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Sammy Ahmed

@sammyahmed.bsky.social
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Psychologist studying how people think, learn, and develop. Assistant Professor at URI

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 08/09/2026
Understanding how experience supports the development of executive function skills Review by Sabine Doebel, Nicolas Chevalier, Sebastián Javier Lipina, Victoria Rabii & Sammy F. Ahmed go.nature.com/4r5pehM
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Annenberg Institute @annenberginstitute.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: In a randomized controlled trial, @sammyahmed.bsky.social, Nicholas Waters, & @loriskibbe.bsky.social find that HighScope training and coaching for teachers led to small but statistically significant gains in executive function. 📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1429
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The influences of child, family, and SES on children’s early academic development are best understood in the context of one another: Nicholas Waters, @sammyahmed.bsky.social & @pdakean.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social find parent education, not family income, indirectly linked to child achievement. ⬇️
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🔔 Excited to share this new article led by Nicholas Waters and co-authored with Sammy Ahmed on SES and academic achievement www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Socioeconomic status and academic achievement: Developmental pathways through parenting and children’s executive functions
The influences of child, family, and socioeconomic factors on children’s early academic development are best understood within the context of one anot…
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Sammy Ahmed @sammyahmed.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thank you @aeraedresearch.bsky.social and NSF for organizing such a great meeting. So many interesting presentations and informative discussions about funding opportunities for early career researchers
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UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
👀NEW CHAPTER👀 Interested in executive function development? Take a look at this new chapter by @dominicpkelly.bsky.social and colleagues about the development of executive function during adolescence. 1/3
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Adolescent executive function development
Adolescence marks a period of human development characterized by important changes at the biological and contextual levels. The onset of puberty, ongo…
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