Contemporary Educational Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Contemporary 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
A meta-analysis of the effects of Montessori education on five fields of development and learning in preschool and school-age children61
Examining the simple view of reading in a hybrid orthography42
Variables versus numbers: Effects of symbols and algebraic knowledge on students’ problem-solving strategies40
How much active teaching should be incorporated into college course lectures to promote active learning?39
The differential relations between sub-domains of spatial abilities and mathematical performance in children39
Overwhelmed receivers and overly ambitious providers: How the Impacts of peer comment features look different at receiver and provider levels of aggregation32
The zone of proximal creativity: What dynamic assessment of divergent thinking reveals about students’ latent class membership31
Mathematics motivation and sense of belonging among transgender and nonbinary college students30
Between a growth and a fixed mindset: Examining nuances in 3rd-grade students’ mathematics intelligence mindsets29
Teachers’ understanding of racial inequity predicts their perceptions of students’ behaviors28
A bioecological perspective on mindset28
Focus groups as counterspaces for Black girls and Black women: A critical approach to research methods28
Developmental trajectories of children's educational expectations in China: Contributions of academic achievement and maternal expectations27
Attendance to notable terms promotes narrative frame analysis when students read multiple expository texts26
Race-based trauma: Teacher responses, supports, barriers, and burnout24
Effects of self-explaining feedback on learning from problem-solving errors24
Performance during presentations: A question of challenge and threat responses?24
Co-development of math anxiety, math self-concept, and math value in adolescence: The roles of parents and math teachers23
Detecting shared physiological arousal events in collaborative problem solving23
Academic self-concept change in junior high school students and relationships with academic achievement22
The interplay between father–child and mother–child numeracy activities and preschool children’s mathematical skills21
An exploratory experiment investigating teachers’ attributional race and gender bias and the moderating effects of personal experience of racial discrimination21
“You know what, I can do this”: Heterogeneous joint trajectories of expectancy for success and attainment value in chemistry20
What we learn in school, we learn for life: Learning opportunities as moderators of the relationship between prior knowledge and learning in post-school contexts19
Early executive function predicts children’s Chinese word reading from preschool through Grade 319
Trajectories of advanced math taking for low-income students of color in middle and high school19
Diagrams support spontaneous transfer across whole number and fraction concepts19
Early fraction relational reasoning uniquely predicts later algebraic thinking in children: A longitudinal study19
Academic, social, and well-being goals in the classroom: The dynamic interplay between multiple goals and self-regulatory processes18
Race-reimaged self-determination theory: Elucidating how ethnic studies promotes student identity and learning outcomes using mixed-methods17
Task-unrelated thought during educational activities: A meta-analysis of its occurrence and relationship with learning17
Learning from errors: deliberate errors enhance learning17
Should I stay or should I go? Children’s motivation in response to feedback and its association with math anxiety and math self-concept17
Self-efficacy inertia: The role of competency beliefs and academic burden in achievement17
The associations between teacher-child relationships and academic skills: A longitudinal study among Chinese preschool children16
Matthew effects in reading and mathematics: Examining developmental patterns in population data16
Testing theoretical explanations for heterogeneity in associations between a state quality rating and improvement system and prekindergarten children’s academic performance15
Students’ interest and self-efficacy and the impact of changing learning environments15
Counterstories: Disrupting whiteness and heteronormativity in educational psychology research15
Too quant to crit? Advancing QuantCrit methodologies in educational psychology15
Associations between elementary teachers’ mental health and students’ engagement across content areas15
Using an observational measure of elementary teachers’ emotional expressions during mathematics and English language arts to explore associations with students’ content area emotions and engagement14
“Am I trying hard or harder than others?”: Gender differences in reciprocal relations between perceived effort, science self-concept, and achievement in chemistry14
Temporal dynamics between faculty goals, burnout/engagement, and performance in teaching and research: A latent change score approach14
Motivational profiles in mathematics – stability and links with educational and emotional outcomes14
Does school context moderate longitudinal relations between teacher-reported self-efficacy and value for student engagement and teacher-student relationships from early until midcareer?13
Applying dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) to examine the dynamics of students’ affect and learning goal achievement13
Is studying Latin associated with (non-)linguistic cognitive transfer? A large-scale cross-sectional study13
Does the emotional stance of human and virtual instructors in instructional videos affect learning processes and outcomes?13
Writing quality from different latent profiles of revision subprocesses in upper-primary students13
“Can you tell me more about this?”: Agentic written feedback, teacher expectations, and student learning13
The role of stereotype threat in ethnically minoritized students’ science motivation: A four-year longitudinal study of achievement and persistence in STEM12
Attributional profiles: Considering multiple causal attributions for success and failure at the beginning of secondary school12
The keys of keyboard-based writing: Student and classroom-level predictors of keyboard-based writing in early primary12
Profiles of afterschool motivations: A situated expectancy-value approach12
Editorial Board12
A quasi-experimental study of a peer-assisted strategy-based reading intervention in elementary school12
Teacher well-being: A complementary variable- and person-centered approach harnessing Job Demands-Resources theory12
How to help students in their transition to middle school? Effectiveness of a school-based group mentoring program promoting students’ engagement, self-regulation, and goal setting11
What Happens With Comparison Processes When “the Other” is Very Similar? Academic Self-Concept Formation in Twins11
How students’ motivational profiles change during the transition from primary to lower secondary school11
Developing amid COVID-19: Adolescent meaning making across the first year of the pandemic11
Links between teachers’ knowledge about special educational needs and students’ social participation and academic achievement in mainstream classes11
Understanding and supporting the motivation of students from low-income families11
Perceived school climate and school grades in secondary school students: The mediating effect of self-determined motivation11
Adolescents’ trajectories of social anxiety and social withdrawal: Are they influenced by traditional bullying and cyberbullying roles?11
Learning from refutation texts about scientific topics with analogical and causal explanations11
Precursors of students’ cost perceptions: Identifying proximal and distal predictors11
Passive, active, and constructive engagement with peer feedback: A revised model of learning from peer feedback11
(Re)Examining academic risk taking: Conceptual structure, antecedents, and relationship to productive failure10
Teacher-Parent academic support profiles: Links to Children’s task persistence in Grades 2 and 310
Pathways of resilience: Predicting school engagement trajectories for South African adolescents living in a stressed environment10
Perfectionism profiles among college students: A person-centered approach to motivation, behavior, and emotion10
Editorial Board10
Measuring teachers’ momentary affect: An exploratory experience sampling study10
Development in context: Comparing short-term trajectories of expectancy, task values, and costs in four university STEM courses10
The art of negative feedback: A neuroeducational perspective10
The relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension among early grade Chinese children with reading difficulties: A path analysis10
Extending the dimensional comparison theory through students’ academic effort10
Undergraduate student perceptions of instructor mindset and academic performance: A motivational climate theory perspective10
Homework for learning and fun: Quality of mothers’ homework involvement and longitudinal implications for children’s academic and emotional functioning10
The role of friendships in shy students’ dialogue patterns during small group discussions10
Effect of parents’ mathematics anxiety and home numeracy activities on young children’s math performance-anxiety relationship10
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ motivation to continue in senior science: An expectancy value theory and intersectional identity approach10
Unpacking Student Responses to Discrepant Peer and Teacher Feedback: A Cross-National Comparison10
Teacher feedback and students’ self-concept, intrinsic value, and achievement in mathematics: Juxtaposing between- and within-person perspectives on long-term reciprocal relationships10
Emotional factors of causal coherence in text comprehension10
Information framing effects on students’ support towards equitable financial aid for undocumented students9
Relations of science teaching self-efficacy with instructional practices, student achievement and support, and teacher job satisfaction9
Morningness and state academic self-concept in students: Do early birds experience themselves as more competent in daily school life?9
Confusion and confusion regulation: An empirical investigation of the emotion regulation in achievement situations model9
Editorial Board9
Achievement at what cost? An intersectional approach to assessing race and gender differences in adolescent math motivation and achievement9
Chatbots in education: Outperforming students but perceived as less trustworthy9
Examining the effects of quality talk discussions on 4th- and 5th-grade students’ high-level comprehension of text9
Editorial Board9
The storage component of working memory mediates the relationship between mathematical anxiety and arithmetic performance9
Teacher judgment (in)accuracy: Differential relations with student progress in writing9
Searching for short-term motivational alignment and spillover effects: A random intercept cross-lagged analysis of students’ expectancies and task values in math-intensive study programs9
Disentangling magnitude processing, natural number biases, and benchmarking in fraction comparison tasks: A person-centered Bayesian classification approach8
Classroom environment predicts changes in expressed intellectual humility8
Does the Jigsaw method improve motivation and self-regulation in vocational high schools?8
Coherence building while reading multiple complementary documents8
Teachers as creative agents: How self-beliefs and self-regulation drive teachers’ creative activity8
Computer-based multimedia testing: Effects of static and animated representational pictures and text modality8
Classifying the quality of robotics-enhanced lesson plans using motivation variables, word count, and sentiment analysis of reflections8
Do I belong in my math class? The importance of perceived racial/ethnic context and math course sequence8
Improving literacy instruction in co-taught middle school classrooms to support reading comprehension8
Reasoning about text-based evidence8
Examining students’ help-seeking when learning from multiple texts8
The role of academic self-determined reading motivation, reading self-concept, home reading environment, and student reading behavior in reading achievement among American Indian and Hispanic students7
Different time and context = Different goals and emotions? Temporal variability and context specificity of achievement goals for teaching and associations with discrete emotions7
Can you hear it? Toward conceptual clarity of emotional cost and negative emotions7
Racialized reprimands: A mobile eye-tracking study on teachers’ responses to students’ norm-violating behaviors7
A multi-study examination of intra-individual feedback loops between competence and value beliefs, procrastination, and goal achievement7
When will they know what they don’t know? Political knowledge and the infamous “Unskilled and Unaware” effect7
Sustaining teacher knowledge and self-perception of reading comprehension instruction: A year-long study of practice-based professional development7
Grade goal effects on the interplay between motivation and performance in undergraduate gateway mathematics courses7
When classmates influence teacher judgment accuracy of students’ cognitive ability: Studying frame-of-reference effects in primary school7
Affective methodologies for a critical study of whiteness: Considerations for white scholars7
Addressing the vexing educational challenges of biodiversity loss: A photo-based intervention7
Cognitive development in undergraduate emerging adults: How course-taking breadth supports skill formation6
A meta-analytic review of the relationships between autonomy support and positive learning outcomes6
Uncovering the reciprocal relationship between domain-specific and domain-general skills: Combined numerical and working memory training improves children’s mathematical knowledge6
A golden triangle? Reciprocal effects among morphological awareness, vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension in Chinese children6
“My drawing is quite different!” Drawbacks of comparing generative drawings to instructional visuals6
Supporting secondary students’ climate change learning and motivation using novel data and data visualizations6
A growth-theory-of-interest intervention helps align science students with a new multidisciplinary curriculum6
Chasing Environmental Influences on School Grades in Childhood and Adolescence6
How do students’ achievement goals relate to learning from well-designed instructional videos and subsequent exam performance?6
The impact of cognitive and motivational resources on engagement with automated formative feedback6
Adolescent students’ grit: Do parents’ grit and educational expectations matter?5
Editorial Board5
Testing a weekly utility value intervention in college physics and chemistry courses5
Teacher expectation effects on the development of elementary school students’ mathematics-related competence beliefs and intrinsic task values5
Examining the critical role of evaluation and adaptation in self-regulated learning5
Knowledge transfer in the context of refutation texts5
Using PowerPoints to assess students’ learning from multiple resources5
The contributions of teachers’ educational interest and relational goals to instructional quality and student interest in mathematics classrooms5
Text-belief consistency effect in L2 students’ integrated written representations based on multiple conflicting sources: Comparisons across summary vs. argumentation task instructions5
Identifying false growth mindsets in adults and implications for mathematics motivation5
Parental involvement and children’s academics: The roles of autonomy support and parents’ motivation for involvement5
Editorial Board5
Disentangling the associations of academic motivation with self-concept and academic achievement using the bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling framework5
“I have cried in almost all of my math classes.” Relations between math self-concept, gender, and narrative appraisals of past low points in math5
On the relations of sociocognitive childhood characteristics, education, and socioeconomic success in adulthood5
Motivating by measuring motivation? Examining reactivity in a diary study on student motivation5
Quality beats frequency? Investigating students’ effort in learning when introducing technology in classrooms4
Enjoyable for some, stressful for others? Physiological and subjective indicators of achievement emotions during adaptive versus fixed-item testing4
Socioemotional classroom environments mediating teacher expectation effects: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach4
Summarizing versus rereading multiple documents4
Temporal development of student burnout symptoms: Sociodemographic differences and linkage to university dropout intentions4
The role of feedback on students’ diagramming: Effects on monitoring accuracy and text comprehension4
Concern or comfort with social comparisons matter in undergraduate physics courses: Joint consideration of situated expectancy-value theory, mindsets, and gender4
Is copy and paste part of academic misconduct? The roles of attitude, experience and self-efficacy in judgment4
Is situational interest a metacognitive risk? An examination of contextual factors in classroom settings4
Editorial Board4
Expert-Based cognitive models vs theory-based cognitive models: Which cognitive models match students’ cognition on ‘Parallel and Perpendicular Lines’ Better?4
Feelings on feedback: Children’s emotional responses during mathematics problem solving4
Synergetic effects of phonological awareness, vocabulary, and word reading on bilingual children’s reading comprehension: A three-year study4
Parent–child conflict during homeschooling in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: A key role for mothers’ self-efficacy in teaching4
The influence of school climate in bullying and victimization behaviors during middle school transition4
The Domain-Specificity of Elementary School Teachers’ Judgment Accuracy4
Mentoring underrepresented students for success: Self-regulated learning strategies as a critical link between mentor support and educational attainment4
Incorporating Design Based Implementation Research with a Randomized Controlled Trial to develop and evaluate the efficacy of playful rational number learning4
Video games and attitude change: A meta-analysis4
Can I teach this student?: A multilevel analysis of the links between teachers’ perceived effectiveness, interest-supportive teaching, and student interest in math and reading4
Self-regulation of peer feedback quality aspects through different dimensions of experience within prior peer feedback assignments4
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