NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Source
Child Development20
Education Level
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 20 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Iris Menu; Lanxin Ji; Tanya Bhatia; Mark Duffy; Cassandra L. Hendrix; Moriah E. Thomason – Child Development, 2025
Preterm birth poses a major public health challenge, with significant and heterogeneous developmental impacts. Latent profile analysis was applied to the National Institutes of Health Toolbox performance of 1891 healthy prematurely born children from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study (970 boys, 921 girls; 10.00 ± 0.61 years;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Premature Infants, Cognitive Development, Scores
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rosen, Maya L.; Hagen, McKenzie P.; Lurie, Lucy A.; Miles, Zoe E.; Sheridan, Margaret A.; Meltzoff, Andrew N.; McLaughlin, Katie A. – Child Development, 2020
Executive functions (EF), including working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility, vary as a function of socioeconomic status (SES), with children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds having poorer performance than their higher SES peers. Using observational methods, we investigated cognitive stimulation in the home as a mechanism…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Young Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sage, Cindy; Burgio, Ernesto – Child Development, 2018
Mobile phones and other wireless devices that produce electromagnetic fields (EMF) and pulsed radiofrequency radiation (RFR) are widely documented to cause potentially harmful health impacts that can be detrimental to young people. New epigenetic studies are profiled in this review to account for some neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral changes…
Descriptors: Child Development, Genetics, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Coley, Rebekah Levine; Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran – Child Development, 2013
This study assessed whether previous findings linking early maternal employment to lower cognitive and behavioral skills among middle-class and White children generalized to other groups. Using a representative sample of urban, low-income, predominantly African American and Hispanic families ("n" = 444), ordinary least squares regression…
Descriptors: Mothers, Employed Parents, Child Development, Low Income Groups
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Wolke, Dieter – Child Development, 2013
A large-scale ("N" = 552) controlled multivariate prospective 14-year longitudinal study of a developmental cascade embedded in a developmental system showed that information-processing efficiency in infancy (4 months), general mental development in toddlerhood (18 months), behavior difficulties in early childhood (36 months),…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gauvain, Mary; Munroe, Robert L. – Child Development, 2009
This study examined how societal changes associated with modernization are related to cognitive development. Data were from 4 cultural communities that represented a broad range of traditional and modern elements: the Garifuna (Belize), Logoli (Kenya), Newars (Nepal), and Samoans (American Samoa). Naturalistic observations and the performances of…
Descriptors: Play, Samoan Americans, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Obradovic, Jelena; Bush, Nicole R.; Stamperdahl, Juliet; Adler, Nancy E.; Boyce, W. Thomas – Child Development, 2010
This study examined the direct and interactive effects of stress reactivity and family adversity on socioemotional and cognitive development in three hundred and thirty-eight 5- to 6-year-old children. Neurobiological stress reactivity was measured as respiratory sinus arrhythmia and salivary cortisol responses to social, cognitive, sensory, and…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Cognitive Development, Stress Variables, Neurology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Feshbach, Norma Deitch; Feshbach, Seymour – Child Development, 1987
Data indicate that for girls, affective dispositional factors (empathy, depressive affectivity, aggression, and self-concept) are intimately linked to cognitive development and academic achievement. (PCB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Cognitive Development, Preadolescents
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Heyns, Barbara – Child Development, 1987
Reviews the literature on the effects of summer programs, and offers a reinterpretation of the role of summer learning in cognitive development. (PCB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Pennington, Bruce F.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Results obtained from 44 children (ages 7 through 16) with sex chromosome abnormalities and from 17 chromosomally normal siblings demonstrated that children in the former group have an increased risk of encountering learning problems. (MP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Santrock, John W. – Child Development, 1972
While father absence due to divorce, desertion, or separation had the most negative influence in the initial 2 years of the child's life for boys and girls, father absence due to death was the most detrimental when it occurred in the 6 - 9 period of the boy's life. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Duncan, Greg J.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Child Development, 2000
Examines consequences of family poverty for child development, noting evidence that deep or persistent poverty early in childhood adversely affects children's ability and achievement. Argues that although the 1996 welfare reforms spurred many welfare-to-work transitions, their time limits and sanctions are likely to deepen poverty among some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Rizzo, Thomas A.; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Studied whether disturbances in mothers' metabolism (N=139) during pregnancy may exert long-range effects on neurobehavioral development of singleton progeny. Examined detailed pregnancy and perinatal records of mothers who experienced diabetes in pregnancy and intelligence tests of their offspring, administered at ages 7 to 11 years. All…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Guberman, Steven R. – Child Development, 1996
Studied the sociocultural context in which Brazilian children acquire and use everyday mathematics in terms of currency use. Participants were 105 children, ages 4 to 11, and their parents. Found decreased use of currency with increasing age. Children also used currency to aid their problem solving and progressed from global estimates to the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Rovet, Joanne F.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Compares 27 children with early onset diabetes (EOD) with 24 children with late onset diabetes (LOD) and 30 sibling controls in performance on tests of intellectual functioning and school achievement. Results revealed that duration of illness, age of onset, and hypoglycemic convulsions significantly predicted spatial ability. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Diabetes
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2