British Journal of Educational Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Educational Psychology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development100
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“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance63
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management50
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance48
‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors42
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West38
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?38
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences38
The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences36
The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children36
Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy34
When closeness is effortful: Teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions32
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK : Secondary analysis of qualitative da32
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Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective28
Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school27
This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes26
Teacher–student relationships and adolescents’ school satisfaction: Behavioural engagement as a mechanism of change25
Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models25
Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study24
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On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals22
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Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school22
Seeking effective school and family supports for adolescents' curiosity in learning: A cross‐country comparison among China, the USA and Finland21
Students' willingness to communicate in the foreign language learning classroom: Exploring the roles of classroom support and psychological needs satisfaction21
Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective21
Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data21
Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school20
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years20
Perceived peer support, motivational self‐regulation and academic achievement in adolescents20
Interest and effort in learning and performance19
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress19
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 studies18
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement18
Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities18
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities18
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A mode comparison study about the effect of tracing on children's poem learning in actual classroom contexts18
What counts as STEM , and does it matter?17
Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States17
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement17
The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence17
Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study16
Longitudinal trajectories of parent–teacher communication during elementary school: Investigating child academic skills, school enjoyment and self‐perceived ability16
Developmental trajectories and the longitudinal associations of emotional resilience and test anxiety: A prospective study in high school students16
Perceived teacher unfairness and students' school‐based adjustment: Exploring the mediating role of self‐handicapping and the moderating role of social support15
Attention to text in video predicts young children's orthographic knowledge15
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 context15
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Flipping a simulation before instruction can improve students' learning, interest and perceived competence15
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children14
Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation14
Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation14
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis14
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students14
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship14
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures14
Metacognitive beliefs and academic performance in Chinese middle school students: A moderated mediation model of emotional dysregulation and anxiety13
The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty13
The formation of self‐concept and intrinsic value in arts‐related domains: Extending the generalized internal/external frame of reference model to music and visual arts13
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices13
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities12
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis12
Does the family situation impact academic achievement differently in students with versus without neurodevelopmental disorders?12
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China12
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms12
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals12
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China12
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting12
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes12
Academic language use in middle school informational writing11
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa11
‘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 professionals11
Asymmetric longitudinal links between learning anxiety and engagement in Chinese primary school students: The role of peer relationship11
Social media interference among college students: The role of social achievement goals and fear of missing out11
The path of promoting adolescents' physical exercise: Based on the control‐value theory of achievement emotions11
‘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 En11
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes11
Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias11
Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs11
Teacher and student mindsets in the classroom: Multilevel links with emotional support, achievement and anxiety11
To disclose or not to disclose: Peer influence and psychological factors in students' use of generative artificial intelligence11
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Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate11
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components11
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers10
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project10
The reciprocal dynamics of peer relationships and motivation: A commentary on the special issue10
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors: Evidence from a targeted online intervention with Italian middle school students10
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources10
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia10
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?10
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory10
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation10
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children10
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences10
Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers9
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Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK9
Is procrastination among students lower in group work? Evidence from a registered field experiment9
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review9
Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities9
Biophysiological stress markers relate differently to grit and school engagement among lower‐ and higher‐track secondary school students9
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas9
Subjective wellbeing and emotion regulation strategies: How are they associated with student engagement in online learning during Covid‐19?9
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Unveiling situation‐specific emotion regulation behaviour among teachers: Insights from a multilevel latent profile analysis9
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Does working memory moderate the effect of fading on math performance?8
The relation of spatial skills, spatial memory span, and two anxiety types with statistics anxiety in European and North American University students8
Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children8
Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students8
Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school8
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics8
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study8
The effectiveness of a principle‐based professional development programme in promoting teachers' high‐level talk in primary mathematics classrooms8
Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes8
Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals8
Are teachers' and students' emotions reciprocally transmitted in the classroom?7
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy7
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School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being7
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures7
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality7
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement7
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts7
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students7
Examining students' current academic motivation in relation to peer interactions and social environment in the classroom using the Experience Sampling Method7
Peer relationships and student motivation: Theoretical and methodological approaches, empirical evidence, and future directions7
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load7
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review7
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis7
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving7
A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar7
Responsible school leadership and teachers' emotional exhaustion: The moderated mediation role of work meaningfulness and proactive personality7
The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success7
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Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education6
The situatedness of instructional quality—How situated are college students' ratings?6
Teachers' perceptions of the barriers to assessment of mental health in schools with implications for educational policy: A systematic review6
Gender differences in computation strategies: Evidence across adolescent and adult samples6
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure6
The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study6
Learning flow in educational contexts: A meta‐analysis of its antecedents and outcomes6
Unravelling dynamic trajectories of epistemic emotions in a technology‐enhanced problem‐solving task: A multimodal data approach6
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Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial6
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school6
Co‐developmental trajectories of parental involvement: Relations to academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing problems among Chinese elementary schoolchildren6
Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways: A short‐timeframe experiment with manipulated perceived achievement6
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Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning6
Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 15
Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China5
Physical activity predicts task‐related behaviour, affect and tiredness in the primary school classroom: A within‐person5
When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions5
Mapping the emotional landscape of teaching and learning5
Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 205
Enjoyment and perceived teacher conflict shape early L2 English performance: A longitudinal study in primary school5
Mothers' and fathers' views on the importance of play for their children's development: Gender differences, academic activities, and the parental role5
Developing and validating a university needs instrument to measure the psychosocial needs of university students5
Peer relationships and student motivation: Discussion of methodological approaches5
Beyond intelligence: Exploring the role of growth mindsets in the domain of social–emotional skills5
Understanding effort regulation: Comparing ‘Pomodoro’ breaks and self‐regulated breaks5
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education5
Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences5
Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions5
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Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency4
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase4
The advantages of deliberate errors in promoting college students' memory retention and transfer4
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Reducing gender differences in student motivational‐affective factors: A meta‐analysis of school‐based interventions4
Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying4
Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies4
Visual attention and role recognition in bullying vignettes in preadolescents and adults4
Introducing the Socio‐Emotional School Experiences Adaptation ( SESEA ) model: A theoretical integration of emotions, social relationships and the ex4
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset4
Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect4
The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis4
Guiding attention in the classroom: An eye‐tracking study on the associations between preservice teachers' goals and noticing of student interactions4
Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept4
Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China4
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Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study4
Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions4
Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit4
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators4
Does teacher support predict students' growth mindset? A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model4
Trajectories of second language student classroom engagement: Profiles and correlates4
Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency4
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