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Purpura, David J.; Lonigan, Christopher J. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
Validating the structure of informal numeracy skills is critical to understanding the developmental trajectories of mathematics skills at early ages; however, little research has been devoted to construct evaluation of the Numbering, Relations, and Arithmetic Operations domains. This study was designed to address this knowledge gap by examining…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Training Methods
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Allan, Nicholas P.; Lonigan, Christopher J. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Effortful control (EC) is an important developmental construct, associated with socioemotional growth, academic performance, and psychopathology. EC is defined as the ability to execute goal-directed behavior to inhibit or delay a prepotent response in favor of a subdominant response. Extant research indicates that EC may be multidimensional.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preschool Children, Psychopathology, Factor Analysis
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Lonigan, Christopher J.; Anthony, Jason L.; Phillips, Beth M.; Purpura, David J.; Wilson, Shauna B.; McQueen, Jessica D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
The development of reading-related phonological processing abilities represents an important developmental milestone in the process of learning to read. In this cross-sectional study, confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the structure of phonological processing abilities in 129 younger preschoolers (M = 40.88 months, SD = 4.65) and 304…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Factor Analysis, Memory