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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance74
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences63
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?52
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West49
‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors44
The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children43
The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences41
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance40
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management40
Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development39
Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy37
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Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective31
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK : Secondary analysis of qualitative da29
Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school29
Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models29
Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study27
This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes26
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years25
Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school25
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Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data23
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Seeking effective school and family supports for adolescents' curiosity in learning: A cross‐country comparison among China, the USA and Finland22
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress21
On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals21
Students' willingness to communicate in the foreign language learning classroom: Exploring the roles of classroom support and psychological needs satisfaction21
Perceived peer support, motivational self‐regulation and academic achievement in adolescents20
Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective20
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Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school20
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement19
The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence19
Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States18
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 studies18
What counts as STEM , and does it matter?18
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities18
Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities18
Interest and effort in learning and performance17
A mode comparison study about the effect of tracing on children's poem learning in actual classroom contexts17
Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study16
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement16
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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 context16
Developmental trajectories and the longitudinal associations of emotional resilience and test anxiety: A prospective study in high school students15
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis15
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Perceived teacher unfairness and students' school‐based adjustment: Exploring the mediating role of self‐handicapping and the moderating role of social support15
Flipping a simulation before instruction can improve students' learning, interest and perceived competence15
Longitudinal trajectories of parent–teacher communication during elementary school: Investigating child academic skills, school enjoyment and self‐perceived ability15
Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation15
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures14
Attention to text in video predicts young children's orthographic knowledge14
Discriminant validity and interrelations of conceptual and procedural knowledge in fractions and algebra: Evidence from confirmatory factor analysis13
Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation13
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children13
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship13
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students13
Metacognitive beliefs and academic performance in Chinese middle school students: A moderated mediation model of emotional dysregulation and anxiety12
The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty12
The formation of self‐concept and intrinsic value in arts‐related domains: Extending the generalized internal/external frame of reference model to music and visual arts12
Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias12
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms12
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices12
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China12
Academic language use in middle school informational writing12
The path of promoting adolescents' physical exercise: Based on the control‐value theory of achievement emotions12
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis12
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities12
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals12
Does the family situation impact academic achievement differently in students with versus without neurodevelopmental disorders?12
‘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 En11
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes11
Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate11
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors: Evidence from a targeted online intervention with Italian middle school students11
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers11
Teacher and student mindsets in the classroom: Multilevel links with emotional support, achievement and anxiety11
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa11
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Asymmetric longitudinal links between learning anxiety and engagement in Chinese primary school students: The role of peer relationship11
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation11
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes11
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China11
Social media interference among college students: The role of social achievement goals and fear of missing out11
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources11
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting11
Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs11
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory10
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components10
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?10
To disclose or not to disclose: Peer influence and psychological factors in students' use of generative artificial intelligence10
How and when do peer deviant behaviours link to adolescent academic performance?: Longitudinal moderated mediation analysis using a Chinese national sample10
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project10
The reciprocal dynamics of peer relationships and motivation: A commentary on the special issue9
Is procrastination among students lower in group work? Evidence from a registered field experiment9
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review9
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences9
‘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 professionals9
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children9
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas9
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Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK9
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia9
Unveiling situation‐specific emotion regulation behaviour among teachers: Insights from a multilevel latent profile analysis9
Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers9
The relation of spatial skills, spatial memory span, and two anxiety types with statistics anxiety in European and North American University students9
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics8
Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals8
Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children8
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Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students8
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy8
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students8
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study8
The effectiveness of a principle‐based professional development programme in promoting teachers' high‐level talk in primary mathematics classrooms8
Does working memory moderate the effect of fading on math performance?8
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving8
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Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities8
Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school8
Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes8
The effects of directly manipulating dotarray properties on the link between numerosity comparison and arithmetic7
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement7
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis7
Peer relationships and student motivation: Theoretical and methodological approaches, empirical evidence, and future directions7
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load7
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts7
A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar7
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The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success7
Examining students' current academic motivation in relation to peer interactions and social environment in the classroom using the Experience Sampling Method7
Are teachers' and students' emotions reciprocally transmitted in the classroom?7
University teachers' self‐efficacy beliefs7
School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being7
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review7
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures7
Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education6
Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning6
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The situatedness of instructional quality—How situated are college students' ratings?6
Learning flow in educational contexts: A meta‐analysis of its antecedents and outcomes6
Responsible school leadership and teachers' emotional exhaustion: The moderated mediation role of work meaningfulness and proactive personality6
Teachers' perceptions of the barriers to assessment of mental health in schools with implications for educational policy: A systematic review6
From parent–teacher collaboration to young children's numeracy skills: An examination of the underlying mechanisms6
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school6
Unravelling dynamic trajectories of epistemic emotions in a technology‐enhanced problem‐solving task: A multimodal data approach6
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality6
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The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study6
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Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China5
Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 205
Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 15
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure5
Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions5
The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis5
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Enjoyment and perceived teacher conflict shape early L2 English performance: A longitudinal study in primary school5
Gender differences in computation strategies: Evidence across adolescent and adult samples5
Understanding effort regulation: Comparing ‘Pomodoro’ breaks and self‐regulated breaks5
Physical activity predicts task‐related behaviour, affect and tiredness in the primary school classroom: A within‐person5
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When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions5
Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions5
Beyond intelligence: Exploring the role of growth mindsets in the domain of social–emotional skills5
Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways: A short‐timeframe experiment with manipulated perceived achievement5
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial5
The separation of self‐ and instructional explanations in musical knowledge learning5
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education5
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators5
Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences5
Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit4
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset4
Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect4
Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency4
Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies4
Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China4
Mapping the emotional landscape of teaching and learning4
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase4
Guiding attention in the classroom: An eye‐tracking study on the associations between preservice teachers' goals and noticing of student interactions4
Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency4
Visual attention and role recognition in bullying vignettes in preadolescents and adults4
The advantages of deliberate errors in promoting college students' memory retention and transfer4
Peer relationships and student motivation: Discussion of methodological approaches4
Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study4
Does teacher support predict students' growth mindset? A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model4
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Trajectories of second language student classroom engagement: Profiles and correlates4
Comparing the effectiveness of two reciprocal reading comprehension interventions for primary school pupils in disadvantaged schools3
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors3
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Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying3
Only a matter of time? Using logfile data to evaluate temporal motivation theory in university students' examination preparation3
Achievement, self‐concept and anxiety in mathematics and English: A thre e‐wave cross‐lagged panel study3
Profiles of control, value and achievement emotions in primary school mathematics lessons3
Investigating the role of hand perspective in learning from procedural animations3
The who, how and what of educational outcome research for autistic students published in the last decade: A systematic quantitative literature review3
The role of academic self‐concepts, parent expectations and teacher–student interactions in socio‐economic gaps in educational attainment3
COVID ‐19 school closures and Chinese children's school readiness: Results from the natural experimental data3
Overcoming early reading challenges: The crucial roles of home literacy environment, school environment, and approaches to learning3
Editorial acknowledgement3
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Introducing the Socio‐Emotional School Experiences Adaptation ( SESEA ) model: A theoretical integration of emotions, social relationships and the ex3
Effects of finger and mouse pointing on learning from online split‐attention examples3
Students' relationship quality in class: Exploring latent profiles, latent transitions and links to student motivation3
Medical trainees' emotions and their effects on perceptions of performance and team mood in team‐based simulations3
Improving English language skills through learning Mathematic contents: From the expertise reversal effect perspective3
Peer influence and student goal orientations: A commentary3
Teachers, peers, and academic effort: How peer bullying victimization undermines the benefits of teacher support on students' persistence and effort3
Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept3
Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load3
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Trauma‐informed practice for children and young people with intellectual disabilities: A scoping review3
“I can do math!”: A self‐regulated learning intervention to enhance math‐related motivational factors and performance in middle school3
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Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at on‐campus lectures: A randomized controlled trial3
Connecting engagement to classroom friendships and popular peers' prosocial behaviour3
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