College of Health

P. N. Thompson, Tomayko, E. J., Gunter, K., Schuna, Jr, J. M., and McClelland, M. M., “Impacts of the four-day school week on early elementary achievement”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 63, pp. 264 - 277, 2023.

A. L. Miller, Palmer, K. K., Wang, L., Wang, C., Riley, H. O., McClelland, M. M., and Robinson, L. E., “Mastery-oriented motor competence intervention improves behavioral but not cognitive self-regulation in head start preschoolers: Randomized controlled trial results.”, Scand J Med Sci Sports, 2022.

R. J. Castelo, Meuwissen, A. S., Distefano, R., McClelland, M. M., Galinsky, E., Zelazo, P. David, and Carlson, S. M., “Parent Provision of Choice Is a Key Component of Autonomy Support in Predicting Child Executive Function Skills”, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 2022.

J. K. Finders, Geldhof, G. J., Dahlgren, J. A., Olsen, S. G., and McClelland, M. M., “Revisiting age- and schooling-related growth in school readiness skills: A multimethod validation study.”, Dev Psychol, 2022.

R. Lenes, Størksen, I., McClelland, M. M., and Idsøe, T., “The role of mother’s education and child gender for children’s vocabulary and math skills in the transition from Early Childhood Education and Care to first grade in Norway”, European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 403 - 422, 2022.

M. M. McClelland, Ahmadi, A., and Wanless, S. B., “Self-regulation”, in Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, Elsevier, 2022.

M. O. 'Brien Caughy, Brinkley, D. Y., Pacheco, D., Rojas, R., Miao, A., Contreras, M. M., Owen, M. Tresch, M Easterbrooks, A., and McClelland, M. M., “Self-Regulation Development Among Young Spanish-English Dual Language Learners.”, Early Child Res Q, vol. 60, pp. 226-236, 2022.

M. Nolan, Gore, S., Tominey, S. L., Olsen, S. G., and McClelland, M. M., “Supporting the Development of Emotion Regulation in Young Children”, in Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education, 1st ed., London: Routledge, 2022, pp. 85 - 91.

J. Tua Karing, Tracy, A. N., Gonzales, C. R., Nancarrow, A. F., Tomayko, E. J., Tominey, S. L., Escobar, H., and McClelland, M. M., “Breastfeeding, Early Self-Regulation, and Academic Achievement in Kindergarten Among Disadvantaged Children.”, Matern Child Health J, 2021.

I. Patwardhan, Nelson, T. D., McClelland, M. M., and W Mason, A., “Childhood Cognitive Flexibility and Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: Examination of Prospective Bidirectional Associations.”, Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol, 2021.

T. Li, McClelland, M. M., Tominey, S. L., and Tracy, A. N., “Cost-Effectiveness Analyses on Various Models of The Red Light, Purple Light Self-Regulation Intervention for Young Children”, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 2021.

C. R. Gonzales, Merculief, A., McClelland, M. M., and Ghetti, S., “The development of uncertainty monitoring during kindergarten: Change and longitudinal relations with executive function and vocabulary in children from low-income backgrounds.”, Child Dev, 2021.

M. Rege, Størksen, I., Solli, I. F., Kalil, A., McClelland, M. M., Braak, Dten, Lenes, R., Lunde, S., Breive, S., Carlsen, M., Erfjord, I., and Hundeland, P. Sigurd, “The Effects of a Structured Curriculum on Preschool Effectiveness: A Field Experiment”, Journal of Human Resources, pp. 0220-10749R3, 2021.

C. R. Gonzales, Bowles, R., Geldhof, G. J., Cameron, C. E., Tracy, A. N., and McClelland, M. M., “The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised (HTKS-R): Development and psychometric properties of a revision to reduce floor effects”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 56, pp. 320 - 332, 2021.

M. M. McClelland, Gonzales, C. R., Cameron, C. E., Geldhof, G. J., Bowles, R. P., Nancarrow, A. F., Merculief, A., and Tracy, A. N., “The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised: Links to Academic Outcomes and Measures of EF in Young Children.”, Front Psychol, vol. 12, p. 721846, 2021.

R. Lenes, Gonzales, C. R., Størksen, I., and McClelland, M. M., “Children's Self-Regulation in Norway and the United States: The Role of Mother's Education and Child Gender Across Cultural Contexts.”, Front Psychol, vol. 11, p. 566208, 2020.

R. Lenes, McClelland, M. M., Braak, Dten, Idsøe, T., and Størksen, I., “Direct and indirect pathways from children’s early self-regulation to academic achievement in fifth grade in Norway”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 53, pp. 612 - 624, 2020.

B. Zakszeski, Hojnoski, R. L., Dever, B. V., DuPaul, G. J., and McClelland, M. M., “Early Elementary Trajectories of Classroom Behavior Self-Regulation: Prediction by Student Characteristics and Malleable Contextual Factors”, School Psychology Review, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 161 - 177, 2020.

J. K. Finders, McClelland, M. M., Geldhof, G. J., Rothwell, D., and Hatfield, B. E., “Explaining achievement gaps in kindergarten and third grade: The role of self-regulation and executive function skills”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 54, pp. 72 - 85, 2020.

C. E. Cameron, Kim, H., Duncan, R. J., Becker, D. R., and McClelland, M. M., “Bidirectional and co-developing associations of cognitive, mathematics, and literacy skills during kindergarten”, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, vol. 62, pp. 135 - 144, 2019.

Dten Braak, Størksen, I., Idsoe, T., and McClelland, M. M., “Bidirectionality in self-regulation and academic skills in play-based early childhood education”, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, vol. 65, p. 101064, 2019.

M. M. McClelland and Cameron, C. E., “Developing together: The role of executive function and motor skills in children’s early academic lives”, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, vol. 46, pp. 142 - 151, 2019.

M. M. McClelland, Cameron, C. E., and Alonso, J., “The Development of Self-Regulation in Young Children”, in The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education, 1st ed., SAGE, 2019, pp. 471-486.

E. S. Cerino, Hooker, K., Stawski, R. S., and McClelland, M. M., “A New Brief Measure of Executive Function: Adapting the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Task to Older Adults.”, Gerontologist, 2019.

M. Rege, Størksen, I., Solli, I. F., Kalil, A., McClelland, M. M., Braak, Dten, Lenes, R., Lunde, S., Breive, S., Carlsen, M., Erfjord, I., and Hundeland, P. S., “Promoting Child Development in a Universal Preschool System: A Field Experiment”, SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019.