Executive Function – CalWORKs 2.0 | Next Generation

Building Better Programs website

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:19:19 +0000

This website from partner, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has a very well stocked section on Executive Function. “Materials that describe what executive function skills are, provides examples of programs that build executive function skills or use executive function principles in their program designs and provides other resources for programs interested in using executive function principles to improve their work and other human service programs.”

http://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/category/executive-function/

Executive Function Skills: What They Are and Why They Matter webinar

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:14:00 +0000

Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Includes recorded webinar and slides.

Executive Function Skills: What They Are and Why They Matter

Using an Executive Function-Informed Goal Achievement Framework to Redesign Employment and Related Human Services Program webinar

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:11:57 +0000

Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Includes recorded webinar and slides.

Using an Executive Function-Informed Goal Achievement Framework to Redesign Employment and Related Human Service Programs

The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills on Outcomes for Young People paper

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:09:05 +0000

The term ‘non-cognitive skills’ refers to a set of attitudes, behaviours, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in school and at work, such as motivation, perseverance, and self-control. Despite growing interest in this topic, the causal relationship between non-cognitive skills and later outcomes is not well established. This rapid literature review is intended to summarise the existing evidence on
how ‘non-cognitive skills’ can be defined and measured; assess the evidence that such skills have a causal impact on later outcomes; and the role of select interventions that aim to improve non-cognitive skills in children and young people.”

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/EEF_Lit_Review_Non-CognitiveSkills.pdf

Teacher Expectations Matter paper

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:55:58 +0000

Teacher Expectations Matter paper, August 2016

“We provide novel, arguably causal evidence that teacher expectations affect students’ educational attainment. On average, teachers are overly optimistic about students’ ability to complete a four-year college degree. However, the degree of over-optimism of white teachers is significantly larger for white students than for black students. This highlights a nuance that is frequently overlooked in discussions of biased beliefs: unbiased (i.e., accurate) beliefs can be counterproductive if there are positive returns to optimism or if there are socio-demographic gaps in the degree of teachers’ over-optimism, both of which we find evidence of.”

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/147851/1/dp10165.pdf

Nicholas W. Papageorge ,Johns Hopkins University and IZA

Seth Gershenson, American University and IZA

Kyungmin Kang, Johns Hopkins University

Psychological Lives of the Poor paper

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:49:31 +0000

Article in 2016 American Economic Review, 106(5):435-40, Shilbach et al.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/psychological_lives_of_the_poor.pdf

EMPath CEO Beth Babcock TEDx talk on Executive Function video

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:45:58 +0000

Using Brain Science to Create New Pathways out of Poverty

Intro to Psychosocial Concepts for Livelihood Programming video

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:41:37 +0000

World Bank Open Learning Campus video segment offers practical guidance for how to develop brain science-informed livelihood programming to transform participant outcomes and achievements.

https://olc.worldbank.org/content/restoring-livelihoods-psychosocial-support-4#video14085

Rethinking Poverty paper

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:32:40 +0000

Short research paper in Stanford Social Innovation Review by Elisabeth Babcock. 2014

http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/pdf/Research-RethinkingPoverty-0914.pdf

Using Brain Science to Design New Pathways out of Poverty, paper

Rachel Nicolosi — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:22:28 +0000

This 2014 paper from partner, EMPath (formerly Crittinton Women’s Union) covers many of the key concepts behind CalWORKS 2.0.

“Moving out of poverty is no longer a short process of following a simple roadmap to a good job. It has become a lengthy, complex navigational challenge requiring individuals to rely on strong executive function (EF) skills (impulse control, working memory, and mental flexibility) in order to effectively manage life’s competing demands and optimize their decisions over many years. Improvements in executive functioning are likely to positively impact outcomes in all areas of life, including parenting, personal relationships, money management, educational attainment, and career success.”

http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/pdf/Research-UsingBrainScienceDesignPathwaysPoverty-0114.pdf