British Journal of Educational Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Educational Psychology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences41
A multidimensional, person‐centred perspective on teacher engagement: Evidence from Canadian and Australian teachers39
Secondary school students’ perception of the online teaching experience during COVID‐19: The impact on mental wellbeing and specific learning difficulties37
Latent motivation profiles for choosing teaching as a career: How are they linked to self‐concept concerning teaching subjects and emotions during teacher education training?33
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West33
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences31
‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors30
Social comparison in the classroom: Priming approach/avoidance changes the impact of social comparison on self‐evaluation and performance28
Self‐efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes28
The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children24
“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance24
Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development23
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance23
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What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?21
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management21
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Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school20
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Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy20
Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective19
Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study19
Teacher–student relationships and adolescents’ school satisfaction: Behavioural engagement as a mechanism of change18
This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes18
When closeness is effortful: Teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions17
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK: Secondary analysis of qualitative data from the CATCh‐uS mixed‐methods study17
Long‐term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches16
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Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models16
Editorial Acknowledgement15
Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school15
On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals15
Perceived peer support, motivational self‐regulation and academic achievement in adolescents15
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Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective14
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress14
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years14
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement13
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The aetiology of educational attainment: A nuclear twin family study into the genetic and environmental influences on school leaving certificates13
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement13
Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data13
Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities13
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Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school13
Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States12
The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence12
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What counts as STEM, and does it matter?12
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Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study12
A closer look at the domain‐specific associations of openness with language achievement: Evidence on the role of intrinsic value from two large‐scale longitudinal studies12
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities12
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students12
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures11
Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation11
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children11
Reading with induced worry: The role of physiological self‐regulation and working memory updating in text comprehension11
A reciprocal association between interpersonal relationship quality and student's positive affect: A three‐wave random intercept cross‐lagged study in a Chinese primary mathematics learning context11
Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation11
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship11
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis11
The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty11
Perceptions of ease and difficulty, but not growth mindset, relate to specific math attitudes10
How do self‐efficacy and self‐concept impact mathematical achievement? The case of mathematical modelling10
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes10
‘It feels like I'm back to being a teacher’: A longitudinal trajectory analysis of teachers' experiences during the first 8 months of COVID‐19 in England10
Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate10
Factors and experiences that influence school mobility for autistic students: A systematic review10
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis10
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities10
Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias10
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China10
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices10
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting10
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms10
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China9
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Relationship quality in higher education and the interplay with student engagement and loyalty9
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals9
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors: Evidence from a targeted online intervention with Italian middle school students9
‘She didn't know how to go back’: School attendance problems in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic—A multiple stakeholder qualitative study with parents and professionals9
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa9
Academic language use in middle school informational writing9
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation9
Primary‐secondary school transition under Covid‐19: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of children, parents/guardians, and teachers9
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers8
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources8
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes8
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas8
Cultural diversity approaches in schools and adolescents’ willingness to support refugee youth8
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?8
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project8
Unveiling situation‐specific emotion regulation behaviour among teachers: Insights from a multilevel latent profile analysis8
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children8
“I can teach what’s in the book”: Understanding the why and how behind teachers’ implementation of a social‐emotional learning (SEL) focused curriculum in rural Malawi8
Experiences of peer victimization and teacher support in secondary school predict university enrolment 5 years later: Role of school engagement8
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory8
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences8
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components8
Investigating how autonomy‐supportive teaching moderates the relation between student honesty and premeditated cheating7
Parent and teacher warm involvement and student’s academic engagement: The mediating role of self‐system processes7
Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students7
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia7
Differential return on investment: Academic growth in mathematics and reading based on initial performance7
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Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children7
Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities7
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics7
Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers7
Subjective wellbeing and emotion regulation strategies: How are they associated with student engagement in online learning during Covid‐19?7
The role of social belonging and exclusion at school and the teacher–student relationship for the development of learned helplessness in adolescents7
Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school7
Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning7
Teachers use of fear appeals: Association with student and teacher mental health7
Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK7
Biophysiological stress markers relate differently to grit and school engagement among lower‐ and higher‐track secondary school students7
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review7
Does working memory moderate the effect of fading on math performance?7
Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes6
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy6
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts6
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review6
Social and emotional learning in primary schools: A review of the current state of evidence6
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load6
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study6
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students6
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement6
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis6
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures6
A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar6
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving6
Fraction mapping and fraction comparison skills among grade 4 Chinese students: An error analysis6
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The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success6
School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being6
Teachers' perceptions of the barriers to assessment of mental health in schools with implications for educational policy: A systematic review5
The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study5
No aspect of structure should be left behind in relation to student autonomous motivation5
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality5
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure5
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial5
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school5
Relations between prior school performance and later test anxiety during the transition to secondary school5
Co‐developmental trajectories of parental involvement: Relations to academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing problems among Chinese elementary schoolchildren5
Mothers' and fathers' views on the importance of play for their children's development: Gender differences, academic activities, and the parental role5
Understanding effort regulation: Comparing ‘Pomodoro’ breaks and self‐regulated breaks5
Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning5
Sibling conflict during COVID‐19 in families with special educational needs and disabilities5
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Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 20184
The mechanisms of interest and perseverance in predicting achievement among academically resilient and non‐resilient students: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal data4
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education4
Developing and validating a university needs instrument to measure the psychosocial needs of university students4
Whether verbal and visuospatial working memory play different roles in pupil’s mathematical abilities4
Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions4
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Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 14
Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways: A short‐timeframe experiment with manipulated perceived achievement4
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Social withdrawal and academic achievement, intertwined over years? Bidirectional effects from primary to upper secondary school4
Physical activity predicts task‐related behaviour, affect and tiredness in the primary school classroom: A within‐person experiment4
Guiding attention in the classroom: An eye‐tracking study on the associations between preservice teachers' goals and noticing of student interactions4
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Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences4
The identification of gifted underachievement: Validity evidence for the commonly used methods4
Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China4
When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions4
Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions4
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase4
Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study4
The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis4
The role of need for cognition (NfC) in the effect of language modalities on integrated writing performance3
Connecting engagement to classroom friendships and popular peers' prosocial behaviour3
Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies3
Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency3
Relations among motivation, behaviour, and performance in writing: A multiple‐group structural equation modeling study3
Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit3
Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect3
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Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept3
Matthew or compensatory effects? Factors that influence the math literacy of primary‐school children in Germany3
Only a matter of time? Using logfile data to evaluate temporal motivation theory in university students' examination preparation3
Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China3
Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying3
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators3
Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load3
Effects of finger and mouse pointing on learning from online split‐attention examples3
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors3
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Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency3
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset3
Reducing gender differences in student motivational‐affective factors: A meta‐analysis of school‐based interventions3
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Editorial acknowledgement3
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