Contribution of sustained attention abilities to real-world academic skills in children.

ABSTRACT: Sustained attention is a critical cognitive ability that improves over the course of development and predicts important real-world outcomes, such as academic achievement. However, the majority of work demonstrating links between sustained attention and academic skills has been conducted in lab-based settings that lack the ecological validity of a more naturalistic environment, like school. Further, most studies focus on targeted academic measures of specific sub-skills and have not fully examined whether this relationship generalizes to broad measures of academic achievement that are used for important, real-world, academic advancement decisions, such as standardized test scores. To address this gap, we examined the role of sustained attention in predicting targeted and broad assessments o

SUBMITTER: Gallen CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9932079 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature