Behavioral and cognitive readiness for school: Cross-domain associations for children attending head start

Social Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 305-323

  Bierman, Karen L ^a   Torres, Marcela M ^a   Domitrovich, Celene E ^a   Welsh, Janet A ^a   Gest, Scott D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Executive functions; School readiness; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249123163     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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