OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Instructional Science is 5. 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
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
Medical education videos as a tool for rehearsal: efficiency and the cases of background music and difficulty	10
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
Debriefing as epistemic engineering: conversational remembering and socially distributed metacognition in healthcare simulation	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
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
In pursuit of mutual benefits in school-based citizen science: who wins what in a win-win situation?	5