Learning and Instruction

Papers
(The median citation count of Learning and Instruction is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Can you have your cake and eat it too?330
Uncovering everyday dynamics in students’ perceptions of instructional quality with experience sampling201
EARLI Association News135
The impact of executive functions on English academic performance among Chinese primary school students: A network analysis98
The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar96
Developmental changes in the contributions of phonological processing skills to Chinese character reading and arithmetic95
Isolated or integrated? – Instructional approaches to foster professional vision of teaching quality85
Relations between graphomotor self-concept and graphomotor skills: A longitudinal study in early school age74
Sequential thinking prompts for creative problem solving73
Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review70
Constructive retrieval: Benefits for learning, motivation, and metacognitive monitoring65
Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in relation to text characteristics and reading comprehension55
Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms51
Self-regulation prompts promote the achievement of learning goals – But only briefly: Uncovering hidden dynamics in the effects of a psychological intervention46
Do vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in second language facilitate the development of each other in young children?44
Domain-specific self-regulated learning interventions for elementary school students44
Differentiated instruction on undergraduate students based on classification and prediction of students performance using PSO-BP neural network42
Gender-specific trajectories of academic achievement in Chinese elementary school students: Relations with life satisfaction trajectories and suicidal ideation trajectories41
Editorial board/Publication information40
Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension40
Straight from the teacher's mouth: The value of own-perspective gaze-elicited think-aloud for understanding culture-specific teacher expertise39
Distilling playful stances to learning: Looking across cultures, contexts, roles and generations39
Improving the teaching and learning of statistics39
University students in COVID-19 lockdown: The role of adaptability and fluid reasoning in supporting their academic motivation and engagement37
A Bayesian approach to students’ perceptions of teachers’ autonomy support37
Dynamic relationships between text reading fluency and reading comprehension across three stages of reading development in Chinese children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study37
Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning36
Training flexibility in dealing with additive situations35
The neural correlates of cognitive load in learning: An fMRI study on graph comprehension34
Editorial board/Publication information33
Shedding light on relations between teacher emotions, instructional behavior, and student school well-being – Evidence from disadvantaged schools32
Other-self similarity, motivation, emotion, and learning31
Image interpretation scaffolds support adolescents’ historical reasoning30
Playful learning is the missing link in educational success30
Third graders’ digital and paper text comprehension29
Evolutionary perspective on human cognitive architecture: Implications for adaptive instruction Commentary on the Special Issue on adaptivity29
Visual-spatial skills and children’s math development29
The influence of seductive details in learning environments with low and high extrinsic motivation29
Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency – Development and parallel processes during the early school years29
Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?28
Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology28
Providing external feedback and prompting the generation of internal feedback fosters achievement, strategies and motivation in concept learning28
Effects of retrieval practice on retention and application of complex educational concepts28
Rating writing: Comparison of holistic and analytic grading approaches in pre-service teachers27
Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement:A multilevel moderated mediation model27
Do easy-to-read adaptations really facilitate sentence processing for adults with a lower level of education? An experimental eye-tracking study27
Scripted interventions versus reciprocal teaching in collaborative learning: A comparison of pedagogical and teachable agents using a cognitive architecture26
Digital education through guided pretend play26
Benefits of turning the illustrations in a narrated slideshow into cartoons: An extension of the positivity principle25
Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries25
Does learning how to use data mean being motivated to use it? Effects of a data use intervention on data literacy and motivational beliefs of pre-service teachers24
Modeling teachers’ reactions to unexpectedness23
Antecedents of creativity: Statistical discourse analysis of university student teams' interactions23
Classroom management and students' mathematics achievement: The role of students’ disruptive behavior and teacher classroom management22
Unravelling the quality of processes of learning from errors: Insights from students' written error reflections in factoring tasks22
Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies22
Supports for young males' and females’ interest in swimming and competition22
The effects of direct and indirect training in metacognitive learning strategies on near and far transfer in self-regulated learning22
Pizzas or no pizzas: An advantage of word problems in fraction arithmetic?22
Strategies for regulating achievement emotions: Conceptualization and relations with university students’ emotions, well-being, and health21
Enhancing learning with a two-page study manual21
Validating automated assessments of teaching effectiveness using multimodal data21
EARLI Association News21
“The more I learn, the more I know nothing”: A longitudinal registered report of doctoral students’ uncertainty in learning21
Corrigendum to “Connecting joint visual attention, community belonging, and self-efficacy in makerspace environments using high frequency data” [Learning and Instruction 103 (2026) 102315]20
Overcoming the gap between knowledge and use in mathematical flexibility: Examining the role of inhibitory control20
The relationship between early childhood teachers' instructional quality and children's mathematics development20
The impact of a usefulness intervention on students’ learning achievement in a virtual biology lesson: An eye-tracking-based approach19
Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students’ text revisions19
Stimulating individual learning of the concept of fraction equivalence: How students utilize adaptive features in digital learning environments mediates their effect19
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement18
How is teacher emotion regulation related to teaching quality and student engagement? A multilevel longitudinal analysis18
Student well-being: In search of definitions, measures, and research designs18
Time-of-day matters in text learning and recall: Evening lessons are advantageous for adults with ADHD though not for typical peers18
Editorial for the special issue “Advances in simulation-based learning in higher education”18
In their hands: Multimodal learning analytics as reflective-practice resources empowering mathematics teachers’ professional development17
Role of home math environment in the intergenerational transmission of math skills17
Trait resilience against classroom discrimination: Exploring protective effects on immigrant students’ academic achievement across 59 economies17
Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage17
The role of strategy-based motivation in mathematical problem solving: The case of learner-generated drawings17
EARLI Association News17
Opening up the black box: Teacher competence, instructional quality, and students’ learning progress17
Linguistic precursors of sixth-grade geometric and fraction skills in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder17
Phatic expressions influence perceived helpfulness in online peer help-giving: A mixed methods study17
Effects of digitalisation on learning to write – A naturalistic experiment16
A strength-based approach to exploring pre-school children’s spatial language and patterning skills16
The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade16
Utilizing AI and machine learning in vocal training programs: A contemporary approach16
Feedback to diverse language learners: Where are we and where do we need to go in literacy research? An introduction to the Special Issue on Literacy and Feedback16
The happy-fish-little-pond effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries16
Little and often: Causal inference machine learning demonstrates the benefits of homework for improving achievement in mathematics and science16
Spaced instruction for psychological concepts: Insights from interpersonal brain synchronization and students’ perceptions of teaching16
The more, the better? Learning with feedback and instruction16
Effectiveness of a minecraft education intervention for improving spatial thinking in primary school children: A mixed methods two-level cluster randomised trial16
Invited commentary: Towards more inclusive and Integrated approaches to reading and writing feedback research16
Introducing the DYNAMICS framework of moment-to-moment development in achievement motivation16
Differences between low and high achievers in whole-classroom dialogue participation quality16
A multi-informant study on teachers' mindset, classroom practices, and student well-being16
Interleaved practice in physics benefits from collaboration15
How do professional development programs on comparing solution methods and classroom discourse affect students' achievement in mathematics? The mediating role of students’ subject matter justification15
The role of social networks in digital learning gamification: Learner communication preferences and performance effects15
EARLI Association News15
Ecological validity of retrospective reflections in eye tracking15
EARLI Association News15
Integrating AIGC into product design ideation teaching: An empirical study on self-efficacy and learning outcomes14
Toward adaptive support of pre-service teachers' assessment competencies: Log data in a digital simulation reveal engagement modes14
The impact of formative assessment on pupil academic achievement: An empirical study of the effects of a formative assessment practices program that was co-designed in a teacher community14
Does watching an explainer video help learning with subsequent text? – Only when prompt-questions are provided14
Disciplinary vocabulary and mastery of educational objectives in first-grade14
How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses14
Can simulations help higher education in training professional skills?14
How effective is feedback for L1, L2, and FL learners’ writing? A meta-analysis14
Retrieval Practice in Stepwise Worked Examples Improves Learning14
The role of interactive dialogue in students’ learning of mathematical reasoning: A quantitative multi-method analysis of feedback episodes14
The role of inhibition in overcoming arithmetic natural number bias in the Chinese context: Evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments14
Explaining procedures and interleaving practice in fraction arithmetic13
The dynamics of creative agency: Insights from two intensive diary studies on university students13
Uncovering the situational impact in educational settings: Studies on motivational and emotional experiences13
Individual differences in the executive functions of perfectionism profiles13
Children’s and mothers’ understanding of play and learning: Repertoires across five cultures13
Comparisons in everyday life: Effects on academic self-concepts13
SES and academic achievement are (not always) related: Profiles of student SES, academic achievement and their links to socio-emotional, cognitive, and metacognitive characteristics13
Paper-pencil vs. e-exams: Revisiting the screen inferiority effect during high-stakes testing at university13
Physiological synchrony amongst medical residents during crisis management simulation training and a video-based assessment of leaders’ performance13
EARLI Association News13
Playful enactive interventions can enhance agency, empathy and social integration in children13
Design fit in gamified online programming learning environment13
Interleaved practice enhances grammar skill learning for similar and dissimilar tenses in Romance languages13
How to guide learners' processing of multimedia lessons with pedagogical agents13
The application of arithmetic principles predicts mathematical achievement in college students12
Commentary on within-person designs and motivational science12
Exploring the interaction of writer individual differences in predicting L2 students’ writing achievements12
Teacher personality domains and facets: Their unique associations with student-ratings of teaching quality and teacher enthusiasm12
Cognitive aspects of video-based learning with instructor presence depend on pedagogical approaches: A perspective from motivating styles12
Editorial board/Publication information12
Investigating grade-level and text genre effects in Quality Talk discussions: An AI-powered discourse analysis of upper primary students’ high-level comprehension12
EARLI title page12
Taking a closer look at how higher education students process and use (discrepant) peer feedback12
Are profiles of self-regulated learning and intelligence mindsets related to students’ self-regulated learning and achievement?11
Emotional dynamics and regulation in collaborative learning11
Getting lost in new contexts: Weak generalization in artificial orthography learning among groups with literacy deficits11
Investigating learner characteristics and processes in Productive Failure and Vicarious Failure to design adaptive guidance11
Higher education students’ achievement emotions and their antecedents in e-learning amid COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country survey11
Boosting debiasing: Impact of repeated training on reasoning11
Editorial Board11
Really? It depends! How authentic learning material affects involvement with personal stories of the past11
Applying multimodal learning analytics to naturalistic recordings of clinical simulations: Towards an accurate and scalable pipeline for automated feedback generation11
Reflecting on their mission increases preservice teachers’ growth mindsets11
Maintaining the outcomes of meaningful learning: Where are we and where do we need to go? An introduction to the special issue on lasting learning11
Testing individual and group markers of collaboration in a team-based learning classroom11
Retrieval supports word learning in children with Down syndrome10
Corrigendum to “Can the effects of generative drawing on lasting learning be optimized through integration of retrieval practice?” [Learning and Instruction 98 (2025) 102143]10
Rich data, poor information? Teachers’ perceptions of mean differences in graphical feedback from statewide tests10
Effects of interruption on eye movements and comprehension during reading on digital devices10
The interplay of rewards and competition in digital game-based learning: Effects on intrinsic motivation, game performance and behaviors, and computational thinking10
Examining myside bias on a controversial historical event after engagement in dialogic argumentation: Insights from a think aloud study10
Editorial Board10
Revisiting “The Power of Feedback” from the perspective of the learner10
Exploring multimedia principles and learning from errors in augmented reality and video10
Beyond analysing frequencies: Exploring teacher professional vision with epistemic network analysis of teachers’ think-aloud data10
A meta-analysis of students’ academic learning losses over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic10
Analysing classroom videos in teacher education— How different instructional settings promote student teachers’ professional vision of classroom management10
Fostering students' task-related emotions through a value-intervention: An experimental study10
How does interest in a course interact with course learning?10
Unveiling passive cross-modal reactivation and validation processes in the processing of multimedia material10
Examining the relationship between English as a foreign language learners' cognitive abilities and L2 grit in predicting their writing performance10
Intensive experience sampling to uncover the dynamics: How do creativity anxiety and goal orientations shape students’ creative process?10
Complexity affects performance, cognitive load, and awareness10
Are direct effects of cognitive activation on student outcomes enough? Exploring the role of adaptation and use of opportunities10
Examining the contribution of student anxiety and opposition-defiance to the internal dynamics of affective, Cognitive and Behavioural Engagement in Math10
School grades and students’ emotions: Longitudinal models of within-person reciprocal effects10
Climate change by the numbers: Leveraging mathematical skills for science learning online9
Reading comprehension resiliency in adolescents with and without dyslexia relates to vocabulary, listening comprehension and socioeconomic status9
EARLI title page9
EARLI title page9
Impact of self-view in video communication on group brainstorming9
Prequestioning with feedback fosters learning in young children9
Writing or speaking? The role of the production medium in the effectiveness of learning journals9
Take a deep breath or screem it all out: Emotion regulation strategies of young students9
Editorial board/Publication information9
The impact of a block-based visual programming curriculum: Untangling coding skills and computational thinking9
How stereotype knowledge and stereotype belief impact girls’ self-efficacy and math performance: A response surface analysis approach9
An unobtrusive approach to modelling team cohesion and collaboration in ecological classroom settings9
Scaffolding of learning activities: Aptitude-treatment-interaction effects in math?9
Editorial Board9
Exploring creativity in self-regulated learning and its association with academic performance9
Does classroom matter? - A longitudinal multilevel perspective on students' achievement goal orientation profiles during lower secondary school8
Editorial board/Publication information8
Comparing two whole task patient simulations for two different dental education topics8
Effects of supplemental instruction on grades, mental well-being, and belonging: A field experiment8
Can noncomplementarity of agency lead to successful problem solving? A case study on students’ interpersonal behaviors in mathematical problem-solving collaboration8
Student’s subjective feelings during classroom learning8
From cradle to classroom: Infant-directed speech facilitates word learning in adults learning English as a foreign language8
The influence of textual genre in multiple-text comprehension8
Student well-being: Advancing knowledge of the construct and the role of learning and teaching factors8
Learning from academic video with subtitles: When foreign language proficiency matters8
The role of engagement in immigrant students’ academic resilience8
The effect of mastery goal-complexes on mathematics grades and engagement: The case of Low-SES Peruvian students8
Classroom disruptions: Impact on teachers’ gaze patterns8
Inclusive education by teachers to the development of the social and emotional competencies of their students in secondary education8
Student characteristics and effort during test-taking8
It counts in every single lesson: Between- and within-person associations of teaching quality and student self-regulation7
Effects of SI-PASS on a high-risk course – A randomized controlled trial7
Effects of a literary intervention on interaction quality in small-group discussions in the upper elementary grades7
Teachers' enthusiasm and humor and its' lagged relationships with students' enjoyment and boredom - A latent trait-state-approach7
Keeping track of expert teachers: Comparing the affordances of think-aloud elicited by two different video perspectives7
Creativity in dialogues: How do children interact with parents vs. strangers for generating creative ideas?7
Fostering collaboration in simulations: How advanced learners benefit from collaboration scripts and reflection7
Effects of real-time adaptivity of scaffolding: Supporting pre-service mathematics teachers’ assessment skills in simulations7
Why do students exhibit different attention-related behavior during instruction? Investigating effects of individual and context-dependent determinants7
Editorial board/Publication information7
Effects of formative feedback on argumentative writing in English and cross-linguistic transfer to German7
Teacher-child relationships, early childhood programme quality and early learning in two-year-old toddlers7
The effect of inter-letter spacing on reading performance and eye movements in typically reading and dyslexic children7
How feedback affects emotions, performance and self-concept in mathematics7
Improving (meta)comprehension: Feedback and self-assessment7
How am I going? Behavioral engagement mediates the effect of individual feedback on writing performance7
Change and transmission of students' and teachers’ lesson-specific emotions7
Early childcare enrollment and the pursuit of higher education: A Canadian longitudinal study7
EARLI Association News7
Editorial Board7
Promoting online participation in hybrid learning settings: Exploring combinations of a collaboration script and collaborative reflection7
Relationality of play and playfulness in early childhood sustainability education7
The direction of the relation between oral communicative competence and social preference in early childhood classrooms, and the role of dialogic classroom talk7
Student interaction with ChatGPT can promote complex critical thinking skills6
The interplay of positivity and self-verification strivings: Feedback preference under increased desire for self-enhancement6
Adolescents' daily sense of school connectedness and academic engagement: Intensive longitudinal mediation study of student differences by remote, hybrid, and in-person learning modality6
COVID-19-related differences in students’ verbal achievements: Comparisons of different cohorts of students with SEN based on large-scale assessment data from Germany6
The relationship between inquiry-based teaching and students’ achievement. New evidence from a longitudinal PISA study in England6
Learning by teaching in immersive virtual reality – Absorption tendency increases learning outcomes6
The relation between text comprehension and computation in mathematical word-problem solving6
Joy is reciprocally transmitted between teachers and students: Evidence on facial mimicry in the classroom6
Student engagement and teacher emotions in student-teacher dyads: The role of teacher involvement6
Reward and competition in motivation and learning: Myths, pitfalls, and insights6
Addressing the reciprocal nature of effects in teacher motivation research: A study on relations among teacher motivation, student-reported teaching, and student enjoyment and achievement6
Comparison effects on self- and external ratings: Testing the generalizability of the 2I/E model to parents and teachers of academic track school students6
The development of peer networks and academic performance in learning communities in higher education6
Dual-contrast pedagogy for AI literacy in upper elementary schools6
Editorial board/Publication information6
CLIL effects on academic self-concepts: Positive effects in English but detrimental effects in math?6
Prediction versus production for teaching computer programming6
Task ambiguity and academic procrastination: An experience sampling approach6
Making a case for playful assessment as asset-based assessment through conjecture mapping6
Using design thinking for developing pre-service teachers’ creativity in designing teaching plans to promote interactive learning in mathematics5
Parents’ spatial talk predicts toddlers’ spatial language gains5
The role of teachers' instrumental and emotional support in students' academic buoyancy, engagement, and academic skills: A study of high school and elementary school students in different national co5
The viewing perspective effect in learning from instructional videos: A replication and neuroimaging extension5
The roles of growth mindset and feedback type in shaping students’ responses to academic setbacks5
The dark side of detracking: Mixed-ability classrooms negatively affect the academic self-concept of students with low academic achievement5
Adjusting strategies when reading reliable and unreliable texts5
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