TitleThe development of uncertainty monitoring during kindergarten: Change and longitudinal relations with executive function and vocabulary in children from low-income backgrounds.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsGonzales, CR, Merculief, A, McClelland, MM, Ghetti, S
JournalChild Dev
Date Published12/2021
ISSN1467-8624
Abstract

Children's ability to monitor subjective feelings of uncertainty (i.e., engage in uncertainty monitoring) is a central metacognitive skill. In the current study, we examined the development of uncertainty monitoring as well as its relations with vocabulary and executive function development in children (N = 137, 52% female) from predominately White and Latinx/Hispanic backgrounds when they were 4-6 years old and enrolled in a Head Start preschool and kindergarten between 2018 and 2019. We found that children's uncertainty monitoring improved during the kindergarten year. Children's executive function and vocabulary in preschool and vocabulary growth from preschool to kindergarten predicted uncertainty monitoring at the end of kindergarten, which sheds new light on potential mechanisms supporting children's metacognitive development.

DOI10.1111/cdev.13714
Alternate JournalChild Dev
PubMed ID34889459
Grant ListR305A150192 / / Institute of Education Sciences /
1F32HD097896-01 / / Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development /