Ahmed, S. F., Koepp, A. E., & Vandell, D. L. (2026). Teacher-student relationships and adult outcomes: Developmental cascades via childhood executive function and behavioral dysregulation. Child Development, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/chidev/aacag080

Ahmed, S. F., Waters, N. E., & Skibbe, L. E. (2026). A randomized controlled trial of HighScope’s teacher professional learning on preschoolers’ executive function skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 76(3), 230-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2026.03.012

Waters, N. E., Ahmed, S. F., & Davis-Kean, P. (2025). Socioeconomic status and academic achievement: Developmental pathways through parenting and children’s executive function. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160, 106335.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106335

Chaku, N., Waters, N. E., & Ahmed, S. F. (2024). Links between socioeconomic position and cognitive and behavioral regulation in adolescence: The role of pubertal development. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34, 1232–1246. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12964

McRoy, K., Skibbe, L. E., Ahmed, S. F., & Tatar, B. H. (2024). Guidelines and best practices for assessing preschoolers remotely. Frontiers in Public Health 12, 1376090.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1376090

Ahmed, S. F., Montroy, J. J., Skibbe, L. E., Bowles, R., & Morrison, F. J. (2023). The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade. Learning and Instruction 83, 101713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101713

Ahmed, S. F., Chaku, N., Waters, N. E., Ellis, A., & Davis-Kean, P. E. (2023). Developmental cascades and educational attainment. In C. S. Tamis-LeMonda & J. J. Lockman (Eds.), Advances in Child development and behavior (Vol. 64, pp. 289–326). Academic Press https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2022.10.006

Grammer, J. K., & Ahmed, S. F. (2023). Informing the development of school-based strategies to promote children’s executive function skills: Considerations, challenges, and future directions. Mind, Brain, and Education 17, 383-390.https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12368

Koepp, A. E., Watts, T. W., Gershoff, E. T., Ahmed, S. F., Davis-Kean, P., Duncan, G. J., Kuhfeld, M., & Vandell, D. L. (2023). Attention and behavior problems in childhood predict adult financial status, health, and criminal activity: A conceptual replication and extension of Moffitt et al. (2011) using cohorts from the United States and the United Kingdom. Developmental Psychology, 59(8), 1389–1406. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001533

Ribner, A., Ahmed, S. F., Miller-Cotto, D., & Ellis, A. (2023). The role of executive function in shaping the longitudinal stability of math achievement during early elementary grades. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 64(3), 84–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2023.02.004

Ahmed, S. F., Ellis, A., Ward, K., Chaku, N., & Davis-Kean, P. (2022). Working memory development from early childhood to adolescence using two nationally representative samples. Developmental Psychology. 58(10), 1962–1973.https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001396

Ahmed, S. F., Skibbe, L. E., McRoy, K., Tatar, B. H., & Scharphorn, L. (2022). Strategies, recommendations, and validation of remote executive function tasks for use with young children. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 60(3), 336–347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.03.002

Ahmed, S. F., Kuhfeld, M., Watts, T.W., Davis-Kean, P., & Vandell, D. L. (2021). Preschool executive function and adult outcomes: A developmental cascade model. Developmental Psychology, 57(12), 2234–2249. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001270

Kim., M, Bousselot, T., & Ahmed, S. F. (2021). Executive functions and science achievement during the five-to-seven-year shift. Developmental Psychology, 57(12), 2119–2133. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001261

Ahmed, S. F., Grammer, J. K., & Morrison, F. J. (2021). Cognition in context: Validating group-based executive function assessments in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208:105131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105131

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Ahmed, S. F., Tang, S., Waters, N. E., & Davis-Kean, P. (2019). Executive function and academic achievement: Longitudinal relations from early childhood to adolescence. Journal of Educational Psychology. 111(3), 446-458. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000296