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Direct linkLisa S. Olive; Rohan M. Telford; Elizabeth Westrupp; Richard D. Telford – Child Development, 2024
This study aimed to determine the effects of the Active Early Learning (AEL) childcare center-based physical activity intervention on early childhood executive function and expressive vocabulary via a randomized controlled trial. Three-hundred-and-fourteen preschool children (134 girls) aged 3-5 years from 15 childcare centers were randomly…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Child Development, Executive Function
Amukune, Stephen; Józsa, Gabriella; Józsa, Krisztián – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Cross-national comparisons represent an avenue for investigating milestones achieved by one region that can help improve standards in another country. This study compares the development of executive functioning in Hungarian and Kenyan preschoolers as they prepare for school readiness. The study's cross-sectional design entailed sampling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Executive Function, School Readiness
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
Francisco Ayala – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School models have been slow to evolve, however, expectations of students in terms of schoolwork and homework have increased year over year. These increased demands require a high level of Executive Functioning (EF). However, a disconnect between the demands of schools and children's developing EF system have led to increased incidences of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Executive Function, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Educational Strategies
Kubota, Maki; Hadley, Lauren V.; Schaeffner, Simone; Könen, Tanja; Meaney, Julie-Anne; Morey, Candice C.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Moriguchi, Yusuke; Karbach, Julia; Chevalier, Nicolas – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The current study investigated the effects of metacognitive and executive function (EF) training on childhood EF (inhibition, working memory [WM], cognitive flexibility, and proactive/reactive control) and academic skills (reading, reasoning, and math) among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Children (N = 134, M[subscript age] = 8.70 years)…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Executive Function, Academic Ability, Child Behavior
Marulis, Loren M.; Nelson, Lindsey J. – Metacognition and Learning, 2021
Metacognition--knowledge, monitoring, and regulation of cognition--is key to learning and academic achievement. This is robustly supported for K-12 and higher education learners while empirical evidence in early childhood is encouraging but limited. To address these gaps in the literature, our first goal was to investigate early metacognition…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Executive Function, Learning Motivation, Problem Solving
Costanza Ruffini; Eva Bei; Chiara Pecini – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Socio-emotional school behavior and learning are both fundamental aspects of children's development influenced by cognitive control processes named Executive Functions (EF). Yet, research on school-age children has often focused on the relationship between EF and learning skills overlooking that of EF and school behavior, which has usually been…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Child Development, Grade 3, Grade 4
Linghui Chu; Gail E. Joseph – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The study sought to understand the general trajectory of children's executive function, as well as whether there was heterogeneity among monolingual English-speaking and dual language learning children in their growth of executive function. In addition, the study examined whether monolingual English-speaking and dual language learning children…
Descriptors: Executive Function, English (Second Language), English, Monolingualism
Dutra, Natália B.; Chen, Lydia; Anum, Adote; Burger, Oskar; Davis, Helen E.; Dzokoto, Vivian A.; Fong, Frankie T. K.; Ghelardi, Sabrina; Mendez, Kimberly; Messer, Emily J. E.; Newhouse, Morgan; Nielsen, Mark G.; Ramos, Karlos; Rawlings, Bruce; dos Santos, Renan A. C.; Silveira, Lara G. S.; Tucker-Drob, Elliot M.; Legare, Cristine H. – Developmental Science, 2022
Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There is a lack of clarity and consensus over the roles of specific components of EFs in self-regulation. The current study examines the relations between performance on (a) a self-regulation task (Heads, Toes, Knees Shoulders…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Self Control, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
Zelazo, Philip David; Carlson, Stephanie M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Executive function (EF) skills are a set of attention-regulation skills involved in intentional, goal-directed behavior that include (but are not limited to) the cool EF skills of working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control, and also the hot EF skill of intentional reevaluation. These skills are inevitably expressed in goal- and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Inhibition
Wang, Yiji; Liu, Yanxi – Child Development, 2021
This study sought to elucidate the contributions of inferior executive function and social competence to the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in primary school. Children (N = 1,115), on average 5.36 years old in first grade, were followed across primary school with measures of multi-method and multi-informant. Results of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Young Children, Child Development
Efsun Birtwistle; Olga Chernikova; Miriam Wünsch; Frank Niklas – SAGE Open, 2025
We investigated the effect of cognitive training of executive functions on children's cognitive outcomes. To address this issue, a systematic meta-analysis of published research articles on cognitive training interventions was performed considering children's age, training duration, -procedure, and -technology in moderator analyses. The results (N…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Executive Function
Andrea Baraldi Cunha; Iryna Babik; Regina T. Harbourne; Stacey C. Dusing; Lin-Ya Hsu; Natalie A. Koziol; Sarah Westcott-McCoy; Sandra L. Willett; James A. Bovaird; Michele A. Lobo – Grantee Submission, 2024
This study aimed to explore whether early developmental abilities are related to future executive function (EF) in children with motor delays. Fourteen children with motor delays (Mean age = 10.76, SD = 2.55) were included from a larger study. Object interaction and developmental outcomes (Bayley-III) were evaluated at baseline and 3, 6, and 12…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Psychomotor Skills, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Executive Function
Carrie S. Cutler; Jennifer J. Chen; Aidong Linda Zhang – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
Conflicts between children, a universal phenomenon across cultures, present unique opportunities for developing executive function (EF) skills, such as problem solving and exercising self-regulation. EF, primarily associated with a set of cognitive skills or processes that includes planning, organizing, and regulating behavior, plays an integral…
Descriptors: Child Development, Executive Function, Conflict, Peer Relationship
Korucu, Irem; Litkowski, Ellen; Purpura, David J.; Schmitt, Sara A. – Infant and Child Development, 2020
The family context has been identified as an important predictor of the development of children's executive function (EF). An emerging line of research demonstrates that parents' own EF is linked to their caregiving behaviours and their children's EF. However, researchers have yet to explore the extent to which parental EF is related to specific…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Parents, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
