British Journal of Educational Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Educational Psychology is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development155
Social comparison in the classroom: Priming approach/avoidance changes the impact of social comparison on self‐evaluation and performance39
Investigating the educational experiences of transnational students: Differences in academic integration, social integration, and institutional and goal commitment38
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management36
The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children32
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‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors30
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?28
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West27
A multidimensional, person‐centred perspective on teacher engagement: Evidence from Canadian and Australian teachers27
“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance24
The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences23
Latent motivation profiles for choosing teaching as a career: How are they linked to self‐concept concerning teaching subjects and emotions during teacher education training?23
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance22
Self‐efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes21
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences21
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Secondary school students’ perception of the online teaching experience during COVID‐19: The impact on mental wellbeing and specific learning difficulties20
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This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes19
Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy19
When closeness is effortful: Teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions19
Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models18
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK: Secondary analysis of qualitative data from the CATCh‐uS mixed‐methods study17
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Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study17
Teacher–student relationships and adolescents’ school satisfaction: Behavioural engagement as a mechanism of change15
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Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective15
Long‐term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches15
Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school15
Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school14
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress14
Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school14
Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective14
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years14
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On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals13
The aetiology of educational attainment: A nuclear twin family study into the genetic and environmental influences on school leaving certificates13
Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data13
Editorial Acknowledgement13
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Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities12
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 studies12
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement12
The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence12
What counts as STEM, and does it matter?12
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement12
Editorial Acknowledgement12
Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States12
Creative expressiveness in childhood writing predicts educational achievement beyond motivation and intelligence: A longitudinal, genetically informed study11
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Reading with induced worry: The role of physiological self‐regulation and working memory updating in text comprehension11
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
Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study11
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures11
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities11
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship11
Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation11
Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation10
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students10
Perceptions of ease and difficulty, but not growth mindset, relate to specific math attitudes10
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis10
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children10
Factors and experiences that influence school mobility for autistic students: A systematic review10
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices10
The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty10
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis10
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How do self‐efficacy and self‐concept impact mathematical achievement? The case of mathematical modelling10
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes9
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals9
Academic language use in middle school informational writing9
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting9
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China9
Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate9
Integrating numerical cognition research and mathematics education to strengthen the teaching and learning of early number9
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms9
‘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 England8
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities8
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Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias8
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa8
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors: Evidence from a targeted online intervention with Italian middle school students8
Cultural diversity approaches in schools and adolescents’ willingness to support refugee youth8
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China8
“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
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers8
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review7
Experiences of peer victimization and teacher support in secondary school predict university enrolment 5 years later: Role of school engagement7
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?7
Relationship quality in higher education and the interplay with student engagement and loyalty7
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory7
Differential return on investment: Academic growth in mathematics and reading based on initial performance7
Biophysiological stress markers relate differently to grit and school engagement among lower‐ and higher‐track secondary school students7
The role of social belonging and exclusion at school and the teacher–student relationship for the development of learned helplessness in adolescents7
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources7
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components7
‘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 professionals7
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia7
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
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes7
Primary‐secondary school transition under Covid‐19: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of children, parents/guardians, and teachers7
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation7
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project7
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children7
Subjective wellbeing and emotion regulation strategies: How are they associated with student engagement in online learning during Covid‐19?6
Investigating how autonomy‐supportive teaching moderates the relation between student honesty and premeditated cheating6
Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning6
Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school6
Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children6
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students6
Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK6
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas6
Parent and teacher warm involvement and student’s academic engagement: The mediating role of self‐system processes6
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study6
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics6
Teachers use of fear appeals: Association with student and teacher mental health6
Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students6
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences6
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Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes6
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving6
Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities6
Fraction mapping and fraction comparison skills among grade 4 Chinese students: An error analysis6
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy5
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts5
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis5
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures5
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A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar5
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement5
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load5
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review5
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School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being5
The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success5
Social and emotional learning in primary schools: A review of the current state of evidence5
The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study4
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure4
Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences4
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education4
Understanding effort regulation: Comparing ‘Pomodoro’ breaks and self‐regulated breaks4
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial4
Mothers' and fathers' views on the importance of play for their children's development: Gender differences, academic activities, and the parental role4
Teachers' perceptions of the barriers to assessment of mental health in schools with implications for educational policy: A systematic review4
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality4
The identification of gifted underachievement: Validity evidence for the commonly used methods4
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Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 20184
Does learning to code influence cognitive skills of elementary school children? Findings from a randomized experiment4
The mechanisms of interest and perseverance in predicting achievement among academically resilient and non‐resilient students: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal data4
Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning4
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school4
Relations between prior school performance and later test anxiety during the transition to secondary school4
Co‐developmental trajectories of parental involvement: Relations to academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing problems among Chinese elementary schoolchildren4
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
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Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 14
Sibling conflict during COVID‐19 in families with special educational needs and disabilities4
No aspect of structure should be left behind in relation to student autonomous motivation4
Reducing gender differences in student motivational‐affective factors: A meta‐analysis of school‐based interventions3
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset3
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Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions3
Developing and validating a university needs instrument to measure the psychosocial needs of university students3
Guiding attention in the classroom: An eye‐tracking study on the associations between preservice teachers' goals and noticing of student interactions3
The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis3
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators3
Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China3
Relations among motivation, behaviour, and performance in writing: A multiple‐group structural equation modeling study3
Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies3
Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit3
Physical activity predicts task‐related behaviour, affect and tiredness in the primary school classroom: A within‐person experiment3
Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect3
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase3
Whether verbal and visuospatial working memory play different roles in pupil’s mathematical abilities3
Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept3
Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study3
Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions3
Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency3
When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions3
Social withdrawal and academic achievement, intertwined over years? Bidirectional effects from primary to upper secondary school3
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Improving English language skills through learning Mathematic contents: From the expertise reversal effect perspective2
Reciprocal associations between confidence in getting social support and academic expectancies and subjective task values: Stronger for first‐generation and transfer students2
Undergraduates’ academic socialization. A cross‐time analysis2
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Achievement, self‐concept and anxiety in mathematics and English: A three‐wave cross‐lagged panel study2
COVID‐19 school closures and Chinese children's school readiness: Results from the natural experimental data2
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Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load2
Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying2
Connecting engagement to classroom friendships and popular peers' prosocial behaviour2
“It's like an epidemic, we don't know what to do”: The perceived need for and benefits of a suicide prevention programme in UK schools2
Teachers’ views on the acceptability and implementation of the Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management programme in English (UK) primary schools from the STARS trial2
The role of need for cognition (NfC) in the effect of language modalities on integrated writing performance2
Attitudes towards statistics and statistical performance: A mediation model of statistics anxiety and academic procrastination2
Matthew or compensatory effects? Factors that influence the math literacy of primary‐school children in Germany2
Only a matter of time? Using logfile data to evaluate temporal motivation theory in university students' examination preparation2
Editorial acknowledgement2
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors2
Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency2
Does motivation lead to academic success, or conversely? Reciprocal relations between autonomous and controlled motivation, and mathematics achievement2
Educational psychological provision in Irish‐medium primary schools in indigenous Irish language speaking communities (Gaeltacht): Views of teachers and educational psychologists2
Profiles of control, value and achievement emotions in primary school mathematics lessons2
Investigating the role of hand perspective in learning from procedural animations2
Comparing the effectiveness of two reciprocal reading comprehension interventions for primary school pupils in disadvantaged schools2
Effects of finger and mouse pointing on learning from online split‐attention examples2
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