OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Instruction is 11. 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
Can you have your cake and eat it too?	330
Uncovering everyday dynamics in students’ perceptions of instructional quality with experience sampling	201
EARLI Association News	135
The impact of executive functions on English academic performance among Chinese primary school students: A network analysis	98
The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar	96
Developmental changes in the contributions of phonological processing skills to Chinese character reading and arithmetic	95
Isolated or integrated? – Instructional approaches to foster professional vision of teaching quality	85
Relations between graphomotor self-concept and graphomotor skills: A longitudinal study in early school age	74
Sequential thinking prompts for creative problem solving	73
Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review	70
Constructive retrieval: Benefits for learning, motivation, and metacognitive monitoring	65
Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in relation to text characteristics and reading comprehension	55
Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms	51
Self-regulation prompts promote the achievement of learning goals – But only briefly: Uncovering hidden dynamics in the effects of a psychological intervention	46
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 students	44
Differentiated instruction on undergraduate students based on classification and prediction of students performance using PSO-BP neural network	42
Gender-specific trajectories of academic achievement in Chinese elementary school students: Relations with life satisfaction trajectories and suicidal ideation trajectories	41
Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension	40
Editorial board/Publication information	40
Distilling playful stances to learning: Looking across cultures, contexts, roles and generations	39
Improving the teaching and learning of statistics	39
Straight from the teacher's mouth: The value of own-perspective gaze-elicited think-aloud for understanding culture-specific teacher expertise	39
A Bayesian approach to students’ perceptions of teachers’ autonomy support	37
Dynamic relationships between text reading fluency and reading comprehension across three stages of reading development in Chinese children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	37

University students in COVID-19 lockdown: The role of adaptability and fluid reasoning in supporting their academic motivation and engagement	37
Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning	36
Training flexibility in dealing with additive situations	35
The neural correlates of cognitive load in learning: An fMRI study on graph comprehension	34
Editorial board/Publication information	33
Shedding light on relations between teacher emotions, instructional behavior, and student school well-being – Evidence from disadvantaged schools	32
Other-self similarity, motivation, emotion, and learning	31
Playful learning is the missing link in educational success	30
Image interpretation scaffolds support adolescents’ historical reasoning	30
Evolutionary perspective on human cognitive architecture: Implications for adaptive instruction Commentary on the Special Issue on adaptivity	29
Visual-spatial skills and children’s math development	29
The influence of seductive details in learning environments with low and high extrinsic motivation	29
Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency – Development and parallel processes during the early school years	29
Third graders’ digital and paper text comprehension	29
Providing external feedback and prompting the generation of internal feedback fosters achievement, strategies and motivation in concept learning	28
Effects of retrieval practice on retention and application of complex educational concepts	28
Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?	28
Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology	28
Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement:A multilevel moderated mediation model	27
Do easy-to-read adaptations really facilitate sentence processing for adults with a lower level of education? An experimental eye-tracking study	27
Rating writing: Comparison of holistic and analytic grading approaches in pre-service teachers	27
Scripted interventions versus reciprocal teaching in collaborative learning: A comparison of pedagogical and teachable agents using a cognitive architecture	26
Digital education through guided pretend play	26
Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries	25
Benefits of turning the illustrations in a narrated slideshow into cartoons: An extension of the positivity principle	25
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 teachers	24
Antecedents of creativity: Statistical discourse analysis of university student teams' interactions	23
Modeling teachers’ reactions to unexpectedness	23
Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies	22
Supports for young males' and females’ interest in swimming and competition	22
The effects of direct and indirect training in metacognitive learning strategies on near and far transfer in self-regulated learning	22
Pizzas or no pizzas: An advantage of word problems in fraction arithmetic?	22
Classroom management and students' mathematics achievement: The role of students’ disruptive behavior and teacher classroom management	22
Unravelling the quality of processes of learning from errors: Insights from students' written error reflections in factoring tasks	22
EARLI Association News	21
“The more I learn, the more I know nothing”: A longitudinal registered report of doctoral students’ uncertainty in learning	21
Strategies for regulating achievement emotions: Conceptualization and relations with university students’ emotions, well-being, and health	21
Enhancing learning with a two-page study manual	21
Validating automated assessments of teaching effectiveness using multimodal data	21
Overcoming the gap between knowledge and use in mathematical flexibility: Examining the role of inhibitory control	20
The relationship between early childhood teachers' instructional quality and children's mathematics development	20
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
Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students’ text revisions	19
Stimulating individual learning of the concept of fraction equivalence: How students utilize adaptive features in digital learning environments mediates their effect	19
The impact of a usefulness intervention on students’ learning achievement in a virtual biology lesson: An eye-tracking-based approach	19
Student well-being: In search of definitions, measures, and research designs	18
Time-of-day matters in text learning and recall: Evening lessons are advantageous for adults with ADHD though not for typical peers	18
Editorial for the special issue “Advances in simulation-based learning in higher education”	18
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement	18
How is teacher emotion regulation related to teaching quality and student engagement? A multilevel longitudinal analysis	18

Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage	17
The role of strategy-based motivation in mathematical problem solving: The case of learner-generated drawings	17
EARLI Association News	17
Opening up the black box: Teacher competence, instructional quality, and students’ learning progress	17
Linguistic precursors of sixth-grade geometric and fraction skills in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	17
Phatic expressions influence perceived helpfulness in online peer help-giving: A mixed methods study	17
In their hands: Multimodal learning analytics as reflective-practice resources empowering mathematics teachers’ professional development	17
Role of home math environment in the intergenerational transmission of math skills	17
Trait resilience against classroom discrimination: Exploring protective effects on immigrant students’ academic achievement across 59 economies	17
The happy-fish-little-pond effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries	16
Little and often: Causal inference machine learning demonstrates the benefits of homework for improving achievement in mathematics and science	16
Spaced instruction for psychological concepts: Insights from interpersonal brain synchronization and students’ perceptions of teaching	16
The more, the better? Learning with feedback and instruction	16
Effectiveness of a minecraft education intervention for improving spatial thinking in primary school children: A mixed methods two-level cluster randomised trial	16
Invited commentary: Towards more inclusive and Integrated approaches to reading and writing feedback research	16
Introducing the DYNAMICS framework of moment-to-moment development in achievement motivation	16
Differences between low and high achievers in whole-classroom dialogue participation quality	16
A multi-informant study on teachers' mindset, classroom practices, and student well-being	16
Effects of digitalisation on learning to write – A naturalistic experiment	16
A strength-based approach to exploring pre-school children’s spatial language and patterning skills	16
The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade	16
Utilizing AI and machine learning in vocal training programs: A contemporary approach	16
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 Feedback	16
The role of social networks in digital learning gamification: Learner communication preferences and performance effects	15
EARLI Association News	15
Ecological validity of retrospective reflections in eye tracking	15
EARLI Association News	15
Interleaved practice in physics benefits from collaboration	15
How do professional development programs on comparing solution methods and classroom discourse affect students' achievement in mathematics? The mediating role of students’ subject matter justification	15
Disciplinary vocabulary and mastery of educational objectives in first-grade	14
How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses	14
Can simulations help higher education in training professional skills?	14
How effective is feedback for L1, L2, and FL learners’ writing? A meta-analysis	14
Retrieval Practice in Stepwise Worked Examples Improves Learning	14
The role of interactive dialogue in students’ learning of mathematical reasoning: A quantitative multi-method analysis of feedback episodes	14
The role of inhibition in overcoming arithmetic natural number bias in the Chinese context: Evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments	14
Integrating AIGC into product design ideation teaching: An empirical study on self-efficacy and learning outcomes	14
Toward adaptive support of pre-service teachers' assessment competencies: Log data in a digital simulation reveal engagement modes	14
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 community	14
Does watching an explainer video help learning with subsequent text? – Only when prompt-questions are provided	14
Physiological synchrony amongst medical residents during crisis management simulation training and a video-based assessment of leaders’ performance	13
EARLI Association News	13
Playful enactive interventions can enhance agency, empathy and social integration in children	13
Design fit in gamified online programming learning environment	13
Interleaved practice enhances grammar skill learning for similar and dissimilar tenses in Romance languages	13
How to guide learners' processing of multimedia lessons with pedagogical agents	13
Explaining procedures and interleaving practice in fraction arithmetic	13
The dynamics of creative agency: Insights from two intensive diary studies on university students	13
Uncovering the situational impact in educational settings: Studies on motivational and emotional experiences	13
Individual differences in the executive functions of perfectionism profiles	13
Children’s and mothers’ understanding of play and learning: Repertoires across five cultures	13
Comparisons in everyday life: Effects on academic self-concepts	13
SES and academic achievement are (not always) related: Profiles of student SES, academic achievement and their links to socio-emotional, cognitive, and metacognitive characteristics	13
Paper-pencil vs. e-exams: Revisiting the screen inferiority effect during high-stakes testing at university	13
Teacher personality domains and facets: Their unique associations with student-ratings of teaching quality and teacher enthusiasm	12
Cognitive aspects of video-based learning with instructor presence depend on pedagogical approaches: A perspective from motivating styles	12
Editorial board/Publication information	12
Investigating grade-level and text genre effects in Quality Talk discussions: An AI-powered discourse analysis of upper primary students’ high-level comprehension	12
EARLI title page	12
Taking a closer look at how higher education students process and use (discrepant) peer feedback	12
The application of arithmetic principles predicts mathematical achievement in college students	12
Commentary on within-person designs and motivational science	12
Exploring the interaction of writer individual differences in predicting L2 students’ writing achievements	12
Boosting debiasing: Impact of repeated training on reasoning	11
Editorial Board	11
Really? It depends! How authentic learning material affects involvement with personal stories of the past	11
Applying multimodal learning analytics to naturalistic recordings of clinical simulations: Towards an accurate and scalable pipeline for automated feedback generation	11
Reflecting on their mission increases preservice teachers’ growth mindsets	11
Maintaining the outcomes of meaningful learning: Where are we and where do we need to go? An introduction to the special issue on lasting learning	11
Testing individual and group markers of collaboration in a team-based learning classroom	11
Are profiles of self-regulated learning and intelligence mindsets related to students’ self-regulated learning and achievement?	11
Emotional dynamics and regulation in collaborative learning	11
Getting lost in new contexts: Weak generalization in artificial orthography learning among groups with literacy deficits	11
Investigating learner characteristics and processes in Productive Failure and Vicarious Failure to design adaptive guidance	11
Higher education students’ achievement emotions and their antecedents in e-learning amid COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country survey	11