Educational Psychology Review

Article	Citations
Meeting John Bransford	202
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	160
A Computational Model of School Achievement	134
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review	103
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education	102
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis	102
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy	100
Conditions for Effective Learning from Erroneous Examples: A Systematic Review	91
A Systematic Review on Student Engagement in Undergraduate Mathematics: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Learning Outcomes	78
Commentary: How can We Come to Terms when Discussing the Role of Effort from the Perspective of Cognitive Load Theory and Theories of Self-regulated Learning?	72
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom	71
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper	70
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	69
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation	69
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories	68
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education	65
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis	57
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	55
Does Retrieval Demand Moderate the Effectiveness of Covert Retrieval Practice? Comparing Covert and Overt Retrieval Practice for Learning Key Terms and Definitions	55
The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout	55
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses	52
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?	52
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures	51
Directional Ordering of Self-Concept, School Grades, and Standardized Tests Over Five Years: New Tripartite Models Juxtaposing Within- and Between-Person Perspectives	49
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	46

Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively	45
Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach	43
Benefits of Taking a Virtual Field Trip in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence for the Immersion Principle in Multimedia Learning	43
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement	42
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney	42
Retrieval Practice Versus Elaborative Encoding: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	42
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking	42
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis	41
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging	40
Concreteness and Abstraction in Mathematics Education: A Taxonomy of the Semantic Landscape	40
A Systematic Review of Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trials in Educational Research	40
Self-regulated Learning in the Digitally Enhanced Science Classroom: Toward an Early Warning System	39
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Academic Achievement among Secondary and University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	39
Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	37
Learning-by-Teaching Without Audience Presence or Interaction: When and Why Does it Work?	37
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing	37
Effects of Learner-Generated Highlighting and Instructor-Provided Highlighting on Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis	35
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support	35
The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025	35
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions	35
Adaptive Education: Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain	34
Introducing the FoRe-Squares Model: Focus Support and Reward as Key Predictors of Effective Technology-Augmented Instruction	34
The Role of Haptic Interaction in Embodied Extended-Reality Learning: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	33
Navigating Spatial Ability for Mathematics Education: a Review and Roadmap	32
A Systematic Review of Graduate Students’ Research Motivation: Themes, Theories, and Methodologies	32
Screening Smarter, Not Harder: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Screening Algorithms and Heuristic Stopping Criteria for Systematic Reviews in Educational Research	32
The Transfer of Teacher Training to Inclusive Classroom Practice: A Meta-Analytic SEM Approach	32
A Motivational Perspective on (Anticipated) Mental Effort Investment: The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat	30
Managing Student Digital Distraction in the College Classroom: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	30
A Meta-Analysis on Teachers’ Growth Mindset	30
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning	30
Active Student Participation in Whole-School Interventions in Secondary School. A Systematic Literature Review	30
A Scoping Review of School-Based Prevention Programs for Indigenous Students	30
Harnessing Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation: Dale H. Schunk’s Enduring Influence	29
Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self-Efficacy in the Classroom	29
Children’s Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education	28
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
A Systematic Review of Self-Regulated Learning through Integration of Multimodal Data and Artificial Intelligence	28
Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	27
Moving Beyond the Ableist Roots of Educational Psychology: Audit of the Field and a Path Forward	27
The Effects of Contextual Interference Learning on the Acquisition and Relatively Permanent Gains in Skilled Performance: A Critical Systematic Review with Multilevel Meta-Analysis	27
Unleashing the Power of Positivity: How Positive Instructors Benefit Learning from Instructional Videos — A Meta-analytic Review	27
A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements	26
Measuring the Quality of Adult–Child Interactions in the Context of ECEC: a Systematic Review on the Relationship with Developmental and Educational Outcomes	26
Four Guideposts toward an Integrated Model of Academic Motivation: Motivational Resilience, Academic Identity, Complex Social Ecologies, and Development	26
The Intersection of the Peer Ecology and Teacher Practices for Student Motivation in the Classroom	26
The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in Our Understanding of Human Cognition: Consequences for Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Procedures	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
An In-depth Review of Conscientiousness and Educational Issues	25

How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling	24
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I	24
Toward an Integrated Model of the Individual Differences in Mathematical Flexibility	24
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework	24
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students	23
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology	23
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions	22
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology	22
A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators	22
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review	22
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023	22
The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Statistics Anxiety, Statistics Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Statistics in University Students: A Systematic Review	22
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions	21
Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review	21
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?	20
Peer Mindset Culture as a Developmental Context for Belonging	20
A Network Meta-analysis of Multi-component Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Active-Ingredient vs. Ingredient-Interaction?	20
Increasing Video Lecture Playback Speed Can Impair Test Performance – a Meta-Analysis	19
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research	19
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses	19
Differential Effects of Objective and Subjective Nature Contact on Social, Cognitive, and Academic Outcomes across the Lifespan: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	19
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs	19
Research Avenues Supporting Embodied Cognition in Learning and Instruction	19
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence	19
Is Adolescent Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation? A 10-Year Review	19
A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Defining and Measuring Task Complexity Through Element Interactivity	18
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis	18
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing	18
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review	18
Situational Motivation in Academic Learning: A Systematic Review	18
Specialized Purpose of Each Type of Student Engagement: A Meta-Analysis	17
Cognitive Control in Adolescents and Young Adults with Media Multitasking Experience: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	17
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources	17
How Personality Matters for Education Research	17
Promoting Temporal Investigations of Development in Context: a Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research Linking Childhood Circumstances and Learning-related Outcomes	17
Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Factors, and Arithmetic Word Problem Success: a Review of Behavioral Studies	17
Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation	17
Encouraging Students to Use Retrieval Practice: a Review of Emerging Research from Five Types of Interventions	17
A Multilevel Meta-analysis of Language Mindsets and Language Learning Outcomes in Second Language Acquisition Research	17
Validity of Early-Grade Screening Tools in the Three Tier (RTI/MTSS) Model: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Literacy, Language, and Mathematics	16
The Reciprocal Relations between Externalizing Behaviors and Academic Performance among School-aged Children: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies	16
“Here Be Dragons!” Mapping the Realm of Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking	16
Spaced Retrieval Practice Imposes Desirable Difficulty in Calculus Learning	16
Effects of Nature (Greenspace) on Cognitive Functioning in School Children and Adolescents: a Systematic Review	16
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Academic Procrastination and Implications for Instructor-based Classroom Interventions	16
Effectiveness of Unproctored vs. Teacher-Proctored Exams in Reducing Students’ Cheating: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Field Experimental Study	16
Learning by Doing or Doing Without Learning? The Potentials and Challenges of Activity-Based Learning	16
Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Bullying and Intervention Responses: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	16
An Evolutionary Approach to Motivation and Learning: Differentiating Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge	16
Tracing and Pointing Support Multimedia Learning: A Cross-Cultural Replication	16
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education	15
Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-Analysis	15
Effortful Tests and Repeated Metacognitive Judgments Enhance Future Learning	15
A Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between Achievement Goals and Internalizing Problems	15
Employing Machine Learning to Predict Medical Trainees’ Psychophysiological Responses and Self- and Socially- Shared Regulated Learning Strategies While Completing Medical Simulations	14
Self-Regulated Learning Interventions for Pre-service Teachers: a Systematic Review	14
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning	14
A More Comprehensive, More Reliable Multilevel Approach for Assessing and Modeling Teacher Judgment Accuracy Using Latent Variables	14
Exploring the Effectiveness of Word-Problem Strategy and Strategy Combinations: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	14
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations	14
Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach	14
How Similar Are Students’ Aggregated State Emotions to Their Self-Reported Trait Emotions? Results from a Measurement Burst Design Across Three School Years	14
The Interplay of Cognitive Load, Learners’ Resources and Self-regulation	14
Learning a Language Through Reading: A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Effects of Extensive Reading on Second and Foreign Language Learning	13
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns	13
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion	13
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education	13
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring	13
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research	13
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model	13
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”	13
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	13
Time Management and Achievement Motivation: A Review of What We Know and Directions for Where to Go	13
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis	13
Evolution of Self-Awareness and the Cultural Emergence of Academic and Non-academic Self-Concepts	13
A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning	13
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples	13
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?	12
Teachers’ Beliefs About Inclusive Education and Insights on What Contributes to Those Beliefs: a Meta-analytical Study	12
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions	12

John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods	12
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews	12
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	12
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators	12
The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not Just for Assessment	12
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	12
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	12
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Psychosocial Success	12
Spaced Retrieval Practice: Can Restudying Trump Retrieval?	11
Relation Between the Essential Components of Reading and Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children: a Meta-analysis	11
Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice	11
How to Make Recommendations for Educational Practice from Correlational Data Using Structural Equation Models	11
The Other Side of the Coin – A Call to Investigate the Influence of Reduced Levels of Physical Activity on Children’s Cognition	11
Women as Top-Producing Authors, Editors, and Editorial Board Members in Educational Psychology Journals from 2017 to 2021	11
How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	11
Evaluating the Judgment of Learning: its Limited Impact and the Power of Retrieval on Inductive Learning	11
The Effective Design of Tasks Involving Learning by Drawing: Current Trends and Methodological Progress in Research on Drawing to Learn	11
Examining the Academic Effects of Cross-age Tutoring: A Meta-analysis	11
Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years’ Research	11
Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing	11
Does Professional Development Effectively Support the Implementation of Inclusive Education? A Meta-Analysis	10
It’s Just an Observation	10
Improving Writing Skills of Students in Turkey: a Meta-analysis of Writing Interventions	10
Unraveling Challenges with the Implementation of Universal Design for Learning: A Systematic Literature Review	10
Refutation Text Facilitates Learning: a Meta-Analysis of Between-Subjects Experiments	10
Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load	10
AI-Related Threats to Information Sovereignty and Challenges for Research Ethics	10
The Associations Between Discrete Emotions and Political Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	10
Productive Educational Psychologists: What You Should Know	10
Role of Gesturing Onscreen Instructors in Video Lectures: A Set of Three-level Meta-analyses on the Embodiment Effect	10
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	10
Evaluating the Dynamics of Learning Approaches: A Systematic Review Investigating the Nexus Between Teaching Methods and Academic Performance in Medical and Dental Education	9
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instructional Model: Efficacious Theoretical Integration, Scaling Up, Challenges, and Future Research	9
The Virtual Reality in Your Head: How Immersion and Mental Imagery Are Connected to Knowledge Retention	9
Correction to: There is an Evidence Crisis in Science Educational Policy	9
Using Primary Knowledge in Unpopular Statistics Exercises	9
Theories of Motivation in Education: an Integrative Framework	9
What Are Teacher–Student Relationships in Adolescent Motivation Research? A Systematic Review of Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Analysis	9
Reply to Sana et al.’s (2022) Commentary on Rest-from-Deliberate-Learning as a Mechanism for the Spacing Effect	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
An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives	9
Correction to: Cubic Relations of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation to Achievement: A Cross‑National Validation of Self‑Determination Theory Using Response Surface Analysis	9
When is Learning “Effortful”? Scrutinizing the Concept of Mental Effort in Cognitively Oriented Research from a Motivational Perspective	8
Classroom-Wide School Interventions for Preschoolers’ Social-Emotional Learning: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Programs	8
Teachers’ Humour Use in the Classroom: A Scoping Review	8
Stirring a Secret Sauce: A Literature Review on the Conditions and Effects of Authentic Learning	8
Correction to: How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	8
On the Horizon: the Promise and Power of Higher Order, Critical, and Critical Analytical Thinking	8
Measuring Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood: a Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Early Maths Assessments and Screeners	8
Systematic Review of Educational Approaches to Misinformation	8
How Scientific Is Educational Psychology Research? The Increasing Trend of Squeezing Causality and Recommendations from Non-intervention Studies	8
A Dual-Process Framework for Understanding How Physical Activity Enhances Academic Performance Through Domain-General and Domain-Specific Executive Functions	8
Dosage Response in Intensive Mathematics Interventions for Early Elementary Students With or At-Risk for Mathematics Learning Disability	8
Teacher Emotional Competence: A Conceptual Model	8
The Associations Between Parenting Self-Efficacy and Parents’ Contributions to the Home-School Partnership Among Parents of Primary School Students: a Multilevel Meta-analysis	8
The Value of Pretend Play for Social Competence in Early Childhood: A Meta-analysis	8
Interrelations Among Achievement Goals and Achievement Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Examination	7
Cross-Cultural Patterns of Gender Differences in STEM: Gender Stratification, Gender Equality and Gender-Equality Paradoxes	7
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education: a Meta-analytic Review	7
Interactive Learning Effects of Preparing to Teach and Teaching: a Meta-Analytic Approach	7
Exploring Educational Approaches to Addressing Misleading Visualizations	7
Enhancing Academic Performance Through Self-Explanation in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs): A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	7
The Evolution of Race-Focused and Race-Reimaged Approaches in Educational Psychology: Future Directions for the Field	7
A Systematic Meta-analysis of the Reliability and Validity of Subjective Cognitive Load Questionnaires in Experimental Multimedia Learning Research	7
Without Integration, Everything Is Nothing: A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Instructional Support for Drawing-to-Learn	7
The Effect of Scoring Rubrics Use on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation	7
The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta-Analysis	7
Do Practice Tests (Quizzes) Reduce or Provoke Test Anxiety? A Meta-Analytic Review	7
Integrating Human Movement in Learning: Advancements in Language Instruction, Multimedia, and Theory	7
Correction to: Externalizing Behavior Problems and Low Academic Achievement: Does a Causal Relation Exist?	7
Classroom Carrying Capacity: A Resource and Limiting Factors Framework	7
Effectiveness of Reading Interventions on Literacy Skills for Chinese Children with and Without Dyslexia: a Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	7