OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Instructional Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Using productive failure to learn genetics in a game-based environment	30
How adding structure reduces complexity: more interconnections in concept maps do not increase cognitive load	29
Spaced recall reduces forgetting of fundamental mathematical concepts in a post high school precalculus course	28
“Anything taking shape?” Capturing various layers of small group collaborative problem solving in an experiential geometry course in initial teacher education	25
The Effects of Group differentiation by students’ learning strategies	18
Are you inspired or overwhelmed? The benefits of teachers setting challenging expectations	18
Outside the standard test: The development of a model-based assessment and corresponding rubric	18
Comparing the effectiveness of multiple text reading and rereading on knowledge retention and metacognitive accuracy	17
Scoping deliberations: scaffolding engagement in planning collective action	17
Promoting interdisciplinary understanding in asynchronous online higher education courses: a learning communities approach	15
Designing computer-based tests: design guidelines from multimedia learning studied with eye tracking	15
Effects of short- and long-term prompting in learning journals on strategy use, self-efficacy, and learning outcomes	15
Correction: Understanding interactions between scientists and elementary school students in a citizen science project	14
Detecting threshold concepts through Bayesian knowledge tracing: examining research skill development in biological sciences at the doctoral level	14
Significance of forms and foci of metacognitive regulation in collaborative science learning of less and more successful outcome groups in diverse contexts	14
Examining relations between math anxiety, prior knowledge, hint usage, and performance of math equivalence in two different online learning contexts	14
Walking the number line: towards an enactive understanding of integer arithmetic	14
University students’ perceptions of using generative AI in translation practices	13
Learners’ understandings of peer relationships in inquiry: the role of friends versus acquaintance peers in collaboration	13
Generative learning supports learning from video lectures: evidence from an EEG study	13
Improving multiple document comprehension with a lesson about multi-causal explanations in science	12
Noticing and weighing alternatives in the reflection of regular classroom teaching: Evidence of expertise using mobile eye-tracking	11
Promoting teachers' in-class SRL practices: effects of Authentic Interactive Dynamic Experiences (AIDE) based on simulations and video	11
Moderating effects of students’ dispositions on relationships between instructional activity and students’ science literacy using PISA 2015	11
Medical education videos as a tool for rehearsal: efficiency and the cases of background music and difficulty	11

Developing a needs-based plagiarism management in second-language writing in a higher education institute: practice-oriented research	11
Refined use of the eye-mind hypothesis for scientific argumentation using multiple representations	11
Community and citizen science in schools: nested inquiries, productive tensions, and the role of communities	11
Data to decision-making: how elementary students use their Community and Citizen Science project to reimagine their school campus	11
Problem-solving prior to instructional explanations when learning javelin throwing in primary school	10
Fostering students’ motivation towards learning research skills: the role of autonomy, competence and relatedness support	10
Why do people not desire to know all their unknowns? Exploring the potential of interest as a factor in arousing curiosity in science	10
Self-regulated learning and video annotation in a high school acting classroom	10
How preparation-for-learning with a worked versus an open inventing problem affect subsequent learning processes in pre-service teachers	10
Do medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos?	9
Conceptual socialization in debriefing: tactics as an object of knowledge in wargame interactions	9
How many words are enough? Investigating the effect of different configurations of a software scaffold for formulating scientific hypotheses in inquiry-oriented contexts	9
How vocal and silent forms of participation in combination relate to student achievement	9
Making crosscutting concepts explicit for senior high school students through concept-based instructions and improving their understanding thereof	9
Feedback features and revision uptake in dialogic peer feedback: the moderating effect of self-efficacy and prior knowledge	8
Fostering pre-service teachers’ theoretical knowledge application: studying with and without text-based cases	8
MyDanceDown: evaluating dance competence and emotions in individuals with Down syndrome	8
Learning from interactive video: the influence of self-explanations, navigation, and cognitive load	7
Retrieval-based concept mapping as an effective learning strategy for the transfer of knowledge	7
English learners learn from worked example comparison in algebra	7
Using self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student STEM interest and identity development	6
In pursuit of mutual benefits in school-based citizen science: who wins what in a win-win situation?	6
Research on the correlation between teacher classroom questioning types and student thinking development from the perspective of discourse analysis	6
CID: a framework for the cognitive analysis of composite instructional designs	6
Comparison of more effective and typical teachers’ instructional quality and implementation of engaged reader processes	6
Enhancing students’ critical thinking skills: is comparing correct and erroneous examples beneficial?	6
When do students provide more peer feedback? The roles of performance and prior feedback experiences	6
The scripted computer-supported collaborative argumentation in a secondary school classroom: an exploratory study	6
Learning from erroneous examples in the mathematics classroom: do students with different naïve ideas benefit equally?	6
The collaborative discourse characteristics of high school students during a web-based module for a socioscientific issue	6
Effectiveness of invention tasks and explicit instruction in preparing intellectually gifted adolescents for learning	5
Refuting student teachers’ misconceptions about multimedia learning	5
Infusing teacher-preparation curriculum with case-based instruction focused on culturally responsive, sustaining pedagogy: comparing instructor-facilitated and instructor-supported approaches	5
Designing to support equity-as-transformation perspectives for multilingual science learners	5
Instruction in creative and argumentative writing: transfer and crossover effects on writing process and text quality	4
Computer versus longhand note taking: Influence of revision	4
Promoting learning transfer in science through a complexity approach and computational modeling	4
Can failure be made productive also in Bayesian reasoning? A conceptual replication study	4
Orchestrating the flow and advancement of knowledge artifacts in an online class	4
Kindergarten instructional practices and child reading and math growth from kindergarten through third grade	4
Localizing, describing, interpreting: effects of different audio text structures on attributing meaning to digital pictures	4
Examining the effects of tempo in background music on adolescent learners’ reading comprehension performance: employing a multimodal approach	4
An experimental test of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect using an immersive virtual reality classroom	4
Transfer of responsibility in novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers’ scaffolding: interactional characteristics	4
SimLab: an intervention to promote expansive learning and organisational change in team-based emergency care simulation	4
Semiempty collaborative concept mapping in history education: students’ engagement in historical reasoning and coconstruction	4
Teacher noticing to scaffold knowledge-building inquiry in two grade 5 classrooms	4
Testing the meshing hypothesis in prospective teachers: Are there effects of matching learning style and presentation mode on learning performance and on metacognitive aspects of learning?	4
Signaling cues and focused prompts for professional vision support: The interplay of instructional design and situational interest in preservice teachers’ video analysis	3
Learning to solve ill-defined statistics problems: does self-explanation quality mediate the worked example effect?	3

The effects of competitive classroom activities on undergraduates with varied levels of competitive preference	3
Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt	3
Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	3
When is observing failure productive? Investigating the role of solution diversity in vicarious failure	3
How do higher education students regulate their learning with video modeling examples, worked examples, and practice problems?	3
Correction to: Futurising science education: students’ experiences from a course on futures thinking and quantum computing	3
A generative professional development program for the development of science teacher epistemic orientations and teaching practices	3
Boundary Crossing in Student-Teacher-Scientist-Partnerships: Designer Considerations and Methods to Integrate Citizen Science with School Science	3
Correction to: Is drawing after learning effective for metacognitive monitoring only when supported by spatial scaffolds?	3
Eye movements in the manipulation of hands-on and computer-simulated scientific experiments: an examination of learning processes using entropy and lag sequential analyses	3
Beliefs influence argumentative essay writing	3
Effects of instruction colour and learner empathy on aesthetic appreciation of Chinese poetry	3
Fostering noticing of classroom discussion features through analysis of contrasting cases	3
Explanatory inferencing in simulation-based discovery learning: sequence analysis using the edit distance median string	3
Strategies for facilitating processing of transient information in instructional videos by using learner control mechanisms	3
Uncertain instruction: effects on curiosity, learning, and transfer	2
Futurising science education: students’ experiences from a course on futures thinking and quantum computing	2
Investigating students’ perceived authenticity of learning activities in an out-of-school lab for social sciences: a replication study	2
A framework for supporting systems thinking and computational thinking through constructing models	2
Deficit narratives as teacher foils: how vulnerability and emotional regimes shape teacher discourse	2
Designing for learning across disciplines: leveraging graphs to improve knowledge integration in science	2
Investigating the role of an inquiry-based science lab on students’ scientific literacy	2
Enhancing computational thinking skills of students with disabilities	2
Correction: Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	2
Reciprocal interactions between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small group discussions	2
Do students learn more from failing alone or in groups? Insights into the effects of collaborative versus individual problem solving in productive failure	2
Investigating factors affecting student academic achievement in mathematics and science: cognitive style, self-regulated learning and working memory	2
Student teachers’ conceptual knowledge of operant conditioning: How can case comparison support knowledge acquisition?	2
Examining ontological and self-monitoring scaffolding to improve complex systems thinking with a participatory simulation	2