Preprints

Preprints by INSTRUCT researchers

Fischer, N. L., Kalaivanan, K. d., Tong, K., Uchiyama, R., Fu, P., Lee, T., Leong, V., Chen, A. S. H., Robbins, T. W., Sahakian, B. J., Seow, P., Teo, C. L., Hung, D., & Ellefson, M. R. (2025, December 5). Set-shifting and task-switching make differential contributions to divergent thinking in adolescence. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rvs2x

Xu, C., Chu, C. P. K., Antoniou, K., Riley, T. N., Zonneveld, A. K., Said, T., Patel, J., Tsapali, M., Zachariou, A., Hughes, C., Katsos, N., Ng, F. F.-Y., Serpell, Z., Wang, Q., & Ellefson, M. R. (2025, November 11). Age and gender effects on the development of executive function skills: A multisite study of school-aged children and adolescents. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n3bks

Ellefson, M. R., Wang, R., Britton, A., Godfrey, H., & Feeney, A. (2025, October 31). The roles of switching and inhibition in adult counterintuitive scientific thinking. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cm6kg

Barsham, H., & Ellefson, M. R. (2024, March 26). Learning how/why retrieval practice works can improve test anxiety and self-efficacy. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qxkdj 

Lai, R. P., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, August 3). How multidimensional is computational thinking competency? A bi-factor model of the Computational Thinking Challenge. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/e8n3h

Paes, T. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, May 19). Guided pretend play intervention effects on self-regulation and language skills in preschool English Language Learners from families with low incomes. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b3tfv

Paes, T. M., & Ellefson, M. R. (2022, January 7). School-based intervention studies: Handling real-world practicalities and problems. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b5sf8

Ellefson, M. R., & Oppenheimer, D. (2021, October 20). Is replication possible without fidelity? PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bqnk4

Zonneveld, A. K., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2021, July 19). Executive function measurement in urban schools: Exploring the links between performance-based metrics and teacher ratings. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/myr2s

Hughes, C., Wang, Q., Ng, F., Wong, K., & Ellefson, M. R. (2020, August 26). Two-generational reports of parenting in Hong Kong and England: Beyond autonomy support and psychological control. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/j8bct

Lai, R. P., Ellefson, M. R., & Hughes, C. (2019, September 3). Executive functions, metacognitive monitoring and academic abilities. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4jhnz

Vasilopoulos, F., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, July 29). Investigation of the associations between physical activity, self-regulation and educational outcomes in childhood. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/th43u

Patel, J. N., Aldercotte, A., Tsapali, M., Serpell, Z., Parr, T., & Ellefson, M. R. (2019, April 12). The zoo task: A novel metacognitive problem-solving task developed with a sample of African American children from schools in high poverty communities. PsychArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/78y96

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