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鈥揟oes鈥揔nees鈥揝houlders Task as a Screening Tool for Kindergarten-Level Achievement. Behavioral Sciences, 15(11),
Korucu, I., Paes, T. M., Costello, L.,* Duncan, R. J., Purpura, D. J., & Schmitt, S. A (2023). The role of peers鈥� executive function and classroom quality in preschoolers鈥� executive function and academic skills. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 86, 听
Duncan, R. J., Korucu, I., & Schmitt., S. A. (2023). Variations in early life home environment quality and children鈥檚 academic achievement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 85.
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鈥檚 engagement as a measure of implementation fidelity of social-emotional learning interventions. Frontiers in Psychology. 听
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.
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鈥�2105.
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鈥�12.
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. 听 听
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.
Korucu, I., Litkowski, E., Purpura, D. J., & Schmitt, S. A. (2020). Parental executive function as a predictor of parenting practices and children鈥檚 executive function. Infant and Child Development, 29, 1-16.
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鈥� executive function. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 9-19.
Schmitt, S. A., Korucu, I., Napoli, A. R., Bryant, L., & Purpura, D. J. (2018). Using block play to enhance preschool children鈥檚 mathematics and executive function: A randomized controlled trial. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 44,听181-191.
Korucu, I., Yagmurlu, B., & Harma, M. (2017). Self-regulation: Relations with theory of mind and social behavior. Infant and Child Development, 26, 1-23.
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