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ERIC Number: EJ1328745
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 63
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ISSN: EISSN-1891-1803
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PROTOCOL: The Direct and Indirect Effects of School-Based Executive Function Interventions on Children and Adolescents' Executive Function, Academic, Social-Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes--A Systematic Review
Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying; Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula; Calvert, Eric
Campbell Systematic Reviews, v13 n1 2017
Executive function (EF) has been linked to many important aspects of child and adolescent functioning, such as academic achievement, self-regulated learning, social-emotional development, physical well-being, and behavioral problems. Planning and organization, two key executive functions, are found to be the most important predictors of school grades for middle school students with ADHD (Langberg, Dvorsky, & Evans, 2013). The current meta-analysis will focus on three core components of executive functions: inhibition (also called inhibitory control), working memory (or updating), and cognitive flexibility (or shifting, task-switching). The aim of current meta-analysis is to comprehensively synthesize the efficacy of school-based executive function interventions on typically developing children and adolescents. Specifically, this review will address the following five key questions: (1) Do school-based executive function interventions help improve children and adolescents' executive function in general and/or their specific skills in inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility? (2) Do school-based executive function interventions help improve the academic achievement, social-emotional and behavioral performance of children and adolescents? (3) Are some types of school-based executive function interventions more effective than others (e.g., school curricula/educational programs versus mind-body interventions)? (4) How, for whom, and under what circumstances do school-based executive function interventions work or work the best? and (5) What are noteworthy features (e.g., dosage, duration, and design mechanisms of interventions) of effective school-based EF interventions and key aspects of program implementation and evaluation of the interventions' outcomes that have great potential practical and policy implications for future research and practices?
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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