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Download full textZelazo, Philip David; Blair, Clancy B.; Willoughby, Michael T. – National Center for Education Research, 2016
Executive function (EF) skills are the attention-regulation skills that make it possible to sustain attention, keep goals and information in mind, refrain from responding immediately, resist distraction, tolerate frustration, consider the consequences of different behaviors, reflect on past experiences, and plan for the future. As EF research…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Attention Control, Educational Research, Learning Processes
Direct linkWilloughby, Michael T.; Wirth, R. J.; Blair, Clancy B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
This study demonstrates the merits of evaluating a newly developed battery of executive function tasks, designed for use in early childhood, from the perspective of item response theory (IRT). The battery was included in the 48-month assessment of the Family Life Project, a prospective longitudinal study of 1292 children oversampled from…
Descriptors: Family Life, Young Children, Item Response Theory, Evaluation Methods
Willoughby, Michael T.; Blair, Clancy B.; Wirth, R. J.; Greenberg, Mark – Psychological Assessment, 2010
In this study, the authors examined the psychometric properties and criterion validity of a newly developed battery of tasks that were designed to assess executive function (EF) abilities in early childhood. The battery was included in the 36-month assessment of the Family Life Project (FLP), a prospective longitudinal study of 1,292 children…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Family Life, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorders
