Educational Psychology Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Educational Psychology Review is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Opting Out as an Untapped Resource in Instructional Design: Review and Implications167
The Relationship Between Self-Regulated Learning and Executive Functions—a Systematic Review134
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023130
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education117
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis90
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework89
Meeting John Bransford85
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion80
Worth the Effort: the Start and Stick to Desirable Difficulties (S2D2) Framework80
Does Individual Performance Feedback Increase the Use of Retrieval Practice?74
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions71
Sequencing Tracing with Imagination69
Test Anxiety and Metacognitive Performance in the Classroom69
Effects of Rubrics on Academic Performance, Self-Regulated Learning, and self-Efficacy: a Meta-analytic Review59
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I49
A Computational Model of School Achievement47
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review46
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis41
Do I Fit In: Race/Ethnicity and Feelings of Belonging in School40
Cracking Chicken-Egg Conundrums: Juxtaposing Contemporaneous and Lagged Reciprocal Effects Models of Academic Self-Concept and Achievement’s Directional Ordering40
Cognitive Profiles of Children with Isolated and Comorbid Learning Difficulties in Reading and Math: a Meta-analysis39
Evolution of Self-Awareness and the Cultural Emergence of Academic and Non-academic Self-Concepts39
Graduate Student Award Winners in Educational Psychology: What Made Them Successful?38
The Theory of Immersive Collaborative Learning (TICOL)38
Long-Lasting Effects of an Instructional Intervention on Interleaving Preference in Inductive Learning and Transfer37
How Are Curiosity and Interest Different? Naïve Bayes Classification of People’s Beliefs36
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning35
Peer Victimization: an Integrative Review and Cross-National Test of a Tripartite Model35
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom33
Measuring Children’s Engagement in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Literature Review29
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories29
To Clarity and Beyond: Situating Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking in the Literature on Learning from Multiple Texts28
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling26
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review25
The Validity of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in Educational Research and a Synthesis of Recommendations24
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy24
Improving Elementary Grade Students’ Science and Social Studies Vocabulary Knowledge Depth, Reading Comprehension, and Argumentative Writing: a Conceptual Replication24
The Impasse on Gender Differences in Intelligence: a Meta-Analysis on WISC Batteries23
The Effects of Problem-Based, Project-Based, and Case-Based Learning on Students’ Motivation: a Meta-Analysis23
How to Assess Whether an Instructional Intervention Has an Effect on Learning23
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation23
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring23
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis23
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology22
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis21
A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators21
Effective Strategies for Research Integrity Training—a Meta-analysis21
A Theory of Knowledge Revision: The Development of the KReC Framework21
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns20
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education20
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model20
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research20
Semi-automating the Scoping Review Process: Is it Worthwhile? A Methodological Evaluation20
Evolutionary Perspectives on Educational Psychology: Motivation, Instructional Design, and Child Development19
Math Performance and Academic Anxiety Forms, from Sociodemographic to Cognitive Aspects: a Meta-analysis on 906,311 Participants18
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students18
A Half Century of Progress in US Student Achievement: Agency and Flynn Effects, Ethnic and SES Differences18
Is Empathy the Key to Effective Teaching? A Systematic Review of Its Association with Teacher-Student Interactions and Student Outcomes18
Retrieval Practice Consistently Benefits Student Learning: a Systematic Review of Applied Research in Schools and Classrooms17
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education17
Multimedia Effect in Problem Solving: A Meta-Analysis17
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations16
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology16
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis16
John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods16
Correction to: Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?16
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?15
Personal Reflections on Science Communication and Sharing Retrieval Practice Research with Teachers15
Impact of School-Based Interventions for Building School Belonging in Adolescence: a Systematic Review15
Psychological Benefits of Attending Forest School for Preschool Children: a Systematic Review15
Acknowledgement of Ad Hoc Reviewers15
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”15
The Effect of the Write, Talk, and Rewrite Dialogic Writing Treatment on Argumentative Texts: a Replication Study in Türkiye14
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?14
School Engagement in Elementary School: A Systematic Review of 35 Years of Research14
Correction to: Semi-automating the Scoping Review Process: Is It Worthwhile? A Methodological Evaluation14
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis14
Social Presence: Conceptualization and Measurement14
Single- and Multilevel Perspectives on Covariate Selection in Randomized Intervention Studies on Student Achievement14
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions14
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews13
When More Is Not Better: Effects of Interim Testing and Feature Highlighting in Natural Category Learning13
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples13
Chess Instruction Improves Cognitive Abilities and Academic Performance: Real Effects or Wishful Thinking?13
Research Avenues Supporting Embodied Cognition in Learning and Instruction12
Placebo or Assistant? Generative AI Between Externalization and Anthropomorphization12
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement12
The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Statistics Anxiety, Statistics Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Statistics in University Students: A Systematic Review11
The Cronbach’s Alpha of Domain-Specific Knowledge Tests Before and After Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Published Studies11
The AIR and Apt-AIR Frameworks of Epistemic Performance and Growth: Reflections on Educational Theory Development11
Null and Void? Errors in Meta-analysis on Perceptual Disfluency and Recommendations to Improve Meta-analytical Reproducibility11
A Meta-Analysis of Mathematics Interventions: Examining the Impacts of Intervention Characteristics11
Epistemic Beliefs in Science—A Systematic Integration of Evidence From Multiple Studies11
The Cognitive-Affective-Social Theory of Learning in digital Environments (CASTLE)11
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies11
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?11
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses11
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses11
Situating Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking in Problem- and Project-Based Learning Environments: A Systematic Review11
From Hand to Eye: a Meta-Analysis of the Benefit from Handwriting Training in Visual Graph Recognition10
Study Demands–Resources Theory: Understanding Student Well-Being in Higher Education10
Teachers’ Beliefs About Inclusive Education and Insights on What Contributes to Those Beliefs: a Meta-analytical Study10
Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively10
How Rigorous is Active Learning Research in STEM Education? An Examination of Key Internal Validity Controls in Intervention Studies10
Happy Together? On the Relationship Between Research on Retrieval Practice and Generative Learning Using the Case of Follow-Up Learning Tasks10
Improving Computer-Assisted Language Learning Through the Lens of Cognitive Load10
Growing Out of the Experience: How Subjective Experiences of Effort and Learning Influence the Use of Interleaved Practice10
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions10
Distributed Scaffolding: Scaffolding Students in Classroom Environments10
A Systematic Review on Students’ Perceptions of Self-Assessment: Usefulness and Factors Influencing Implementation10
Comparing Mental Effort, Difficulty, and Confidence Appraisals in Problem-Solving: A Metacognitive Perspective10
Motivation-Achievement Cycles in Learning: a Literature Review and Research Agenda9
A Systematic Review of Mathematical Flexibility: Concepts, Measurements, and Related Research9
Benefits of Taking a Virtual Field Trip in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence for the Immersion Principle in Multimedia Learning9
Assessing Writing Motivation: a Systematic Review of K-5 Students' Self-Reports9
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures9
The Other Half of the Story: the Role of Social Relationships and Social Contexts in the Development of Academic Motivation9
The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not Just for Assessment9
Satisfied and High Performing? A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of the Correlates of Teachers’ Job Satisfaction9
Educational Inequalities at the Intersection of Multiple Social Categories: An Introduction and Systematic Review of the Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (M8
Directional Ordering of Self-Concept, School Grades, and Standardized Tests Over Five Years: New Tripartite Models Juxtaposing Within- and Between-Person Perspectives8
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis8
Correction to: Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-analysis8
How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?8
Correlates of teachers’ classroom management self-efficacy: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
How Strongly Is Personality Associated With Burnout Among Teachers? A Meta-analysis8
A Meta-Analysis Investigating the Association Between Metacognition and Math Performance in Adolescence8
How to Make Recommendations for Educational Practice from Correlational Data Using Structural Equation Models8
A Meta-analysis of the Longitudinal Relationship Between Academic Self-Concept and Academic Achievement8
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators8
What Can Educational Psychology Learn From, and Contribute to, Theory Development Scholarship?8
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective8
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research8
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing7
Effects of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Virtual Agents on Learning Outcomes in Computer-Based Simulations: A Meta-Analysis7
Modeling Theories and Theorizing Models: an Attempted Replication of Miller-Cotto & Byrnes’ (2019) Comparison of Working Memory Models Using ECLS-K Data7
Relation Between the Essential Components of Reading and Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children: a Meta-analysis7
“Valued” Thinking in Education: Liberating the Narrative7
Making the Executive ‘Function’ for the Foundations of Mathematics: the Need for Explicit Theories of Change for Early Interventions7
Spacing and Interleaving Effects Require Distinct Theoretical Bases: a Systematic Review Testing the Cognitive Load and Discriminative-Contrast Hypotheses7
Is Teachers’ Well-Being Associated with Students’ School Experience? A Meta-analysis of Cross-Sectional Evidence7
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney7
Involving the Body to Improve Letter Knowledge and Script: an Experimental Study in French Kindergarten7
Spaced Retrieval Practice: Can Restudying Trump Retrieval?7
Does Professional Development Effectively Support the Implementation of Inclusive Education? A Meta-Analysis7
Women as Top-Producing Authors, Editors, and Editorial Board Members in Educational Psychology Journals from 2017 to 20217
Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load7
Moderation of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect: Juxtaposition of Evolutionary (Darwinian-Economic) and Achievement Motivation Theory Predictions Based on a Delphi Approach7
Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis6
Evaluating the Judgment of Learning: its Limited Impact and the Power of Retrieval on Inductive Learning6
Individual and Institutional Productivity in Educational Psychology Journals from 2015 to 20216
Learning to Argue Through Dialogue: a Review of Instructional Approaches6
Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing6
A Systematic Review of Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trials in Educational Research6
Teachers’ Psychological Characteristics: Do They Matter for Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers’ Well-being, Retention, and Interpersonal Relations? An Integrative Review6
Does Spelling Still Matter—and If So, How Should It Be Taught? Perspectives from Contemporary and Historical Research6
Associations Between Behavioral, Cognitive, and Emotional Self-Regulation and Academic and Social Outcomes Among Chinese Children: a Meta-analysis6
Learning-by-Teaching Without Audience Presence or Interaction: When and Why Does it Work?6
Australian School Staff and Allied Health Professional Perspectives of Mental Health Literacy in Schools: a Mixed Methods Study6
Refutation Text Facilitates Learning: a Meta-Analysis of Between-Subjects Experiments6
On Rest-from-Deliberate-Learning as a Mechanism for the Spacing Effect: Commentary on Chen et al. (2021)6
Hybridizing Motivational Strains: How Integrative Models Are Crucial for Advancing Motivation Science6
Correction to: Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations5
Integration in the Achievement Motivation Literature and the Hierarchical Model of Achievement Motivation5
Is Adolescent Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation? A 10-Year Review5
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis5
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis5
A Systematic Literature Review of Social Learning Theory in Online Learning Environments5
Correction to: KReC-MD: Knowledge Revision with Multiple Documents5
Writing Self-Efficacy in Postsecondary Students: a Scoping Review5
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence5
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support5
The Associations Between Discrete Emotions and Political Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis5
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions5
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing5
Effects of 8 Weeks with Embodied Learning on 5–6-Year-Old Danish Children’s Pre-reading Skills and Word Reading Skills: the PLAYMORE Project, DK5
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective5
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review5
Motivational, Identity-Based, and Self-Regulatory Factors Associated with Academic Achievement of US Collegiate Student-Athletes: A Meta-Analytic Investigation5
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking5
Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice5
Short-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students’ Cognitive Performance: a Review5
How Learners’ Visuospatial Ability and Different Ways of Changing the Perspective Influence Learning About Movements in Desktop and Immersive Virtual Reality Environments5
A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Defining and Measuring Task Complexity Through Element Interactivity5
Prequestioning and Pretesting Effects: a Review of Empirical Research, Theoretical Perspectives, and Implications for Educational Practice4
Socioeconomic Status and Student Learning: Insights from an Umbrella Review4
Correction to: The State of Current Reading Intervention Research for English Learners in Grades K–2: a Best-Evidence Synthesis4
Are Mathematics and Writing Skills Related? Evidence from Meta-Analysis4
Unifying the Ability-as-Compensator and Ability-as-Enhancer Hypotheses4
Audiobooks, Print, and Comprehension: What We Know and What We Need to Know4
Exploring the Landscape of Cognitive Load in Creative Thinking: a Systematic Literature Review4
Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years’ Research4
The State of Current Reading Intervention Research for English Learners in Grades K–2: a Best-Evidence Synthesis4
Cubic Relations of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation to Achievement: A Cross-National Validation of Self-Determination Theory Using Response Surface Analysis4
Using Decoding Measures to Identify Reading Difficulties: A Meta-analysis on English as a First Language Learners and English Language Learners4
Book Review: SOAR to College Success and Beyond4
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources4
Does Embodiment in Virtual Reality Boost Learning Transfer? Testing an Immersion-Interactivity Framework4
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging4
Inhibitory Control and Mathematical Ability in Elementary School Children: A Preregistered Meta-Analysis4
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs4
The Intervention Effects on Teacher Well-being: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis4
Making Sense of Generative Learning4
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