Executive functioning
Overview
- Influence: Executive functioning
- Domain: Student
- Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: Executive functioning include skills to not be distracted, to move back and forth between tasks or ideas, and updating and monitoring what we hold in working memory.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 314
- Number of students: 73,552
- Number of effects: 314
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.62
- Robustness index: 4
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers in Psychology | Pascual, Munoz, & Robres | Spain | The relationship between executive functions and academic performance in primary education: Review and meta-analysis | 2019 | Executive functioning | 21 | 7,947 | 21 | 0.78 |
| Psychological bulletin | Spiegel, Goodrich, Morris, Osborne, & Lonigan | USA | Relations between executive functions and academic outcomes in elementary school children: A meta-analysis. | 2021 | Executive functioning | 293 | 65,605 | 293 | 0.61 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 314 | 73,552 | 314 | 0.70 | |||||