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Kolovelonis, Athanasios; Goudas, Marios – European Physical Education Review, 2023
This study examined the effects of cognitively challenging physical activity games on students' executive functions and situational interest in physical education. Participants were 144 fourth- and fifth-grade students (75 boys, 69 girls) from four elementary schools. A four-group, repeated measures, cross-over quasi-experimental design was used…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Physical Activities, Student Interests, Physical Education
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Robert Pianta; Arya Ansari; Jessica E. Whittaker; Virginia Vitiello; Margaret Burchinal – Grantee Submission, 2024
The study examines students' skills at kindergarten entry and gains in skills across kindergarten through first grade (pre-COVID) predicting literacy, language, math, inhibitory control, and social adjustment in the spring of 4th grade, after schools re-opened. Longitudinal data were collected on students (N=785) who were linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Social Emotional Learning, Predictor Variables
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Peng Peng – Grantee Submission, 2023
The current review of the role of executive function (EF) in reading provides a brief summary of analyses with a large-scale longitudinal dataset and a meta-analysis, along with proposing a framework for designing EF training studies. The 1st study, based on latent growth models with structured residuals, demonstrated a longitudinal reciprocal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Peng Peng – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
The current review of the role of executive function (EF) in reading provides a brief summary of analyses with a large-scale longitudinal dataset and a meta-analysis, along with proposing a framework for designing EF training studies. The 1st study, based on latent growth models with structured residuals, demonstrated a longitudinal reciprocal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Brown, Lindsay E.; Kim, Ha Yeon; Tubbs Dolan, Carly; Brown, Autumn; Sklar, Jennifer; Aber, J. Lawrence – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Despite substantial cross-national interest in remedial programming as a way to support low-achieving students, evidence of its effectiveness is rare, particularly in low-income and/or crisis-affected contexts. In this article, we present experimental evidence of the impact of a remedial tutoring program on academic outcomes from a two-level…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, Program Effectiveness