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Does Working Memory Training in Children Need to Be Adaptive? A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Regine Cassandra Lau; Peter J. Anderson; Susan Gathercole; Joshua F. Wiley; Megan Spencer-Smith – Child Development, 2025
Most cognitive training programs are adaptive, despite limited direct evidence that this maximizes children's outcomes. This randomized controlled trial evaluated working memory training with difficulty of activities presented using adaptive, self-select, or stepwise compared with an active control. At baseline, immediately, and 6-months…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Children, Thinking Skills
The State of Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning: A Contemporary Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based SEL Interventions
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Cipriano, Christina; Strambler, Michael J.; Naples, Lauren H.; Ha, Cheyeon; Kirk, Megan; Wood, Miranda; Sehgal, Kaveri; Zieher, Almut K.; Eveleigh, Abigail; McCarthy, Michael; Funaro, Melissa; Ponnock, Annett; Chow, Jason C.; Durlak, Joseph – Child Development, 2023
This article provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of the current evidence for universal school-based (USB) social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions for students in kindergarten through 12th grade available from 2008 through 2020. The sample includes 424 studies from 53 countries, reflecting 252 discrete USB SEL interventions,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Promoting Positive Youth Development through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects
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Taylor, Rebecca D.; Oberle, Eva; Durlak, Joseph A.; Weissberg, Roger P. – Child Development, 2017
This meta-analysis reviewed 82 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions involving 97,406 kindergarten to high school students (M[subscript age] = 11.09 years; mean percent low socioeconomic status = 41.1; mean percent students of color = 45.9). Thirty-eight interventions took place outside the United States.…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Social Development, Emotional Development, Intervention
Effects of Simulated Interventions to Improve School Entry Academic Skills on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Educational Achievement
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Chittleborough, Catherine R.; Mittinty, Murthy N.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Lynch, John W. – Child Development, 2014
Randomized controlled trial evidence shows that interventions before age 5 can improve skills necessary for educational success; the effect of these interventions on socioeconomic inequalities is unknown. Using trial effect estimates, and marginal structural models with data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n = 11,764,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Justice, Socioeconomic Influences, Longitudinal Studies
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start REDI Program
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Bierman, Karen L.; Domitrovich, Celene E.; Nix, Robert L.; Gest, Scott D.; Welsh, Janet A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Blair, Clancy; Nelson, Keith E.; Gill, Sukhdeep – Child Development, 2008
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI--Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a)…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, School Readiness, Intervention, Social Behavior
Gross Motor Development in Infants Blind from Birth
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Adelson, Edna; Fraiberg, Selma – Child Development, 1974
Longitudinal study of patterns of gross motor development in congenitally blind infants indicated that neuromuscular maturation and postural achievements were similar to those of sighted infants, but that self-initiated mobility and locomotion were delayed. (ST)
Descriptors: Blindness, Handicapped Children, Infants, Intervention
Early Intervention Using Brazelton Training with Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers of Newborns.
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Myers, Barbara J. – Child Development, 1982
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of the Brazelton exam as a parent education tool for mothers and fathers. Target parents in treatment groups were taught to perform the Brazelton exam on their own infant, with attention being drawn to the infant's most positive interactive and physical abilities. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Improvement Programs, Infant Behavior