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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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“Teacher, forgive me, I forgot to do it!” The impact of children's prospective memory on teachers' evaluation of academic performance58
Self‐efficacy latent growth trajectories' longitudinal links with achievement and interest: Both baseline and growth rate are important for interest outcomes54
‘She is failing; he is learning’: Gender‐differentiated attributions for girls' and boys' errors49
Social comparison in the classroom: Priming approach/avoidance changes the impact of social comparison on self‐evaluation and performance47
What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?43
Mind, brain and education—Neuromechanisms during child development41
Antecedents of university students' self‐leadership: The roles of teacher developmental feedback and student proactive vitality management36
Are curiosity and situational interest different? Exploring distinct antecedents and consequences34
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The effects of working memory training on working memory, self‐regulation, and analogical reasoning of preschool children33
Why do I teach? Teachers' instrumental and prosocial motivation predict teaching quality across East and West30
Secondary school students’ perception of the online teaching experience during COVID‐19: The impact on mental wellbeing and specific learning difficulties29
The secret language of peers: How peer behaviours signal mindset and influence classroom experiences28
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance27
Performance on classroom simulations enhances preservice teachers' motivation in teaching: A latent change perspective27
Long‐term labour market and economic consequences of school exclusions in England: Evidence from two counterfactual approaches25
Pupillometric and blink measures of diverse task loads: Implications for working memory models25
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This is the way: Network perspective on targets for spatial ability development programmes23
Teacher–student relationships and adolescents’ school satisfaction: Behavioural engagement as a mechanism of change22
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Understanding working memory as a facilitator of math problem‐solving: Offloading as a potential strategy21
Educational experiences of young people with ADHD in the UK : Secondary analysis of qualitative da20
Error climate and alienation from teachers: A longitudinal analysis in primary school20
When closeness is effortful: Teachers’ physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions20
Facing academic problems: Longitudinal relations between parental involvement and student academic achievement from a self‐determination perspective19
Re‐examining cognitive load measures in real‐world learning: Evidence from both subjective and neurophysiological data19
Practitioners' perspectives on spatial reasoning in educational practice from birth to 7 years19
Achievement goal profiles and their associations with math achievement, self‐efficacy, anxiety and instructional quality: A single and multilevel mixture study19
The aetiology of educational attainment: A nuclear twin family study into the genetic and environmental influences on school leaving certificates18
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On the influence of social norms on individual achievement goals17
Perceived peer support, motivational self‐regulation and academic achievement in adolescents17
Boarding versus day‐students: A mixed‐methods analysis of sleep and its relationship with psychological distress17
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Children's anxiety, academic self‐efficacy, and intergenerational transmission of worries regarding the transition to middle school15
Developmental links between well‐being, self‐concept and prosocial behaviour in early primary school15
Editorial Acknowledgement15
Contrasting stances at the crossroads of debugging learning opportunities14
A rising tide lifts all boats: The social contagion of achievement in L2 classrooms and the role of intrinsic motivation and engagement14
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The essential role of peer relationships in students' motivation during adolescence14
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 studies14
Interest and effort in learning and performance14
The associations between teachers' lesson‐specific emotions and observed teacher–student interactions and student engagement13
Mediation of self‐concept and moderation of teacher support between SES and reading achievement: Evidence from China and the United States13
Reading with induced worry: The role of physiological self‐regulation and working memory updating in text comprehension13
Metacognitive prompts and numerical ordinality in solving word problems: An eye‐tracking study13
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What counts as STEM , and does it matter?13
Socio‐economic status, mastery‐approach goals and learning‐related outcomes: Mediation and moderation13
Mechanisms underlying the relations between parents' perfectionistic tendencies and young children's mathematical abilities13
The relation between trait flow and engagement, understanding, and grades in undergraduate lectures13
Unpacking the relation between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in Chinese children13
Flow experience fosters university students' well‐being through psychological resilience: A longitudinal design with cross‐lagged analysis12
Longitudinal trajectories of parent–teacher communication during elementary school: Investigating child academic skills, school enjoyment and self‐perceived ability12
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 context12
Changes in control and value appraisals predict changes in learning enjoyment: A four‐wave analysis among lower secondary school students12
Motivational development in times of campus closure: Longitudinal trends in undergraduate students' need satisfaction and intrinsic learning motivation12
Seeing myself through the eyes of my peers: Explaining the self‐concept of students with and without special educational needs through acceptance and friendship12
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The relationship between trait‐ and state‐math anxiety and math engagement: The role of math learning context and task difficulty11
Flipping a simulation before instruction can improve students' learning, interest and perceived competence11
Boredom due to being over‐ or under‐challenged in mathematics: A latent profile analysis11
Developmental trajectories and the longitudinal associations of emotional resilience and test anxiety: A prospective study in high school students11
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Perceptions of ease and difficulty, but not growth mindset, relate to specific math attitudes10
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 arts10
The impact of school exclusion in childhood on health and well‐being outcomes in adulthood: Estimating causal effects using inverse probability of treatment weighting10
Academic language use in middle school informational writing10
Do you prefer to collaborate with students pursuing the same goals? – A network analysis of physical education classes10
More homework improve mathematics achievement? Differential effects of homework time on different facets of students' mathematics achievement: A longitudinal study in China10
Factors and experiences that influence school mobility for autistic students: A systematic review10
Gender differences in effects of learning self‐efficacy on learning burnout among higher vocational college students in China10
The unrecognized potential of potential‐based achievement goals10
How is teaching quality related to achievement emotions in secondary low‐ and high‐achieving students: A cross‐sectional study in Chinese mathematics classrooms10
Motivating tones to enhance education: The effects of vocal awareness on teachers' voices10
Math attitudes and math anxiety predict students' perception of teacher support in primary school, but not vice versa10
Learning from errors in mathematics classrooms: Development over 2 years in dependence of perceived error climate10
Groups, goals, and growth: How peer acceptance shapes student development in co‐curricular activities10
Using the theory of planned behaviour to predict pre‐service teachers' preferences for scientific sources9
Social media interference among college students: The role of social achievement goals and fear of missing out9
Choice matters: Pupils' stress regulation, brain development and brain function in an outdoor education project9
Explore your brain: A randomized controlled trial into the effectiveness of a growth mindset intervention with psychosocial and psychophysiological components9
‘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 En9
“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 Malawi9
An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter‐sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers9
Discussion of the special issue on cognitive load theory9
Primary‐secondary school transition under Covid‐19: Exploring the perceptions and experiences of children, parents/guardians, and teachers9
Is inclusive education for children with special educational needs and disabilities an impossible dream?9
Parents' use of sustained shared thinking during joint mathematics activities with young children: An investigation of its measurement, antecedents, and outcomes9
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Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs9
Experiences of peer victimization and teacher support in secondary school predict university enrolment 5 years later: Role of school engagement9
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
Not realizing that you don't know: Fraction state anxiety is reduced by natural number bias9
Academic self‐concept and reading comprehension among students with learning disabilities: Serial mediating effect of reading anxiety and reading motivation9
Unveiling situation‐specific emotion regulation behaviour among teachers: Insights from a multilevel latent profile analysis8
Teachers' motivational prosody: A pre‐registered experimental test of children's reactions to tone of voice used by teachers8
Comparisons of creativity performance and learning effects through digital game‐based creativity learning between elementary school children in rural and urban areas8
Parent–teacher relationship and students' learning engagement in China: A longitudinal study considering urban–suburban differences8
Does working memory moderate the effect of fading on math performance?8
The reciprocal dynamics of peer relationships and motivation: A commentary on the special issue8
Biophysiological stress markers relate differently to grit and school engagement among lower‐ and higher‐track secondary school students8
Subjective wellbeing and emotion regulation strategies: How are they associated with student engagement in online learning during Covid‐19?8
The impact of relative age effects on psychosocial development: A systematic review8
Associations between sleep, reading, and mathematics in Taiwanese children8
Institutional cisnormativity and educational injustice: Trans children's experiences in primary and early secondary education in the UK8
Left visual field bias during face perception aligns with individual differences in reading skills and is absent in dyslexia8
Differential return on investment: Academic growth in mathematics and reading based on initial performance8
Relating differently: Assessing and comparing associations between social and affective adjustment factors in immigrant and non‐immigrant students8
Effects of social mistreatment, academic alienation, and developmental challenge on university students' well‐being through coping strategies: A longitudinal study7
Understanding boys' underrepresentation in private and enriched programmes during the transition to secondary school7
Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals7
The 43rd Vernon‐Wall Lecture: What working relationally brings to problem‐solving7
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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 learning7
Resilience in multicultural classrooms: School relationships can protect the school adjustment of immigrant, refugee and non‐immigrant children7
Differential effects of digital mindfulness‐based interventions on creative potential and responsibility among middle school students7
Fraction mapping and fraction comparison skills among grade 4 Chinese students: An error analysis7
The effectiveness of a principle‐based professional development programme in promoting teachers' high‐level talk in primary mathematics classrooms7
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Psychological well‐being, resilience, self‐determination and grit: The ‘novelty’ role in physical education classes7
Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student‐oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self‐efficacy7
Developmental trajectories of school‐beginners' ability self‐concept, intrinsic value and performance in mathematics7
Variation in teachers' daily situational motivation across professional activities7
Peer relationships and student motivation: Theoretical and methodological approaches, empirical evidence, and future directions6
Relating transcription, executive functions and text quality in Grades 2–3: A cross‐lagged panel analysis6
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts6
Digital interventions to support morality: A scoping review6
The dynamic experience of taking an examination: Ever changing cortisol and expectancy for success6
Examining students' current academic motivation in relation to peer interactions and social environment in the classroom using the Experience Sampling Method6
Can prior knowledge increase task complexity? – Cases in which higher prior knowledge leads to higher intrinsic cognitive load6
Verbalized arithmetic principles correlate with mathematics achievement6
Social and emotional learning in primary schools: A review of the current state of evidence6
Are teachers' and students' emotions reciprocally transmitted in the classroom?6
Whatever will bore, will bore: The mere anticipation of boredom exacerbates its occurrence in lectures6
School climate, school identification and student outcomes: A longitudinal investigation of student well‐being6
A large‐scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar6
The situatedness of instructional quality—How situated are college students' ratings?6
Increasing the realism of on‐screen embodied instructors creates more looking but less learning5
Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality5
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Academic motivation–achievement cycle and the behavioural pathways: A short‐timeframe experiment with manipulated perceived achievement5
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures: A randomized controlled trial5
No aspect of structure should be left behind in relation to student autonomous motivation5
Technology‐supported cooperative learning as a universal mental health intervention in middle and high school5
Co‐developmental trajectories of parental involvement: Relations to academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing problems among Chinese elementary schoolchildren5
How mothers talk to their children about failure, mistakes and setbacks is related to their children's fear of failure5
The identification of gifted underachievement: Validity evidence for the commonly used methods5
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
Responsible school leadership and teachers' emotional exhaustion: The moderated mediation role of work meaningfulness and proactive personality5
Relations between prior school performance and later test anxiety during the transition to secondary school5
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
Teachers' physiological and self‐reported stress, teaching practices and students' learning outcomes in Grade 15
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Using machine learning to predict UK and Japanese secondary students' life satisfaction in PISA 205
Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education5
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When closeness is effortful: Teachers' physiological activation undermines positive effects of their closeness on student emotions4
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
The role of parenting‐ and employment‐related variables on fathers' involvement in their children's education4
Learning strategies and reading achievement in primary schools: Longitudinal relationship and gender differences4
Teachers' behaviour and children's academic achievement: Evidence of gene–environment interactions4
Inaugural editorial: Updates and future directions4
Developing and validating a university needs instrument to measure the psychosocial needs of university students4
Teachers' proactive behaviour: Interactions with job characteristics and professional competence in a longitudinal study4
Beyond intelligence: Exploring the role of growth mindsets in the domain of social–emotional skills4
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
Control, anxiety and test performance: Self‐reported and physiological indicators of anxiety as mediators4
Social withdrawal and academic achievement, intertwined over years? Bidirectional effects from primary to upper secondary school4
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Linking school‐ and classroom‐level characteristics to child adjustment: A representative study of children from Hong Kong, China4
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset4
Profiles of control, value and achievement emotions in primary school mathematics lessons3
The who, how and what of educational outcome research for autistic students published in the last decade: A systematic quantitative literature review3
“I can do math!”: A self‐regulated learning intervention to enhance math‐related motivational factors and performance in middle school3
Feeling better now? Being defended diminishes daily mood problems and self‐blame in victims of bullying3
The role of need for cognition (NfC) in the effect of language modalities on integrated writing performance3
Peer influence and student goal orientations: A commentary3
Only a matter of time? Using logfile data to evaluate temporal motivation theory in university students' examination preparation3
Neural and behavioural correlates of adolescents changing academic self‐concept3
Comparing the effectiveness of two reciprocal reading comprehension interventions for primary school pupils in disadvantaged schools3
Guiding attention in the classroom: An eye‐tracking study on the associations between preservice teachers' goals and noticing of student interactions3
Different types of redundancy and their effect on learning and cognitive load3
Mapping the emotional landscape of teaching and learning3
Does teacher support predict students' growth mindset? A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model3
Staying self‐regulated in the classroom: The role of children's executive functions and situational factors3
Investigating the role of hand perspective in learning from procedural animations3
Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at on‐campus lectures: A randomized controlled trial3
COVID ‐19 school closures and Chinese children's school readiness: Results from the natural experimental data3
Trauma‐informed practice for children and young people with intellectual disabilities: A scoping review3
Improving English language skills through learning Mathematic contents: From the expertise reversal effect perspective3
Overcoming early reading challenges: The crucial roles of home literacy environment, school environment, and approaches to learning3
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Revisiting the academic self‐concept transcultural measurement model: The case of Spain and China3
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Dynamic friendship processes related to learning interest: Moderating by class‐level social–emotional competency3
The role of academic performance, prosocial behaviour and friendships on adolescents' preferred studying partners: A longitudinal social network analysis3
Emotional involvement matters, too: Associations among parental involvement, time management and academic engagement vary with Youth's developmental phase3
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Undergraduates’ academic socialization. A cross‐time analysis3
Achievement, self‐concept and anxiety in mathematics and English: A thre e‐wave cross‐lagged panel study3
Medical trainees' emotions and their effects on perceptions of performance and team mood in team‐based simulations3
The role of academic self‐concepts, parent expectations and teacher–student interactions in socio‐economic gaps in educational attainment3
Teachers, peers, and academic effort: How peer bullying victimization undermines the benefits of teacher support on students' persistence and effort3
Effects of finger and mouse pointing on learning from online split‐attention examples3
Ability grouping in German secondary schools: The effect of non‐academic track schools on the development of Math competencies3
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Students' relationship quality in class: Exploring latent profiles, latent transitions and links to student motivation3
Visual attention and role recognition in bullying vignettes in preadolescents and adults3
Mastery‐approach and performance‐approach goals predict distinct outcomes during personal academic goal pursuit3
Connecting engagement to classroom friendships and popular peers' prosocial behaviour3
Comparing judgements of educational desirability between learner and instructor roles with low or high proficiency3
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