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Lillie Moffett; Frederick J. Morrison – Grantee Submission, 2020
Behavioral self-regulation supports young children's learning and is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. The capacity to manage one's attention and control one's behavior is commonly measured via direct assessments of executive function (EF). However, to understand how EF skills contribute to academic achievement, it is helpful to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Lillie Moffett; Frederick J. Morrison – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Behavioral self-regulation supports young children's learning and is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. The capacity to manage one's attention and control one's behavior is commonly measured via direct assessments of executive function (EF). However, to understand how EF skills contribute to academic achievement, it is helpful to…
Descriptors: Self Control, Executive Function, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Hall, Debbora; Jarrold, Christopher; Towse, John N.; Zarandi, Amy L. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In this study, we investigate the development of primary memory capacity among children. Children between the ages of 5 and 8 completed 3 novel tasks (split span, interleaved lists, and a modified free-recall task) that measured primary memory by estimating the number of items in the focus of attention that could be spontaneously recalled in…
Descriptors: Memory, Task Analysis, Recall (Psychology), Age Differences
Hollis, R. Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Thoughts drift in everyday life and in the classroom. The goal of this study was to investigate how often students reported off-task thinking while watching online lectures. These findings were related to working memory capacity, topic interest, and achievement goal orientations. Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate how all of these…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Attention Control, Academic Achievement, Prediction
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Baumgartner, Susanne E.; Weeda, Wouter D.; van der Heijden, Lisa L.; Huizinga, Mariëtte – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
The increasing prevalence of media multitasking among adolescents is concerning because it may be negatively related to goal-directed behavior. This study investigated the relationship between media multitasking and executive function in 523 early adolescents (aged 11-15; 48% girls). The three central components of executive functions (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Executive Function, Attention Control, Early Adolescents
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Neubauer, Anna; Gawrilow, Caterina; Hasselhorn, Marcus – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
A preschooler's ability to delay gratification in the waiting task is predictive of several developmental outcomes, despite this task's relatively low reliability level. Success in this task depends on the use of distraction strategies. The new Watch-and-Wait Task (WWT) has been developed to enhance reliability and to investigate whether the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preschool Children, Delay of Gratification, Grade 1
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Lan, Xuezhao; Legare, Cristine H.; Ponitz, Claire Cameron; Li, Su; Morrison, Frederick J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Little is known about how components of executive function (EF) jointly and uniquely predict different aspects of academic achievement and how this may vary across cultural contexts. In the current study, 119 Chinese and 139 American preschoolers were tested on a battery of EF tasks (i.e., inhibition, working memory, and attentional control) as…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Academic Achievement, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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Harris, Ruby C.; Robinson, Julia B.; Chang, Florence; Burns, Barbara M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study examined relations among effortful control, motivation, and attention regulation in preschoolers within the context of parent-child interactions. Sixty-one low-income children and their mothers participated in a puzzle-matching task. One week later, the children completed a puzzle-matching task independently. Hierarchical regression…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Preschool Children, Self Control, Parent Child Relationship
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Beckerman, Terrill M.; Good, Thomas L. – Elementary School Journal, 1978
Presents data from a study investigating whether pupil involvement in tasks was different for high, middle, and low achievers. Results of the study are presented in nine tables. (BR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Control, Intermediate Grades, Research
Anderson, Lorin W.
The importance of appropriate task relevant behaviors as a necessary condition for school learning has long been noted. This paper suggests a multiple measure of one set of student classroom behaviors, presents a brief theoretical basis for the measure, provides some empirical support for the use of the measure, and indicates some educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Control, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research