Learning and Individual Differences

Papers
(The median citation count of Learning and Individual Differences is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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What evidence-based learning activities help students acquire knowledge, correct confidence in their own knowledge, and accurate self-assessment?2189
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Female students and students from more affluent families benefit more from fear of failure in learning achievements: A study based on 77 economies45
Cross-linguistic sharing of phonological awareness in word spelling among early Chinese-English literacy learners: A three-wave cross-lagged panel analysis43
Examining the simple view of reading in Kiswahili: Longitudinal evidence from Kenya40
Scaffolding attention and perseverance skills in a diverse population of preschool children in Sweden39
Home learning activities and parental autonomy support as predictors of pre-academic skills: The mediating role of young children's school liking38
Comparing relations among autonomy support, motivation, and academic success across face-to-face and pandemic online STEM learning environments36
Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis36
Profiles of student-perceived teacher homework involvement, and their associations with homework behavior and mathematics achievement: A person-centered approach36
Reading in print and digitally: Profiling and intervening in undergraduates' multimodal text processing, comprehension, and calibration33
What is the link between an early university entry offer and the academic and personal wellbeing outcomes of students in their final year of school?32
Being bored at school: Trajectories and academic outcomes32
Dynamic relations between motivation and performance across content in a mathematics learning technology31
The Simple View of Reading across different orthographies: Introduction to special issue30
Cooperative mindset and creative self-concept in higher education30
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Parents' implicit intelligence beliefs about children's intelligence: Implications for children's academic self-concept and achievement in Maths, English, and French27
Exploring the heterogeneous development of intrinsic value in language arts among secondary school students through growth mixture modelling26
Does the effectiveness of a reading intervention differ dependent on students' Spanish or English proficiencies?25
Comorbidity of reading and math learning difficulties in a Chinese sample24
Need-supportive teaching is associated with reading achievement via intrinsic motivation across eight cultures23
To what extent do home numeracy practices and parental number talk relate to children's math skills? A pre-registered study in 5-year-old children22
A meta-analysis of the effects of foundational skills and multicomponent reading interventions on reading comprehension for primary-grade students22
Does need for relatedness matter more? The dynamic mechanism between teacher support and need satisfaction in explaining Chinese school children's regulatory styles22
Understanding momentary engagement in university students: Exploring the interaction between competence and value beliefs on emotions and cognitive engagement – A multilevel investigation22
Executive functions and multiple-text comprehension21
Revisiting multiple pathways to achievement: Re-examining the roles of achievement goals in predicting grades through task values20
Reading comprehension for students with reading disabilities: Progress and challenges20
Exploring and addressing concerns surrounding L2 grit: A longitudinal perspective19
Raising the bar: Testing prospective reciprocal relationships between multidimensional trait perfectionism and undergraduate academic achievement19
Identification and characterization of high-achieving student subgroups using two methodological approaches: The role of different achievement indicators and motivational-affective characteristics19
Heritage-bilingualism and educational achievement among second-generation immigrants: Are all school subjects equal?19
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning18
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Prospects in the field of learning and individual differences: Examining the past to forecast the future using bibliometrics17
Elementary school students' metacognitive knowledge and its effects on teacher judgments, school track recommendations, and school transitions17
Dimensionality of executive functions and processing speed in preschoolers17
Does emotion regulation compensate deficits in various executive functions in children's and adolescents' mathematical achievement?17
On the relationship between creative potential and creative achievement: Challenges and future directions17
Is the treatment weak or the test insensitive: Interrogating item difficulties to elucidate the nature of reading intervention effects16
More is not always better: Profiles of perceived frequency of parental involvement among Chinese students and associations with resilience and academic achievement16
Tender Shoots: Effects of a preschool shared reading and reminiscing initiative on parent-child interactions and for socio-emotional and self-regulation outcomes after school entry16
Weaker groupitizing abilities in magnitude perception in dyscalculia16
Understanding the dynamics of EFL learner affective engagement with receiving peer feedback: A case study from the sociocultural perspective16
How situational competence beliefs and task value relate to inference strategies and comprehension during reading16
Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children16
A mediated model of study choice profiles and person-environment fit with bachelor's program as predictors of academic success in higher education15
Mindfulness intervention for academic procrastination: A randomized control trial15
Transition from childcare to school: Surgency, center-based care and caregiver-child relationship predict self-regulation, social competence and well-being15
The effects of programming interventions in early childhood: A meta-analysis15
Students’ expectancy-value profiles in the West and the East: Cross-cultural similarities and differences14
The fluid relation between reading strategies and mathematics learning: A perspective of the Island Ridge Curve14
How vocabulary breadth and depth influence bilingual reading comprehension: Direct and indirect pathways13
A meta-analysis on the relation between handwriting and visual-motor integration13
Students' and schools' expectancy-value beliefs are associated with reading achievement: A cross-cultural study13
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The relationship between English language proficiency and academic performance among English learners: A subgroup analysis by home language background12
Ink and pixels: Impact of highlighting and reading self-efficacy on adolescents' cognitive load, epistemic emotions, and text comprehension12
The relationship of word processing with L2 reading comprehension and working memory: Insights from eye-tracking12
Linking parental restrictive mediation to adolescents' science achievement: A social cognitive theory perspective12
The interplay between scientific motivation, creative process engagement, and scientific creativity: A network analysis study12
Exploring undergraduate students' challenge frameworks: A person-centered approach12
Learning as retention; an examination of retention of self-derived knowledge through memory integration in a diverse sample of elementary students12
“I can't focus now, I will study tomorrow” - The link between academic procrastination and resistance to distraction12
Need for Cognition and its relation to academic achievement in different learning environments12
Perceived goal structures and student outcomes: Consistency of motivational experiences within and across classrooms12
The effects of the topic-specific and topic-general prior knowledge on learning from multiple complementary texts11
PISA reading achievement, literacy motivation, and school burnout predicting Adolescents' educational track and educational attainment11
Parental psychological control and preschooler's behavioral problems and pre-academic performance in China: The mediating role of executive function11
The Simple View of Reading in Italian beginner readers: Converging evidence and open debates on the role of the main components11
Mathematics achievement and learner characteristics: A systematic review of meta-analyses11
General cognitive and numerical precursors of mathematical difficulty in kindergarten children at risk for dyscalculia11
Parental influences on the development of single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency11
Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties10
Student-perceived parental help with homework: Identifying student profiles and their relations with homework effort, procrastination, and achievement10
Subject and time specificity of students' cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement at school10
Self-regulatory abilities as predictors of scientific literacy among children in preschool and primary school years10
Young children's alphabet learning as a function of instruction and letter difficulty10
Longitudinal links between need for cognition, achievement goals, and school grades: Testing a mediation hypothesis9
Academic motivation of intellectually gifted students and their classmates in regular primary school classes: A multidimensional, longitudinal, person- and variable-centered approach9
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On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of undergraduate students' psychological distress profiles9
Predicting students' short- and long-term academic achievement in higher education: A cross-classified multilevel study9
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder9
Chatbots in education: Hype or help? A meta-analysis9
Investigating the relationship between private tutoring, tutors' use of an individual frame of reference, reasons for private tutoring, and students' motivational-affective outcomes9
Beyond individual tests: Youth's cognitive abilities on their math and writing skills9
Structure, relationship, and determinants of monitoring strategies and judgment accuracy. An integrated model and evidence from two studies9
Science motivation, academic achievement, career aspirations in early adolescents9
The relationship between students' gender and their confidence in the correctness of their solutions to complex and difficult mathematics problems9
Mathematically high and low performances tell us different stories: Uncovering motivation-related factors via the ecological model9
Early predictors of mathematics learning difficulty in rural Chinese children8
Rational thinking as a general cognitive ability: Factorial structure, underlying cognitive processes, and relevance for university academic success8
The longitudinal contribution of working memory and visuomotor integration to early and developing handwriting fluency8
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach8
Interaction and learning engagement in online learning: The mediating roles of online learning self-efficacy and academic emotions8
Learning activities in technology-enhanced learning: A systematic review of meta-analyses and second-order meta-analysis in higher education8
Reality-based tasks for competency-based education: The need for an integrated analysis of subject-specific, linguistic, and contextual task features8
Math anxiety is associated with skipping problems and less help-seeking behavior after error commission8
Comparing parental and school pressure in terms of their relations with students' well-being8
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Capturing where the learning process takes place: A person-specific and person-centered primer8
What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores8
Domain-specific and activity-related interests of secondary school students. Longitudinal trajectories and their relations to achievement8
Examining the influence of passage and student characteristics on test-taking strategies: An eye-tracking study8
Simple view of reading among Slovenian English foreign language learners: A latent interaction modeling approach7
First-generation student pathways to persistence and degree attainment: The roles of deeper learning and self-regulated learning beliefs7
Individual toddlers' interactions with teachers, peers, and the classroom environment in Danish and Dutch childcare: First validation of the inCLASS Toddler7
Adaptability vs. buoyancy: Which offers the greater protection against test anxiety and could relations be reciprocal?7
Learning scientific reasoning: A latent transition analysis7
Effectiveness of embodied learning on learning performance: A meta-analysis based on the cognitive load theory perspective7
Unscrambling creativity measurement: An invitation to better formalize the domain generality-specificity of creativity with psychometric modeling7
Do performance goals and fixed mindset explicate the relations between stereotype threat and achievement? Examining differences between racially marginalized and White students in STEM7
Teachers who believe that emotions are changeable are more positive and engaged: The role of emotion mindset among in- and preservice teachers7
Testing effects of promoting antecedents of mathematics achievement emotions: A change-change model7
Gender differences in young adults' mathematical performance: Examining the contribution of working memory, math anxiety and gender-related stereotypes7
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Students' social and learning behavior at school: Applying the generalized internal/external frame of reference model7
Triggers for self-regulated learning: A conceptual framework for advancing multimodal research about SRL7
Trajectories in cognitive engagement, fatigue, and school achievement: The role of young adolescents' psychological need satisfaction7
Self-attributions and perceptions of socializers' attributions as predictors of self-concepts: Different findings for girls and boys in math and German6
The highs and lows of mathematical ability: Shared and distinct longitudinal predictors of mathematical ability grouping6
Toward more robust and integrative research on learning and individual differences: Systematic literature reviews with and without meta-analysis6
The role of inferencing in struggling adult readers' comprehension of different texts: A mediation analysis6
Give me freedom or see my motivation decline: Basic psychological needs and the development of students' learning goal orientation6
Motivational profiles among high-ability students from a self-determination perspective: Stability, antecedents, and comparisons with average-ability students6
Student profiles of self-concept and interest in four domains: A latent transition analysis6
An extension of the internal/external frame of reference model to the physical domain: Are there contrasting and assimilating achievement-self-concept relations in specific sports?6
Continuity and change of achievement goals in advanced learning context6
Trajectories of academic self-concept during the elementary school years: A growth mixture analysis6
How trait and state mathematics anxiety could affect performance: Evidence from children with and without Specific Learning Disorders6
Stress development during emergency remote teaching in higher education6
The relationship between success and failure causal attributions and achievement goal orientations6
Expectancy-value-cost motivational profiles in biology and physics: Their relations with gender, self-reported satisfaction of needs, and learning behavior6
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The role of relational preference in early proportional reasoning6
ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education6
Memorizing plans with an app: Large individual differences in the effectiveness of retrieval-based and generative learning activities in a naturalistic context5
Individuals in a group: Metacognitive and regulatory predictors of learning achievement in collaborative learning5
Mathematics interest, anxiety, self-efficacy and achievement: Examining reciprocal relations5
Joint developmental trajectories of home numeracy activities in China: The predictive role of parental beliefs of children's math skills5
Differential effects of reading strategy intervention for three levels of comprehenders: Focus on text comprehension and autonomous reading motivation5
Antecedents and consequences of student academic worries about the secondary school transition5
The role of creativity in second language writing performance5
Supporting students' basic needs is associated with better socio-emotional skills across cultures: A self-determination theory perspective5
What are the principal and most effective strategies for motivational self-regulation? A systematic review and meta-analyses5
Personalized gamification versus one-size-fits-all gamification in fully online learning: Effects on student motivational, behavioral and cognitive outcomes5
The simple view of reading in French second language learners5
The role of study and leisure values in students’ decisions in study-leisure conflicts: A latent difference score model5
Dark personality traits and psychological need frustration explain future levels of student satisfaction, engagement, and performance5
Gc at its boundaries: A cross-national investigation of declarative knowledge5
Increasing teaching effectiveness in entrepreneurship education: Course characteristics and student needs differences5
Profiles of perfectionism, achievement emotions, and academic burnout in South Korean adolescents: Testing the 2 × 2 model of perfectionism5
Utility value trajectories and their relationship with behavioral engagement and performance in introductory statistics5
Socioeconomic status and parenting-related differences in preschoolers' working memory5
Trajectories of adolescents' adjustment behaviors across the transition to upper secondary education: The role of individual and environmental factors5
Exploring the role of knowledge in predicting reading and listening comprehension in fifth grade students4
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When mistakes instruct: Explaining errors in diagrams supports comprehension for low spatial individuals4
Examining factors and mechanisms of reading comprehension and reading fluency: Longitudinal evidence for Chinese children from grade 1 to grade 64
Do social engagement skills exist and matter beyond personality facet traits and vocational interests? A generalization study across six countries4
Dweck's social-cognitive model of achievement motivation in science4
What is intelligence, really? The futile search for a Holy Grail4
A multilevel person-centered examination of students' learning anxiety and its relationship with student background and school factors4
Independent and joint effects of perceived teacher support and math self-efficacy on math achievement in primary school student: Variable-oriented and person-oriented analyses4
The prediction from the network-based attributes of school readiness skills to children's state-level fluctuations in academic achievement throughout grade school4
Exploring domain-general and course-specific latent profiles of motivation in computer science4
What successful students do: Evidence-based learning activities matter for students' performance in higher education beyond prior knowledge, motivation, and prior achievement4
Group work and student procrastination4
Within-person variability in performance across school subjects4
The bidirectional relationship between critical thinking and academic achievement is independent of general cognitive ability: A three-year longitudinal study on elementary school children4
Self-compassion mindsets can predict statistics course performance via intelligence mindsets and statistics anxiety4
Parent and teacher judgments about children's mathematics and reading competencies in primary school: Do parent judgments associate with children's educational outcomes?4
A longitudinal quasi-experiment of leaderboard effectiveness on learner behaviors and course performance4
How (de)motivating teaching styles shape message framing outcomes on students’ self-efficacy, emotions, and grades4
Personality predicts academic achievement in higher education: Differences by academic field of study?4
The relationship between positive and painful emotions and cognitive load during an algebra learning task4
English as a foreign language learners' metacognitive experiences and writing development: Unraveling the process of learning EFL writing4
Relationships between achievement goal orientations, multidimensional test anxiety, and performance – In conclusion, every facet counts4
Trajectories in quantitative and humanities self-efficacy during the first year of college4
L2 grit and age as predictors of attrition in mobile-assisted language learning4
Structural relations among implicit theories, achievement goals, and performance in writing4
Expectancy-value profiles in math: How are student-perceived teaching behaviors related to motivational transitions?4
The effectiveness of game-based literacy app learning in preschool children from diverse backgrounds4
Online credibility evaluation skills in upper secondary students: The role of grade level, argument evaluation, and analytic thinking dispositions4
Student adaptability, emotions, and achievement: Navigating new academic terrains in a global crisis4
Domain-specific skills, but not fine-motor or executive function, predict later arithmetic and reading in children4
Learning to read in mother tongue or foreign language: Comparing Papiamento-Dutch reading skills in the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean4
Test-taking motivation and performance: Do self-report and time-based measures of effort reflect the same aspects of test-taking motivation?4
The role of teaching support in assisting students' transition to high school4
Need satisfaction profiles during the transition to secondary school and its implications in later education4
Seeking, mastering, and enjoying cognitive effort: Scrutinizing the role of need for cognition in academic achievement4
How classroom management and instructional clarity relate to students' academic emotions in Hong Kong and England: A multi-group analysis based on the control-value theory4
A moderated mediation analysis of conscientiousness, time management strategies, effort regulation strategies, and university students' performance4
Keep going, keep growing: A longitudinal analysis of grit, posttraumatic growth, and life satisfaction in school students under COVID-193
What are we measuring in international assessments? Learning? Probably. Intelligence? Not likely3
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Academic support from teachers and parents during grade 2: Links to teacher perceived children's task persistence3
Distinct roles of cognitive and mathematics skills in different levels of mathematics development3
Student engagement and its development in university education: A three-year follow-up study3
Slow down to speed up: Longer pause time before solving problems relates to higher strategy efficiency3
A multigroup random-intercept cross-lagged panel model for Finnish secondary school students in frame of situated expectancy-value theory3
Transitions between conceptual and procedural knowledge profiles. Patterns in understanding fractions and indicators for individual differences3
Beyond aptitudes and experiences: The unique role of mindsets in emotions in language classrooms3
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A person-oriented approach to maternal homework involvement during the transition to lower secondary school3
Measuring secondary education students' self-regulated learning processes with digital trace data3
Transition of academic motivation profiles and its relationship with academic outcomes, perceived parenting, and self-regulated emotion strategies3
How emotions are related to competence beliefs during mathematical problem solving: Differences between boys and girls3
Improving self-regulated learning and academic engagement: Evaluating a college learning to learn course3
Comparing long-term trajectories in subject interest among non-traditional students and traditional students – An example from a cooperative higher education programme in Germany3
Predicting EFL vocabulary, reading, and spelling in English as a foreign language using paired-associate learning3
Interindividual differences in episodic foresight: The role of personality factors and family context in preschool-aged and primary-school-aged children3
Mediation of mathematical self-efficacy in the relationship between teacher-student relationships and mathematics achievement by grade and academic level: a multi-group structural equation modeling3
Cultivating young minds: Exploring the relationship between child socio-emotional competence, early childhood education and care quality, creativity and self-directed learning3
Malleability beliefs shape mathematics-related achievement emotions: The mediating role of emotion regulation in primary school children3
Individual differences in fluid intelligence moderate the interleaving effect for perceptual category learning3
Redefining education: The role of study crafting in enhancing students' well-being, self-direction, and academic achievement3
Tracking the long-term effects of the Bookstart intervention: Associations with temperament and book-reading habits3
What makes high achievers different from low achievers? Self-regulated learners in the context of a high-stakes academic long-term task3
How teacher agency adapted to child competencies and teacher communion relate to student needs fulfillment and motivation3
The relation of parental phubbing to academic engagement and the related mechanisms in elementary students3
The pretesting effect is robust throughout adulthood, but metacognitive beliefs about pretesting and challenge differ3
The learning adversary - An experimental investigation of adaptive pedagogical agents as opponents in educational videogames3
Getting there is half the journey: An exploration of high schoolers' individual differences and navigation strategies during internet-based digital reading3
Achievement goals of the social peer-group and the entire class: Relationships with Students' individual achievement goals2
Unpacking heterogeneity: Executive function and reading development in U.S. multilingual children from kindergarten to third grade2
Associations among parents' math anxiety, math-related leisure activities, children's early numeracy interest and skills2
A creative self-efficacy course for nurturing academic thriving and academic engagement among college students in Pakistan2
Corrigendum to “A longitudinal quasi-experiment of leaderboard effectiveness on learner behaviors and course performance” [Learning and Individual Differences (2024), volume 116, 102572]2
Student-centered teaching across OECD countries: An ecological perspective2
High-achieving students in mathematics: A heterogeneous group2
The choreography of engagement in the language classroom: Exploring the dynamic interplay between learner and teacher engagement2
The interplay of gender with social and migrant background in the development of elementary school students' interest in mathematics and language arts2
Does multiplication always make bigger? Exploring individual differences in NanoRoboMath game play2
Domain-specific and domain-general skills as predictors of arithmetic fluency development2
Passion for science and the pursuit of scientific studies: The mediating role of rigid and flexible persistence and activity involvement2
Executive functions, oral vocabularies, and early literacy skills mediate sociodemographic gaps in mathematics and science achievement during elementary school2
The role of empathy in problem construction and creative problem solving2
Sustained attention plays a critical role in reading comprehension of adults with and without ADHD2
Contributions of decoding and listening comprehension to reading comprehension at different levels: Exploring the mediating roles of oral and silent reading fluency2
2-dimensional cognitive test anxieties and their relationships with achievement goals, cognitive resources, motivational engagement, and academic performance2
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Examining students' self-efficacy and perceptions of task difficulty in learning from multiple texts2
The effects of teachers' instructional styles on students' interest in learning school subjects and academic achievement: Differences according to students' gender and prior interest2
Gender stereotypes about math anxiety: Ability and emotional components2
Corrigendum to “Learning to read in mother tongue or foreign language: Comparing Papiamento-Dutch reading skills in the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean” [Learn. Individ. Differ., vol. 95, (2022), 1021382
Individualisation in cognitive skills training: Essential or superfluous? Examining the effectiveness of an adaptive game for training executive functions in young adults2
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