Publications

Selected publications

Korucu, I.,Duncan, R. J., Kenny, S. A., Gonzales, C. R., Ahmadi, A., Karing, J. T., & McClelland, M. M. (2025). The Head–Toes–Knees–Shoulders Task as a Screening Tool for Kindergarten-Level Achievement. Behavioral Sciences, 15(11), https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15111464

Korucu, I., Paes, T. M., Costello, L.,^* Duncan, R. J., Purpura, D. J., & Schmitt, S. A (2023). The role of peers’ executive function and classroom quality in preschoolers’ executive function and academic skills. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101532  

Duncan, R. J., Korucu, I., & Schmitt., S. A. (2023). Variations in early life home environment quality and children’s academic achievement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101500

Devlin, B. L., Paes, T. M., Geer, E. A., Bryant, L. M., Zehner, T. M., Korucu, I., Morse, K. E., Duncan, R. J., Purpura, D. J., Schmitt, S. A. (2023). Moving beyond dosage and adherence: A four-step protocol for capturing dimensions of young children’s engagement as a measure of implementation fidelity of social-emotional learning interventions. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1014713 

Korucu, I., Ayturk, E., Finders, J., Schnur, G.,^* Bailey, C. S., Tominey, S., & Schmitt, S. A. (2022). Self-regulation in preschool: Examining its factor structure and associations with pre-academic skills and social-emotional competence. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717317

Schmitt, S. A., Finders, J., Duncan, R. J., Korucu, I., Bryant, L., Purpura., D. J., & Elicker, J. (2021). Exploring longitudinal and bidirectional links between executive function and social-emotional competence in early childhood. Developmental Psychology, 57(12), 2093–2105. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001266

Britto, P. R., Hanoz-Penney, S., Pontuga, L. A., Sunar, D., Issa, G., Hein, S. D., Rosario, M. C., Almuneef, M. A., Korucu, I., Togo, Y., Kurbonov, J., Choibekow, N., Phan, H. T. T., Fallon, S., Artukoglu, B., Hartl, F., Salah, R., Fitzpatrick, S., Connolly, P., Dunne, L., Miller, S., Pruett, K., & Leckman, J. (2020). Pathways to a more peaceful and sustainable world: The transformative power of children in families. Development and Psychopathology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579420000681

Korucu, I., & Schmitt, S. A. (2020). The continuity and change in the home environment and associations with school readiness. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 53, 97-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.03.002   

Korucu, I., Litkowski, E., & Schmitt, S. A. (2020). Examining associations between the home literacy environment, executive function, and school readiness. Early Education and Development, 31, 455-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2020.1716287

Korucu, I., Litkowski, E., Purpura, D. J., & Schmitt, S. A. (2020). Parental executive function as a predictor of parenting practices and children’s executive function. Infant and Child Development, 29, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2152

Korucu, I., Rolan, E., Napoli, A. R., Purpura, D. J., & Schmitt, S. A. (2019). Development of the Home Executive Function Environment (HEFE) Scale: Assessing its relation to preschoolers’ executive function. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.09.001

Schmitt, S. A., Korucu, I., Napoli, A. R., Bryant, L., & Purpura, D. J. (2018). Using block play to enhance preschool children’s mathematics and executive function: A randomized controlled trial. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 44, 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.04.006

Korucu, I., Yagmurlu, B., & Harma, M. (2017). Self-regulation: Relations with theory of mind and social behavior. Infant and Child Development, 26, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1988

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