Measuring early care and education quality

M Burchinal - Child Development Perspectives, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐quality early care and education (ECE) programs are thought to increase opportunities
for all children to succeed in school, but recent findings call into question whether these …

School readiness and self-regulation: A developmental psychobiological approach

C Blair, CC Raver - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Research on the development of self-regulation in young children provides a unifying
framework for the study of school readiness. Self-regulation abilities allow for engagement in …

Drivers of human development: How relationships and context shape learning and development 1

D Osher, P Cantor, J Berg, L Steyer… - The science of learning …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macro and micro-
contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or …

Socioeconomic status and executive function: Developmental trajectories and mediation

DA Hackman, R Gallop, GW Evans… - Developmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicts executive function (EF), but fundamental
aspects of this relation remain unknown: the developmental course of the SES disparity, its …

The potential for school-based interventions that target executive function to improve academic achievement: A review

R Jacob, J Parkinson - Review of educational research, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This article systematically reviews what is known empirically about the association between
executive function and student achievement in both reading and math and critically …

Predictors of early growth in academic achievement: The head-toes-knees-shoulders task

MM McClelland, CE Cameron, R Duncan… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Children's behavioral self-regulation and executive function (EF; including attentional or
cognitive flexibility, working memory, and inhibitory control) are strong predictors of …

Evidence for general and domain‐specific elements of teacher–child interactions: Associations with preschool children's development

B Hamre, B Hatfield, R Pianta, F Jamil - Child development, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This study evaluates a model for considering domain‐general and domain‐specific
associations between teacher–child interactions and children's development, using a …

Relations between inhibitory control and the development of academic skills in preschool and kindergarten: a meta-analysis.

NP Allan, LE Hume, DM Allan… - Developmental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Although there is evidence that young children's inhibitory control (IC) is related to their
academic skills, the nature of this relation and the role of potential moderators of it are not …

Relations between preschool attention span-persistence and age 25 educational outcomes

MM McClelland, AC Acock, A Piccinin, SA Rhea… - Early childhood …, 2013 - Elsevier
This study examined relations between children's attention span-persistence in preschool
and later school achievement and college completion. Children were drawn from the …

Depressive symptoms in third‐grade teachers: Relations to classroom quality and student achievement

L McLean, CMD Connor - Child development, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated associations among third‐grade teachers'(N= 27) symptoms of
depression, quality of the classroom‐learning environment (CLE), and students'(N= 523 …