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4560
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2533

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Adam Winsler is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within the social sciences and psychology, with a significant focus on education and child development.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these areas, the subfields most frequently addressed are:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions

The core topics of Adam Winsler's research involve:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • Journal of Research in Music Education
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Their recent papers cover diverse issues such as academic achievement, bilingual education, and resilience in children. Selected recent publications are:

  • "School readiness skills at age four predict academic achievement through 5th grade" (2021) in Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Parent migration and rural preschool children's early academic and social skill trajectories in China: Are 'left-behind' children really left behind?" (2020) in Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • "Academic and English language outcomes for DLLs as a function of school bilingual education model: the role of two-way immersion and home language support" (2020) in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  • "Self-Talk: An Interdisciplinary Review and Transdisciplinary Model" (2023) in Review of General Psychology
  • "The early academic resilience of children from low-income, immigrant families" (2020) in Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Collaborations are an important aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Bi Ying Hu
  • Courtney Ricciardi
  • Jordan E. Greenburg
  • Huiping Wu
  • My Viet Ha Nguyen

Adam Winsler's recognition within the academic community includes election as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2006 and as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Scaffolding Children's Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education

    Laura E. Berk;Adam Winsler

  • School readiness: The need for a paradigm shift.

    Martha P. Carlton;Adam Winsler

  • Self-Regulation and Ability Predictors of Academic Success During College: A Predictive Validity Study

    Anastasia Kitsantas;Adam Winsler;Faye Huie

  • Correspondence between maternal and paternal parenting styles in early childhood.

    Adam Winsler;Amy L. Madigan;Sally A. Aquilino

  • Family Income, School Attendance, and Academic Achievement in Elementary School.

    Taryn W. Morrissey;Lindsey Hutchison;Adam Winsler

  • The Effects of a Creative Dance and Movement Program on the Social Competence of Head Start Preschoolers

    Yovanka B. Lobo;Adam Winsler

  • Ethnic and Gender Differences in First-Year College Students’ Goal Orientation, Self-Efficacy, and Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation

    Gabrielle Maria D'Lima;Adam Winsler;Anastasia Kitsantas

  • Overt and covert verbal problem-solving strategies: developmental trends in use, awareness, and relations with task performance in children aged 5 to 17.

    Adam Winsler;Jack Naglieri

  • The effects of maternal parenting style and religious commitment on self-regulation, academic achievement, and risk behavior among African-American parochial college students

    Beau Abar;Kermit L. Carter;Adam Winsler

  • When Learning a Second Language Does Not Mean Losing the First: Bilingual Language Development in Low‐Income, Spanish‐Speaking Children Attending Bilingual Preschool

    Adam Winsler;Rafael M. Díaz;Linda Espinosa;James L. Rodríguez

  • The early developmental competencies and school readiness of low-income, immigrant children: Influences of generation, race/ethnicity, and national origins ☆

    Jessica Johnson De Feyter;Adam Winsler

  • School readiness gains made by ethnically diverse children in poverty attending center-based childcare and public school pre-kindergarten programs ☆

    Adam Winsler;Henry Tran;Suzanne C. Hartman;Amy L. Madigan

  • Behavior problems and social skills in preschool children: Parent-teacher agreement and relations with classroom observations.

    Adam Winsler;Gregory L. Wallace

  • Young Children's Video/Computer Game Use: Relations with School Performance and Behavior

    Erin C. Hastings;Tamara L. Karas;Adam Winsler;Emily Way

  • Still talking to ourselves after all these years: a review of current research on private speech

    Adam Winsler

  • The role of private speech in the transition from collaborative to independent task performance in young children.

    Adam Winsler;Rafael M. Diaz;Ignacio Montero

  • Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation

    Adam Winsler;Charles Fernyhough;Ignacio Montero

  • Relations between Parenting Stress, Parenting Style, and Child Executive Functioning for Children with ADHD or Autism

    Lindsey Hutchison;Michael Feder;Beau Abar;Adam Winsler

  • Sleepless in Fairfax: The Difference One More Hour of Sleep Can Make for Teen Hopelessness, Suicidal Ideation, and Substance Use

    Adam Winsler;Aaron Deutsch;Robert Daniel Vorona;Phyllis Abramczyk Payne

  • Fostering Intrinsic Motivation in Early Childhood Classrooms

    Martha P. Carlton;Adam Winsler

  • Scaffolding Children's Learning: Vygotsky and Early Childhood Education. NAEYC Research into Practice Series. Volume 7.

    Laura E. Berk;Adam Winsler

Frequent Co-Authors

Arya Ansari
Arya Ansari The Ohio State University
Anastasia Kitsantas
Anastasia Kitsantas George Mason University
Timothy W. Curby
Timothy W. Curby George Mason University
Jack A. Naglieri
Jack A. Naglieri University of Virginia
Xitao Fan
Xitao Fan Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rafael M. Diaz
Rafael M. Diaz San Francisco State University
Margaret Burchinal
Margaret Burchinal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh
Sharynne McLeod
Sharynne McLeod Charles Sturt University
Charles Fernyhough
Charles Fernyhough Durham University

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