Do preschool executive function skills explain the school readiness gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children

By C. Fitzpatrick, Rachel D McKinnon, Clancy Blair, Michael T. Willoughby. 2014

219 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

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3. Hongyun Liu
4. Jason Chor Ming Lo
5. Hattie Harvey
6. G. Miller
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5. Hongyun Liu
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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4. Hongyun Liu
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Citations in the corpus

• Executive Function Skills, Early Mathematics, and Vocabulary in Head Start Preschool Children (2017, methodology): “…agree on whether analyses should be conducted independently across the separate EF tasks or integrated into a composite score (Espy et al., 2004; Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Garon et al., 2008; J. A. Welsh et al., 2010), this assessment tool allows for either approach when examining EF processes…”
• How socioeconomic status, executive functioning and verbal interactions contribute to early academic achievement in Chinese children (2017, background): “Executive functioning has also been found to differ in Western children from low-SES and middle-SES families (e.g. Fitzpatrick et al., 2014; Noble, McCandliss, & Farah, 2007; Noble, Farah, et al., 2006), while these studies have shown the importance of executive functioning to academic outcomes…”