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Overview

Robert M. Klassen is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their work emphasizes education and related subfields, including education, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The research topics explored by Klassen focus significantly on teacher professional development and motivation, as well as motivation and self-concept in sports. Other key areas of study include teacher education and leadership studies, education achievement and giftedness, emotional intelligence and performance, online and blended learning, and medical education and admissions.

Robert M. Klassen has contributed to several academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Computers & Education
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Educational Psychology Review
  • British Journal of Educational Psychology

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Klassen include:

  • Teachers' Psychological Characteristics: Do They Matter for Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers' Well-being, Retention, and Interpersonal Relations? An Integrative Review, 2021, Educational Psychology Review
  • Smart teachers, successful students? A systematic review of the literature on teachers' cognitive abilities and teacher effectiveness, 2020, Educational Research Review
  • Teacher motivation and student outcomes: Searching for the signal, 2021, Educational Psychologist
  • The power of feedback and reflection: Testing an online scenario-based learning intervention for student teachers, 2021, Computers & Education
  • Examining teacher recruitment strategies in England, 2021, Journal of Education for Teaching International Research and Pedagogy

Klassen collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Lisa Bardach
  • Jade V. Rushby
  • Hui Wang
  • Sophie Thompson-Lee
  • Rebecca Jessica Somerville Snell

Best Publications

  • Effects on teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction: Teacher gender, years of experience, and job stress.

    Robert M. Klassen;Ming Ming Chiu

  • Teachers’ self-efficacy, personality, and teaching effectiveness: A meta-analysis

    Robert M. Klassen;Virginia M.C. Tze

  • Teacher Efficacy Research 1998–2009: Signs of Progress or Unfulfilled Promise?

    Robert M. Klassen;Virginia M. C. Tze;Shea M. Betts;Kelly A. Gordon

  • Academic Procrastination of Undergraduates: Low Self-Efficacy to Self-Regulate Predicts Higher Levels of Procrastination.

    Robert M. Klassen;Lindsey L. Krawchuk;Sukaina Rajani

  • The occupational commitment and intention to quit of practicing and pre-service teachers: Influence of self-efficacy, job stress, and teaching context

    Robert M. Klassen;Ming Ming Chiu

  • Exploring the validity of a teachers’ self-efficacy scale in five countries

    Robert M. Klassen;Mimi Bong;Ellen L. Usher;Wan Har Chong

  • Teachers' relatedness with students: An underemphasized component of teachers' basic psychological needs.

    Robert M. Klassen;Nancy E. Perry;Anne C. Frenzel

  • Teachers’ Collective Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Job Stress in Cross-Cultural Context

    Robert M. Klassen;Ellen L. Usher;Mimi Bong

  • Optimism and realism: A review of self‐efficacy from a cross‐cultural perspective

    Robert M. Klassen

  • Measuring Teachers’ enjoyment, anger, and anxiety: The Teacher Emotions Scales (TES)

    Anne C. Frenzel;Reinhard Pekrun;Thomas Goetz;Lia M. Daniels

  • Teacher Stress: The Mediating Role of Collective Efficacy Beliefs

    Robert M. Klassen

  • A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Teacher Personality on Teacher Effectiveness and Burnout

    Lisa Kim;Verena Jörg;Robert Mark Klassen

  • Evaluating the Relationship Between Boredom and Academic Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis

    Virginia M. C. Tze;Lia M. Daniels;Robert M. Klassen

  • A cross-cultural investigation of the efficacy beliefs of South Asian immigrant and Anglo Canadian nonimmigrant early adolescents

    Robert M. Klassen

  • Writing in Early Adolescence: A Review of the Role of Self-Efficacy Beliefs

    Rob Klassen

  • Self-efficacy in educational settings: Recent research and emerging directions

    Robert M. Klassen;Ellen L. Usher

  • A Question of Calibration: A Review of the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Students with Learning Disabilities:

    Rob Klassen

  • Mathematics achievement and self-efficacy: Relations with motivation for mathematics

    Einar M. Skaalvik;Roger A. Federici;Robert M. Klassen

  • Measuring Teacher Engagement: Development of the Engaged Teachers Scale (ETS)

    Robert M. Klassen;Sündüs Yerdelen;Tracy L Durksen

  • Weekly self-efficacy and work stress during the teaching practicum: A mixed methods study☆

    Robert M. Klassen;Tracy L. Durksen

  • Relations of mathematics self-concept and its calibration with mathematics achievement: Cultural differences among fifteen-year-olds in 34 countries

    Ming Ming Chiu;Robert M. Klassen

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca P. Ang
Rebecca P. Ang Nanyang Technological University
Ming Ming Chiu
Ming Ming Chiu University of Hong Kong
Anne C. Frenzel
Anne C. Frenzel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Anna-Maija Poikkeus
Anna-Maija Poikkeus University of Jyväskylä
George K. Georgiou
George K. Georgiou University of Alberta
Mimi Bong
Mimi Bong Korea University
Markus Dresel
Markus Dresel University of Augsburg
Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Mikko Aro
Mikko Aro University of Jyväskylä
Einar M. Skaalvik
Einar M. Skaalvik Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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