Nicholas E Waters

Biographic Data

ID5097403
NAMENicholas E Waters
GIVEN NAMESNicholas E
FAMILY NAMEWaters
SIGNATUREWATERS N E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0001-7149-3541
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS15
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • A randomized controlled trial of HighScope’s teacher professional learning on preschoolers' executive function skills

    Open AccessSammy F Ahmed, Nicholas E Waters et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2026References: 6

    A RCT was used to test the effects of teacher PL on preschoolers’ EF skills. • Teacher PL led to growth in preschoolers’ EF skills across preschool. • HighScope’s PL package shows promise for supporting children’s EF development. Teacher professional learning has been shown to promote children’s language, literacy, and social-emotional functioning - however, less is known about its impact on children’s executive function. In the present study, we…

  • Measurement invariance of the home literacy environment for preschoolers with and without speech and/or language impairment

    Open AccessLori E Skibbe, Nicholas E Waters et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research in Reading2025References: 1

    Background The current study examined whether the home literacy environment (HLE) has the same meaning and predictive value for children with and without speech and/or language impairment. Methods Parents reported on their HLE for children with typical development ( n = 811) and those with speech and/or language impairment (S/LI, n = 235). All children were between 3 and 6 years of age. Children's letter–name knowledge, letter–sound knowledge and…

  • Links between socioeconomic position and cognitive and behavioral regulation in adolescence

    Open AccessNatasha Chaku, Nicholas E Waters et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2024Cited by: 3References: 17

    Adolescent cognitive and behavioral regulation is influenced by multidimensional and multidirectional processes within and across biological and contextual systems that shift throughout development. Key among these influences are distal processes such as early life socioeconomic position (SEP), and proximal processes such as pubertal development, but questions remain concerning how links between SEP, pubertal development, and cognitive and behavi…

  • The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development

    Open AccessPamela Davis‐kean, Lauren A Tighe et al.ARTICLECurrent Directions in Psychological…2021

    Socioeconomic status (SES)—indexed via parent educational attainment, parent occupation, and family income—is a powerful predictor of children’s developmental outcomes. Variations in these resources predict large academic disparities among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persist over the years of schooling, perpetuating educational inequalities across generations. In this article, we provide an overview of a model that has …

  • Pathways from socioeconomic status to early academic achievement

    Open AccessNicholas E Waters, Sammy F Ahmed et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2020Cited by: 12References: 15

  • Executive function and academic achievement

    Sammy F Ahmed, Sandra Tang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Educational Psychology2019

    Data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (N = 1273) were analyzed to assess the longitudinal relations among executive function (EF) components in early childhood (54 months) and adolescence (15 years) and their prediction of academic achievement. We found that after controlling for early achievement, demographic and home environment variables, only working memory at 54 months significantly predicted working memory at 15 years and that worki…