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The measurement of executive function at age 5: Psychometric properties and relationship to academic achievement.
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This study examined the psychometric properties and criterion validity of a newly developed battery of executive function (EF) tasks for use in early childhood. The battery was included in the Family Life Project (FLP), a prospective longitudinal study of families who were oversampled from low-income and African American families at the birth of a new child (N = 1,292). Ninety-nine percent (N = 1,036) of children who participated in the age 5 home visit completed 1 or more (M = 5.8, Mdn = 6) of the 6 EF tasks. Results indicated that tasks worked equally well for children residing in low-income and not low-income homes, that task scores were most informative about the ability level of children in the low-average range, that performance on EF tasks was best characterized by a single factor, and that individual differences on the EF battery were strongly related to a latent variable measuring overall academic achievement, as well as to individual standardized tests that measured phonological awareness, letter-word identification, and early math skills.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Willoughby, M. T., The Family Life Project Investigators, Blair, C. B., Wirth, R. J., & Greenberg, M.
- Venue
- Psychological Assessment
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 226-239
- ISSN
- 1040-3590 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-134X
- OpenAlex
- W1966158176
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 26
- FWCI
- 13.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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