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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Reinhard Pekrun is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to social sciences as well. Within these fields, Pekrun's work spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, education, developmental and educational psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main topics addressed in Pekrun's research include education, achievement, and giftedness, grit, self-efficacy, and motivation, early childhood education and development, motivation and self-concept in sports, mind wandering and attention, cognitive abilities and testing, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Reinhard Pekrun has published extensively in a variety of academic journals, with frequent publication venues including Educational Psychology Review, Journal of Educational Psychology, Learning and Instruction, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Pekrun and colleagues are:

  • "Activity Achievement Emotions and Academic Performance: A Meta-analysis," 2021, Educational Psychology Review
  • "A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions," 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Cognitive appraisals, achievement emotions, and students' math achievement: A longitudinal analysis," 2021, Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "Control-value appraisals, achievement emotions, and foreign language performance: A latent interaction analysis," 2020, Learning and Instruction
  • "The AEQ-S: A short version of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire," 2020, Contemporary Educational Psychology

Frequent collaborators in Pekrun's research include Herbert W. Marsh, Thomas Goetz, Jiesi Guo, Anne C. Frenzel, and Geetanjali Basarkod.

In recognition of their contributions, Pekrun was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions: Assumptions, Corollaries, and Implications for Educational Research and Practice

    Reinhard Pekrun

  • Academic Emotions in Students' Self-Regulated Learning and Achievement: A Program of Qualitative and Quantitative Research

    Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Goetz;Wolfram Titz;Raymond P. Perry

  • Academic Emotions and Student Engagement

    Reinhard Pekrun;Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia

  • Measuring emotions in students’ learning and performance: The Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ)

    Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Goetz;Anne C. Frenzel;Petra Barchfeld

  • Achievement Goals and Achievement Emotions: Testing a Model of Their Joint Relations with Academic Performance.

    Reinhard Pekrun;Andrew J. Elliot;Markus A. Maier

  • Boredom in achievement settings: Exploring control–value antecedents and performance outcomes of a neglected emotion.

    Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Goetz;Lia M. Daniels;Robert H. Stupnisky

  • The Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions: An Integrative Approach to Emotions in Education

    Reinhard Pekrun;Anne C. Frenzel;Thomas Goetz;Raymond P. Perry

  • Achievement goals and discrete achievement emotions : A theoretical model and prospective test

    Reinhard Pekrun;Andrew J. Elliot;Markus A. Maier

  • A 3 × 2 achievement goal model

    Andrew J. Elliot;Kou Murayama;Reinhard Pekrun

  • International handbook of emotions in education.

    Reinhard Pekrun;Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia

  • Emotional transmission in the classroom : exploring the relationship between teacher and student enjoyment

    Anne C. Frenzel;Thomas Goetz;Oliver Lüdtke;Reinhard Pekrun

  • Achievement emotions and academic performance: longitudinal models of reciprocal effects

    Reinhard Pekrun;Reinhard Pekrun;Stephanie Lichtenfeld;Herbert W. Marsh;Herbert W. Marsh;Kou Murayama;Kou Murayama

  • The impact of emotions on learning and achievement : towards a theory of cognitive/motivational mediators

    Reinhard Pekrun

  • Confusion can be beneficial for learning

    Sidney D’Mello;Blair Lehman;Reinhard Pekrun;Art Graesser

  • Girls and mathematics —A “hopeless” issue? A control-value approach to gender differences in emotions towards mathematics

    Anne C. Frenzel;Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Goetz

  • Emotion in Education

    Paul A. Schutz;Reinhard Pekrun

  • Perceived learning environment and students' emotional experiences: A multilevel analysis of mathematics classrooms.

    Anne C. Frenzel;Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Goetz

  • Academic Control and Action Control in the Achievement of College Students: A Longitudinal Field Study.

    Raymond P. Perry;Steven Hladkyj;Reinhard H. Pekrun;Sarah T. Pelletier

  • Development of Mathematics Interest in Adolescence: Influences of Gender, Family, and School Context

    Anne C Frenzel;Thomas Goetz;Reinhard Pekrun;Helen Margaret Gilchrist Watt

  • Academic emotions from a social‐cognitive perspective: Antecedents and domain specificity of students' affect in the context of Latin instruction

    Thomas Goetz;Reinhard Pekrun;Nathan Hall;Ludwig Haag

  • Academic Emotions in Students' Self-Regulated Learning and Achievement : A Program of Quantitative and Qualitative Research

    Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Götz;Anne Zirngibl;Raymond P. Perry

  • of Achievement Emotions: An Integrative Approach to Emotions in Education

    Reinhard Pekrun;Anne C. Frenzel;Thomas Goetz;Raymond P. Perry

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne C. Frenzel
Anne C. Frenzel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Goetz
Thomas Goetz University of Vienna
Raymond P. Perry
Raymond P. Perry University of Manitoba
Nathan C. Hall
Nathan C. Hall McGill University
Kou Murayama
Kou Murayama University of Reading
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia
Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia Michigan State University
Andrew J. Elliot
Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester
Krista R. Muis
Krista R. Muis McGill University
Robert H. Stupnisky
Robert H. Stupnisky University of North Dakota

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