Age- and Schooling-Related Effects on Executive Functions in Young Children: A Natural Experiment

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作者
Burrage, Marie S. [1 ]
Ponitz, Claire Cameron [2 ]
McCready, Elizabeth A. [3 ]
Shah, Priti [1 ]
Sims, Brian C.
Jewkes, Abigail M. [4 ]
Morrison, Frederick J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Combined Program Educ & Psychol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[2] Univ Virginia, Ctr Adv Study Teaching & Learning, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
[3] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[4] CUNY Hunter Coll, New York, NY 10021 USA
关键词
Executive functions; Early schooling; School cutoff method; Cognitive development; Young children; Working memory; Response inhibition;
D O I
10.1080/09297040701756917
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
We employed a cutoff design in order to examine age- and schooling-related effects on executive functions. Specifically, we looked at development of working memory and response inhibition over the period of 1 school year in prekindergarten and kindergarten students born within 4 months of each other. All children improved on executive function and word-decoding tasks from the beginning to the end of the year. Additionally, we found prekindergarten- and kindergarten-schooling effects for the working memory and word-decoding tasks (p .05), and a trend-level prekindergarten-schooling effect for the response inhibition task (p .10).
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页数:15
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