Executive Function Skills and School Success in Young Children Experiencing Homelessness

Educational Researcher

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 375-384

  Masten, Ann S ^a   Herbers, Janette E ^a   Desjardins, Christopher David ^a   Cutuli, J J ^b   McCormick, Christopher M ^a   Sapienza, Julianna K ^a   Long, Jeffrey D ^c   Zelazo, Philip David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement gap; at risk students; cognition; factor analysis; poverty; regression analyses; urban education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870909418     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X12459883     Document Type: Article

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