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School readiness and later achievement.
- G. Duncan, Chantelle J. Dowsett, Crista Japel
- Psychology, EducationDevelopmental Psychology
- 1 November 2007
A meta-analysis of the results shows that early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then attention skills, while measures of socioemotional behaviors were generally insignificant predictors of later academic performance.
The relations of early television viewing to school readiness and vocabulary of children from low-income families: the early window project.
Viewing child-audience informative programs between ages 2 and 3 predicted high subsequent performance on all four measures of academic skills and children's skills also predicted later viewing, supporting a bidirectional model.
Economic well-being and children's social adjustment: the role of family process in an ethnically diverse low-income sample.
- Rashmita S. Mistry, E. Vandewater, A. Huston, V. Mcloyd
- PsychologyChild Development
- 1 May 2002
The results provided support for the position that family process is a critical mediator of the effects of economic hardship on children's social adjustment.
Early childhood television viewing and adolescent behavior: the recontact study.
- D. Anderson, A. Huston, K. L. Schmitt, D. L. Linebarger, J. Wright
- Psychology, EducationMonographs of the Society for Research in Child…
- 2001
Viewing educational programs as preschoolers was associated with higher grades, reading more books, placing more value on achievement, greater creativity, and less aggression, and these associations were more consistent for boys than for girls.
Family Instability and Children's Early Problem Behavior
- Shannon Cavanagh, A. Huston
- Psychology
- 1 September 2006
This study investigated the association between family instability and children's problem behavior during the transition to first grade. In a sample (n = 1,015) drawn from the NICHD Study of Early…
Words from Sesame Street : learning vocabulary while viewing
- M. Rice, A. Huston, R. Truglio, J. C. Wright
- Education
- 1 May 1990
The study is a longitudinal investigation of preschool children's viewing of Sesame Street and their vocabulary development.
The relation of child care to cognitive and language development
- A. Clarke-Stewart, S. Friedman, M. Appelbaum
- Psychology
- 31 December 1999
The Timing of Family Instability and Children’s Social Development
- S. Cavanagh, A. Huston
- Psychology
- 1 December 2008
This study extends the growing literature of family instability by investigating the significance of its timing for children's social adjustment. We find that more than a third of the 1,364…
Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society.
- David Marc, A. Huston, E. Donnerstein, H. Fairchild
- Political Science, Sociology
- 1 August 1992
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