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Aurélien Frick – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
The development of executive function (EF) has been linked to various life outcomes, motivating intense research on the topic. While much of this research has focused on more thoroughly understanding age-related changes of the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms involved, recent theoretical and empirical works have stressed how the immediate…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Cognitive Development, Child Development, Social Environment
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Niebaum, Jesse C.; Munakata, Yuko – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
Performance on lab assessments of executive functions predicts academic achievement and other positive life outcomes. A primary goal of research on executive functions has been to design interventions that improve outcomes like academic achievement by improving executive functions. These interventions typically involve extensive practice on…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Individual Differences, Learner Engagement
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Holochwost, Steven J.; Winebrake, Deaven; Brown, Eleanor D.; Happaney, Keith R.; Wagner, Nicholas J.; Mills-Koonce, W. Roger – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The predictive validity of performance on cognitive-behavioral measures of executive function (EF) suggests that these measures index children's underlying capacity for self-regulation. In this paper, we apply ecological systems theory to critically evaluate this assertion. We argue that as typically administered, standard measures of EF do not…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals), Predictive Validity
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Montuori, Luke M.; Montefiori, Lara – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
For decades, the field of workplace selection has been dominated by evidence that cognitive ability is the most important factor in predicting performance. Meta-analyses detailing the contributions of a wide-range of factors to workplace performance show that cognitive ability's contribution is partly mediated by the learning of task-relevant…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability, Job Performance, Psychometrics
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Banich, Marie T.; Wang, Kai; Kim, Hyojeong; Leopold, Daniel R.; Reineberg, Andrew E.; Thompson, Lee A.; Willcutt, Erik G.; Cutting, Laurie E.; Petrill, Stephen A. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
This paper reviews three studies investigating the relationship between brain regions involved in executive control and those involved in reading comprehension in typically-developing teens. In the first study, three regions of posterior left lateral prefrontal cortex (i.e., precentral gyrus, inferior frontal junction, inferior frontal gyrus) were…
Descriptors: Correlation, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Executive Function, Reading Comprehension
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Kroesbergen, Evelyn H.; Huijsmans, Marije D. E.; Kleemans, Tijs – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
This paper argues why children with Mathematical Learning Disabilities (MLD) do not form a unitary group. Instead, they should be regarded as individuals with unique profiles of strengths and weaknesses that explain their mathematical difficulties. To build this argument, we shortly recapitulate the research on MLD, which has mainly been focused…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Skills, Individual Differences
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Alexander, Patricia A. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: The term individual differences refers to the physical, behavioral, cognitive, social, and emotional attributes that make each human unique. Late adolescence to young adulthood represents a time of significant neurobiological and cognitive transformations that contribute further to human variability. Those transformations include an…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, College Students, Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning
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Schwaighofer, Matthias; Bühner, Markus; Fischer, Frank – Frontline Learning Research, 2017
Executive functions are crucial for complex learning in addition to prior knowledge. In this article, we argue that executive functions can moderate the effectiveness of instructional approaches that vary with respect to the demand on these functions. In addition, we suggest that engagement in complex activity contexts rather than specific…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Learning Processes, Instructional Effectiveness, Cognitive Ability
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Peterson, Eric; Welsh, Marilyn C. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2014
Research into executive functioning (EF) has indeed grown exponentially across the past few decades, but as the Willoughby et al. critique makes clear, there remain fundamental questions to be resolved. The crux of their argument is built upon an examination of the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) approach to understanding executive processes.…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Measurement, Factor Analysis, Reliability
Demetriou, Andreas; Christou, Constantinos – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2015
Information flows continuously in the environment. As we attempt to do something, our senses receive large volumes of information. In any conversation, messages are exchanged rapidly. To understand meaning, we have to focus, record, choose and process relevant information at every moment, before it is displaced by other information. Often,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Individual Differences, Intelligence, Inferences
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Roebers, Claudia M.; Cimeli, Patrizia; Rothlisberger, Marianne; Neuenschwander, Regula – Metacognition and Learning, 2012
In the present study, associations between executive functioning, metacognition, and self-perceived competence in the context of early academic outcomes were examined. A total of 209 children attending first grade were initially assessed in terms of their executive functioning and academic self-concept. One year later, children's executive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Metacognition
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Hughes, Claire – Infant and Child Development, 2011
This review of 20 years of developmental research on Executive Functions (EF) offers a broad-brushstroke picture that touches on multiple issues including: (i) findings from typical and atypical groups, from infancy to adolescence; (ii) advances in assessment tools and in statistical analysis; (iii) the interplay between EF and other cognitive…
Descriptors: Research, Child Development, Executive Function, Individual Differences