The children of parents who received coaching and support materials in preschool had fewer conduct problems in middle school and higher levels of academic skills more than seven years later, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers.
In a recent study published in Development and Psychopathology, the research team examined seventh grade data from children who participated during preschool in the Research Based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program, a supplemental educational program. Results demonstrated that the subset of REDI students whose parents received coaching and support materials had fewer conduct problems in middle school and higher levels of working memory - the ability to hold and manipulate information in the brain.
