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Bethany Rittle-Johnson; Rebecca Adler; Kelley Durkin – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
The current study is a conceptual replication of the influence of an advanced educational opportunity and several student propensities to learn on a college-readiness assessment for mathematics (ACT scores) among an important and under-studied group of students. We focused on a sample of predominantly Black students from economically-disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, High School Students
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Noelle M. Suntheimer; Emily M. Weiss; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Sharon Wolf – Grantee Submission, 2024
Across geographically diverse samples, engagement in stimulating activities with young children is considered an important element of parenting that promotes cognitive, behavioral, and social-emotional development. Indicators of stimulation activities are often summed, based on the assumption that more stimulation is better and that different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Social Emotional Learning, Play, Kindergarten
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Miller, Meghan; Nevado-Montenegro, Adriana J.; Hinshaw, Stephen P. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
We prospectively followed an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of preadolescent girls with ADHD (n = 140) and matched comparison girls (n = 88) over a period of 10 years, from middle childhood through late adolescence/young adulthood. Our aim was to examine the ability of childhood measures of executive function (EF) to predict…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Achievement, Attention Deficit Disorders, Late Adolescents