Abstract. The term 5- to 7-year shift refers to the marked changes in behavior observed as children transition from preschool age to school age. In 1996, a

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Students frequently rely on ineffective learning strategies instead of those that promote long-term retention. This is not simply a matter of lacking metacognitive knowledge. Research on…

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Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

npj Science of Learning - Do it yourself: discerning the effects of self-directed activity on conceptual learning

Different learners thrive under different instructional conditions, thus requiring adaptivity. Such differential effects became known as aptitude-trea…

Although empirical research on motivation has been growing, one remarkable observation is that the same major theories continue to dominate the field, and the constellation of motivation theories h...

Theory plays a vital role in organizing, guiding, and advancing educational psychology scholarship and subsequent translations to practice (Greene, 2022). ...

Throughout 2023 and 2024, we served as co-guest editors of a topical collection in Educational Psychology Review on The Past, Present, and Future of Theory Development in Educational Psychology. In th...

Volume 35, issue 4 articles listing for Educational Psychology Review

Martella et al (2023) call into question the empirical research on active learning pedagogies.

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