阅读(过程)
心理学
词汇
联想(心理学)
灵活性(工程)
认知
数学教育
执行职能
纵向研究
发展心理学
语音意识
幼儿
学业成绩
认知灵活性
读写能力
教育学
数学
法学
心理治疗师
神经科学
哲学
统计
语言学
政治学
作者
Dieuwer ten Braak,Ragnhild Lenes,David J. Purpura,Sara A. Schmitt,Ingunn Størksen
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105306
摘要
A robust association between young children's early mathematical proficiency and later academic achievement is well established. Less is known about the mechanisms through which early mathematics skills may contribute to later mathematics and especially reading achievement. Using a parallel multiple mediator model, the current study investigated whether executive function (integration of working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility) can explain the relations between early mathematics skills and elementary school mathematics and reading achievement. Data in this longitudinal study were collected from 243 children during the last year of early childhood education and care (kindergarten ages 5 and 6 years), 1 year later in first grade, and 5 years later when the children were in fifth grade. Background variables (maternal education, age, sex, and immigrant status), kindergarten baseline skills, and mediating effects of first-grade mathematics, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and possible omitted variables were controlled. Results showed that first-grade executive function mediated the effects of kindergarten mathematics on fifth-grade mathematics and on reading achievement. These findings suggest that executive function may work as a mechanism that may help to explain the frequently found strong association between children's early mathematics skills and later mathematics and reading achievement.
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