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Do Schools Promote Executive Functions? Differential Working Memory Growth Across School-Year and Summer Months
2019
AERA Open
Children's working memory (WM) skills, which support both academic and social success, continue to improve significantly through the school years. This study leverages the first nationally representative data set with direct assessments of elementary school students' WM skills to examine whether WM grows more during the school year or summer months and whether WM growth rates differ by household income. Results demonstrate that WM skills grow more during the school-year months compared to the
doi:10.1177/2332858419848443
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