Thomas Deane, Kathy Nomme, Erica Jeffery, Carol Pollock, Gülnur Birol
Development of the Statistical Reasoning in Biology Concept Inventory (SRBCI)
CBE life sciences education
present study designed examine concurrent predictive associations scores measure executive function ef skills contingency naming test cnt early schoolage years secondary aim study examine association ef skills mathematics performance administered tests mathematics ability cnt 178 children ages 6 7 8 9 10 11 years cnt obtained measures response fluencyefficiency working memory inhibition results demonstrate main effects age cnt measures ef anticipated inconsistent main effects gender mathematics learning disability status rates improvement ef varied function working memory demands present given task differences concurrent predictive correlations different cnt performance measures ef scores obtained first assessment strongly associated ef scores obtained four years later suggesting moderately stable source individual differences cognitive performance ef scores age 6 7 years associated concurrent later mathematics scores correlations stronger significant associations found response fluency baseline task working memory demand mathematics performance findings implications stability ef skills schoolage years role ef early later elementary school mathematics performance