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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
Crawford, Joyce H.; Fry, Maurine A. – 1976
This study was designed to examine the effects of auditory memory, visual memory, and vocabulary knowledge on intramodal and intermodal delayed matching-to-sample tasks. A secondary objective was to assess the value of task performance and trait measures in predicting reading achievement. A total of 52 first graders were randomly selected as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education