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Follmer, D. Jake – Educational Psychologist, 2018
This article presents a meta-analytic review of the relation between executive function and reading comprehension. Results (N = 6,673) supported a moderate positive association between executive function and reading comprehension (r = 0.36). Moderator analyses suggested that correlations between executive function and reading comprehension did not…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Meta Analysis, Correlation
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Jacob, Robin; Parkinson, Julia – Review of Educational Research, 2015
This article systematically reviews what is known empirically about the association between executive function and student achievement in both reading and math and critically assesses the evidence for a causal association between the two. Using meta-analytic techniques, the review finds that there is a moderate unconditional association between…
Descriptors: Intervention, Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement