Contemporary Educational Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary Educational Psychology is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Mathematics motivation and sense of belonging among transgender and nonbinary college students67
Classroom experiences help students flourish: How in and out of classroom experiences relate to changes in undergraduate’s motivational beliefs across introductory biology courses48
The differential relations between sub-domains of spatial abilities and mathematical performance in children47
Planning promotes studying – The higher the plan quality the better: A micro-randomized trial36
How much active teaching should be incorporated into college course lectures to promote active learning?36
Overwhelmed receivers and overly ambitious providers: How the Impacts of peer comment features look different at receiver and provider levels of aggregation33
Variables versus numbers: Effects of symbols and algebraic knowledge on students’ problem-solving strategies33
A meta-analysis of the effects of Montessori education on five fields of development and learning in preschool and school-age children32
Between a growth and a fixed mindset: Examining nuances in 3rd-grade students’ mathematics intelligence mindsets32
Race-based trauma: Teacher responses, supports, barriers, and burnout29
Performance during presentations: A question of challenge and threat responses?28
An exploratory experiment investigating teachers’ attributional race and gender bias and the moderating effects of personal experience of racial discrimination27
Attendance to notable terms promotes narrative frame analysis when students read multiple expository texts26
The interplay between father–child and mother–child numeracy activities and preschool children’s mathematical skills25
Developmental trajectories of children's educational expectations in China: Contributions of academic achievement and maternal expectations25
Focus groups as counterspaces for Black girls and Black women: A critical approach to research methods25
A bioecological perspective on mindset23
Effects of self-explaining feedback on learning from problem-solving errors23
Learning from errors: deliberate errors enhance learning22
Should I stay or should I go? Children’s motivation in response to feedback and its association with math anxiety and math self-concept22
“Wrong to be Queer and Latino”: multiple marginalized and underrepresented teachers’ identity negotiation22
Race-reimaged self-determination theory: Elucidating how ethnic studies promotes student identity and learning outcomes using mixed-methods22
Matthew effects in reading and mathematics: Examining developmental patterns in population data21
Trajectories of advanced math taking for low-income students of color in middle and high school21
A valued task makes students sweat: Investigating the link between situational motivational beliefs and electrodermal activity in collaborative learning21
Students’ interest and self-efficacy and the impact of changing learning environments21
Early fraction relational reasoning uniquely predicts later algebraic thinking in children: A longitudinal study21
What we learn in school, we learn for life: Learning opportunities as moderators of the relationship between prior knowledge and learning in post-school contexts21
Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement21
Too quant to crit? Advancing QuantCrit methodologies in educational psychology20
Task-unrelated thought during educational activities: A meta-analysis of its occurrence and relationship with learning20
Predicting reading achievement from reading support: The role of motivation and reading frequency in elementary and secondary school students20
Counterstories: Disrupting whiteness and heteronormativity in educational psychology research20
Using an observational measure of elementary teachers’ emotional expressions during mathematics and English language arts to explore associations with students’ content area emotions and engagement19
“Am I trying hard or harder than others?”: Gender differences in reciprocal relations between perceived effort, science self-concept, and achievement in chemistry18
Testing theoretical explanations for heterogeneity in associations between a state quality rating and improvement system and prekindergarten children’s academic performance18
Associations between elementary teachers’ mental health and students’ engagement across content areas17
School belonging as co-constructed: affective experiences and social-emotional skills with individual, peer, and cross-level determinants across 14 countries17
Motivational profiles in mathematics – stability and links with educational and emotional outcomes17
“Can you tell me more about this?”: Agentic written feedback, teacher expectations, and student learning17
Temporal dynamics between faculty goals, burnout/engagement, and performance in teaching and research: A latent change score approach17
Applying dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) to examine the dynamics of students’ affect and learning goal achievement17
The keys of keyboard-based writing: Student and classroom-level predictors of keyboard-based writing in early primary16
Writing quality from different latent profiles of revision subprocesses in upper-primary students16
Profiles of afterschool motivations: A situated expectancy-value approach16
Is studying Latin associated with (non-)linguistic cognitive transfer? A large-scale cross-sectional study16
Leveraging environmental civic science and the communal attainment value of STEM to foster science motivation among minoritized youth16
Does the emotional stance of human and virtual instructors in instructional videos affect learning processes and outcomes?16
Does school context moderate longitudinal relations between teacher-reported self-efficacy and value for student engagement and teacher-student relationships from early until midcareer?15
Attributional profiles: Considering multiple causal attributions for success and failure at the beginning of secondary school15
A quasi-experimental study of a peer-assisted strategy-based reading intervention in elementary school15
Learning from refutation texts about scientific topics with analogical and causal explanations15
How to help students in their transition to middle school? Effectiveness of a school-based group mentoring program promoting students’ engagement, self-regulation, and goal setting15
Teacher well-being: A complementary variable- and person-centered approach harnessing Job Demands-Resources theory15
Understanding and supporting the motivation of students from low-income families14
Gender, mindset, and teacher support predict students’ math motivation profiles: Evidence from five countries in PISA 202214
Developing amid COVID-19: Adolescent meaning making across the first year of the pandemic14
What do teachers think about their Aboriginal students’ motivation and engagement?14
What Happens With Comparison Processes When “the Other” is Very Similar? Academic Self-Concept Formation in Twins13
The art of negative feedback: A neuroeducational perspective13
Effect of parents’ mathematics anxiety and home numeracy activities on young children’s math performance-anxiety relationship13
Perfectionism profiles among college students: A person-centered approach to motivation, behavior, and emotion13
Precursors of students’ cost perceptions: Identifying proximal and distal predictors13
Passive, active, and constructive engagement with peer feedback: A revised model of learning from peer feedback13
How students’ motivational profiles change during the transition from primary to lower secondary school13
Perceived school climate and school grades in secondary school students: The mediating effect of self-determined motivation13
Extending the dimensional comparison theory through students’ academic effort13
Developmental changes in students’ mindset meaning systems: The role of perceived classroom goal structures13
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ motivation to continue in senior science: An expectancy value theory and intersectional identity approach12
Teacher-Parent academic support profiles: Links to Children’s task persistence in Grades 2 and 312
Undergraduate student perceptions of instructor mindset and academic performance: A motivational climate theory perspective12
Emotional factors of causal coherence in text comprehension12
Editorial Board11
The relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension among early grade Chinese children with reading difficulties: A path analysis11
Morningness and state academic self-concept in students: Do early birds experience themselves as more competent in daily school life?11
Confusion and confusion regulation: An empirical investigation of the emotion regulation in achievement situations model11
Unpacking Student Responses to Discrepant Peer and Teacher Feedback: A Cross-National Comparison11
Measuring teachers’ momentary affect: An exploratory experience sampling study11
Parent math anxiety and children’s math success: The role of autonomy-supportive and controlling parenting behaviors11
Homework for learning and fun: Quality of mothers’ homework involvement and longitudinal implications for children’s academic and emotional functioning11
Development in context: Comparing short-term trajectories of expectancy, task values, and costs in four university STEM courses11
Teacher feedback and students’ self-concept, intrinsic value, and achievement in mathematics: Juxtaposing between- and within-person perspectives on long-term reciprocal relationships11
Exploration of mindset meaning system in an elite competitive schooling context using a mixed-methods approach11
Chatbots in education: Outperforming students but perceived as less trustworthy10
Information framing effects on students’ support towards equitable financial aid for undocumented students10
Coherence building while reading multiple complementary documents10
Searching for short-term motivational alignment and spillover effects: A random intercept cross-lagged analysis of students’ expectancies and task values in math-intensive study programs10
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Teachers as creative agents: How self-beliefs and self-regulation drive teachers’ creative activity10
Examining the effects of quality talk discussions on 4th- and 5th-grade students’ high-level comprehension of text10
Critical thinking education to decrease conspiracy and paranormal beliefs among secondary school students: A phase I trial9
Achievement at what cost? An intersectional approach to assessing race and gender differences in adolescent math motivation and achievement9
Classroom environment predicts changes in expressed intellectual humility9
The storage component of working memory mediates the relationship between mathematical anxiety and arithmetic performance9
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Disentangling magnitude processing, natural number biases, and benchmarking in fraction comparison tasks: A person-centered Bayesian classification approach9
Computer-based multimedia testing: Effects of static and animated representational pictures and text modality9
Investigating the effects of class average achievement: attending a high-achieving class is neither beneficial for student achievement nor for academic self-concept9
A renaissance in feedback science? Reviewing and reimagining feedback research methods9
Measuring strategic knowledge in multiple text reading: links to strategy use and comprehension9
When will they know what they don’t know? Political knowledge and the infamous “Unskilled and Unaware” effect8
A multi-study examination of intra-individual feedback loops between competence and value beliefs, procrastination, and goal achievement8
The role of academic self-determined reading motivation, reading self-concept, home reading environment, and student reading behavior in reading achievement among American Indian and Hispanic students8
Examining students’ help-seeking when learning from multiple texts8
Does the Jigsaw method improve motivation and self-regulation in vocational high schools?8
Grade goal effects on the interplay between motivation and performance in undergraduate gateway mathematics courses8
Different time and context = Different goals and emotions? Temporal variability and context specificity of achievement goals for teaching and associations with discrete emotions8
Sustaining teacher knowledge and self-perception of reading comprehension instruction: A year-long study of practice-based professional development7
Affective methodologies for a critical study of whiteness: Considerations for white scholars7
A growth-theory-of-interest intervention helps align science students with a new multidisciplinary curriculum7
“My drawing is quite different!” Drawbacks of comparing generative drawings to instructional visuals7
Addressing the vexing educational challenges of biodiversity loss: A photo-based intervention7
A meta-analytic review of the relationships between autonomy support and positive learning outcomes7
Relationships between the inclusion of students with special educational needs and their classmates’ school outcomes – a replication study7
Can you hear it? Toward conceptual clarity of emotional cost and negative emotions7
Racialized reprimands: A mobile eye-tracking study on teachers’ responses to students’ norm-violating behaviors7
Leveraging the power and potential of feedback: Conceptual contributions and areas for expansion7
The impact of cognitive and motivational resources on engagement with automated formative feedback7
Uncovering the reciprocal relationship between domain-specific and domain-general skills: Combined numerical and working memory training improves children’s mathematical knowledge7
A golden triangle? Reciprocal effects among morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension in Chinese children6
Motivating by measuring motivation? Examining reactivity in a diary study on student motivation6
Teacher expectation effects on the development of elementary school students’ mathematics-related competence beliefs and intrinsic task values6
Synergetic effects of phonological awareness, vocabulary, and word reading on bilingual children’s reading comprehension: A three-year study6
Summarizing versus rereading multiple documents6
The role of spatial dimensionality in arithmetic word problem solving6
Enhance or hinder? Exploring the role of AI-powered notetaking in Video-based STEM learning6
Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations6
Cognitive development in undergraduate emerging adults: How course-taking breadth supports skill formation6
“I have cried in almost all of my math classes.” Relations between math self-concept, gender, and narrative appraisals of past low points in math6
Identifying false growth mindsets in adults and implications for mathematics motivation6
The role of feedback on students’ diagramming: Effects on monitoring accuracy and text comprehension6
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Adolescent students’ grit: Do parents’ grit and educational expectations matter?6
A serious game-based social-psychological intervention to promote mathematics motivation: Effects and individual differences6
Using PowerPoints to assess students’ learning from multiple resources6
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Text-belief consistency effect in L2 students’ integrated written representations based on multiple conflicting sources: Comparisons across summary vs. argumentation task instructions6
Testing a weekly utility value intervention in college physics and chemistry courses6
Effects of a school-based leadership program on student leaders and their peers: The Learning to Lead cluster randomized controlled trial6
Race-reimaged autonomy support: a validation of a measure that integrates self-determination theory and culturally relevant education6
The contributions of teachers’ educational interest and relational goals to instructional quality and student interest in mathematics classrooms6
How do students’ achievement goals relate to learning from well-designed instructional videos and subsequent exam performance?6
Parent–child conflict during homeschooling in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: A key role for mothers’ self-efficacy in teaching5
Self-regulation of peer feedback quality aspects through different dimensions of experience within prior peer feedback assignments5
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Socioemotional classroom environments mediating teacher expectation effects: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach5
Mentoring underrepresented students for success: Self-regulated learning strategies as a critical link between mentor support and educational attainment5
Primary school teachers’ judgments of their students’ monitoring and regulation skills5
Enjoyable for some, stressful for others? Physiological and subjective indicators of achievement emotions during adaptive versus fixed-item testing5
Expert-Based cognitive models vs theory-based cognitive models: Which cognitive models match students’ cognition on ‘Parallel and Perpendicular Lines’ Better?5
Temporal development of student burnout symptoms: Sociodemographic differences and linkage to university dropout intentions5
Video games and attitude change: A meta-analysis5
Is situational interest a metacognitive risk? An examination of contextual factors in classroom settings5
How trait and state positive Emotions, negative Emotions, and self-regulation relate to adolescents' perceived daily learning progress5
The influence of school climate in bullying and victimization behaviors during middle school transition5
Linking Adolescents’ monitoring and regulation processes to learning and social classroom networks5
Incorporating Design Based Implementation Research with a Randomized Controlled Trial to develop and evaluate the efficacy of playful rational number learning5
Feelings on feedback: Children’s emotional responses during mathematics problem solving5
The Domain-Specificity of Elementary School Teachers’ Judgment Accuracy5
Is copy and paste part of academic misconduct? The roles of attitude, experience and self-efficacy in judgment5
Effects of emotional tones in computer-based learning: Insights from system-paced and learner-paced experiments5
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