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Early Manifestations of Intellectual Performance: Evidence That Genetic Effects on Later Academic Test Performance Are Mediated through Verbal Performance in Early Childhood
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Austerberry, Chloe; Fearon, Pasco; Ronald, Angelica; Leve, Leslie D.; Ganiban, Jody M.; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Reiss, David – Child Development, 2022
Intellectual performance is highly heritable and robustly predicts lifelong health and success but the earliest manifestations of genetic effects on this asset are not well understood. This study examined whether early executive function (EF) or verbal performance mediate genetic influences on subsequent intellectual performance, in 561 U.S.-based…
Descriptors: Child Development, Intelligence, Genetics, Executive Function
The Role of Childhood Executive Function in Explaining Income Disparities in Long-Term Academic Achievement
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Deer, LillyBelle K.; Hastings, Paul D.; Hostinar, Camelia E. – Child Development, 2020
This study utilized data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 14,860) to examine whether early-life family income (age 0-5) predicted long-term academic achievement (age 16-18) and to investigate the role of executive function (EF) assessed multiple times across age 7-11 in explaining this association. Task-based EF was a…
Descriptors: Family Income, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Young Children
Juvenile Delinquency and Attention Deficit Disorder: Boys' Developmental Trajectories from Age 3 to Age 15.
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Moffitt, Terrie E. – Child Development, 1990
In this study of developmental precursors of adolescent behavior, the developmental trajectories of 435 boys from ages 3 through 15 were traced for selected correlates of delinquency (childhood antisocial behavior, low verbal intelligence, reading difficulty, and family adversity). (PCB)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attention Deficit Disorders, Delinquency, Family Environment
The Modification of Intelligence by Training in the Verbalization of Word Definitions and Simple Concepts
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Levinson, Elizabeth J. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Control Groups, Definitions, Intellectual Development