British Journal of Educational Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Educational Psychology is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance47
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West46
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management43
‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors37
Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development37
The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children32
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?30
Social comparison in the classroom: Priming approach/avoidance changes the impact of social comparison on self‐evaluation and performance28
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences28
Self‐efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes28
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance26
Secondary school students’ perception of the online teaching experience during COVID‐19: The impact on mental wellbeing and specific learning difficulties25
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The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences24
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This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes22
Teacher–student relationships and adolescents’ school satisfaction: Behavioural engagement as a mechanism of change20
Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy19
Long‐term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches19
Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school19
Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study19
Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models19
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK: Secondary analysis of qualitative data from the CATCh‐uS mixed‐methods study19
When closeness is effortful: Teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions19
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Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective17
Perceived peer support, motivational self‐regulation and academic achievement in adolescents17
Editorial Acknowledgement17
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Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school16
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress15
The aetiology of educational attainment: A nuclear twin family study into the genetic and environmental influences on school leaving certificates15
On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals14
Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective14
Editorial Acknowledgement14
Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school14
Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data14
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years14
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities13
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement13
A closer look at the domain‐specific associations of openness with language achievement: Evidence on the role of intrinsic value from two large‐scale longitudinal studies13
Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities13
What counts as STEM, and does it matter?13
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Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States13
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement13
The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence12
Flipping a simulation before instruction can improve students' learning, interest and perceived competence12
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis12
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Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation12
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Reading with induced worry: The role of physiological self‐regulation and working memory updating in text comprehension12
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures12
Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation11
A reciprocal association between interpersonal relationship quality and student's positive affect: A three‐wave random intercept cross‐lagged study in a Chinese primary mathematics learning context11
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children11
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students11
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship11
Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study11
Perceptions of ease and difficulty, but not growth mindset, relate to specific math attitudes10
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices10
Longitudinal trajectories of parent–teacher communication during elementary school: Investigating child academic skills, school enjoyment and self‐perceived ability10
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China10
Factors and experiences that influence school mobility for autistic students: A systematic review10
The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty10
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis10
‘It feels like I'm back to being a teacher’: A longitudinal trajectory analysis of teachers' experiences during the first 8 months of COVID‐19 in England9
Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias9
Academic language use in middle school informational writing9
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities9
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa9
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms9
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China9
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting9
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Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate9
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals9
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes9
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes9
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers8
Experiences of peer victimization and teacher support in secondary school predict university enrolment 5 years later: Role of school engagement8
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources8
Primary‐secondary school transition under Covid‐19: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of children, parents/guardians, and teachers8
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components8
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory8
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia8
“I can teach what’s in the book”: Understanding the why and how behind teachers’ implementation of a social‐emotional learning (SEL) focused curriculum in rural Malawi8
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project8
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?8
Cultural diversity approaches in schools and adolescents’ willingness to support refugee youth8
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors: Evidence from a targeted online intervention with Italian middle school students8
Biophysiological stress markers relate differently to grit and school engagement among lower‐ and higher‐track secondary school students8
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation8
‘She didn't know how to go back’: School attendance problems in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic—A multiple stakeholder qualitative study with parents and professionals8
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review8
Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities7
Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children7
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children7
The reciprocal dynamics of peer relationships and motivation: A commentary on the special issue7
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas7
Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students7
Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes7
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving7
Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning7
The effectiveness of a principle‐based professional development programme in promoting teachers' high‐level talk in primary mathematics classrooms7
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Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK7
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences7
Subjective wellbeing and emotion regulation strategies: How are they associated with student engagement in online learning during Covid‐19?7
Does working memory moderate the effect of fading on math performance?7
Teachers use of fear appeals: Association with student and teacher mental health7
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students7
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Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school7
Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers7
Unveiling situation‐specific emotion regulation behaviour among teachers: Insights from a multilevel latent profile analysis7
Differential return on investment: Academic growth in mathematics and reading based on initial performance7
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics7
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study7
Parent and teacher warm involvement and student’s academic engagement: The mediating role of self‐system processes7
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy6
Fraction mapping and fraction comparison skills among grade 4 Chinese students: An error analysis6
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load6
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts6
The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success6
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis6
Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals6
Are teachers' and students' emotions reciprocally transmitted in the classroom?6
A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar6
The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study5
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement5
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Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education5
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality5
Social and emotional learning in primary schools: A review of the current state of evidence5
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures5
Examining students' current academic motivation in relation to peer interactions and social environment in the classroom using the Experience Sampling Method5
Relations between prior school performance and later test anxiety during the transition to secondary school5
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review5
School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being5
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school5
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure4
No aspect of structure should be left behind in relation to student autonomous motivation4
Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways: A short‐timeframe experiment with manipulated perceived achievement4
Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China4
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education4
When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions4
Mothers' and fathers' views on the importance of play for their children's development: Gender differences, academic activities, and the parental role4
The identification of gifted underachievement: Validity evidence for the commonly used methods4
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Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning4
The situatedness of instructional quality—How situated are college students' ratings?4
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial4
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Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences4
Understanding effort regulation: Comparing ‘Pomodoro’ breaks and self‐regulated breaks4
Teachers' perceptions of the barriers to assessment of mental health in schools with implications for educational policy: A systematic review4
Co‐developmental trajectories of parental involvement: Relations to academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing problems among Chinese elementary schoolchildren4
Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 20184
Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 14
Social withdrawal and academic achievement, intertwined over years? Bidirectional effects from primary to upper secondary school4
Developing and validating a university needs instrument to measure the psychosocial needs of university students4
Does teacher support predict students' growth mindset? A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model3
Guiding attention in the classroom: An eye‐tracking study on the associations between preservice teachers' goals and noticing of student interactions3
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase3
Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect3
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Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions3
Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China3
Editorial acknowledgement3
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors3
Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load3
Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept3
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset3
Mapping the emotional landscape of teaching and learning3
Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study3
The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis3
Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions3
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Effects of finger and mouse pointing on learning from online split‐attention examples3
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Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies3
Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency3
Reducing gender differences in student motivational‐affective factors: A meta‐analysis of school‐based interventions3
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators3
Physical activity predicts task‐related behaviour, affect and tiredness in the primary school classroom: A within‐person experiment3
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Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit3
Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency3
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Trauma‐informed practice for children and young people with intellectual disabilities: A scoping review3
Matthew or compensatory effects? Factors that influence the math literacy of primary‐school children in Germany3
Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying3
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