Jennifer K. Finders
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
31
Citations
582
Est. group size
~3
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
13
Publishing since 2014
Jennifer K. Finders studies early childhood development, focusing on how preschool classroom quality, language environments, and family factors shape children's school readiness, self-regulation, and academic skills. Her work often examines low-income populations and how factors like teacher-child interactions, home numeracy environments, and executive function relate to later academic outcomes. This research is relevant to students interested in early education policy, developmental psychology, and child care access.
Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade with year-to-year fluctuation, peaking around 2020-2022 and showing a modest decline in more recent years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Synergistic Relations of Teacher and Parent Burnout and Preschooler’s Social-Emotional Competence and Behavioral Self-Regulation
Early Education and Development · 2026
- Variability in Preschool CLASS Scores and Children's School Readiness
ICPSR Data Holdings · 2026
- Author response for "Preschool Language Environments and Children's School Readiness Skills"
2025
- Patterns of individual differences in executive functions for preschoolers from low-income backgrounds: Associations with pre-academic skills
Learning and Individual Differences · 2024
- Investigating child care decision-making to understand access among families with low incomes
Early Childhood Research Quarterly · 2024
- Factor structure of school readiness skills: conceptual vs. statistical distinctions
Frontiers in Psychology · 2023
- Testing theoretical explanations for heterogeneity in associations between a state quality rating and improvement system and prekindergarten children’s academic performance
Contemporary Educational Psychology · 2023
- Self-Regulation in Preschool: Examining Its Factor Structure and Associations With Pre-academic Skills and Social-Emotional Competence
Frontiers in Psychology · 2022
- The home numeracy environment and children’s math skills: The moderating role of parents’ math anxiety
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 2022
- Predictors of preschool language environments and their relations to children's vocabulary
Infant and Child Development · 2022
- Revisiting age- and schooling-related growth in school readiness skills: A multimethod validation study.
Developmental Psychology · 2022
- The effects of a high quality state-run preschool program as rated by a Quality Rating and Improvement System on children's school readiness
Early Childhood Research Quarterly · 2022
- Author response for "Predictors of preschool language environments and their relations to children's vocabulary"
2022
- Associations between Consistent and High-quality Teacher-child Interactions and Preschool Children’s Self-regulation and Activity in the Stress Response System
Early Education and Development · 2021
- Examining transactional relations between behavioral self-regulation and social-emotional functioning during the transition to kindergarten.
Developmental Psychology · 2021
- Early Childhood Research Quarterly×3
- Frontiers in Psychology×3
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology×2
- Learning and Individual Differences×2
- Early Education and Development×2
- Sara A. Schmitt
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Tanya M. Paes
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Robert J. Duncan
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Jennifer Dobbs‐Oates
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Lindsey M. Bryant
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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