses young children's theory of mind (ToM). The current study adapted the parent version of the CSUS-short form to Turkish and examined its utility, for the first time, as an assessment tool for teachers. The associations of parent and teacher reports of the CSUS-short form…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Preschool Children
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Kats Gold, Inna; Kopelman-Rubin, Daphne; Mufson, Laura; Klomek, Anat Brunstein – Early Education and Development, 2021
The current randomized control trial evaluated the effectiveness of a new social-emotional learning (SEL) program, I Can Succeed for Preschools (ICS-PS). ICS-PS aims to improve preschoolers' social/interpersonal, emotional, and academic skills in an integrative way, focusing on children's core executive functions (EFs). The various components of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Social Emotional Learning, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Liu, Catrina; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: This study investigated the bidirectional relations among paired associate learning (PAL), language-specific skills and Chinese word reading in kindergarten children from second year (K2) to third year (K3). We tested 204 children on four mapping conditions of PAL (i.e., visual-verbal, verbal-verbal, visual-visual, and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Paired Associate Learning
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Reid, Jeanne L.; Ready, Douglas D. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: The present study examined patterns of executive function (EF) development among socio-demographically diverse children in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Using nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Cohort: 2011, we estimated children's growth in working memory and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cognitive Development, Kindergarten, Primary Education
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Li-Grining, Christine Pajunar; Stockdale, Laura; Cunningham, Annelise; Bradley, Kelly; Papadakis, Jaclyn L.; Flores-Lamb, Valerie; Marcus, Maria; Radulescu, Maria – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Greater self-regulation has been identified as a protective factor for low-income children's academic achievement. However, we know less about the long-term protective nature of specific aspects of self-regulation. Data were drawn from predominantly African American and Latino children in low-income communities in Boston,…
Descriptors: Self Control, Academic Achievement, Low Income Students, Elementary School Students
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