Educational Psychology Review

Article	Citations
Meeting John Bransford	226
Conditions for Effective Learning from Erroneous Examples: A Systematic Review	208
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education	156
A Systematic Review on Student Engagement in Undergraduate Mathematics: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Learning Outcomes	125
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper	117
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	114
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom	110
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education	106
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	104
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?	89
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review	83
A Computational Model of School Achievement	82
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation	80
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy	74
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis	73
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories	66
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	63
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis	63
Does Retrieval Demand Moderate the Effectiveness of Covert Retrieval Practice? Comparing Covert and Overt Retrieval Practice for Learning Key Terms and Definitions	55
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?	54
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses	52
Retrieval Practice Versus Elaborative Encoding: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	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	49
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	48
Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach	47

Directional Ordering of Self-Concept, School Grades, and Standardized Tests Over Five Years: New Tripartite Models Juxtaposing Within- and Between-Person Perspectives	47
Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively	47
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement	46
The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout	45
Benefits of Taking a Virtual Field Trip in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence for the Immersion Principle in Multimedia Learning	45
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis	44
Concreteness and Abstraction in Mathematics Education: A Taxonomy of the Semantic Landscape	44
A Systematic Review of Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trials in Educational Research	43
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney	43
Self-regulated Learning in the Digitally Enhanced Science Classroom: Toward an Early Warning System	43
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support	41
The Effect of Prequestions on Learning: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	39
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging	39
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing	39
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking	39
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Academic Achievement among Secondary and University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	38
Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	38
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions	38
The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025	37
Introducing the FoRe-Squares Model: Focus Support and Reward as Key Predictors of Effective Technology-Augmented Instruction	37
Navigating Spatial Ability for Mathematics Education: a Review and Roadmap	37
Adaptive Education: Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain	37
Gender Disparity in Computational Thinking Pedagogy and Assessment: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	36
The Role of Haptic Interaction in Embodied Extended-Reality Learning: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	36
A Systematic Review of Graduate Students’ Research Motivation: Themes, Theories, and Methodologies	35
The Transfer of Teacher Training to Inclusive Classroom Practice: A Meta-Analytic SEM Approach	35
Screening Smarter, Not Harder: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Screening Algorithms and Heuristic Stopping Criteria for Systematic Reviews in Educational Research	34
Effects of Learner-Generated Highlighting and Instructor-Provided Highlighting on Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis	34
Active Student Participation in Whole-School Interventions in Secondary School. A Systematic Literature Review	34
A Meta-Analysis on Teachers’ Growth Mindset	33
The Forward Effect of Judgements of Learning on Memory and Transfer in Inductive Learning	32
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning	32
A Motivational Perspective on (Anticipated) Mental Effort Investment: The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat	32
Managing Student Digital Distraction in the College Classroom: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	32
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	32
Children’s Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education	31
Harnessing Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation: Dale H. Schunk’s Enduring Influence	31
Understanding Learning Strategy Use Through the Lens of Habit	31
A Systematic Review of Self-Regulated Learning through Integration of Multimodal Data and Artificial Intelligence	30
Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	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	29
A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements	29
A Scoping Review of School-Based Prevention Programs for Indigenous Students	29
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	29
Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self-Efficacy in the Classroom	29
Moving Beyond the Ableist Roots of Educational Psychology: Audit of the Field and a Path Forward	28
Measuring the Quality of Adult–Child Interactions in the Context of ECEC: a Systematic Review on the Relationship with Developmental and Educational Outcomes	28
Unleashing the Power of Positivity: How Positive Instructors Benefit Learning from Instructional Videos — A Meta-analytic Review	27
Visualizing a Task Performer’s Gaze to Foster Observers’ Performance and Learning—a Systematic Literature Review on Eye Movement Modeling Examples	27
The Intersection of the Peer Ecology and Teacher Practices for Student Motivation in the Classroom	27

A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators	26
An In-depth Review of Conscientiousness and Educational Issues	26
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students	26
Four Guideposts toward an Integrated Model of Academic Motivation: Motivational Resilience, Academic Identity, Complex Social Ecologies, and Development	26
Toward an Integrated Model of the Individual Differences in Mathematical Flexibility	26
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I	26
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review	25
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling	25
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023	25
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology	25
The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Statistics Anxiety, Statistics Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Statistics in University Students: A Systematic Review	24
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework	24
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology	24
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions	24
Peer Mindset Culture as a Developmental Context for Belonging	23
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions	23
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?	22
A Network Meta-analysis of Multi-component Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Active-Ingredient vs. Ingredient-Interaction?	22
Differential Effects of Objective and Subjective Nature Contact on Social, Cognitive, and Academic Outcomes across the Lifespan: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	21
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses	21
Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review	21
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence	21
Research Avenues Supporting Embodied Cognition in Learning and Instruction	21
Increasing Video Lecture Playback Speed Can Impair Test Performance – a Meta-Analysis	20
Situational Motivation in Academic Learning: A Systematic Review	20
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis	20
Tracing and Pointing Support Multimedia Learning: A Cross-Cultural Replication	19
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing	19
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review	19
Spaced Retrieval Practice Imposes Desirable Difficulty in Calculus Learning	19
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs	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	19
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research	19
Encouraging Students to Use Retrieval Practice: a Review of Emerging Research from Five Types of Interventions	18
Cognitive Control in Adolescents and Young Adults with Media Multitasking Experience: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	18
Promoting Temporal Investigations of Development in Context: a Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research Linking Childhood Circumstances and Learning-related Outcomes	18
Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Factors, and Arithmetic Word Problem Success: a Review of Behavioral Studies	18
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources	18
Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation	18
Re-Experiencing vs. Self-Explaining: Comparing Generative Learning Activities in VR	18
A Multilevel Meta-analysis of Language Mindsets and Language Learning Outcomes in Second Language Acquisition Research	18
Specialized Purpose of Each Type of Student Engagement: A Meta-Analysis	17
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Academic Procrastination and Implications for Instructor-based Classroom Interventions	17
An Evolutionary Approach to Motivation and Learning: Differentiating Biologically Primary and Secondary Knowledge	17
Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Bullying and Intervention Responses: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	17
“Here Be Dragons!” Mapping the Realm of Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking	17
Effectiveness of Unproctored vs. Teacher-Proctored Exams in Reducing Students’ Cheating: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Field Experimental Study	17
Learning by Doing or Doing Without Learning? The Potentials and Challenges of Activity-Based Learning	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	17
How Personality Matters for Education Research	17
The Reciprocal Relations between Externalizing Behaviors and Academic Performance among School-aged Children: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies	16
Effects of Nature (Greenspace) on Cognitive Functioning in School Children and Adolescents: a Systematic Review	16
Stimming as Thinking: a Critical Reevaluation of Self-Stimulatory Behavior as an Epistemic Resource for Inclusive Education	16
Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-Analysis	16
Effortful Tests and Repeated Metacognitive Judgments Enhance Future Learning	16
The Interplay of Cognitive Load, Learners’ Resources and Self-regulation	15
Employing Machine Learning to Predict Medical Trainees’ Psychophysiological Responses and Self- and Socially- Shared Regulated Learning Strategies While Completing Medical Simulations	15
Self-Regulated Learning Interventions for Pre-service Teachers: a Systematic Review	15
Exploring the Effectiveness of Word-Problem Strategy and Strategy Combinations: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis	15
A More Comprehensive, More Reliable Multilevel Approach for Assessing and Modeling Teacher Judgment Accuracy Using Latent Variables	15
A Meta-Analysis of the Relations Between Achievement Goals and Internalizing Problems	15
Reporting of Methodological Rigor in Empirical Mixed Methods Research in Educational Psychology	15
How Similar Are Students’ Aggregated State Emotions to Their Self-Reported Trait Emotions? Results from a Measurement Burst Design Across Three School Years	15
Learning a Language Through Reading: A Meta-analysis of Studies on the Effects of Extensive Reading on Second and Foreign Language Learning	14
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations	14
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning	14
Evolution of Self-Awareness and the Cultural Emergence of Academic and Non-academic Self-Concepts	14
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis	14
Time Management and Achievement Motivation: A Review of What We Know and Directions for Where to Go	14
Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture in Cognitive Load Theory: a Dynamic, Emerging Principle Approach	14
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion	14
Emotional Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	14
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research	14
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns	14
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring	13
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?	13
How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	13
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews	13
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model	13

Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Psychosocial Success	13
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	13
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	13
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education	13
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples	13
A Meta-analytic Review of the Effectiveness of Spacing and Retrieval Practice for Mathematics Learning	13
John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods	13
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions	12
Teachers’ Beliefs About Inclusive Education and Insights on What Contributes to Those Beliefs: a Meta-analytical Study	12
The Effective Design of Tasks Involving Learning by Drawing: Current Trends and Methodological Progress in Research on Drawing to Learn	12
The Value of Using Tests in Education as Tools for Learning—Not Just for Assessment	12
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators	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
Spaced Retrieval Practice: Can Restudying Trump Retrieval?	12
Productive Educational Psychologists: What You Should Know	12
How to Make Recommendations for Educational Practice from Correlational Data Using Structural Equation Models	12
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”	12
Are Some People Generally More Creative Than Others? A Systematic Review of Fifty Years’ Research	12
Abstract Vocabulary Development: Embodied Theory and Practice	12
Women as Top-Producing Authors, Editors, and Editorial Board Members in Educational Psychology Journals from 2017 to 2021	12
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	12
The Associations Between Discrete Emotions and Political Learning: A Cross-Disciplinary Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	11
Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Questionnaire to Measure Different Types of Cognitive Load	11
Relation Between the Essential Components of Reading and Reading Comprehension in Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children: a Meta-analysis	11
AI-Related Threats to Information Sovereignty and Challenges for Research Ethics	11
Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Strategic Processing	11
The Other Side of the Coin – A Call to Investigate the Influence of Reduced Levels of Physical Activity on Children’s Cognition	11
Examining the Academic Effects of Cross-age Tutoring: A Meta-analysis	11
Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	11
Evaluating the Judgment of Learning: its Limited Impact and the Power of Retrieval on Inductive Learning	11
Does Professional Development Effectively Support the Implementation of Inclusive Education? A Meta-Analysis	11
Refutation Text Facilitates Learning: a Meta-Analysis of Between-Subjects Experiments	11
It’s Just an Observation	11
Correction to: There is an Evidence Crisis in Science Educational Policy	10
Using Primary Knowledge in Unpopular Statistics Exercises	10
Unraveling Challenges with the Implementation of Universal Design for Learning: A Systematic Literature Review	10
The Virtual Reality in Your Head: How Immersion and Mental Imagery Are Connected to Knowledge Retention	10
Role of Gesturing Onscreen Instructors in Video Lectures: A Set of Three-level Meta-analyses on the Embodiment Effect	10
Evaluating the Dynamics of Learning Approaches: A Systematic Review Investigating the Nexus Between Teaching Methods and Academic Performance in Medical and Dental Education	10
Theories of Motivation in Education: an Integrative Framework	10
Correction to: Cubic Relations of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation to Achievement: A Cross‑National Validation of Self‑Determination Theory Using Response Surface Analysis	10
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	10
The Self-Regulated Strategy Development Instructional Model: Efficacious Theoretical Integration, Scaling Up, Challenges, and Future Research	10
Reply to Sana et al.’s (2022) Commentary on Rest-from-Deliberate-Learning as a Mechanism for the Spacing Effect	10
Correction to: How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	9
Measuring Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood: a Systematic Review of the Psychometric Properties of Early Maths Assessments and Screeners	9
What Are Teacher–Student Relationships in Adolescent Motivation Research? A Systematic Review of Conceptualizations, Measurement, and Analysis	9
How Scientific Is Educational Psychology Research? The Increasing Trend of Squeezing Causality and Recommendations from Non-intervention Studies	9
The Value of Pretend Play for Social Competence in Early Childhood: A Meta-analysis	9
Dosage Response in Intensive Mathematics Interventions for Early Elementary Students With or At-Risk for Mathematics Learning Disability	9
Learner-Generated and Instructor-Provided Graphic Organizers as Aids to Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis	9
An Interdisciplinary Review of Self-Regulation of Learning: Bridging Cognitive and Educational Psychology Perspectives	9
A Dual-Process Framework for Understanding How Physical Activity Enhances Academic Performance Through Domain-General and Domain-Specific Executive Functions	9
Systematic Review of Educational Approaches to Misinformation	9
Stirring a Secret Sauce: A Literature Review on the Conditions and Effects of Authentic Learning	9
Teacher Emotional Competence: A Conceptual Model	9
On the Horizon: the Promise and Power of Higher Order, Critical, and Critical Analytical Thinking	9
Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement in Primary and Secondary Education: a Meta-analytic Review	8
Classroom Carrying Capacity: A Resource and Limiting Factors Framework	8
Effectiveness of Reading Interventions on Literacy Skills for Chinese Children with and Without Dyslexia: a Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	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
Teachers’ Humour Use in the Classroom: A Scoping Review	8
Without Integration, Everything Is Nothing: A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Instructional Support for Drawing-to-Learn	8
Interactive Learning Effects of Preparing to Teach and Teaching: a Meta-Analytic Approach	8
The Effect of Scoring Rubrics Use on Self-Efficacy and Self-Regulation	8
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
Integrating Human Movement in Learning: Advancements in Language Instruction, Multimedia, and Theory	8
Exploring Educational Approaches to Addressing Misleading Visualizations	8
Interrelations Among Achievement Goals and Achievement Emotions: A Meta-Analytic Examination	8
Enhancing Academic Performance Through Self-Explanation in Digital Learning Environments (DLEs): A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	8
A Systematic Meta-analysis of the Reliability and Validity of Subjective Cognitive Load Questionnaires in Experimental Multimedia Learning Research	8