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Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Psychology Review is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis	172
Meeting John Bransford	143
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy	107
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis	102
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper	99
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom	90
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	89
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories	80
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education	80
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
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review	72
A Computational Model of School Achievement	70
A Systematic Review on Student Engagement in Undergraduate Mathematics: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Learning Outcomes	61
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education	60
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	58
Math Performance and Academic Anxiety Forms, from Sociodemographic to Cognitive Aspects: a Meta-analysis on 906,311 Participants	55
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation	55
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?	54
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement	51
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures	50
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	48
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses	48
Does Retrieval Demand Moderate the Effectiveness of Covert Retrieval Practice? Comparing Covert and Overt Retrieval Practice for Learning Key Terms and Definitions	47
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	44
Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach	44

The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout	44
Benefits of Taking a Virtual Field Trip in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence for the Immersion Principle in Multimedia Learning	43
Directional Ordering of Self-Concept, School Grades, and Standardized Tests Over Five Years: New Tripartite Models Juxtaposing Within- and Between-Person Perspectives	41
Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively	41
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney	40
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support	40
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking	39
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis	38
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging	38
Self-regulated Learning in the Digitally Enhanced Science Classroom: Toward an Early Warning System	36
A Systematic Review of Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trials in Educational Research	35
Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	34
Learning-by-Teaching Without Audience Presence or Interaction: When and Why Does it Work?	34
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing	34
A Systematic Review of Graduate Students’ Research Motivation: Themes, Theories, and Methodologies	33
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions	33
A Meta-Analysis on Teachers’ Growth Mindset	33
Short-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students’ Cognitive Performance: a Review	33
Adaptive Education: Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain	32
Effects of Learner-Generated Highlighting and Instructor-Provided Highlighting on Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis	32
Introducing the FoRe-Squares Model: Focus Support and Reward as Key Predictors of Effective Technology-Augmented Instruction	31
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning	31
Active Student Participation in Whole-School Interventions in Secondary School. A Systematic Literature Review	31
Screening Smarter, Not Harder: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Screening Algorithms and Heuristic Stopping Criteria for Systematic Reviews in Educational Research	30
Navigating Spatial Ability for Mathematics Education: a Review and Roadmap	30
The Effects of Contextual Interference Learning on the Acquisition and Relatively Permanent Gains in Skilled Performance: A Critical Systematic Review with Multilevel Meta-Analysis	30
A Systematic Review of Self-Regulated Learning through Integration of Multimodal Data and Artificial Intelligence	29
A Motivational Perspective on (Anticipated) Mental Effort Investment: The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat	29
Harnessing Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation: Dale H. Schunk’s Enduring Influence	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
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
Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self-Efficacy in the Classroom	26
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	26
A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements	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
An In-depth Review of Conscientiousness and Educational Issues	25
Unleashing the Power of Positivity: How Positive Instructors Benefit Learning from Instructional Videos — A Meta-analytic Review	25
Visualizing a Task Performer’s Gaze to Foster Observers’ Performance and Learning—a Systematic Literature Review on Eye Movement Modeling Examples	25
Four Guideposts toward an Integrated Model of Academic Motivation: Motivational Resilience, Academic Identity, Complex Social Ecologies, and Development	24
The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in Our Understanding of Human Cognition: Consequences for Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Procedures	24
Moving Beyond the Ableist Roots of Educational Psychology: Audit of the Field and a Path Forward	23
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students	23
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	23
Big Five Personality Traits and Second Language Learning: a Meta-analysis of 40 Years’ Research	23
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I	23
The Intersection of the Peer Ecology and Teacher Practices for Student Motivation in the Classroom	23
The Need to Belong: a Deep Dive into the Origins, Implications, and Future of a Foundational Construct	23
Correction to: Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?	23

A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators	22
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023	22
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology	22
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling	22
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review	21
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework	21
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions	20
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology	20
Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review	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
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions	19
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?	19
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing	18
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence	18
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses	18
Situational Motivation in Academic Learning: A Systematic Review	18
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs	18
Correction to: The State of Current Reading Intervention Research for English Learners in Grades K–2: a Best-Evidence Synthesis	18
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research	18
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis	17
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review	17
Increasing Video Lecture Playback Speed Can Impair Test Performance – a Meta-Analysis	17
Is Adolescent Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation? A 10-Year Review	15
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources	15
A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Defining and Measuring Task Complexity Through Element Interactivity	15
Specialized Purpose of Each Type of Student Engagement: A Meta-Analysis	15
Encouraging Students to Use Retrieval Practice: a Review of Emerging Research from Five Types of Interventions	15
How Personality Matters for Education Research	14
Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Factors, and Arithmetic Word Problem Success: a Review of Behavioral Studies	14
Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Bullying and Intervention Responses: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	14
An Evolutionary Approach to Motivation and Learning: Differentiating Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge	14
Tracing and Pointing Support Multimedia Learning: A Cross-Cultural Replication	14
A Multilevel Meta-analysis of Language Mindsets and Language Learning Outcomes in Second Language Acquisition Research	14
Effectiveness of Unproctored vs. Teacher-Proctored Exams in Reducing Students’ Cheating: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Field Experimental Study	14
Learning by Doing or Doing Without Learning? The Potentials and Challenges of Activity-Based Learning	14
Promoting Temporal Investigations of Development in Context: a Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research Linking Childhood Circumstances and Learning-related Outcomes	14
Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation	14
Spaced Retrieval Practice Imposes Desirable Difficulty in Calculus Learning	14
“Here Be Dragons!” Mapping the Realm of Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking	14
Cognitive Control in Adolescents and Young Adults with Media Multitasking Experience: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	14
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
How Similar Are Students’ Aggregated State Emotions to Their Self-Reported Trait Emotions? Results from a Measurement Burst Design Across Three School Years	13
Effects of Nature (Greenspace) on Cognitive Functioning in School Children and Adolescents: a Systematic Review	13
Effortful Tests and Repeated Metacognitive Judgments Enhance Future Learning	13
Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach	13
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Academic Procrastination and Implications for Instructor-based Classroom Interventions	13
A More Comprehensive, More Reliable Multilevel Approach for Assessing and Modeling Teacher Judgment Accuracy Using Latent Variables	13
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis	12
The Interplay of Cognitive Load, Learners’ Resources and Self-regulation	12
Employing Machine Learning to Predict Medical Trainees’ Psychophysiological Responses and Self- and Socially- Shared Regulated Learning Strategies While Completing Medical Simulations	12
Evolution of Self-Awareness and the Cultural Emergence of Academic and Non-academic Self-Concepts	12
Time Management and Achievement Motivation: A Review of What We Know and Directions for Where to Go	12
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion	12
A Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between Achievement Goals and Internalizing Problems	12
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations	12
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research	12
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model	12
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns	12
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education	12
Self-Regulated Learning Interventions for Pre-service Teachers: a Systematic Review	12
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning	12
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education	12
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	11
How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	11
John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods	11
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	11
Distributed Scaffolding: Scaffolding Students in Classroom Environments	11
How to Make Recommendations for Educational Practice from Correlational Data Using Structural Equation Models	11
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring	11
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews	11
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions	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
Teachers’ Beliefs About Inclusive Education and Insights on What Contributes to Those Beliefs: a Meta-analytical Study	11
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples	11
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”	11
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?	11
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	11
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators	11

The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not Just for Assessment	11
A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning	11
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	10
Evaluating the Judgment of Learning: its Limited Impact and the Power of Retrieval on Inductive Learning	10
Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice	10
Relation Between the Essential Components of Reading and Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children: a Meta-analysis	10
The Associations Between Discrete Emotions and Political Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	10
The Effective Design of Tasks Involving Learning by Drawing: Current Trends and Methodological Progress in Research on Drawing to Learn	10
Examining the Academic Effects of Cross-age Tutoring: A Meta-analysis	10
Women as Top-Producing Authors, Editors, and Editorial Board Members in Educational Psychology Journals from 2017 to 2021	10
Does Professional Development Effectively Support the Implementation of Inclusive Education? A Meta-Analysis	10
Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years’ Research	10
The Other Side of the Coin – A Call to Investigate the Influence of Reduced Levels of Physical Activity on Children’s Cognition	10
Spaced Retrieval Practice: Can Restudying Trump Retrieval?	10
Theories of Motivation in Education: an Integrative Framework	9
Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing	9
Role of Gesturing Onscreen Instructors in Video Lectures: A Set of Three-level Meta-analyses on the Embodiment Effect	9
It’s Just an Observation	9
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instructional Model: Efficacious Theoretical Integration, Scaling Up, Challenges, and Future Research	9
Using Primary Knowledge in Unpopular Statistics Exercises	9
Unraveling Challenges with the Implementation of Universal Design for Learning: A Systematic Literature Review	9
Refutation Text Facilitates Learning: a Meta-Analysis of Between-Subjects Experiments	9
The Virtual Reality in Your Head: How Immersion and Mental Imagery Are Connected to Knowledge Retention	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
AI-Related Threats to Information Sovereignty and Challenges for Research Ethics	9
Evaluating the Dynamics of Learning Approaches: A Systematic Review Investigating the Nexus Between Teaching Methods and Academic Performance in Medical and Dental Education	9
Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load	9
What Are Teacher–Student Relationships in Adolescent Motivation Research? A Systematic Review of Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Analysis	9
Improving Writing Skills of Students in Turkey: a Meta-analysis of Writing Interventions	9
Correction to: There is an Evidence Crisis in Science Educational Policy	8
The Role of Individual Differences in Sourcing: a Systematic Review	8
How Scientific Is Educational Psychology Research? The Increasing Trend of Squeezing Causality and Recommendations from Non-intervention Studies	8
Classroom-Wide School Interventions for Preschoolers’ Social-Emotional Learning: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Programs	8
Reply to Sana et al.’s (2022) Commentary on Rest-from-Deliberate-Learning as a Mechanism for the Spacing Effect	8
Correction to: How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	8
Systematic Review of Educational Approaches to Misinformation	8
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education: a Meta-analytic Review	8
On the Horizon: the Promise and Power of Higher Order, Critical, and Critical Analytical Thinking	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
A Dual-Process Framework for Understanding How Physical Activity Enhances Academic Performance Through Domain-General and Domain-Specific Executive Functions	8
An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives	8
Teachers’ Humour Use in the Classroom: A Scoping Review	8
The Effect of Scoring Rubrics Use on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation	7
A Systematic Meta-analysis of the Reliability and Validity of Subjective Cognitive Load Questionnaires in Experimental Multimedia Learning Research	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
The Value of Pretend Play for Social Competence in Early Childhood: A Meta-analysis	7
The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta-Analysis	7
Interactive Learning Effects of Preparing to Teach and Teaching: a Meta-Analytic Approach	7
Measuring Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood: a Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Early Maths Assessments and Screeners	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
Enhancing Academic Performance Through Self-Explanation in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs): A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	7
Stirring a Secret Sauce: A Literature Review on the Conditions and Effects of Authentic Learning	7
Teacher Emotional Competence: A Conceptual Model	7
When is Learning “Effortful”? Scrutinizing the Concept of Mental Effort in Cognitively Oriented Research from a Motivational Perspective	7