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Overview

Ryan P. Bowles is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology.

Their recent publications include:

  • The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised (HTKS-R): Development and psychometric properties of a revision to reduce floor effects, 2021, Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Development of the Narrative Assessment Protocol-2: A Tool for Examining Young Children's Narrative Skill, 2020, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Self-regulation moderates the relationship between fine motor skills and writing in early childhood, 2021, Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • The Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders Revised: Links to Academic Outcomes and Measures of EF in Young Children, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Rate of Growth of Preschool-Age Children's Oral Language and Decoding Skills Predicts Beginning Writing Ability, 2021, Early Education and Development

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Lori E. Skibbe, Hope K. Gerde, Laura M. Justice, Tiantian Sun, and Sarah N. Douglas.

Bowles's work appears predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools
  • Early Childhood Education Journal
  • Early Education and Development

The main fields of study covered in Bowles's research are psychology and social sciences, while subfields include developmental and educational psychology, education, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Research topics frequently addressed in their publications involve:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology

Best Publications

  • Predictors of early growth in academic achievement: the head-toes-knees-shoulders task

    Megan M. McClelland;Claire E. Cameron;Robert Duncan;Ryan P. Bowles

  • The development of self-regulation across early childhood.

    Janelle J. Montroy;Ryan P. Bowles;Lori E. Skibbe;Megan M. McClelland

  • The index of narrative microstructure: a clinical tool for analyzing school-age children's narrative performances.

    Laura M. Justice;Ryan P. Bowles;Joan N. Kaderavek;Teresa A. Ukrainetz

  • Social Skills and Problem Behaviors as Mediators of the Relationship between Behavioral Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement.

    Janelle J. Montroy;Ryan P. Bowles;Lori E. Skibbe;Tricia D. Foster

  • Measuring preschool attainment of print-concept knowledge: a study of typical and at-risk 3- to 5-year-old children using item response theory.

    Laura M. Justice;Ryan P. Bowles;Lori E. Skibbe

  • A scalable tool for assessing children's language abilities within a narrative context: The NAP (Narrative Assessment Protocol)

    Laura M. Justice;Ryan Bowles;Khara Pence;Carolyn Gosse

  • Educators' Use of Cognitively Challenging Questions in Economically Disadvantaged Preschool Classroom Contexts.

    Susan L. Massey;Khara L. Pence;Laura M. Justice;Ryan P. Bowles

  • Modeling Life-Span Growth Curves of Cognition using Longitudinal Data with Multiple Samples and Changing Scales of Measurement

    John J. McArdle;Kevin J. Grimm;Fumiaki Hamagami;Ryan P. Bowles

  • School readiness among children with varying histories of language difficulties.

    Laura M. Justice;Ryan P. Bowles;Khara L. Pence Turnbull;Lori E. Skibbe

  • Language Impairment, Parent—Child Shared Reading, and Phonological Awareness: A Feasibility Study

    Laura M. Justice;Joan Kaderavek;Ryan Bowles;Kevin Grimm

  • How Lesbian and Heterosexual Parents Convey Attitudes about Gender to their Children: The Role of Gendered Environments

    Erin L. Sutfin;Megan Fulcher;Ryan P. Bowles;Charlotte J. Patterson

  • Reading Trajectories of Children with Language Difficulties from Preschool through Fifth Grade.

    Lori E. Skibbe;Kevin J. Grimm;Tina L. Stanton-Chapman;Laura M. Justice

  • Self-regulation and the Development of Literacy and Language Achievement from Preschool through Second Grade.

    Lori E. Skibbe;Janelle J. Montroy;Ryan P. Bowles;Frederick J. Morrison

  • Assessing the age-related effects of proactive interference on working memory tasks using the Rasch model.

    Ryan P. Bowles;Timothy A. Salthouse

  • Preschoolers' Exposure to Language Stimulation in Classrooms Serving At-Risk Children: The Contribution of Group Size and Activity Context

    Khara Pence Turnbull;Angela Beckman Anthony;Laura Justice;Ryan Bowles

  • The contributions of parental management language to executive function in preschool children

    Samantha W. Bindman;Annemarie H. Hindman;Ryan P. Bowles;Frederick J. Morrison

  • Model Fit and Item Factor Analysis: Overfactoring, Underfactoring, and a Program to Guide Interpretation

    D Angus Clark;Ryan P Bowles

  • Vocabulary test format and differential relations to age

    Ryan P. Bowles;Timothy A. Salthouse

  • A Structural Factor Analysis of Vocabulary Knowledge and Relations to Age

    Ryan P. Bowles;Kevin J. Grimm;John J. McArdle

  • Teachers' Use of Questions during Shared Book Reading: Relations to Child Responses.

    Richa S. Deshmukh;Tricia A. Zucker;Sherine R. Tambyraja;Jill M. Pentimonti

  • A Monte Carlo simulation study of the reliability of intraindividual variability.

    Ryne Estabrook;Kevin J. Grimm;Ryan P. Bowles

Frequent Co-Authors

Lori E. Skibbe
Lori E. Skibbe Michigan State University
Laura M. Justice
Laura M. Justice The Ohio State University
Kevin J. Grimm
Kevin J. Grimm Arizona State University
Megan M. McClelland
Megan M. McClelland Oregon State University
Frederick J. Morrison
Frederick J. Morrison University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
G. John Geldhof
G. John Geldhof Oregon State University
Timothy A. Salthouse
Timothy A. Salthouse University of Virginia
Alan C. Acock
Alan C. Acock Oregon State University
John J. McArdle
John J. McArdle University of Southern California
Beth M. Phillips
Beth M. Phillips Florida State University

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