Publications

The Kindergarten Readiness Research Program

2023

Thompson PN, Tomayko EJ, Gunter K, Schuna, Jr JM, McClelland MM. Impacts of the four-day school week on early elementary achievement. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2023;63:264 - 277. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.12.009.

2022

Castelo RJ, Meuwissen AS, Distefano R, et al. Parent Provision of Choice Is a Key Component of Autonomy Support in Predicting Child Executive Function Skills. Frontiers in Psychology. 2022;12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.773492.
Finders JK, Geldhof GJ, Dahlgren JA, Olsen SG, McClelland MM. Revisiting age- and schooling-related growth in school readiness skills: A multimethod validation study. Dev Psychol. 2022. doi:10.1037/dev0001402.
Lenes R, Størksen I, McClelland MM, 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. 2022;30(3):403 - 422. doi:10.1080/1350293X.2022.2055101.
Caughy MO'Brien, Brinkley DY, Pacheco D, et al. Self-Regulation Development Among Young Spanish-English Dual Language Learners. Early Child Res Q. 2022;60:226-236. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.02.004.
McClelland MM, Ahmadi A, Wanless SB. Self-regulation. In: Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. Elsevier; 2022. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91497-0.00042-4.
Miller AL, Palmer KK, Wang L, et al. 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. doi:10.1111/sms.14294.

2021

Gonzales CR, Merculief A, McClelland MM, 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. doi:10.1111/cdev.13714.
Rege M, Størksen I, Solli IF, et al. The Effects of a Structured Curriculum on Preschool Effectiveness: A Field Experiment. Journal of Human Resources. 2021:0220-10749R3. doi:10.3368/jhr.0220-10749R3.
Patwardhan I, Nelson TD, McClelland MM, W Mason A. Childhood Cognitive Flexibility and Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: Examination of Prospective Bidirectional Associations. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10802-020-00757-x.
Gonzales CR, Bowles R, Geldhof GJ, Cameron CE, Tracy AN, McClelland MM. The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised (HTKS-R): Development and psychometric properties of a revision to reduce floor effects. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2021;56:320 - 332. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.03.008.
Karing JTua, Tracy AN, Gonzales CR, et al. Breastfeeding, Early Self-Regulation, and Academic Achievement in Kindergarten Among Disadvantaged Children. Matern Child Health J. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10995-021-03193-5.
McClelland MM, Gonzales CR, Cameron CE, et al. The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised: Links to Academic Outcomes and Measures of EF in Young Children. Front Psychol. 2021;12:721846. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.721846.
Li T, McClelland MM, Tominey SL, Tracy AN. Cost-Effectiveness Analyses on Various Models of The Red Light, Purple Light Self-Regulation Intervention for Young Children. Frontiers in Psychology. 2021;12. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.711578.

2020

Lenes R, Gonzales CR, Størksen I, McClelland MM. Children's Self-Regulation in Norway and the United States: The Role of Mother's Education and Child Gender Across Cultural Contexts. Front Psychol. 2020;11:566208. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.566208.
Lenes R, McClelland MM, Braak Dten, Idsøe T, Størksen I. Direct and indirect pathways from children’s early self-regulation to academic achievement in fifth grade in Norway. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2020;53:612 - 624. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.07.005.
Zakszeski B, Hojnoski RL, Dever BV, DuPaul GJ, McClelland MM. Early Elementary Trajectories of Classroom Behavior Self-Regulation: Prediction by Student Characteristics and Malleable Contextual Factors. School Psychology Review. 2020;49(2):161 - 177. doi:10.1080/2372966X.2020.1717373.
Finders JK, McClelland MM, Geldhof GJ, Rothwell D, Hatfield BE. Explaining achievement gaps in kindergarten and third grade: The role of self-regulation and executive function skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2020;54:72 - 85. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.07.008.

2019

Cameron CE, Kim H, Duncan RJ, Becker DR, McClelland MM. Bidirectional and co-developing associations of cognitive, mathematics, and literacy skills during kindergarten. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 2019;62:135 - 144. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2019.02.004.
McClelland MM, Cameron CE. Developing together: The role of executive function and motor skills in children’s early academic lives. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 2019;46:142 - 151. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.03.014.
Braak Dten, Størksen I, Idsoe T, McClelland MM. Bidirectionality in self-regulation and academic skills in play-based early childhood education. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 2019;65:101064. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101064.
McClelland MM, Tominey SL, Schmitt SA, et al. Red Light, Purple Light! Results of an Intervention to Promote School Readiness for Children From Low-Income Backgrounds. Frontiers in Psychology. 2019;10. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02365.
McClelland MM, Cameron CE, Alonso J. The Development of Self-Regulation in Young Children. In: The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education. 1st ed. The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education. SAGE; 2019:471-486. doi:10.4135/9781526470393.
Rege M, Størksen I, Solli IF, et al. Promoting Child Development in a Universal Preschool System: A Field Experiment. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2019. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3434830.
Cerino ES, Hooker K, Stawski RS, McClelland MM. A New Brief Measure of Executive Function: Adapting the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Task to Older Adults. Gerontologist. 2019. doi:10.1093/geront/gny028.