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Executive Function as a Mediator between SES and Academic Achievement throughout Childhood
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Lawson, Gwendolyn M.; Farah, Martha J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES), as measured by parental education and family income, is highly predictive of academic achievement, but little is known about how specific cognitive systems shape SES disparities in achievement outcomes. This study investigated the extent to which executive function (EF) mediated associations between parental…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Socioeconomic Status, Educational Attainment, Parent Background
Validity of Memory Tasks across the WJ III COG, NEPSYII, and WRAML-2 in a Mixed Clinical Sample of Children: Applicability to Four Neurocognitive Theories
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Psimas, J. Lynsey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Current research regarding the neurocognitive construct of memory in children and adolescents within clinical populations is insufficient (Hughes & Graham, 2002). Controversial theories of memory have led to divergent hypotheses about the construct of memory. Based on current disparity regarding the theoretical paradigm of memory, it cannot be…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Memory, Cognitive Tests, Factor Structure
An Explanation of Reading Comprehension across Development Using Models from Cattell-Horn-Carroll Theory: Support for Integrative Models of Reading
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Floyd, Randy; Meisinger, Elizabeth; Gregg, Noel; Keith, Timothy – Psychology in the Schools, 2012
The purpose of this research was to investigate the cognitive abilities that explain reading comprehension across childhood and early adulthood. Drawing from the standardization sample of the Woodcock-Johnson III, analyses were conducted with large samples at age levels spanning early childhood to early adulthood: 5 to 6 (n = 639), 7 to 8 (n =…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Ability, Theories, Children