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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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State scales in academic achievement: Validating measures of affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals4162
Learning from educational texts: is reduction in global text cohesion a desirable difficulty as structure building skill increases?107
Social background as a moderator of immigration-related disparities in parent-child-activities and in early vocabulary89
What evidence-based learning activities help students acquire knowledge, correct confidence in their own knowledge, and accurate self-assessment?54
Scaffolding attention and perseverance skills in a diverse population of preschool children in Sweden52
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Enhancing argumentative writing with data-driven learning: Exploring developmental trajectories and learner profiles50
Cross-linguistic sharing of phonological awareness in word spelling among early Chinese-English literacy learners: A three-wave cross-lagged panel analysis48
Female students and students from more affluent families benefit more from fear of failure in learning achievements: A study based on 77 economies45
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Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis43
Academic and sports motivations in sport-study programs: Cross-contextual relations and links with achievement43
Profiles of student-perceived teacher homework involvement, and their associations with homework behavior and mathematics achievement: A person-centered approach43
Socio-emotional skills matter for academic resilience: A global perspective38
Using collaborative interactivity metrics to analyze students' problem-solving behaviors during STEM+C computational modeling tasks36
Comparing relations among autonomy support, motivation, and academic success across face-to-face and pandemic online STEM learning environments35
Exploring the heterogeneous development of intrinsic value in language arts among secondary school students through growth mixture modelling34
Do socializers’ mindset beliefs matter for student mindset and achievement? A meta-analysis32
Need-supportive teaching is associated with reading achievement via intrinsic motivation across eight cultures31
Self-regulation of motivation in university students – a longitudinal study of interindividual differences and intraindividual trajectories30
What matters for students' social and emotional skills: The associations with student, parent, and teacher growth mindsets?30
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 children30
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Does the effectiveness of a reading intervention differ dependent on students' Spanish or English proficiencies?28
Comorbidity of reading and math learning difficulties in a Chinese sample27
Cooperative mindset and creative self-concept in higher education26
Parents' implicit intelligence beliefs about children's intelligence: Implications for children's academic self-concept and achievement in Maths, English, and French25
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?24
The Simple View of Reading across different orthographies: Introduction to special issue23
Understanding momentary engagement in university students: Exploring the interaction between competence and value beliefs on emotions and cognitive engagement – A multilevel investigation23
Understanding the factors influencing college students' acceptance and adoption of chatbots for learning: A network analysis23
Reading in print and digitally: Profiling and intervening in undergraduates' multimodal text processing, comprehension, and calibration23
Dynamic relations between motivation and performance across content in a mathematics learning technology22
Children's attitudes toward mistakes: Profiles and associations with parental predictors and academic-related outcomes21
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Executive functions and multiple-text comprehension20
Prospects in the field of learning and individual differences: Examining the past to forecast the future using bibliometrics20
Heritage-bilingualism and educational achievement among second-generation immigrants: Are all school subjects equal?20
A systematic review of data-driven learning research on language learning and teaching for pre-tertiary learners: Balancing qualitative and quantitative research20
On the relationship between creative potential and creative achievement: Challenges and future directions19
Exploring and addressing concerns surrounding L2 grit: A longitudinal perspective19
Raising the bar: Testing prospective reciprocal relationships between multidimensional trait perfectionism and undergraduate academic achievement18
Dimensionality of executive functions and processing speed in preschoolers18
Revisiting multiple pathways to achievement: Re-examining the roles of achievement goals in predicting grades through task values18
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning18
Identification and characterization of high-achieving student subgroups using two methodological approaches: The role of different achievement indicators and motivational-affective characteristics18
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Students’ expectancy-value profiles in the West and the East: Cross-cultural similarities and differences17
Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children17
AI tools for systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses in educational psychology: An overview and a practical guide17
The accuracy of performance judgements and academic achievement: A two-sample two-wave study of German primary and lower secondary school students17
The effects of programming interventions in early childhood: A meta-analysis17
Students' and schools' expectancy-value beliefs are associated with reading achievement: A cross-cultural study17
Reading comprehension for students with reading disabilities: Progress and challenges17
Is the treatment weak or the test insensitive: Interrogating item difficulties to elucidate the nature of reading intervention effects17
Transition from childcare to school: Surgency, center-based care and caregiver-child relationship predict self-regulation, social competence and well-being17
Developing rule-based scoring methods that capture student progress in computational problem-solving in open, interactive tasks16
A mediated model of study choice profiles and person-environment fit with bachelor's program as predictors of academic success in higher education16
The fluid relation between reading strategies and mathematics learning: A perspective of the Island Ridge Curve16
Elementary school students' metacognitive knowledge and its effects on teacher judgments, school track recommendations, and school transitions16
Mindfulness intervention for academic procrastination: A randomized control trial16
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
More is not always better: Profiles of perceived frequency of parental involvement among Chinese students and associations with resilience and academic achievement16
Exploring individual's emotional and autonomous learning profiles in AI-enhanced data-driven language learning: An expanded sor perspective16
Understanding the dynamics of EFL learner affective engagement with receiving peer feedback: A case study from the sociocultural perspective16
Weaker groupitizing abilities in magnitude perception in dyscalculia16
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Tailoring interleaved practice: Does adaptive sequencing boost the interleaving effect?15
Exploring undergraduate students' challenge frameworks: A person-centered approach15
A meta-analysis on the relation between handwriting and visual-motor integration15
The relationship between English language proficiency and academic performance among English learners: A subgroup analysis by home language background15
Ink and pixels: Impact of highlighting and reading self-efficacy on adolescents' cognitive load, epistemic emotions, and text comprehension15
Connecting the dots: A psychometric network analysis of relations between students’ fraction and algebra knowledge14
What students learn depends on what we teach: Curriculum content coverage and student achievement in mathematics and science14
How vocabulary breadth and depth influence bilingual reading comprehension: Direct and indirect pathways14
Linking parental restrictive mediation to adolescents' science achievement: A social cognitive theory perspective14
The role of teacher characteristics for instructional quality: A meta-analysis14
Individual differences in fifth graders' math motivation – stability and change across the school year14
“I can't focus now, I will study tomorrow” - The link between academic procrastination and resistance to distraction14
Who loses motivation and who keeps it up? Investigating factors for changes in motivational profiles across multiple domains13
Learning as retention; an examination of retention of self-derived knowledge through memory integration in a diverse sample of elementary students13
Longitudinal relationship between mathematics learning engagement and children's mathematics achievement: Different roles of children's mathematics anxiety and positive parenting style13
Early literacy and executive function profiles in Spanish-English emergent bilinguals13
The interplay between scientific motivation, creative process engagement, and scientific creativity: A network analysis study13
Parental influences on the development of single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency13
Perceived goal structures and student outcomes: Consistency of motivational experiences within and across classrooms13
Beyond the average: How achievement goals shape both levels and daily swings in intrinsic motivation13
PISA reading achievement, literacy motivation, and school burnout predicting Adolescents' educational track and educational attainment13
The effects of the topic-specific and topic-general prior knowledge on learning from multiple complementary texts12
Parental psychological control and preschooler's behavioral problems and pre-academic performance in China: The mediating role of executive function12
Academic motivation of intellectually gifted students and their classmates in regular primary school classes: A multidimensional, longitudinal, person- and variable-centered approach12
Predictive validity of early child biological, language, family and rearing environment characteristics on developmental trajectories of reading from ages 6 to 12 years12
Mathematics achievement and learner characteristics: A systematic review of meta-analyses12
Student-perceived parental help with homework: Identifying student profiles and their relations with homework effort, procrastination, and achievement12
Language and academic growth trajectories of English learners12
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General cognitive and numerical precursors of mathematical difficulty in kindergarten children at risk for dyscalculia12
Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties12
Self-regulatory abilities as predictors of scientific literacy among children in preschool and primary school years12
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of undergraduate students' psychological distress profiles11
The relationship between students' gender and their confidence in the correctness of their solutions to complex and difficult mathematics problems11
Exploring relationships between individual differences and learning outcomes in data-driven learning: A meta-analytic path analysis approach11
Beyond individual tests: Youth's cognitive abilities on their math and writing skills11
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Deciding to drop out of school during compulsory education: Testing developmental and contextual models in students from low-income families11
Predicting students' short- and long-term academic achievement in higher education: A cross-classified multilevel study11
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder11
Structure, relationship, and determinants of monitoring strategies and judgment accuracy. An integrated model and evidence from two studies11
Gender differences in academic buoyancy: A meta-analysis10
Longitudinal links between need for cognition, achievement goals, and school grades: Testing a mediation hypothesis10
Related but independent: Trait math anxiety and the developmental trajectories of state anxiety and arithmetic fluency10
Comparing parental and school pressure in terms of their relations with students' well-being10
Subject and time specificity of students' cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement at school10
Science motivation, academic achievement, career aspirations in early adolescents10
Reality-based tasks for competency-based education: The need for an integrated analysis of subject-specific, linguistic, and contextual task features10
Why do some students stay engaged? The longitudinal impact of personal growth initiative and future work self10
Mathematically high and low performances tell us different stories: Uncovering motivation-related factors via the ecological model10
Chatbots in education: Hype or help? A meta-analysis10
Rational thinking as a general cognitive ability: Factorial structure, underlying cognitive processes, and relevance for university academic success9
What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores9
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach9
Early predictors of mathematics learning difficulty in rural Chinese children9
Students' social and learning behavior at school: Applying the generalized internal/external frame of reference model9
Examining the influence of passage and student characteristics on test-taking strategies: An eye-tracking study9
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
Learning activities in technology-enhanced learning: A systematic review of meta-analyses and second-order meta-analysis in higher education9
Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment9
Gender-segregated trajectories to a university major and career-related motivation9
First-generation student pathways to persistence and degree attainment: The roles of deeper learning and self-regulated learning beliefs9
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
Capturing where the learning process takes place: A person-specific and person-centered primer9
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Self-attributions and perceptions of socializers' attributions as predictors of self-concepts: Different findings for girls and boys in math and German8
Triggers for self-regulated learning: A conceptual framework for advancing multimodal research about SRL8
Expectancy-value-cost motivational profiles in biology and physics: Their relations with gender, self-reported satisfaction of needs, and learning behavior8
Developmental patterns of receptive vocabulary and reading comprehension from age 4 to 14: A sequential latent growth model design8
Individual toddlers' interactions with teachers, peers, and the classroom environment in Danish and Dutch childcare: First validation of the inCLASS Toddler8
Trajectories in cognitive engagement, fatigue, and school achievement: The role of young adolescents' psychological need satisfaction8
Test preparation: the roles of expecting access to materials and test anxiety8
The relationship between success and failure causal attributions and achievement goal orientations8
Stress development during emergency remote teaching in higher education8
Perceived motivational support in elementary school: Perceptual agreement and its associations with academic outcomes8
Do performance goals and fixed mindset explicate the relations between stereotype threat and achievement? Examining differences between racially marginalized and White students in STEM8
Instructional contexts and time in first-grade math achievement: Moderating roles of math and externalizing behavioral risk8
The highs and lows of mathematical ability: Shared and distinct longitudinal predictors of mathematical ability grouping8
Profiling bilinguals: The concurrent and longitudinal associations between executive function and reading proficiency8
Toward more robust and integrative research on learning and individual differences: Systematic literature reviews with and without meta-analysis8
Unscrambling creativity measurement: An invitation to better formalize the domain generality-specificity of creativity with psychometric modeling8
Adaptability vs. buoyancy: Which offers the greater protection against test anxiety and could relations be reciprocal?8
Gender differences in young adults' mathematical performance: Examining the contribution of working memory, math anxiety and gender-related stereotypes8
Effectiveness of embodied learning on learning performance: A meta-analysis based on the cognitive load theory perspective8
ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education7
Trajectories of academic self-concept during the elementary school years: A growth mixture analysis7
Supporting students' basic needs is associated with better socio-emotional skills across cultures: A self-determination theory perspective7
Global motivation to learn and adult learning: A nomological network analysis and a four-year longitudinal study7
How trait and state mathematics anxiety could affect performance: Evidence from children with and without Specific Learning Disorders7
Give me freedom or see my motivation decline: Basic psychological needs and the development of students' learning goal orientation7
The bidirectional relationship between critical thinking and academic achievement is independent of general cognitive ability: A three-year longitudinal study on elementary school children7
Gender effects in mathematics, science, and reading achievement: A secondary analysis of PISA data on the role of expectancies and values as well as cultural and societal norms7
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Investigating the influence of data-driven learning (DDL) on EFL students' willingness to attend classes (WTAC): An intervention study7
Temporal stability of need satisfaction and frustration profiles and their association with motivational functioning7
Classroom dynamics in physical education: The interplay of student agentic actions, teacher autonomy support and student intrinsic motivation7
Personalized gamification versus one-size-fits-all gamification in fully online learning: Effects on student motivational, behavioral and cognitive outcomes7
Socioeconomic status and parenting-related differences in preschoolers' working memory7
Increasing teaching effectiveness in entrepreneurship education: Course characteristics and student needs differences7
The role of inferencing in struggling adult readers' comprehension of different texts: A mediation analysis7
Joint developmental trajectories of home numeracy activities in China: The predictive role of parental beliefs of children's math skills7
Individuals in a group: Metacognitive and regulatory predictors of learning achievement in collaborative learning7
Motivational profiles among high-ability students from a self-determination perspective: Stability, antecedents, and comparisons with average-ability students7
Gc at its boundaries: A cross-national investigation of declarative knowledge7
What are the principal and most effective strategies for motivational self-regulation? A systematic review and meta-analyses7
Homogeneous numerosity and visual perception deficits across mild, moderate and severe mathematics difficulties7
Thinking dispositions and epistemic cognition: Combined influences when reading to learn6
Rock-Paper-Screen: Fifth-graders' comprehension of simple and enhanced digital text6
Seeking, mastering, and enjoying cognitive effort: Scrutinizing the role of need for cognition in academic achievement6
Memorizing plans with an app: Large individual differences in the effectiveness of retrieval-based and generative learning activities in a naturalistic context6
Exploring the role of knowledge in predicting reading and listening comprehension in fifth grade students6
Digital reading and what makes it hard for whom: Individual differences in learning from digital texts6
Dark personality traits and psychological need frustration explain future levels of student satisfaction, engagement, and performance6
Trajectories of adolescents' adjustment behaviors across the transition to upper secondary education: The role of individual and environmental factors6
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 role of teaching support in assisting students' transition to high school6
A multilevel person-centered examination of students' learning anxiety and its relationship with student background and school factors6
In-class crossover of enthusiasm between teachers and students: The moderating role of teacher-student relationship quality and math ability6
Cross-lagged relations between phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and english word reading among native Chinese-speaking children6
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
Differential effects of reading strategy intervention for three levels of comprehenders: Focus on text comprehension and autonomous reading motivation6
A moderated mediation analysis of conscientiousness, time management strategies, effort regulation strategies, and university students' performance6
Structural relations among implicit theories, achievement goals, and performance in writing6
Relationships between achievement goal orientations, multidimensional test anxiety, and performance – In conclusion, every facet counts6
Do social engagement skills exist and matter beyond personality facet traits and vocational interests? A generalization study across six countries6
Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages?6
Antecedents and consequences of student academic worries about the secondary school transition6
Exploring domain-general and course-specific latent profiles of motivation in computer science5
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
Expectancy-value profiles in math: How are student-perceived teaching behaviors related to motivational transitions?5
Dweck's social-cognitive model of achievement motivation in science5
The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds5
What are we measuring in international assessments? Learning? Probably. Intelligence? Not likely5
What is intelligence, really? The futile search for a Holy Grail5
A longitudinal quasi-experiment of leaderboard effectiveness on learner behaviors and course performance5
How do topic beliefs and reading skill influence college students' evaluations of search engine results for usefulness and trustworthiness?5
Motivated and feeling good? Reciprocal relations between motivational regulation and student well-being over one semester5
L2 grit and age as predictors of attrition in mobile-assisted language learning5
English as a foreign language learners' metacognitive experiences and writing development: Unraveling the process of learning EFL writing5
The prediction from the network-based attributes of school readiness skills to children's state-level fluctuations in academic achievement throughout grade school5
From language to mathematics and vice versa?: A longitudinal study on the associations between preschoolers' mathematical language and mathematical abilities5
Separating prior knowledge from acquired knowledge: An individual differences analysis of PISA - learning in the digital world5
Why not have the best of both worlds? How to use direct instruction principles in inquiry-based instructional design5
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Catching up? Sex differences in prior conceptual knowledge, socio-emotional experiences, and academic achievements among STEM undergraduates5
Need satisfaction profiles during the transition to secondary school and its implications in later education5
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Examining factors and mechanisms of reading comprehension and reading fluency: Longitudinal evidence for Chinese children from grade 1 to grade 65
When mistakes instruct: Explaining errors in diagrams supports comprehension for low spatial individuals5
Online credibility evaluation skills in upper secondary students: The role of grade level, argument evaluation, and analytic thinking dispositions5
Emotional intelligence predicts initial status and growth of reading comprehension in primary school students5
Explaining teachers' judgement accuracy of students' subjective well-being by students' individual characteristics and the teacher-student relationship5
Early numeracy development as a foundation of mathematics achievement in primary education5
Malleability beliefs shape mathematics-related achievement emotions: The mediating role of emotion regulation in primary school children5
The issue of test-taking motivation in low- and high-stakes tests: are students underachieving in PISA?5
Test-taking motivation and performance: Do self-report and time-based measures of effort reflect the same aspects of test-taking motivation?5
The relationship between positive and painful emotions and cognitive load during an algebra learning task5
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
How (de)motivating teaching styles shape message framing outcomes on students’ self-efficacy, emotions, and grades5
Beyond linear regression: Statistically modeling aptitude-treatment interactions and the differential effectiveness of educational interventions4
Comparing long-term trajectories in subject interest among non-traditional students and traditional students – An example from a cooperative higher education programme in Germany4
Learning in action: Exploring engagement of L2 learners using multi-source data in online learning4
A multigroup random-intercept cross-lagged panel model for Finnish secondary school students in frame of situated expectancy-value theory4
Measuring the iterative process of creative thinking: Uncovering the interplay between divergent and convergent thinking4
Measuring secondary education students' self-regulated learning processes with digital trace data4
The relation of parental phubbing to academic engagement and the related mechanisms in elementary students4
What does current genAI actually mean for student learning?4
The learning adversary - An experimental investigation of adaptive pedagogical agents as opponents in educational videogames4
How teacher agency adapted to child competencies and teacher communion relate to student needs fulfillment and motivation4
Adaptive learning, instruction, and teaching in schools: Unraveling context, sources, implementation, and goals in a systematic review4
Academic support from teachers and parents during grade 2: Links to teacher perceived children's task persistence4
Improving self-regulated learning and academic engagement: Evaluating a college learning to learn course4
Student engagement and its development in university education: A three-year follow-up study4
Beyond aptitudes and experiences: The unique role of mindsets in emotions in language classrooms4
Longitudinal associations between socioeconomic status and executive function during adolescence: Evidence from the SCAMP study4
The association between private tutoring and mathematics learning outcomes in primary and secondary schools: A three-level meta-analysis4
How emotions are related to competence beliefs during mathematical problem solving: Differences between boys and girls4
Beyond averages: Situational lesson to lesson level interplay between relatedness and competence4
The developmental interplay between household chaos and educational achievement from age 9 through 16 years: A genetically sensitive study4
The pretesting effect is robust throughout adulthood, but metacognitive beliefs about pretesting and challenge differ4
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