Self-regulation in preschool and early elementary classrooms: Why it is important and how to promote it

E Savina - Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021 - Springer
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the role of self-regulation for academic
achievement and behavior in the early childhood education classroom. It discusses …

Classroom acoustics and cognition: A review of the effects of noise and reverberation on primary school children's attention and memory

K Mealings - Building Acoustics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Classroom acoustic conditions are often suboptimal, so how do they affect children's
cognition? This review synthesized research assessing the effect of different classroom …

Individual characteristics moderate listening effort in noisy classrooms

C Visentin, M Pellegatti, M Garraffa, A Di Domenico… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Comprehending the teacher's message when other students are chatting is challenging.
Even though the sound environment is the same for a whole class, differences in individual …

Sex differences in developmental pathways to mathematical competence.

DC Geary, MK Hoard, L Nugent… - Journal of educational …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The study tested the hypothesis that there are sex differences in the pathways to
mathematical development. Three-hundred and 42 adolescents (169 boys) were assessed …

Cognitive predictors of the overlap of reading and math in middle school

PT Cirino, C Salentine, A Farrell, MA Barnes… - Learning and individual …, 2024 - Elsevier
Math and reading skills are known to be related, and predictors of each are well researched.
What is less understood is the extent to which these predictors, uniquely and collectively …

[HTML][HTML] Video outperforms illustrated text: Do old explanations for the modality effect apply in a learner-paced fifth-grade classroom context?

M Haavisto, T Jaakkola, J Lepola - Computers & Education, 2023 - Elsevier
The modality effect occurs when people learn better from a combination of pictures and
narration than from a combination of pictures and written text. Despite the strong empirical …

Boys' visuospatial abilities compensate for their relatively poor in-class attentive behavior in learning mathematics

DC Geary, MK Hoard, L Nugent - Journal of experimental child psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
The mathematics and reading achievement of 322 adolescents (159 boys) was assessed in
seventh and eighth grades, as were their intelligence, working memory, and spatial abilities …

The structure of early numeracy: Evidence from multi-factorial models

D Devlin, K Moeller, F Sella - Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Despite the relevance of basic numerical skills to later mathematical outcomes,
there remains little consensus on which skills comprise the construct of early numeracy …

Cognitive and non-cognitive factors as predictors of academic performance

J Privado, M Pérez-Eizaguirre… - Learning and Individual …, 2024 - Elsevier
Attempts have been made to predict academic performance (AP) from different factors, but in
most cases it has been done with one measure or by combining two. We propose a study in …

Inhibitory Control and Mathematical Ability in Elementary School Children: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis

X Zhu, Y Tang, J Lu, M Song, C Yang… - Educational Psychology …, 2025 - Springer
Mathematical ability is a crucial component of human cognitive function, which is defined as
the ability to acquire, process, and store mathematical information. While many studies have …