Learning and Individual Differences

Papers
(The median citation count of Learning and Individual Differences 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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State scales in academic achievement: Validating measures of affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals3301
Learning from educational texts: is reduction in global text cohesion a desirable difficulty as structure building skill increases?195
Scaffolding attention and perseverance skills in a diverse population of preschool children in Sweden64
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Enhancing argumentative writing with data-driven learning: Exploring developmental trajectories and learner profiles53
What evidence-based learning activities help students acquire knowledge, correct confidence in their own knowledge, and accurate self-assessment?47
Social background as a moderator of immigration-related disparities in parent-child-activities and in early vocabulary47
Using collaborative interactivity metrics to analyze students' problem-solving behaviors during STEM+C computational modeling tasks45
Female students and students from more affluent families benefit more from fear of failure in learning achievements: A study based on 77 economies43
Socio-emotional skills matter for academic resilience: A global perspective39
Comparing relations among autonomy support, motivation, and academic success across face-to-face and pandemic online STEM learning environments39
Profiles of student-perceived teacher homework involvement, and their associations with homework behavior and mathematics achievement: A person-centered approach35
Cross-linguistic sharing of phonological awareness in word spelling among early Chinese-English literacy learners: A three-wave cross-lagged panel analysis32
Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis31
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Understanding momentary engagement in university students: Exploring the interaction between competence and value beliefs on emotions and cognitive engagement – A multilevel investigation30
Home learning activities and parental autonomy support as predictors of pre-academic skills: The mediating role of young children's school liking30
A meta-analysis of the effects of foundational skills and multicomponent reading interventions on reading comprehension for primary-grade students29
Cooperative mindset and creative self-concept in higher education29
What matters for students' social and emotional skills: The associations with student, parent, and teacher growth mindsets?28
What is the link between an early university entry offer and the academic and personal wellbeing outcomes of students in their final year of school?27
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Does the effectiveness of a reading intervention differ dependent on students' Spanish or English proficiencies?26
Exploring the heterogeneous development of intrinsic value in language arts among secondary school students through growth mixture modelling26
To what extent do home numeracy practices and parental number talk relate to children's math skills? A pre-registered study in 5-year-old children25
Need-supportive teaching is associated with reading achievement via intrinsic motivation across eight cultures25
Understanding the factors influencing college students' acceptance and adoption of chatbots for learning: A network analysis24
Dynamic relations between motivation and performance across content in a mathematics learning technology24
Do socializers’ mindset beliefs matter for student mindset and achievement? A meta-analysis23
Reading in print and digitally: Profiling and intervening in undergraduates' multimodal text processing, comprehension, and calibration23
Comorbidity of reading and math learning difficulties in a Chinese sample22
The Simple View of Reading across different orthographies: Introduction to special issue22
Parents' implicit intelligence beliefs about children's intelligence: Implications for children's academic self-concept and achievement in Maths, English, and French22
Self-regulation of motivation in university students – a longitudinal study of interindividual differences and intraindividual trajectories21
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Heritage-bilingualism and educational achievement among second-generation immigrants: Are all school subjects equal?20
Revisiting multiple pathways to achievement: Re-examining the roles of achievement goals in predicting grades through task values19
A systematic review of data-driven learning research on language learning and teaching for pre-tertiary learners: Balancing qualitative and quantitative research19
Identification and characterization of high-achieving student subgroups using two methodological approaches: The role of different achievement indicators and motivational-affective characteristics18
Executive functions and multiple-text comprehension18
Raising the bar: Testing prospective reciprocal relationships between multidimensional trait perfectionism and undergraduate academic achievement18
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning17
Dimensionality of executive functions and processing speed in preschoolers17
Reading comprehension for students with reading disabilities: Progress and challenges17
Exploring and addressing concerns surrounding L2 grit: A longitudinal perspective17
Weaker groupitizing abilities in magnitude perception in dyscalculia17
On the relationship between creative potential and creative achievement: Challenges and future directions17
Prospects in the field of learning and individual differences: Examining the past to forecast the future using bibliometrics17
Is the treatment weak or the test insensitive: Interrogating item difficulties to elucidate the nature of reading intervention effects16
Tender Shoots: Effects of a preschool shared reading and reminiscing initiative on parent-child interactions and for socio-emotional and self-regulation outcomes after school entry16
The effects of programming interventions in early childhood: A meta-analysis16
Elementary school students' metacognitive knowledge and its effects on teacher judgments, school track recommendations, and school transitions16
Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children15
A mediated model of study choice profiles and person-environment fit with bachelor's program as predictors of academic success in higher education15
More is not always better: Profiles of perceived frequency of parental involvement among Chinese students and associations with resilience and academic achievement15
Transition from childcare to school: Surgency, center-based care and caregiver-child relationship predict self-regulation, social competence and well-being15
Students’ expectancy-value profiles in the West and the East: Cross-cultural similarities and differences15
The fluid relation between reading strategies and mathematics learning: A perspective of the Island Ridge Curve15
Exploring individual's emotional and autonomous learning profiles in AI-enhanced data-driven language learning: An expanded sor perspective15
Students' and schools' expectancy-value beliefs are associated with reading achievement: A cross-cultural study15
Understanding the dynamics of EFL learner affective engagement with receiving peer feedback: A case study from the sociocultural perspective15
The accuracy of performance judgements and academic achievement: A two-sample two-wave study of German primary and lower secondary school students15
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The relationship between English language proficiency and academic performance among English learners: A subgroup analysis by home language background14
The interplay between scientific motivation, creative process engagement, and scientific creativity: A network analysis study14
Tailoring interleaved practice: Does adaptive sequencing boost the interleaving effect?14
How vocabulary breadth and depth influence bilingual reading comprehension: Direct and indirect pathways14
Exploring undergraduate students' challenge frameworks: A person-centered approach14
“I can't focus now, I will study tomorrow” - The link between academic procrastination and resistance to distraction14
A meta-analysis on the relation between handwriting and visual-motor integration14
Ink and pixels: Impact of highlighting and reading self-efficacy on adolescents' cognitive load, epistemic emotions, and text comprehension14
Mindfulness intervention for academic procrastination: A randomized control trial14
Need for Cognition and its relation to academic achievement in different learning environments14
Linking parental restrictive mediation to adolescents' science achievement: A social cognitive theory perspective14
Individual differences in fifth graders' math motivation – stability and change across the school year14
Young children's alphabet learning as a function of instruction and letter difficulty13
The relationship of word processing with L2 reading comprehension and working memory: Insights from eye-tracking13
Learning as retention; an examination of retention of self-derived knowledge through memory integration in a diverse sample of elementary students13
The Simple View of Reading in Italian beginner readers: Converging evidence and open debates on the role of the main components13
Perceived goal structures and student outcomes: Consistency of motivational experiences within and across classrooms13
Parental influences on the development of single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency12
General cognitive and numerical precursors of mathematical difficulty in kindergarten children at risk for dyscalculia12
Who loses motivation and who keeps it up? Investigating factors for changes in motivational profiles across multiple domains12
The effects of the topic-specific and topic-general prior knowledge on learning from multiple complementary texts12
Self-regulatory abilities as predictors of scientific literacy among children in preschool and primary school years12
PISA reading achievement, literacy motivation, and school burnout predicting Adolescents' educational track and educational attainment12
Longitudinal relationship between mathematics learning engagement and children's mathematics achievement: Different roles of children's mathematics anxiety and positive parenting style12
Early literacy and executive function profiles in Spanish-English emergent bilinguals12
Parental psychological control and preschooler's behavioral problems and pre-academic performance in China: The mediating role of executive function12
Subject and time specificity of students' cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement at school11
Beyond individual tests: Youth's cognitive abilities on their math and writing skills11
Investigating the relationship between private tutoring, tutors' use of an individual frame of reference, reasons for private tutoring, and students' motivational-affective outcomes11
Mathematics achievement and learner characteristics: A systematic review of meta-analyses11
Gender differences in academic buoyancy: A meta-analysis11
The relationship between students' gender and their confidence in the correctness of their solutions to complex and difficult mathematics problems11
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder11
Mathematically high and low performances tell us different stories: Uncovering motivation-related factors via the ecological model11
Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties11
Predicting students' short- and long-term academic achievement in higher education: A cross-classified multilevel study11
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On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of undergraduate students' psychological distress profiles11
Student-perceived parental help with homework: Identifying student profiles and their relations with homework effort, procrastination, and achievement11
Longitudinal links between need for cognition, achievement goals, and school grades: Testing a mediation hypothesis10
Structure, relationship, and determinants of monitoring strategies and judgment accuracy. An integrated model and evidence from two studies10
Chatbots in education: Hype or help? A meta-analysis10
Academic motivation of intellectually gifted students and their classmates in regular primary school classes: A multidimensional, longitudinal, person- and variable-centered approach10
Science motivation, academic achievement, career aspirations in early adolescents10
Interaction and learning engagement in online learning: The mediating roles of online learning self-efficacy and academic emotions9
Math anxiety is associated with skipping problems and less help-seeking behavior after error commission9
The longitudinal contribution of working memory and visuomotor integration to early and developing handwriting fluency9
Comparing parental and school pressure in terms of their relations with students' well-being9
Capturing where the learning process takes place: A person-specific and person-centered primer9
Unscrambling creativity measurement: An invitation to better formalize the domain generality-specificity of creativity with psychometric modeling9
What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores9
Exploring latent writing profiles and their connection to intervention responsiveness9
Reciprocal association between theory of mind and reading comprehension of narrative (but not expository) text in middle childhood: A latent change score approach9
Reality-based tasks for competency-based education: The need for an integrated analysis of subject-specific, linguistic, and contextual task features9
Learning activities in technology-enhanced learning: A systematic review of meta-analyses and second-order meta-analysis in higher education9
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach9
First-generation student pathways to persistence and degree attainment: The roles of deeper learning and self-regulated learning beliefs9
Early predictors of mathematics learning difficulty in rural Chinese children9
Examining the influence of passage and student characteristics on test-taking strategies: An eye-tracking study9
Rational thinking as a general cognitive ability: Factorial structure, underlying cognitive processes, and relevance for university academic success9
Do performance goals and fixed mindset explicate the relations between stereotype threat and achievement? Examining differences between racially marginalized and White students in STEM9
Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment8
Effectiveness of embodied learning on learning performance: A meta-analysis based on the cognitive load theory perspective8
Gender differences in young adults' mathematical performance: Examining the contribution of working memory, math anxiety and gender-related stereotypes8
Adaptability vs. buoyancy: Which offers the greater protection against test anxiety and could relations be reciprocal?8
Individual toddlers' interactions with teachers, peers, and the classroom environment in Danish and Dutch childcare: First validation of the inCLASS Toddler8
The highs and lows of mathematical ability: Shared and distinct longitudinal predictors of mathematical ability grouping8
Triggers for self-regulated learning: A conceptual framework for advancing multimodal research about SRL8
Testing effects of promoting antecedents of mathematics achievement emotions: A change-change model8
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Test preparation: the roles of expecting access to materials and test anxiety8
Students' social and learning behavior at school: Applying the generalized internal/external frame of reference model8
Trajectories in cognitive engagement, fatigue, and school achievement: The role of young adolescents' psychological need satisfaction8
Motivational profiles among high-ability students from a self-determination perspective: Stability, antecedents, and comparisons with average-ability students7
Simple view of reading among Slovenian English foreign language learners: A latent interaction modeling approach7
Student profiles of self-concept and interest in four domains: A latent transition analysis7
Global motivation to learn and adult learning: A nomological network analysis and a four-year longitudinal study7
The role of inferencing in struggling adult readers' comprehension of different texts: A mediation analysis7
Trajectories of academic self-concept during the elementary school years: A growth mixture analysis7
What are the principal and most effective strategies for motivational self-regulation? A systematic review and meta-analyses7
ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education7
Expectancy-value-cost motivational profiles in biology and physics: Their relations with gender, self-reported satisfaction of needs, and learning behavior7
Stress development during emergency remote teaching in higher education7
Self-attributions and perceptions of socializers' attributions as predictors of self-concepts: Different findings for girls and boys in math and German7
How trait and state mathematics anxiety could affect performance: Evidence from children with and without Specific Learning Disorders7
Gc at its boundaries: A cross-national investigation of declarative knowledge7
Individuals in a group: Metacognitive and regulatory predictors of learning achievement in collaborative learning7
Joint developmental trajectories of home numeracy activities in China: The predictive role of parental beliefs of children's math skills7
Toward more robust and integrative research on learning and individual differences: Systematic literature reviews with and without meta-analysis7
The relationship between success and failure causal attributions and achievement goal orientations7
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Give me freedom or see my motivation decline: Basic psychological needs and the development of students' learning goal orientation7
The role of relational preference in early proportional reasoning7
Temporal stability of need satisfaction and frustration profiles and their association with motivational functioning7
Supporting students' basic needs is associated with better socio-emotional skills across cultures: A self-determination theory perspective7
Socioeconomic status and parenting-related differences in preschoolers' working memory6
Memorizing plans with an app: Large individual differences in the effectiveness of retrieval-based and generative learning activities in a naturalistic context6
The role of teaching support in assisting students' transition to high school6
The role of creativity in second language writing performance6
The role of study and leisure values in students’ decisions in study-leisure conflicts: A latent difference score model6
Trajectories of adolescents' adjustment behaviors across the transition to upper secondary education: The role of individual and environmental factors6
Increasing teaching effectiveness in entrepreneurship education: Course characteristics and student needs differences6
Do social engagement skills exist and matter beyond personality facet traits and vocational interests? A generalization study across six countries6
Parent and teacher judgments about children's mathematics and reading competencies in primary school: Do parent judgments associate with children's educational outcomes?6
The bidirectional relationship between critical thinking and academic achievement is independent of general cognitive ability: A three-year longitudinal study on elementary school children6
Differential effects of reading strategy intervention for three levels of comprehenders: Focus on text comprehension and autonomous reading motivation6
Personalized gamification versus one-size-fits-all gamification in fully online learning: Effects on student motivational, behavioral and cognitive outcomes6
Utility value trajectories and their relationship with behavioral engagement and performance in introductory statistics6
Antecedents and consequences of student academic worries about the secondary school transition6
Investigating the influence of data-driven learning (DDL) on EFL students' willingness to attend classes (WTAC): An intervention study6
Domain-specific skills, but not fine-motor or executive function, predict later arithmetic and reading in children6
When mistakes instruct: Explaining errors in diagrams supports comprehension for low spatial individuals6
Thinking dispositions and epistemic cognition: Combined influences when reading to learn6
Digital reading and what makes it hard for whom: Individual differences in learning from digital texts6
Homogeneous numerosity and visual perception deficits across mild, moderate and severe mathematics difficulties6
Cross-lagged relations between phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and english word reading among native Chinese-speaking children6
Dark personality traits and psychological need frustration explain future levels of student satisfaction, engagement, and performance6
Expectancy-value profiles in math: How are student-perceived teaching behaviors related to motivational transitions?5
A moderated mediation analysis of conscientiousness, time management strategies, effort regulation strategies, and university students' performance5
Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages?5
How classroom management and instructional clarity relate to students' academic emotions in Hong Kong and England: A multi-group analysis based on the control-value theory5
Examining factors and mechanisms of reading comprehension and reading fluency: Longitudinal evidence for Chinese children from grade 1 to grade 65
Need satisfaction profiles during the transition to secondary school and its implications in later education5
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Dweck's social-cognitive model of achievement motivation in science5
The relationship between positive and painful emotions and cognitive load during an algebra learning task5
Seeking, mastering, and enjoying cognitive effort: Scrutinizing the role of need for cognition in academic achievement5
Group work and student procrastination5
Exploring the role of knowledge in predicting reading and listening comprehension in fifth grade students5
How (de)motivating teaching styles shape message framing outcomes on students’ self-efficacy, emotions, and grades5
Relationships between achievement goal orientations, multidimensional test anxiety, and performance – In conclusion, every facet counts5
Independent and joint effects of perceived teacher support and math self-efficacy on math achievement in primary school student: Variable-oriented and person-oriented analyses5
Explaining teachers' judgement accuracy of students' subjective well-being by students' individual characteristics and the teacher-student relationship5
A longitudinal quasi-experiment of leaderboard effectiveness on learner behaviors and course performance5
Structural relations among implicit theories, achievement goals, and performance in writing5
English as a foreign language learners' metacognitive experiences and writing development: Unraveling the process of learning EFL writing5
Exploring domain-general and course-specific latent profiles of motivation in computer science5
A multilevel person-centered examination of students' learning anxiety and its relationship with student background and school factors5
The prediction from the network-based attributes of school readiness skills to children's state-level fluctuations in academic achievement throughout grade school5
L2 grit and age as predictors of attrition in mobile-assisted language learning5
From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers' mathematical language and mathematical abilities5
Test-taking motivation and performance: Do self-report and time-based measures of effort reflect the same aspects of test-taking motivation?5
Online credibility evaluation skills in upper secondary students: The role of grade level, argument evaluation, and analytic thinking dispositions5
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What does current genAI actually mean for student learning?4
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Emotional intelligence predicts initial status and growth of reading comprehension in primary school students4
How do topic beliefs and reading skill influence college students' evaluations of search engine results for usefulness and trustworthiness?4
Cultivating young minds: Exploring the relationship between child socio-emotional competence, early childhood education and care quality, creativity and self-directed learning4
Effect size guidelines for individual differences in L2 learning studies: A second-order synthesis4
Early numeracy development as a foundation of mathematics achievement in primary education4
Beyond aptitudes and experiences: The unique role of mindsets in emotions in language classrooms4
A multigroup random-intercept cross-lagged panel model for Finnish secondary school students in frame of situated expectancy-value theory4
Interindividual differences in episodic foresight: The role of personality factors and family context in preschool-aged and primary-school-aged children4
The learning adversary - An experimental investigation of adaptive pedagogical agents as opponents in educational videogames4
Why not have the best of both worlds? How to use direct instruction principles in inquiry-based instructional design4
Beyond linear regression: Statistically modeling aptitude-treatment interactions and the differential effectiveness of educational interventions4
The issue of test-taking motivation in low- and high-stakes tests: are students underachieving in PISA?4
Separating prior knowledge from acquired knowledge: An individual differences analysis of PISA - learning in the digital world4
The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds4
Learning to read in mother tongue or foreign language: Comparing Papiamento-Dutch reading skills in the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean4
Keep going, keep growing: A longitudinal analysis of grit, posttraumatic growth, and life satisfaction in school students under COVID-194
Getting there is half the journey: An exploration of high schoolers' individual differences and navigation strategies during internet-based digital reading4
Mediation of mathematical self-efficacy in the relationship between teacher-student relationships and mathematics achievement by grade and academic level: a multi-group structural equation modeling4
Redefining education: The role of study crafting in enhancing students' well-being, self-direction, and academic achievement4
A person-oriented approach to maternal homework involvement during the transition to lower secondary school4
What are we measuring in international assessments? Learning? Probably. Intelligence? Not likely4
Within-person variability in performance across school subjects4
Catching up? Sex differences in prior conceptual knowledge, socio-emotional experiences, and academic achievements among STEM undergraduates4
What is intelligence, really? The futile search for a Holy Grail4
Malleability beliefs shape mathematics-related achievement emotions: The mediating role of emotion regulation in primary school children4
Student engagement and its development in university education: A three-year follow-up study4
Individual differences in fluid intelligence moderate the interleaving effect for perceptual category learning4
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Transitions between conceptual and procedural knowledge profiles. Patterns in understanding fractions and indicators for individual differences4
Contributions of decoding and listening comprehension to reading comprehension at different levels: Exploring the mediating roles of oral and silent reading fluency3
Mathematics motivation, achievement, and gender inequality in social intuitions: Unpacking gender differences in STEM career expectations across 75 societies3
Relations between geometric proof justification and probabilistic reasoning3
Sustained attention plays a critical role in reading comprehension of adults with and without ADHD3
How does prior knowledge affect learning? A review of 16 mechanisms and a framework for future research3
Skill learning as a predictor of literacy abilities and related impairments among second-graders from low-SES3
Autonomy as a potential moral resource: Parenting practices supporting youth need for autonomy negatively predict youth acceptance of academic dishonesty3
Unpacking heterogeneity: Executive function and reading development in U.S. multilingual children from kindergarten to third grade3
Persistent effectiveness of mathematics homework time from primary school to early middle school: A longitudinal study from China3
Bringing learners into focus: A systematic review of learner characteristics in AR-supported STEM education3
A model of Chinese reading comprehension: The role of cognition and motivation3
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