Educational Psychology Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Educational Psychology Review is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Meeting John Bransford319
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis202
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis178
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis161
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom145
Conditions for Effective Learning from Erroneous Examples: A Systematic Review130
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education123
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories123
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review122
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education93
A Systematic Review on Student Engagement in Undergraduate Mathematics: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Learning Outcomes91
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy87
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation86
A Computational Model of School Achievement83
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper82
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?78
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis68
Does Retrieval Demand Moderate the Effectiveness of Covert Retrieval Practice? Comparing Covert and Overt Retrieval Practice for Learning Key Terms and Definitions68
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses66
Retrieval Practice Versus Elaborative Encoding: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review63
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement59
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective59
Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively58
Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach57
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures57
Should we Tell Teachers That They Are (In)Correct? How Personalized Refutation Text Promotes or Hampers Conceptual Change56
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis55
The Role of Language Aptitude in Child Second Language Learning: A Meta-analysis55
The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout55
The Effect of Prequestions on Learning: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis53
Concreteness and Abstraction in Mathematics Education: A Taxonomy of the Semantic Landscape53
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking53
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney52
“I Felt Like I Completely Belonged in That Class”: Gender and the Development of Sense of Belonging in K-12 STEM Education51
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support51
Seductive Details, Cognitive Load, and Learning Outcomes: A Multi-level Meta-analysis and MASEM50
Self-regulated Learning in the Digitally Enhanced Science Classroom: Toward an Early Warning System48
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions48
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis47
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing46
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging45
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Academic Achievement among Secondary and University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis45
The Role of Haptic Interaction in Embodied Extended-Reality Learning: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis45
Gender Disparity in Computational Thinking Pedagogy and Assessment: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis44
A Meta-Analysis on Teachers’ Growth Mindset43
Introducing the FoRe-Squares Model: Focus Support and Reward as Key Predictors of Effective Technology-Augmented Instruction43
The Transfer of Teacher Training to Inclusive Classroom Practice: A Meta-Analytic SEM Approach43
A Systematic Review of Graduate Students’ Research Motivation: Themes, Theories, and Methodologies41
Adaptive Education: Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain41
The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 202541
Active Student Participation in Whole-School Interventions in Secondary School. A Systematic Literature Review40
Navigating Spatial Ability for Mathematics Education: a Review and Roadmap40
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning39
The Forward Effect of Judgements of Learning on Memory and Transfer in Inductive Learning39
Screening Smarter, Not Harder: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Screening Algorithms and Heuristic Stopping Criteria for Systematic Reviews in Educational Research39
From AI as a Relational Breaker to a Relational Broker: Comment on Bauer et al. (2025)39
A Motivational Perspective on (Anticipated) Mental Effort Investment: The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat38
Emotions Are Not Random: Machine Learning Reveals Predictable Patterns in a 21-Day Second Language Learning Trajectory37
Understanding Learning Strategy Use Through the Lens of Habit37
The Effects of Contextual Interference Learning on the Acquisition and Relatively Permanent Gains in Skilled Performance: A Critical Systematic Review with Multilevel Meta-Analysis37
Harnessing Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation: Dale H. Schunk’s Enduring Influence36
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 Achievement35
Children’s Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education35
Managing Student Digital Distraction in the College Classroom: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective35
Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self-Efficacy in the Classroom35
Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review35
A Systematic Review of Self-Regulated Learning through Integration of Multimodal Data and Artificial Intelligence34
Visualizing a Task Performer’s Gaze to Foster Observers’ Performance and Learning—a Systematic Literature Review on Eye Movement Modeling Examples33
A Scoping Review of School-Based Prevention Programs for Indigenous Students33
What Works for Teaching Word Reading to Adolescents? A Meta-Analytic Investigation33
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 Education33
Measuring the Quality of Adult–Child Interactions in the Context of ECEC: a Systematic Review on the Relationship with Developmental and Educational Outcomes32
A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements32
Four Guideposts toward an Integrated Model of Academic Motivation: Motivational Resilience, Academic Identity, Complex Social Ecologies, and Development32
Unleashing the Power of Positivity: How Positive Instructors Benefit Learning from Instructional Videos — A Meta-analytic Review32
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I31
An In-depth Review of Conscientiousness and Educational Issues31
The Intersection of the Peer Ecology and Teacher Practices for Student Motivation in the Classroom31
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students30
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 202330
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology29
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling29
The Relation Between Patterning Skills and Children’s Mathematical Achievement: A Meta-Analysis28
Toward an Integrated Model of the Individual Differences in Mathematical Flexibility28
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review27
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions27
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework27
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology27
A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators27
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses27
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?26
Peer Mindset Culture as a Developmental Context for Belonging26
Research Avenues Supporting Embodied Cognition in Learning and Instruction26
A Network Meta-analysis of Multi-component Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Active-Ingredient vs. Ingredient-Interaction?26
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing25
The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Statistics Anxiety, Statistics Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Statistics in University Students: A Systematic Review25
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence25
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions25
Increasing Video Lecture Playback Speed Can Impair Test Performance – a Meta-Analysis25
Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review25
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review24
Differential Effects of Objective and Subjective Nature Contact on Social, Cognitive, and Academic Outcomes across the Lifespan: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis23
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis23
The Powerful Teacher: A Power Hypothesis for the Benefits of Learning-by-Teaching23
Situational Motivation in Academic Learning: A Systematic Review22
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs22
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research22
Brief Pre-Class Physical Exercise Selectively Enhances Mathematics-Specific Inhibitory Control: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Authentic Classrooms22
Is Adolescent Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation? A 10-Year Review22
Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation21
Tracing and Pointing Support Multimedia Learning: A Cross-Cultural Replication21
A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Defining and Measuring Task Complexity Through Element Interactivity21
Encouraging Students to Use Retrieval Practice: a Review of Emerging Research from Five Types of Interventions21
Promoting Temporal Investigations of Development in Context: a Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research Linking Childhood Circumstances and Learning-related Outcomes21
Re-Experiencing vs. Self-Explaining: Comparing Generative Learning Activities in VR21
How Personality Matters for Education Research20
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources20
Validity of Early-Grade Screening Tools in the Three Tier (RTI/MTSS) Model: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Literacy, Language, and Mathematics20
A Multilevel Meta-analysis of Language Mindsets and Language Learning Outcomes in Second Language Acquisition Research20
Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Factors, and Arithmetic Word Problem Success: a Review of Behavioral Studies20
An Evolutionary Approach to Motivation and Learning: Differentiating Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge20
Specialized Purpose of Each Type of Student Engagement: A Meta-Analysis20
Cognitive Control in Adolescents and Young Adults with Media Multitasking Experience: a Three-Level Meta-analysis20
Effectiveness of Unproctored vs. Teacher-Proctored Exams in Reducing Students’ Cheating: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Field Experimental Study19
The Reciprocal Relations between Externalizing Behaviors and Academic Performance among School-aged Children: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies19
Interventions as Probes of Cognitive Architecture: Commentary on Zhang et al. (2026)19
Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Bullying and Intervention Responses: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review19
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Academic Procrastination and Implications for Instructor-based Classroom Interventions19
Learning by Doing or Doing Without Learning? The Potentials and Challenges of Activity-Based Learning19
“Here Be Dragons!” Mapping the Realm of Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking19
A Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between Achievement Goals and Internalizing Problems18
A Systematic Review of Mathematical, Motivational, and Socioemotional Propensities Related to Algebraic Thinking18
Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-Analysis18
Exploring the Effectiveness of Word-Problem Strategy and Strategy Combinations: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis18
Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach17
The Interplay of Cognitive Load, Learners’ Resources and Self-regulation17
Effortful Tests and Repeated Metacognitive Judgments Enhance Future Learning17
How Similar Are Students’ Aggregated State Emotions to Their Self-Reported Trait Emotions? Results from a Measurement Burst Design Across Three School Years17
Employing Machine Learning to Predict Medical Trainees’ Psychophysiological Responses and Self- and Socially- Shared Regulated Learning Strategies While Completing Medical Simulations17
Sex Differences in Mathematics: A Meta-analytic Review Across Content, Grades, and Geographic Regions17
A More Comprehensive, More Reliable Multilevel Approach for Assessing and Modeling Teacher Judgment Accuracy Using Latent Variables17
Self-Regulated Learning Interventions for Pre-service Teachers: a Systematic Review17
Reporting of Methodological Rigor in Empirical Mixed Methods Research in Educational Psychology17
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education16
Learning a Language Through Reading: A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Effects of Extensive Reading on Second and Foreign Language Learning16
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations16
Time Management and Achievement Motivation: A Review of What We Know and Directions for Where to Go15
Are All Domains the Same? The Effectiveness of Multiple Representation Design in Mathematics Achievement: a Quantitative Systematic Review with Three-level Meta-analysis15
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis15
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning15
Bridging Reasoning in Mathematics and Science: a Document Analysis of Applying and Reasoning in the TIMSS Assessment Framework and the Case for Utilization of Resources15
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model15
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion15
Emotional Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis15
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns15
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research15
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education15
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies14
The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not Just for Assessment14
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring14
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews14
Teachers’ Beliefs About Inclusive Education and Insights on What Contributes to Those Beliefs: a Meta-analytical Study14
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis14
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 14
A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning14
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Psychosocial Success14
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples14
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions14
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”14
John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods14
Integrating Insights from Volitional Personality Change Interventions to Improve Self-Regulated Learning14
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators13
The Associations Between Discrete Emotions and Political Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis13
Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice13
Spaced Retrieval Practice: Can Restudying Trump Retrieval?13
Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing13
Relation Between the Essential Components of Reading and Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children: a Meta-analysis13
Examining the Academic Effects of Cross-age Tutoring: A Meta-analysis13
Educational Inequalities at the Intersection of Multiple Social Categories: An Introduction and Systematic Review of the Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (M13
Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years’ Research13
Productive Educational Psychologists: What You Should Know13
Automated Data Extraction by Large Language Models: Assessing Accuracy in Comparison to Human Experts Using the Example of Visible Learning13
Evaluating the Judgment of Learning: its Limited Impact and the Power of Retrieval on Inductive Learning13
Compositional Analysis of Writing Instructional Practices Performed with Digital Tools: A Meta-Analysis13
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?13
The Other Side of the Coin – A Call to Investigate the Influence of Reduced Levels of Physical Activity on Children’s Cognition13
Women as Top-Producing Authors, Editors, and Editorial Board Members in Educational Psychology Journals from 2017 to 202113
The Effective Design of Tasks Involving Learning by Drawing: Current Trends and Methodological Progress in Research on Drawing to Learn13
How to Make Recommendations for Educational Practice from Correlational Data Using Structural Equation Models13
Evaluating the Dynamics of Learning Approaches: A Systematic Review Investigating the Nexus Between Teaching Methods and Academic Performance in Medical and Dental Education12
AI-Related Threats to Information Sovereignty and Challenges for Research Ethics12
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective12
It’s Just an Observation12
Theories of Motivation in Education: an Integrative Framework12
Role of Gesturing Onscreen Instructors in Video Lectures: A Set of Three-level Meta-analyses on the Embodiment Effect12
Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load12
Using Primary Knowledge in Unpopular Statistics Exercises12
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instructional Model: Efficacious Theoretical Integration, Scaling Up, Challenges, and Future Research12
Does Professional Development Effectively Support the Implementation of Inclusive Education? A Meta-Analysis12
What Works for Reading Interventions in Chinese Children at Risk for Reading Difficulties? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Findings in Recent Three Decades12
Pictures in Mathematical Word Problems: A Systematic Review on the Role of Task and Student Characteristics11
A Dual-Process Framework for Understanding How Physical Activity Enhances Academic Performance Through Domain-General and Domain-Specific Executive Functions11
Measuring Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood: a Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Early Maths Assessments and Screeners11
Zooming Out On Education: Making Valid Psychological Inferences From Large-Scale Assessment Data11
Cultural Insights into the Motivation Paradox of East Asian Learners11
An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives11
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education: a Meta-analytic Review11
Classroom-Wide School Interventions for Preschoolers’ Social-Emotional Learning: A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Programs11
When is Learning “Effortful”? Scrutinizing the Concept of Mental Effort in Cognitively Oriented Research from a Motivational Perspective11
Correction to: There is an Evidence Crisis in Science Educational Policy11
Unraveling Challenges with the Implementation of Universal Design for Learning: A Systematic Literature Review11
Teacher Emotional Competence: A Conceptual Model11
Personality Traits and Test Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis11
The Associations Between Parenting Self-Efficacy and Parents’ Contributions to the Home-School Partnership Among Parents of Primary School Students: a Multilevel Meta-analysis11
Correction to: Cubic Relations of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation to Achievement: A Cross‑National Validation of Self‑Determination Theory Using Response Surface Analysis11
Learner-Generated and Instructor-Provided Graphic Organizers as Aids to Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis10
A Systematic Meta-analysis of the Reliability and Validity of Subjective Cognitive Load Questionnaires in Experimental Multimedia Learning Research10
What Are Teacher–Student Relationships in Adolescent Motivation Research? A Systematic Review of Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Analysis10
How Scientific Is Educational Psychology Research? The Increasing Trend of Squeezing Causality and Recommendations from Non-intervention Studies10
I Feel Competent, Therefore I Am: Self-concept and Skill Interact at Different Speeds10
Dosage Response in Intensive Mathematics Interventions for Early Elementary Students With or At-Risk for Mathematics Learning Disability10
Systematic Review of Educational Approaches to Misinformation10
The Value of Pretend Play for Social Competence in Early Childhood: A Meta-analysis10
Teachers’ Humour Use in the Classroom: A Scoping Review10
The Effect of Scoring Rubrics Use on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation9
The Virtual Reality in Your Head: How Immersion and Mental Imagery Are Connected to Knowledge Retention9
Integrating Human Movement in Learning: Advancements in Language Instruction, Multimedia, and Theory9
Interrelations Among Achievement Goals and Achievement Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Examination9
Effectiveness of Reading Interventions on Literacy Skills for Chinese Children with and Without Dyslexia: a Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials9
On the Horizon: the Promise and Power of Higher Order, Critical, and Critical Analytical Thinking9
The Evolution of Race-Focused and Race-Reimaged Approaches in Educational Psychology: Future Directions for the Field9
Interactive Learning Effects of Preparing to Teach and Teaching: a Meta-Analytic Approach9
Without Integration, Everything Is Nothing: A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Instructional Support for Drawing-to-Learn9
The Public Purposes of Private Education: a Civic Outcomes Meta-Analysis9
Classroom Carrying Capacity: A Resource and Limiting Factors Framework9
Enhancing Academic Performance Through Self-Explanation in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs): A Three-Level Meta-Analysis9
Exploring Educational Approaches to Addressing Misleading Visualizations9
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