Educational Psychology Review

Article	Citations
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy	242
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education	165
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis	157
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review	133
Meeting John Bransford	127
A Computational Model of School Achievement	110
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper	92
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education	82
Math Performance and Academic Anxiety Forms, from Sociodemographic to Cognitive Aspects: a Meta-analysis on 906,311 Participants	80
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories	78
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom	78
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis	68
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	66
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	65
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation	63
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?	59
Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach	59
A Meta-Analysis Investigating the Association Between Metacognition and Math Performance in Adolescence	56
Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively	55
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses	52
The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout	47
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	45
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	45
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures	44
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement	44

Directional Ordering of Self-Concept, School Grades, and Standardized Tests Over Five Years: New Tripartite Models Juxtaposing Within- and Between-Person Perspectives	43
Benefits of Taking a Virtual Field Trip in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence for the Immersion Principle in Multimedia Learning	42
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney	40
Self-regulated Learning in the Digitally Enhanced Science Classroom: Toward an Early Warning System	39
A Systematic Review of Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trials in Educational Research	38
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis	37
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support	37
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions	37
Learning-by-Teaching Without Audience Presence or Interaction: When and Why Does it Work?	37
Short-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students’ Cognitive Performance: a Review	36
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing	34
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking	33
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging	32
Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	32
A Systematic Review of Graduate Students’ Research Motivation: Themes, Theories, and Methodologies	32
Active Student Participation in Whole-School Interventions in Secondary School. A Systematic Literature Review	31
Navigating Spatial Ability for Mathematics Education: a Review and Roadmap	31
Effects of Learner-Generated Highlighting and Instructor-Provided Highlighting on Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis	31
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning	30
A Meta-Analysis on Teachers’ Growth Mindset	30
Adaptive Education: Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain	30
A Motivational Perspective on (Anticipated) Mental Effort Investment: The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat	29
Screening Smarter, Not Harder: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Screening Algorithms and Heuristic Stopping Criteria for Systematic Reviews in Educational Research	29
How Strong Is the Evidence for a Causal Reciprocal Effect? Contrasting Traditional and New Methods to Investigate the Reciprocal Effects Model of Self-Concept and Achievement	28
The Effects of Contextual Interference Learning on the Acquisition and Relatively Permanent Gains in Skilled Performance: A Critical Systematic Review with Multilevel Meta-Analysis	28
Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self-Efficacy in the Classroom	28
Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	28
A Scoping Review of School-Based Prevention Programs for Indigenous Students	28
Harnessing Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation: Dale H. Schunk’s Enduring Influence	27
Managing Student Digital Distraction in the College Classroom: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	27
Children’s Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education	27
Four Guideposts toward an Integrated Model of Academic Motivation: Motivational Resilience, Academic Identity, Complex Social Ecologies, and Development	26
An In-depth Review of Conscientiousness and Educational Issues	26
Unleashing the Power of Positivity: How Positive Instructors Benefit Learning from Instructional Videos — A Meta-analytic Review	25
Measuring the Quality of Adult–Child Interactions in the Context of ECEC: a Systematic Review on the Relationship with Developmental and Educational Outcomes	25
Designing Effective Pre-service Teacher Training in Inclusive Education: a Narrative Review of the Effects of Duration and Content Delivery Mode on Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education	25
Visualizing a Task Performer’s Gaze to Foster Observers’ Performance and Learning—a Systematic Literature Review on Eye Movement Modeling Examples	25
The Intersection of the Peer Ecology and Teacher Practices for Student Motivation in the Classroom	24
Big Five Personality Traits and Second Language Learning: a Meta-analysis of 40 Years’ Research	24
Moving Beyond the Ableist Roots of Educational Psychology: Audit of the Field and a Path Forward	24
The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in Our Understanding of Human Cognition: Consequences for Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Procedures	24
The Need to Belong: a Deep Dive into the Origins, Implications, and Future of a Foundational Construct	23
Student Engagement: Current State of the Construct, Conceptual Refinement, and Future Research Directions	23
A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements	22
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I	21
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework	21
Correction to: Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?	21
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling	20
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology	20
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023	20

Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review	20
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions	20
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students	20
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology	20
A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators	19
The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Statistics Anxiety, Statistics Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Statistics in University Students: A Systematic Review	19
Research Avenues Supporting Embodied Cognition in Learning and Instruction	19
Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review	18
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses	18
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?	18
Correction to: The State of Current Reading Intervention Research for English Learners in Grades K–2: a Best-Evidence Synthesis	17
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs	17
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions	17
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence	17
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research	17
Increasing Video Lecture Playback Speed Can Impair Test Performance – a Meta-Analysis	16
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis	16
Is Adolescent Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation? A 10-Year Review	16
Tracing and Pointing Support Multimedia Learning: A Cross-Cultural Replication	15
A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Defining and Measuring Task Complexity Through Element Interactivity	15
The State of Current Reading Intervention Research for English Learners in Grades K–2: a Best-Evidence Synthesis	15
Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation	15
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review	15
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources	15
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing	15
Specialized Purpose of Each Type of Student Engagement: A Meta-Analysis	14
A Multilevel Meta-analysis of Language Mindsets and Language Learning Outcomes in Second Language Acquisition Research	14
Spaced Retrieval Practice Imposes Desirable Difficulty in Calculus Learning	14
Encouraging Students to Use Retrieval Practice: a Review of Emerging Research from Five Types of Interventions	14
How Personality Matters for Education Research	14
Promoting Temporal Investigations of Development in Context: a Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research Linking Childhood Circumstances and Learning-related Outcomes	14
Cognitive Control in Adolescents and Young Adults with Media Multitasking Experience: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	14
Effectiveness of Unproctored vs. Teacher-Proctored Exams in Reducing Students’ Cheating: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Field Experimental Study	13
Effects of Nature (Greenspace) on Cognitive Functioning in School Children and Adolescents: a Systematic Review	13
Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach	13
Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Factors, and Arithmetic Word Problem Success: a Review of Behavioral Studies	13
“Here Be Dragons!” Mapping the Realm of Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking	13
An Evolutionary Approach to Motivation and Learning: Differentiating Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge	13
Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-Analysis	13
The Reciprocal Relations between Externalizing Behaviors and Academic Performance among School-aged Children: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies	13
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Academic Procrastination and Implications for Instructor-based Classroom Interventions	13
Learning by Doing or Doing Without Learning? The Potentials and Challenges of Activity-Based Learning	13
Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Bullying and Intervention Responses: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	13
Self-Regulated Learning Interventions for Pre-service Teachers: a Systematic Review	12
A Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between Achievement Goals and Internalizing Problems	12
Effortful Tests and Repeated Metacognitive Judgments Enhance Future Learning	12
How Similar Are Students’ Aggregated State Emotions to Their Self-Reported Trait Emotions? Results from a Measurement Burst Design Across Three School Years	12
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education	11
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning	11
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education	11
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns	11
How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	11
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion	11
The Interplay of Cognitive Load, Learners’ Resources and Self-regulation	11
Evolution of Self-Awareness and the Cultural Emergence of Academic and Non-academic Self-Concepts	11
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis	11
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model	11
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	11
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations	11
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research	11
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring	11
Commentary on Ammar et al. (2024) “The Effects of Contextual Interference Learning on the Acquisition and Relatively Permanent Gains in Skilled Performance: Critical Systematic Review with Multilevel	11
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews	11
The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not Just for Assessment	10
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	10
The Associations Between Discrete Emotions and Political Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	10
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples	10
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”	10
Teachers’ Beliefs About Inclusive Education and Insights on What Contributes to Those Beliefs: a Meta-analytical Study	10
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators	10
How to Make Recommendations for Educational Practice from Correlational Data Using Structural Equation Models	10
Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years’ Research	10
John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods	10
Social Presence: Conceptualization and Measurement	10
Distributed Scaffolding: Scaffolding Students in Classroom Environments	10
The Cognitive-Affective-Social Theory of Learning in digital Environments (CASTLE)	10
Women as Top-Producing Authors, Editors, and Editorial Board Members in Educational Psychology Journals from 2017 to 2021	10
Educational Inequalities at the Intersection of Multiple Social Categories: An Introduction and Systematic Review of the Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (M	10
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?	10
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions	10

Evaluating the Judgment of Learning: its Limited Impact and the Power of Retrieval on Inductive Learning	9
Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing	9
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	9
It’s Just an Observation	9
The Effective Design of Tasks Involving Learning by Drawing: Current Trends and Methodological Progress in Research on Drawing to Learn	9
Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice	9
Relation Between the Essential Components of Reading and Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children: a Meta-analysis	9
What Works for Reading Interventions in Chinese Children at Risk for Reading Difficulties? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Findings in Recent Three Decades	9
Refutation Text Facilitates Learning: a Meta-Analysis of Between-Subjects Experiments	9
Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load	9
Examining the Academic Effects of Cross-age Tutoring: A Meta-analysis	9
Does Professional Development Effectively Support the Implementation of Inclusive Education? A Meta-Analysis	9
Spaced Retrieval Practice: Can Restudying Trump Retrieval?	9
The Role of Individual Differences in Sourcing: a Systematic Review	8
Correction to: Cubic Relations of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation to Achievement: A Cross‑National Validation of Self‑Determination Theory Using Response Surface Analysis	8
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instructional Model: Efficacious Theoretical Integration, Scaling Up, Challenges, and Future Research	8
Unraveling Challenges with the Implementation of Universal Design for Learning: A Systematic Literature Review	8
The Value of Pretend Play for Social Competence in Early Childhood: A Meta-analysis	8
Role of Gesturing Onscreen Instructors in Video Lectures: A Set of Three-level Meta-analyses on the Embodiment Effect	8
What Are Teacher–Student Relationships in Adolescent Motivation Research? A Systematic Review of Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Analysis	8
Correction to: There is an Evidence Crisis in Science Educational Policy	8
AI-Related Threats to Information Sovereignty and Challenges for Research Ethics	8
Improving Writing Skills of Students in Turkey: a Meta-analysis of Writing Interventions	8
The Virtual Reality in Your Head: How Immersion and Mental Imagery Are Connected to Knowledge Retention	8
Theories of Motivation in Education: an Integrative Framework	8
Reply to Sana et al.’s (2022) Commentary on Rest-from-Deliberate-Learning as a Mechanism for the Spacing Effect	8
Evaluating the Dynamics of Learning Approaches: A Systematic Review Investigating the Nexus Between Teaching Methods and Academic Performance in Medical and Dental Education	8
Correction to: How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	8
Using Primary Knowledge in Unpopular Statistics Exercises	8
Teachers’ Humour Use in the Classroom: A Scoping Review	8
How Scientific Is Educational Psychology Research? The Increasing Trend of Squeezing Causality and Recommendations from Non-intervention Studies	7
Interrelations Among Achievement Goals and Achievement Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Examination	7
On the Horizon: the Promise and Power of Higher Order, Critical, and Critical Analytical Thinking	7
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education: a Meta-analytic Review	7
Systematic Review of Educational Approaches to Misinformation	7
A Systematic Meta-analysis of the Reliability and Validity of Subjective Cognitive Load Questionnaires in Experimental Multimedia Learning Research	7
How Many Classes and Students Should Ideally be Sampled When Assessing the Role of Classroom Climate via Student Ratings on a Limited Budget? An Optimal Design Perspective	7
An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives	7
Measuring Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood: a Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Early Maths Assessments and Screeners	7
Classroom-Wide School Interventions for Preschoolers’ Social-Emotional Learning: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Programs	7
Is a Preference for Realism Really Naive After All? A Cognitive Model of Learning with Realistic Visualizations	7
Correction to: Externalizing Behavior Problems and Low Academic Achievement: Does a Causal Relation Exist?	7
Stirring a Secret Sauce: A Literature Review on the Conditions and Effects of Authentic Learning	7
Teacher Emotional Competence: A Conceptual Model	7
The Associations Between Parenting Self-Efficacy and Parents’ Contributions to the Home-School Partnership Among Parents of Primary School Students: a Multilevel Meta-analysis	7
When is Learning “Effortful”? Scrutinizing the Concept of Mental Effort in Cognitively Oriented Research from a Motivational Perspective	7
The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta-Analysis	6
Classroom Carrying Capacity: A Resource and Limiting Factors Framework	6
The Evolution of Race-Focused and Race-Reimaged Approaches in Educational Psychology: Future Directions for the Field	6
Effectiveness of Reading Interventions on Literacy Skills for Chinese Children with and Without Dyslexia: a Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	6
The Relationship Between Self-Regulated Learning and Executive Functions—a Systematic Review	6
Measuring Children’s Engagement in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Literature Review	6
Exploring Educational Approaches to Addressing Misleading Visualizations	6
Cross-Cultural Patterns of Gender Differences in STEM: Gender Stratification, Gender Equality and Gender-Equality Paradoxes	6
Enhancing Academic Performance Through Self-Explanation in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs): A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	6
The Reliability, But Not the Cronbach’s Alpha, of Knowledge Tests Matters: Response to Zitzmann and Orona (2025)	6
Do I Fit In: Race/Ethnicity and Feelings of Belonging in School	6
Do Practice Tests (Quizzes) Reduce or Provoke Test Anxiety? A Meta-Analytic Review	6
The Effect of Scoring Rubrics Use on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation	6
Interactive Learning Effects of Preparing to Teach and Teaching: a Meta-Analytic Approach	6
Integrating Human Movement in Learning: Advancements in Language Instruction, Multimedia, and Theory	6
Graduate Student Award Winners in Educational Psychology: What Made Them Successful?	6
The Development, Testing, and Refinement of Eccles, Wigfield, and Colleagues’ Situated Expectancy-Value Model of Achievement Performance and Choice	6