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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance72
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?59
Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development48
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management47
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‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors36
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West36
The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences35
The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children33
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance32
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences30
Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy29
Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study28
Teacher–student relationships and adolescents’ school satisfaction: Behavioural engagement as a mechanism of change27
This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes27
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Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective24
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK : Secondary analysis of qualitative da24
Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school22
Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models21
Long‐term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches21
When closeness is effortful: Teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions21
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Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school20
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Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school19
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress18
On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals18
Perceived peer support, motivational self‐regulation and academic achievement in adolescents17
Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data17
Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective17
What counts as STEM , and does it matter?16
Interest and effort in learning and performance16
Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States16
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years16
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities16
The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence16
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Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities15
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 studies15
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Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation14
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures14
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement14
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 context14
Attention to text in video predicts young children's orthographic knowledge14
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement14
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis13
Longitudinal trajectories of parent–teacher communication during elementary school: Investigating child academic skills, school enjoyment and self‐perceived ability13
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship13
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children13
Developmental trajectories and the longitudinal associations of emotional resilience and test anxiety: A prospective study in high school students13
Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study13
Flipping a simulation before instruction can improve students' learning, interest and perceived competence13
Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation12
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Reading with induced worry: The role of physiological self‐regulation and working memory updating in text comprehension12
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 arts12
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students12
Factors and experiences that influence school mobility for autistic students: A systematic review11
‘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
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals11
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China11
Does the family situation impact academic achievement differently in students with versus without neurodevelopmental disorders?11
Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias11
Academic language use in middle school informational writing11
The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty11
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices11
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa11
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis11
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting10
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China10
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms10
Primary‐secondary school transition under Covid‐19: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of children, parents/guardians, and teachers10
Social media interference among college students: The role of social achievement goals and fear of missing out10
Supportive error feedback fosters students' adaptive reactions towards errors: Evidence from a targeted online intervention with Italian middle school students10
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities10
Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate10
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‘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 professionals10
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory10
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes10
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes10
Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs10
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation10
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components9
Subjective wellbeing and emotion regulation strategies: How are they associated with student engagement in online learning during Covid‐19?9
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia9
Unveiling situation‐specific emotion regulation behaviour among teachers: Insights from a multilevel latent profile analysis9
Experiences of peer victimization and teacher support in secondary school predict university enrolment 5 years later: Role of school engagement9
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?9
Biophysiological stress markers relate differently to grit and school engagement among lower‐ and higher‐track secondary school students9
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children9
The reciprocal dynamics of peer relationships and motivation: A commentary on the special issue9
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project9
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers9
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources9
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences9
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review9
Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities8
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Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK8
The effectiveness of a principle‐based professional development programme in promoting teachers' high‐level talk in primary mathematics classrooms8
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Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school8
Does working memory moderate the effect of fading on math performance?8
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Resilience, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and anger: A linguistic inquiry into the psychological processes associated with resilience in secondary school STEM learning8
Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students8
Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children8
Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers8
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study8
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas8
Fraction mapping and fraction comparison skills among grade 4 Chinese students: An error analysis7
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving7
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis7
Are teachers' and students' emotions reciprocally transmitted in the classroom?7
Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes7
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students7
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy7
The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success7
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics7
Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals7
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts7
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement7
Peer relationships and student motivation: Theoretical and methodological approaches, empirical evidence, and future directions6
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review6
Teachers' perceptions of the barriers to assessment of mental health in schools with implications for educational policy: A systematic review6
No aspect of structure should be left behind in relation to student autonomous motivation6
Examining students' current academic motivation in relation to peer interactions and social environment in the classroom using the Experience Sampling Method6
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures6
The development of number line accuracy in elementary school children: A cross‐country longitudinal study6
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality6
School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being6
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load6
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school6
Responsible school leadership and teachers' emotional exhaustion: The moderated mediation role of work meaningfulness and proactive personality6
A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar6
Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways: A short‐timeframe experiment with manipulated perceived achievement5
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The situatedness of instructional quality—How situated are college students' ratings?5
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial5
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Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 205
Beyond intelligence: Exploring the role of growth mindsets in the domain of social–emotional skills5
Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education5
Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning5
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Mothers' and fathers' views on the importance of play for their children's development: Gender differences, academic activities, and the parental role5
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How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure5
Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 15
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
The identification of gifted underachievement: Validity evidence for the commonly used methods5
Gender differences in computation strategies: Evidence across adolescent and adult samples5
Understanding effort regulation: Comparing ‘Pomodoro’ breaks and self‐regulated breaks5
Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China5
Does teacher support predict students' growth mindset? A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model4
Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions4
Study longer or study effectively? Better study strategies can compensate for less study time and predict goal achievement and lower negative affect4
Physical activity predicts task‐related behaviour, affect and tiredness in the primary school classroom: A within‐person4
Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit4
Developing and validating a university needs instrument to measure the psychosocial needs of university students4
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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The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis4
Visual attention and role recognition in bullying vignettes in preadolescents and adults4
Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences4
Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China4
When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions4
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators4
Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions4
Mapping the emotional landscape of teaching and learning4
Peer relationships and student motivation: Discussion of methodological approaches4
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Reducing gender differences in student motivational‐affective factors: A meta‐analysis of school‐based interventions4
Social withdrawal and academic achievement, intertwined over years? Bidirectional effects from primary to upper secondary school4
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase4
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Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study4
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education4
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset4
Only a matter of time? Using logfile data to evaluate temporal motivation theory in university students' examination preparation3
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Improving English language skills through learning Mathematic contents: From the expertise reversal effect perspective3
Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies3
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Depression and approach‐avoidance achievement goals of Chinese undergraduate students: A four‐wave longitudinal study3
Investigating the role of hand perspective in learning from procedural animations3
The who, how and what of educational outcome research for autistic students published in the last decade: A systematic quantitative literature review3
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Comparing the effectiveness of two reciprocal reading comprehension interventions for primary school pupils in disadvantaged schools3
Attitudes towards statistics and statistical performance: A mediation model of statistics anxiety and academic procrastination3
The role of academic self‐concepts, parent expectations and teacher–student interactions in socio‐economic gaps in educational attainment3
Overcoming early reading challenges: The crucial roles of home literacy environment, school environment, and approaches to learning3
Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency3
Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying3
Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept3
Peer influence and student goal orientations: A commentary3
Effect of task‐based group experience on collaborative learning: Exploring the transaction activities3
Connecting engagement to classroom friendships and popular peers' prosocial behaviour3
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at on‐campus lectures: A randomized controlled trial3
Achievement, self‐concept and anxiety in mathematics and English: A thre e‐wave cross‐lagged panel study3
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors3
Educational psychological provision in Irish‐medium primary schools in indigenous Irish language speaking communities (Gaeltacht): Views of teachers and educational psychologists3
COVID ‐19 school closures and Chinese children's school readiness: Results from the natural experimental data3
Undergraduates’ academic socialization. A cross‐time analysis3
Trauma‐informed practice for children and young people with intellectual disabilities: A scoping review3
Effects of finger and mouse pointing on learning from online split‐attention examples3
Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load3
Teachers, peers, and academic effort: How peer bullying victimization undermines the benefits of teacher support on students' persistence and effort3
Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency3
“It's like an epidemic, we don't know what to do”: The perceived need for and benefits of a suicide prevention programme in UK schools3
Students' relationship quality in class: Exploring latent profiles, latent transitions and links to student motivation3
“I can do math!”: A self‐regulated learning intervention to enhance math‐related motivational factors and performance in middle school3
Medical trainees' emotions and their effects on perceptions of performance and team mood in team‐based simulations3
The role of need for cognition (NfC) in the effect of language modalities on integrated writing performance3
Profiles of control, value and achievement emotions in primary school mathematics lessons3
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