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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Spaced recall reduces forgetting of fundamental mathematical concepts in a post high school precalculus course	39
Conceptual and procedural knowledge retention in data visualization: a longitudinal study of doctoral learning and instructional design implications	35
Using productive failure to learn genetics in a game-based environment	32
How adding structure reduces complexity: more interconnections in concept maps do not increase cognitive load	25
Integrating dispositions in instructional design: an exploratory study in higher education	23
Beyond small gains: how content-focused high-specificity peer feedback correlates with substantial provider benefits	21
Associations between student-perceived teaching quality and students’ mathematics confidence and mathematics achievement: A study of Swedish grade 4 TIMSS 2019	20
Scoping deliberations: scaffolding engagement in planning collective action	18
Are you inspired or overwhelmed? The benefits of teachers setting challenging expectations	17
Comparing the effectiveness of multiple text reading and rereading on knowledge retention and metacognitive accuracy	17
Promoting interdisciplinary understanding in asynchronous online higher education courses: a learning communities approach	17
Effects of short- and long-term prompting in learning journals on strategy use, self-efficacy, and learning outcomes	16
Self-study followed by discussion enhances learning for high school students	16
Half a century of Instructional Science: a bibliometric analysis	16
Leveraging conjecture mapping for design-based research: a case of adoption and development	16
Walking the number line: towards an enactive understanding of integer arithmetic	15
Correction: Understanding interactions between scientists and elementary school students in a citizen science project	15
Generative learning supports learning from video lectures: evidence from an EEG study	14
Examining relations between math anxiety, prior knowledge, hint usage, and performance of math equivalence in two different online learning contexts	14
Learners’ understandings of peer relationships in inquiry: the role of friends versus acquaintance peers in collaboration	14
The more, the worse? The influence of the seductive detail amount on learning	14
University students’ perceptions of using generative AI in translation practices	14
Improving multiple document comprehension with a lesson about multi-causal explanations in science	13
Moderating effects of students’ dispositions on relationships between instructional activity and students’ science literacy using PISA 2015	12
Understanding compatibilities and inconsistencies between science teachers’ professed beliefs and practices about question-asking in science lessons	12

Data to decision-making: how elementary students use their Community and Citizen Science project to reimagine their school campus	11
Promoting teachers' in-class SRL practices: effects of Authentic Interactive Dynamic Experiences (AIDE) based on simulations and video	11
Developing a needs-based plagiarism management in second-language writing in a higher education institute: practice-oriented research	11
Community and citizen science in schools: nested inquiries, productive tensions, and the role of communities	11
Fostering students’ motivation towards learning research skills: the role of autonomy, competence and relatedness support	10
Medical education videos as a tool for rehearsal: efficiency and the cases of background music and difficulty	10
Self-regulated learning and video annotation in a high school acting classroom	9
Debriefing as epistemic engineering: conversational remembering and socially distributed metacognition in healthcare simulation	9
Problem-solving prior to instructional explanations when learning javelin throwing in primary school	8
Why do people not desire to know all their unknowns? Exploring the potential of interest as a factor in arousing curiosity in science	8
How vocal and silent forms of participation in combination relate to student achievement	8
Do medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos?	8
Conceptual socialization in debriefing: tactics as an object of knowledge in wargame interactions	7
The effects of focused and unfocused written corrective feedback and teacher instruction on L2 writers’ accuracy in using countable and uncountable nouns	7
The scripted computer-supported collaborative argumentation in a secondary school classroom: an exploratory study	7
MyDanceDown: evaluating dance competence and emotions in individuals with Down syndrome	7
Making crosscutting concepts explicit for senior high school students through concept-based instructions and improving their understanding thereof	7
Learning with concept maps: the effect of activity structure and the type of task	7
The facilitation effect of key-step retrieval practice on learning one-variable quadratic equations	7
Correction: Learning with concept maps: the effect of activity structure and the type of task change the author group order as Cristina Amante, Manuel Lucero and Manuel Montanerok	7
English learners learn from worked example comparison in algebra	7
Authentic evidence from the ‘SRL-AIDE’ simulative environment on explicitness and duration of in-class SRL teaching practices	7
Learning from erroneous examples in the mathematics classroom: do students with different naïve ideas benefit equally?	6
Feedback features and revision uptake in dialogic peer feedback: the moderating effect of self-efficacy and prior knowledge	6
Retrieval-based concept mapping as an effective learning strategy for the transfer of knowledge	6
Comparison of more effective and typical teachers’ instructional quality and implementation of engaged reader processes	6
In pursuit of mutual benefits in school-based citizen science: who wins what in a win-win situation?	6
Learning from interactive video: the influence of self-explanations, navigation, and cognitive load	6
Cultivating science data literacy in K-16 science education through data practices: A systematic review	6
Fifth graders study videos faster than illustrated texts: Studying rate, review strategies, and learning implications	6
When do students provide more peer feedback? The roles of performance and prior feedback experiences	6
Designing to support equity-as-transformation perspectives for multilingual science learners	5
Using self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student STEM interest and identity development	5
Effectiveness of invention tasks and explicit instruction in preparing intellectually gifted adolescents for learning	5
Research on the correlation between teacher classroom questioning types and student thinking development from the perspective of discourse analysis	5
CID: a framework for the cognitive analysis of composite instructional designs	5
Introduction: the role of affect in STEM teacher learning	5
How a technology-augmented inquiry approach affects teacher practice and student learning in disadvantaged science classrooms	5
Situating collaborative disciplinary activity: creating a space for high-quality group engagement	5
Kindergarten instructional practices and child reading and math growth from kindergarten through third grade	4
SimLab: an intervention to promote expansive learning and organisational change in team-based emergency care simulation	4
Orchestrating the flow and advancement of knowledge artifacts in an online class	4
Examining the effects of tempo in background music on adolescent learners’ reading comprehension performance: employing a multimodal approach	4
Factors that explain simulation-based inquiry performance in physics learning	4
Transfer of responsibility in novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers’ scaffolding: interactional characteristics	4
Effects of a situated learning theory based mobile augmented reality application on primary students’ Tang poetry learning outcomes, motivation, and technology acceptance	4
Simulations, institutional know-how and the evolution of practices of learning: A commentary	4
The relationship between motivation profiles and conceptual change as mediated by student engagement: a person-centered approach	4
Infusing teacher-preparation curriculum with case-based instruction focused on culturally responsive, sustaining pedagogy: comparing instructor-facilitated and instructor-supported approaches	4
Linguistic demands of instructions: Effects on students’ expectancy-value beliefs	4

Instruction in creative and argumentative writing: transfer and crossover effects on writing process and text quality	4
Semiempty collaborative concept mapping in history education: students’ engagement in historical reasoning and coconstruction	4
Localizing, describing, interpreting: effects of different audio text structures on attributing meaning to digital pictures	4
Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt	3
Strategies for facilitating processing of transient information in instructional videos by using learner control mechanisms	3
An experimental test of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect using an immersive virtual reality classroom	3
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?	3
From curiosity to competence: the pivotal pathway of grit and flow in a large-scale study of Chinese adolescents	3
Affect and agency in teacher knowledge and identity construction: dialectical relationships and entangled realities	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
The effect of guiding methods -based social annotation tool on students’ learning and perceptions	3
Can failure be made productive also in Bayesian reasoning? A conceptual replication study	3
Explanatory inferencing in simulation-based discovery learning: sequence analysis using the edit distance median string	3
When is observing failure productive? Investigating the role of solution diversity in vicarious failure	3
Exploring interconnections between communicative activities, situational stress reactions and cognitive engagement in undergraduate mathematics lesson	3
Minding the gender gap in advanced STEM courses: effects of student preparedness and activity level	3
Computer versus longhand note taking: Influence of revision	3
The effects of competitive classroom activities on undergraduates with varied levels of competitive preference	3
Examining teacher change in reflective practice: Insights for professional development on adopting representational scaffolding in the inquiry-based learning	3
Boundary Crossing in Student-Teacher-Scientist-Partnerships: Designer Considerations and Methods to Integrate Citizen Science with School Science	3
Signaling cues and focused prompts for professional vision support: The interplay of instructional design and situational interest in preservice teachers’ video analysis	3
Investigating Students’ Collaborative Problem-Solving Interactions during Scaffolded and Non-Scaffolded Ill-Structured Tasks	3
Teacher noticing to scaffold knowledge-building inquiry in two grade 5 classrooms	3
Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	3
Promoting learning transfer in science through a complexity approach and computational modeling	3
Beliefs influence argumentative essay writing	3
Effects of instruction colour and learner empathy on aesthetic appreciation of Chinese poetry	3
Learning progression-based design: advancing the synergetic development of energy understanding and scientific explanation	2
Reciprocal interactions between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small group discussions	2
Designing for learning across disciplines: leveraging graphs to improve knowledge integration in science	2
Fostering noticing of classroom discussion features through analysis of contrasting cases	2
Bridging communities and schools in Urban development: community and citizen science	2
Supports for preservice teachers’ metacognitive monitoring and explanations of fraction comparisons	2
The effect of blended learning approaches on vocational school students’ practical skills performance and learning behaviors: virtual simulations or hands-on activities while accessing instructional v	2
How differences in self-determined motivation relate to the perception of formative assessment and self-regulated learning in secondary school: a person-centered approach	2
Deficit narratives as teacher foils: how vulnerability and emotional regimes shape teacher discourse	2
Fun beyond gamification: Universal elements to enhance children’s learning	2
Investigating the role of an inquiry-based science lab on students’ scientific literacy	2
Outspoken emotions – Emotion regulation during emotional challenges in collaborative learning	2
Fostering engineering and science students’ and teachers’ systems thinking and conceptual modeling skills	2
Putting self-regulated learning and teaching into practice: insights from two science teachers and their students	2
Assessing emergency physicians’ motivation to conduct clinical teaching using the Q-methodology approach	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
Effects of person praise on students’ motivation and performance under ego-involving and task-involving feedback conditions	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
The roles that students’ ethnicity and achievement levels play in teachers’ choice of learning materials in online teaching: evidence from two experimental studies	2
Correction: Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	2
Effects of a literary intervention on teachers’ monologic and dialogic practices and the quality of students’ contributions	2