Student engagement declines across adolescence: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Review of Education. DOI: 10.1002/rev3.70134
Professor, Australian Catholic University
Motivation, self-beliefs, culture, and the pathways young people take through education.
Jiesi Guo studies how students' motivational beliefs, social-emotional skills, school contexts, and cultural systems shape achievement, wellbeing, and educational choices, with particular attention to STEM participation and gendered pathways.
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Latest Work
Recent publications
Investigating the effects of class average achievement: attending a high-achieving class is neither beneficial for student achievement nor for academic self-concept
Contemporary Educational Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102441
Mapping the intellectual landscape of educational psychology: Citation rankings and network structures of 60 journals, scholars, and institutions
Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102816
Predictive modelling of Australian school principals’ turnover intentions using machine learning with random effects
Discover Computing. DOI: 10.1007/s10791-025-09838-1
Shaping the socio-emotional landscape: Advances, mechanisms, and contexts in learning and individual differences
Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102844
Basic Psychological Needs Under Constrained Autonomy: A Substantive–Methodological Reflection and Analysis of School Leaders’ Needs from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10079-3
Implicit measure of growth mindset: reducing social desirability bias and linking to academic performance
Social Psychology of Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11218-025-10125-6
A Cultural Explanation of Motivation-Achievement Paradox in Math
Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189x251370677
The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025
Educational Psychology Review. DOI: 10.1007/s10648-025-10059-7
Research Program
Current research themes
Substantive questions and rigorous methods across motivation, self-beliefs, STEM pathways, social-emotional learning, digital learning, family socialization, educator wellbeing, cross-cultural comparison, evidence synthesis, and quantitative methodology.
Cross-Cultural Studies
This theme uses cross-cultural and cross-national comparisons to understand how sociocultural context shapes motivation, self-beliefs, achievement, wellbeing, and educational inequality.
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Digital Learning and AI
This theme explores how artificial intelligence, digital platforms, social media, e-learning, and internet use reshape motivation, identity, support, and learning outcomes.
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Family, Parenting, and Socialization
This theme focuses on parenting, family socialization, parental aspirations, ethnic-racial socialization, and the ways families shape young people’s identity, motivation, and adjustment.
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Research Methods and Measurement
This theme develops and applies advanced quantitative methods, measurement models, validation frameworks, and computational approaches for educational and psychological research.
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School Principal and Teacher Wellbeing
This theme investigates the wellbeing, motivation, autonomy, job satisfaction, burnout, and retention of school leaders and teachers, including how educator wellbeing relates to school climate and student outcomes.
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Self-Concept and Academic Motivation
This theme focuses on academic self-concept, self-beliefs, expectancy-value processes, achievement motivation, engagement, and the developmental pathways linking motivation with educational outcomes.
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Social-Emotional Learning and Wellbeing
This theme examines social-emotional skills, wellbeing, belonging, peer relations, compassion, burnout, and adolescent adjustment across school, family, and cultural contexts.
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STEM Pathways and Gender
This theme examines how cultural, social, motivational, and educational systems shape young people’s STEM pathways, with particular attention to gendered choices in science, mathematics, and university study.
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Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis
This theme brings together systematic reviews, meta-analyses, research syntheses, and intellectual landscape work across educational psychology, wellbeing, socialization, motivation, and learning sciences.
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