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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Spaced recall reduces forgetting of fundamental mathematical concepts in a post high school precalculus course	35
Using productive failure to learn genetics in a game-based environment	33
How adding structure reduces complexity: more interconnections in concept maps do not increase cognitive load	31
Associations between student-perceived teaching quality and students’ mathematics confidence and mathematics achievement: A study of Swedish grade 4 TIMSS 2019	25
Integrating dispositions in instructional design: an exploratory study in higher education	20
Comparing the effectiveness of multiple text reading and rereading on knowledge retention and metacognitive accuracy	19
Scoping deliberations: scaffolding engagement in planning collective action	19
Are you inspired or overwhelmed? The benefits of teachers setting challenging expectations	18
Leveraging conjecture mapping for design-based research: a case of adoption and development	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
Correction: Understanding interactions between scientists and elementary school students in a citizen science project	14
Walking the number line: towards an enactive understanding of integer arithmetic	14
The more, the worse? The influence of the seductive detail amount on learning	14
Learners’ understandings of peer relationships in inquiry: the role of friends versus acquaintance peers in collaboration	14
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	12
Improving multiple document comprehension with a lesson about multi-causal explanations in science	12
University students’ perceptions of using generative AI in translation practices	12
Developing a needs-based plagiarism management in second-language writing in a higher education institute: practice-oriented research	11
Moderating effects of students’ dispositions on relationships between instructional activity and students’ science literacy using PISA 2015	11
Understanding compatibilities and inconsistencies between science teachers’ professed beliefs and practices about question-asking in science lessons	11
Data to decision-making: how elementary students use their Community and Citizen Science project to reimagine their school campus	11
Medical education videos as a tool for rehearsal: efficiency and the cases of background music and difficulty	10
Promoting teachers' in-class SRL practices: effects of Authentic Interactive Dynamic Experiences (AIDE) based on simulations and video	10

Fostering students’ motivation towards learning research skills: the role of autonomy, competence and relatedness support	10
Community and citizen science in schools: nested inquiries, productive tensions, and the role of communities	10
Debriefing as epistemic engineering: conversational remembering and socially distributed metacognition in healthcare simulation	9
Do medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos?	9
Why do people not desire to know all their unknowns? Exploring the potential of interest as a factor in arousing curiosity in science	9
Self-regulated learning and video annotation in a high school acting classroom	8
Making crosscutting concepts explicit for senior high school students through concept-based instructions and improving their understanding thereof	8
Problem-solving prior to instructional explanations when learning javelin throwing in primary school	8
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
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
Conceptual socialization in debriefing: tactics as an object of knowledge in wargame interactions	7
The facilitation effect of key-step retrieval practice on learning one-variable quadratic equations	7
MyDanceDown: evaluating dance competence and emotions in individuals with Down syndrome	7
How vocal and silent forms of participation in combination relate to student achievement	7
The scripted computer-supported collaborative argumentation in a secondary school classroom: an exploratory study	7
Learning with concept maps: the effect of activity structure and the type of task	6
Learning from interactive video: the influence of self-explanations, navigation, and cognitive load	6
When do students provide more peer feedback? The roles of performance and prior feedback experiences	6
Authentic evidence from the ‘SRL-AIDE’ simulative environment on explicitness and duration of in-class SRL teaching practices	6
In pursuit of mutual benefits in school-based citizen science: who wins what in a win-win situation?	5
Research on the correlation between teacher classroom questioning types and student thinking development from the perspective of discourse analysis	5
The collaborative discourse characteristics of high school students during a web-based module for a socioscientific issue	5
The relationship between motivation profiles and conceptual change as mediated by student engagement: a person-centered approach	5
Using self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student STEM interest and identity development	5
Comparison of more effective and typical teachers’ instructional quality and implementation of engaged reader processes	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
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
Learning from erroneous examples in the mathematics classroom: do students with different naïve ideas benefit equally?	5
Feedback features and revision uptake in dialogic peer feedback: the moderating effect of self-efficacy and prior knowledge	5
CID: a framework for the cognitive analysis of composite instructional designs	5
Introduction: the role of affect in STEM teacher learning	5
Effectiveness of invention tasks and explicit instruction in preparing intellectually gifted adolescents for learning	5
Computer versus longhand note taking: Influence of revision	4
Kindergarten instructional practices and child reading and math growth from kindergarten through third grade	4
Instruction in creative and argumentative writing: transfer and crossover effects on writing process and text quality	4
Localizing, describing, interpreting: effects of different audio text structures on attributing meaning to digital pictures	4
Semiempty collaborative concept mapping in history education: students’ engagement in historical reasoning and coconstruction	4
Promoting learning transfer in science through a complexity approach and computational modeling	4
Orchestrating the flow and advancement of knowledge artifacts in an online class	4
Transfer of responsibility in novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers’ scaffolding: interactional characteristics	4
Examining the effects of tempo in background music on adolescent learners’ reading comprehension performance: employing a multimodal approach	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
SimLab: an intervention to promote expansive learning and organisational change in team-based emergency care simulation	4
Effects of a situated learning theory based mobile augmented reality application on primary students’ Tang poetry learning outcomes, motivation, and technology acceptance	4
Minding the gender gap in advanced STEM courses: effects of student preparedness and activity level	4
Simulations, institutional know-how and the evolution of practices of learning: A commentary	4

An experimental test of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect using an immersive virtual reality classroom	3
Can failure be made productive also in Bayesian reasoning? A conceptual replication study	3
Examining teacher change in reflective practice: Insights for professional development on adopting representational scaffolding in the inquiry-based learning	3
Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	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
Affect and agency in teacher knowledge and identity construction: dialectical relationships and entangled realities	3
The effects of competitive classroom activities on undergraduates with varied levels of competitive preference	3
Strategies for facilitating processing of transient information in instructional videos by using learner control mechanisms	3
When is observing failure productive? Investigating the role of solution diversity in vicarious failure	3
Signaling cues and focused prompts for professional vision support: The interplay of instructional design and situational interest in preservice teachers’ video analysis	3
From curiosity to competence: the pivotal pathway of grit and flow in a large-scale study of Chinese adolescents	3
How do higher education students regulate their learning with video modeling examples, worked examples, and practice problems?	3
Effects of instruction colour and learner empathy on aesthetic appreciation of Chinese poetry	3
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
Effects of person praise on students’ motivation and performance under ego-involving and task-involving feedback conditions	2
Student teachers’ conceptual knowledge of operant conditioning: How can case comparison support knowledge acquisition?	2
Deficit narratives as teacher foils: how vulnerability and emotional regimes shape teacher discourse	2
Fostering engineering and science students’ and teachers’ systems thinking and conceptual modeling skills	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
Do students learn more from failing alone or in groups? Insights into the effects of collaborative versus individual problem solving in productive failure	2
Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt	2
Explanatory inferencing in simulation-based discovery learning: sequence analysis using the edit distance median string	2
The effect of guiding methods -based social annotation tool on students’ learning and perceptions	2
Reciprocal interactions between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small group discussions	2
Investigating factors affecting student academic achievement in mathematics and science: cognitive style, self-regulated learning and working memory	2
Supports for preservice teachers’ metacognitive monitoring and explanations of fraction comparisons	2
Fun beyond gamification: Universal elements to enhance children’s learning	2
Boundary Crossing in Student-Teacher-Scientist-Partnerships: Designer Considerations and Methods to Integrate Citizen Science with School Science	2
Exploring interconnections between communicative activities, situational stress reactions and cognitive engagement in undergraduate mathematics lesson	2
Investigating the role of an inquiry-based science lab on students’ scientific literacy	2
A framework for supporting systems thinking and computational thinking through constructing models	2
Bridging communities and schools in Urban development: community and citizen science	2
Correction: Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	2