Student engagement and its association with academic achievement and subjective well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 116(1), Jan 2024, 48-75; doi:10.1037/edu0000833The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is twofold: (a) to understand how the three key student engagement dimensions (i.e., affective, behavioral, and cognitive) have been conceptualized, operationalized, and measured by researchers in the field and (b) to examine the extent to which the construct, its dimensions, and subtypes are associated with academic achievement and subjective well-being (SWB). Effect sizes and other information (e.g., engagement measures) were retrieved from 137 studies involving 158,510 participant...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - October 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Fraction arithmetic development: An examination of students’ patterns of growth and errors across the intermediate grades.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 116(3), Apr 2024, 377-395; doi:10.1037/edu0000828Fraction arithmetic facility is fundamental to learning more advanced math topics. However, attaining the ability to add and subtract fractions is hard for many students. The present longitudinal study examined students’ growth on simple addition and subtraction word problems between fourth and sixth grades (N = 536). Latent class growth analyses revealed three empirically distinct growth trajectories: (a) consistently accurate students who displayed high accuracy across time; (b) high-growth students who demonstrated low initial accu...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - October 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Reading comprehension on handheld devices versus on paper: A narrative review and meta-analysis of the medium effect and its moderators.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 116(2), Feb 2024, 153-172; doi:10.1037/edu0000830As handheld devices, such as tablets, become a common tool in schools, a critical and urgent question for the research community is to assess their potential impact on educational outcomes. Previous meta-analytic research has evidenced the “screen inferiority effect”: Readers tend to understand texts slightly worse when reading on-screen than when reading the same text in print. Most primary studies from those meta-analyses used computers as on-screen reading devices. Accordingly, the extent to which handheld devices, which provide ...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - October 16, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The relations of kindergarten early literacy skill trajectories on common progress monitoring measures to subsequent word reading skills for students at risk for reading difficulties.
In this study, a sample of 426 ethnically and linguistically diverse kindergarten students, considered at-risk for reading difficulties at the start of kindergarten, were monitored across kindergarten with seven measures that included tests of letter name and sound fluency, phoneme segmentation, word and pseudoword reading, and a computer adaptive test. Students’ word reading skills were assessed at the end of kindergarten and first grade with standardized tests of word reading, pseudoword decoding, and oral reading. Analyses that included latent variable growth modeling (controlling for emergent bilingual status) and la...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A meta-analysis of writing treatments for students in grades 6–12.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 115(7), Oct 2023, 1004-1027; doi:10.1037/edu0000819There is considerable concern that many adolescents do not attain the writing competence needed to be successful in school, their personal lives, or the workplace. Ensuring that students acquire this competence is a basic responsibility of schools. In order to meet this objective, teachers need access to effective practices for teaching writing. In this meta-analysis, we examined if teaching writing improved the writing and reading of students in Grades 6–12, and what specific writing treatments enhanced students’ writing. Our rev...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How are spatial ability and math related? The mediating roles of numerical magnitude knowledge, understanding of arithmetic operations, and word-problem representation.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 115(7), Oct 2023, 969-984; doi:10.1037/edu0000817The current study investigated the relation between spatial ability and children’s math performance, as well as the potential mechanisms underlying this relation including numerical magnitude knowledge, understanding of arithmetic operations, and word-problem representation. A sample of 221 Asian sixth graders (age 11, 129 boys) completed a series of tasks measuring their spatial abilities, math performance, the potential mechanisms underlying the space–math relation, along with other potential confounding factors such as intelligen...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Procedural flexibility on fraction arithmetic and word problems predicts middle-schoolers’ differential algebra skills.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 116(2), Feb 2024, 195-211; doi:10.1037/edu0000822Procedural flexibility is an important skill for algebra. Although prior work has focused on measuring students’ procedural flexibility using arithmetic problems, word problems may also capture students’ flexibility because of their open-ended nature. To date, no published study has examined the use of word problems as another measure of procedural flexibility. The present study aims to establish flexibility on fraction word problems as a predictor of algebra learning and to determine whether flexibility demonstrated on fraction ari...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cross-linguistic influence of early Spanish reading on English reading trajectories among Spanish–English emergent bilinguals: A latent class growth analysis.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 116(1), Jan 2024, 139-152; doi:10.1037/edu0000824Spanish-speaking students constitute the largest subgroup of emergent bilingual (EB) students in the United States. Using longitudinal data on a nationally representative sample of Spanish–English EBs, we explore profiles of English reading trajectories and how early individual differences (i.e., early Spanish reading and English oral proficiency) influence English reading development. Latent class growth analysis revealed five distinct growth trajectories of English reading scores across elementary grades. Results showed a fan-spread...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Subgroups within a heterogeneous population: Considering contextual factors that influence the formation of dual language learner profiles in head start.
This study extends previous work by examining within-group variability in Spanish–English speaking DLLs’ (n = 330) cognitive, linguistic, literacy, and math skills at the end of prekindergarten (M = 5.09 years old), their family (n = 313) characteristics, and their classrooms (n = 84). Using latent profile analysis, we identified four profiles of DLLs (English dominant, balanced average, Spanish dominant, emerging bilinguals), four profiles of parents (low parent education, high mother education, high parent education, high father education), and two profiles of classrooms (teachers with high education with high traini...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Ocular foundations of the spatial contiguity principle: Designing multimedia materials for parafoveal vision.
This study replicates and extends the spatial contiguity effect, and offers a new quantifiable indicator of spatial continuity for the future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Educational Psychology)
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Interventions to promote retrieval practice: Strategy knowledge predicts intent, but perceived cost predicts usage.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 115(8), Nov 2023, 1070-1086; doi:10.1037/edu0000813Retrieval practice is an effective strategy to promote long-term retention and learning, but students do not always use it in the most effective ways. Applying various intervention design principles that leverage sociomotivational research, we created an intervention targeted not only at teaching students about the efficacy of retrieval practice, but also at changing their study behaviors. We focused on increasing students’ understanding of how to implement retrieval practice effectively and decreasing their perceived cost of using ...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 25, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Receptive dual-language profiles in Spanish–English bilingual preschoolers.
In this study, we used the normative data from the Quick Interactive Language Screener: English–Spanish (QUILS:ES; de Villiers et al., 2021; Iglesias et al., 2021) and latent profile analysis to identify dual-language profiles in receptive language skills in a large sample of Spanish–English bilingual preschoolers. We also examined demographic, dual-language experience, and home literacy environment factors that contributed to receptive dual-language profile membership. The optimal model represents a three-profile solution, including a balanced-low profile, an English-dominant average profile, and a balanced-high profi...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Cues to generality: Integrating linguistic and visual information when generalizing biological information.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 115(8), Nov 2023, 1110-1124; doi:10.1037/edu0000812During instruction, students are typically presented with new information through several modalities, such as language and images. Students need to attend to these different modalities and integrate the information in both in order to learn and generalize from instruction. Many studies have shown that the features of each modality, such as the use of generic noun phrases or perceptually bland visualizations, influence how much students generalize. However, few studies have manipulated both the linguistic and visual information to exam...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - September 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Week-to-week fluctuations in autonomous study motivation: Links to need fulfillment and affective well-being.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 116(1), Jan 2024, 36-47; doi:10.1037/edu0000811Autonomous motivation for self-set goals (pursuing goals for more intrinsic and less extrinsic reasons) has been linked to affective well-being. Using intensive longitudinal data, the present article examines the link between university students’ autonomous study motivation with affective well-being and targets fulfillment of the basic psychological needs as a potential mediating factor of this association on the within-person and the between-person level. University students in Germany (N = 488) completed an online questionnaire once a...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - August 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Mathematical knowledge and skills as longitudinal predictors of fraction learning among sixth-grade students.
Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 115(7), Oct 2023, 985-1003; doi:10.1037/edu0000808It is well known that fraction knowledge is relevant for later success in mathematics. However, many students still face difficulties when dealing with fractions. Predictors of fraction knowledge have been widely examined. Systematizing mathematical predictors, whether their predictive contributions are direct or indirectly mediated via other mathematical knowledge and skills, could reveal how mathematics teachers could support students’ fraction learning. The present longitudinal study investigates these roles for six mathematical p...
Source: Journal of Educational Psychology - August 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
