More variable WM performance at all timescales is related to lower school achievement¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r? · q3
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Children with more variable WM performance at all timescales had lower school achievement. → Dirk 2016

Evidence¶

Dirk 2016¶

Dirk, Judith; Schmiedek, Florian. (2016). Fluctuations in elementary school children's working memory performance in the school context. The journal of educational psychology 108 (2016) 5, S. 722-739. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000076

q3 · i? · associational · r?

Correlational finding from the ambulatory assessment study; the article reports more variable WM performance "was related to lower school achievement". No effect size is printed.

"more variable WM performance at all timescales was related to lower school achievement, and more day-to-day variability was associated with lower fluid intelligence."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• More day-to-day WM variability is associated with lower fluid intelligence — related
• Grade 3 students are more variable than Grade 4 students in WM performance at the faster timescales — related
• Day-to-day, occasion-to-occasion, and moment-to-moment variability each account for roughly the same extent of observed daily WM variability, with large individual differences — related