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Portia Miller; Rebekah Levine Coley; Lorraine Blatt; Bryn Spielvogel; Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Individual characteristics of neighborhood context, like concentrated socioeconomic disadvantage, are associated with children's cognitive development, including their academic skill development and executive functions. However, questions remain regarding how neighborhood structural, process, and physical features uniquely predict children's…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Vaessen, Anniek; Bertrand, Daisy; Toth, Denes; Csepe, Valeria; Faisca, Luis; Reis, Alexandra; Blomert, Leo – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Although the transparency of a writing system is hypothesized to systematically influence the cognitive skills associated with reading development, results of cross-language investigations are inconsistent and usually do not address this issue in a developmental context. We therefore investigated the cognitive dynamics of reading fluency of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Investigations, Reading Fluency, Written Language
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Swanson, H. Lee; Jerman, Olga; Zheng, Xinhua – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The influence of cognitive growth in working memory (WM) on mathematical problem solution accuracy was examined in elementary school children (N = 353) at risk and not at risk for serious math problem solving difficulties. A battery of tests was administered that assessed problem solving, achievement, and cognitive processing (WM, inhibition,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Inhibition, Problem Solving, Short Term Memory