- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Social Representations and Identity
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- School Choice and Performance
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Parental Involvement in Education
The University of Texas at Austin
2022-2023
Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed provide school access all children. Research high income countries has shown that quality indicators significant, positive impact on numeracy and literacy-skills required participate the increasingly globalized economy. Schools vary enormously kind, resources, teacher training around world, however, validity of using diverse measures populations with educational profiles...
Self-regulation is a widely studied construct, generally assumed to be cognitively supported by executive functions (EFs). There lack of clarity and consensus over the roles specific components EFs in self-regulation. The current study examines relations between performance on (a) self-regulation task (Heads, Toes, Knees Shoulders Task) (b) two EF tasks (Knox Cube Beads Tasks) that measure different updating: working memory short-term memory, respectively. We compared 107 8- 13-year-old...