OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Instruction is 10. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Can you have your cake and eat it too?	227
EARLI Association News	176
Constructive retrieval: Benefits for learning, motivation, and metacognitive monitoring	97
The impact of executive functions on English academic performance among Chinese primary school students: A network analysis	97
Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in relation to text characteristics and reading comprehension	87
Do vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in second language facilitate the development of each other in young children?	83
Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms	79
Self-regulation prompts promote the achievement of learning goals – But only briefly: Uncovering hidden dynamics in the effects of a psychological intervention	70
Differentiated instruction on undergraduate students based on classification and prediction of students performance using PSO-BP neural network	63
The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar	62
Gender-specific trajectories of academic achievement in Chinese elementary school students: Relations with life satisfaction trajectories and suicidal ideation trajectories	60
Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review	54
Domain-specific self-regulated learning interventions for elementary school students	49
Developmental changes in the contributions of phonological processing skills to Chinese character reading and arithmetic	47
Uncovering everyday dynamics in students’ perceptions of instructional quality with experience sampling	42
Distilling playful stances to learning: Looking across cultures, contexts, roles and generations	40
Straight from the teacher's mouth: The value of own-perspective gaze-elicited think-aloud for understanding culture-specific teacher expertise	39
Editorial board/Publication information	38
Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension	37
Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning	37
Opportunities and limitations of using the linguistic category model as a measure of teachers’ implicit stereotypes in Germany	37
University students in COVID-19 lockdown: The role of adaptability and fluid reasoning in supporting their academic motivation and engagement	36
Improving the teaching and learning of statistics	36
Dynamic relationships between text reading fluency and reading comprehension across three stages of reading development in Chinese children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	34
How does teacher bias influence students?: An introduction to the special issue on teachers’ implicit attitudes, instructional practices, and student outcomes	33

A Bayesian approach to students’ perceptions of teachers’ autonomy support	32
Training flexibility in dealing with additive situations	32
Image interpretation scaffolds support adolescents’ historical reasoning	32
The neural correlates of cognitive load in learning: An fMRI study on graph comprehension	31
Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement:A multilevel moderated mediation model	30
Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency – Development and parallel processes during the early school years	30
Editorial board/Publication information	30
Third graders’ digital and paper text comprehension	29
Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology	29
The quizzing effect depends on hope of success and can be optimized by cognitive load-based adaptation	29
The influence of seductive details in learning environments with low and high extrinsic motivation	28
Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries	27
The immigrant paradox and math self-concept: An SES-of-origin-country hypothesis	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	26
Effects of retrieval practice on retention and application of complex educational concepts	25
Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?	25
Other-self similarity, motivation, emotion, and learning	25
Scripted interventions versus reciprocal teaching in collaborative learning: A comparison of pedagogical and teachable agents using a cognitive architecture	24
Shedding light on relations between teacher emotions, instructional behavior, and student school well-being – Evidence from disadvantaged schools	24
Providing external feedback and prompting the generation of internal feedback fosters achievement, strategies and motivation in concept learning	24
Benefits of turning the illustrations in a narrated slideshow into cartoons: An extension of the positivity principle	24
Modeling teachers’ reactions to unexpectedness	24
Digital education through guided pretend play	24
Playful learning is the missing link in educational success	24
Supports for young males' and females’ interest in swimming and competition	23
Unravelling the quality of processes of learning from errors: Insights from students' written error reflections in factoring tasks	23
Pizzas or no pizzas: An advantage of word problems in fraction arithmetic?	23
Antecedents of creativity: Statistical discourse analysis of university student teams' interactions	23
Classroom management and students' mathematics achievement: The role of students’ disruptive behavior and teacher classroom management	22
Strategies for regulating achievement emotions: Conceptualization and relations with university students’ emotions, well-being, and health	22
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	21
Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies	21
Enhancing learning with a two-page study manual	20
Student well-being: In search of definitions, measures, and research designs	20
EARLI Association News	20
Overcoming the gap between knowledge and use in mathematical flexibility: Examining the role of inhibitory control	20
The effects of direct and indirect training in metacognitive learning strategies on near and far transfer in self-regulated learning	20
Editorial for the special issue “Advances in simulation-based learning in higher education”	19
The role of strategy-based motivation in mathematical problem solving: The case of learner-generated drawings	19
Stimulating individual learning of the concept of fraction equivalence: How students utilize adaptive features in digital learning environments mediates their effect	19
Time-of-day matters in text learning and recall: Evening lessons are advantageous for adults with ADHD though not for typical peers	19
Role of home math environment in the intergenerational transmission of math skills	19
Do preservice teacher education candidates’ implicit biases of ethnic differences and mindset toward academic ability change over time?	18
“The more I learn, the more I know nothing”: A longitudinal registered report of doctoral students’ uncertainty in learning	17
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement	17
Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage	17
The relationship between early childhood teachers' instructional quality and children's mathematics development	17
Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students’ text revisions	17
EARLI Association News	16

Phatic expressions influence perceived helpfulness in online peer help-giving: A mixed methods study	16
Does embedding learning supports enhance transfer during game-based learning?	16
Differences between low and high achievers in whole-classroom dialogue participation quality	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
Opening up the black box: Teacher competence, instructional quality, and students’ learning progress	16
The more, the better? Learning with feedback and instruction	16
Effects of digitalisation on learning to write – A naturalistic experiment	16
The impact of a usefulness intervention on students’ learning achievement in a virtual biology lesson: An eye-tracking-based approach	16
Linguistic precursors of sixth-grade geometric and fraction skills in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	15
Effectiveness of a minecraft education intervention for improving spatial thinking in primary school children: A mixed methods two-level cluster randomised trial	15
Trait resilience against classroom discrimination: Exploring protective effects on immigrant students’ academic achievement across 59 economies	15
The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade	15
A multi-informant study on teachers' mindset, classroom practices, and student well-being	15
The happy-fish-little-pond effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries	14
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	14
Invited commentary: Towards more inclusive and Integrated approaches to reading and writing feedback research	14
EARLI Association News	14
Ecological validity of retrospective reflections in eye tracking	14
Introducing the DYNAMICS framework of moment-to-moment development in achievement motivation	14
EARLI Association News	14
How effective is feedback for L1, L2, and FL learners’ writing? A meta-analysis	14
A strength-based approach to exploring pre-school children’s spatial language and patterning skills	14
Little and often: Causal inference machine learning demonstrates the benefits of homework for improving achievement in mathematics and science	14
The role of social networks in digital learning gamification: Learner communication preferences and performance effects	13
Toward adaptive support of pre-service teachers' assessment competencies: Log data in a digital simulation reveal engagement modes	13
Integrating AIGC into product design ideation teaching: An empirical study on self-efficacy and learning outcomes	13
Disciplinary vocabulary and mastery of educational objectives in first-grade	13
Design fit in gamified online programming learning environment	13
Uncovering the situational impact in educational settings: Studies on motivational and emotional experiences	12
Explaining procedures and interleaving practice in fraction arithmetic	12
Children’s and mothers’ understanding of play and learning: Repertoires across five cultures	12
How to guide learners' processing of multimedia lessons with pedagogical agents	12
Playful enactive interventions can enhance agency, empathy and social integration in children	12
The role of inhibition in overcoming arithmetic natural number bias in the Chinese context: Evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments	12
Can simulations help higher education in training professional skills?	12
EARLI Association News	12
Retrieval Practice in Stepwise Worked Examples Improves Learning	12
Does watching an explainer video help learning with subsequent text? – Only when prompt-questions are provided	12
The role of interactive dialogue in students’ learning of mathematical reasoning: A quantitative multi-method analysis of feedback episodes	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 Association News	12
How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses	12
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	12
Pre-service teachers’ desire to control bias: Implications for the endorsement of culturally affirming classroom practices	11
Interleaved practice enhances grammar skill learning for similar and dissimilar tenses in Romance languages	11
Exploring the interaction of writer individual differences in predicting L2 students’ writing achievements	11
SES and academic achievement are (not always) related: Profiles of student SES, academic achievement and their links to socio-emotional, cognitive, and metacognitive characteristics	11
The application of arithmetic principles predicts mathematical achievement in college students	11
Taking a closer look at how higher education students process and use (discrepant) peer feedback	11
Editorial board/Publication information	11
The dynamics of creative agency: Insights from two intensive diary studies on university students	11
Are profiles of self-regulated learning and intelligence mindsets related to students’ self-regulated learning and achievement?	11
EARLI title page	11
Really? It depends! How authentic learning material affects involvement with personal stories of the past	10
Reflecting on their mission increases preservice teachers’ growth mindsets	10
Editorial Board	10
Effects of interruption on eye movements and comprehension during reading on digital devices	10
Testing individual and group markers of collaboration in a team-based learning classroom	10
A meta-analysis of students’ academic learning losses over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Teacher personality domains and facets: Their unique associations with student-ratings of teaching quality and teacher enthusiasm	10
Boosting debiasing: Impact of repeated training on reasoning	10
Commentary on within-person designs and motivational science	10
Rich data, poor information? Teachers’ perceptions of mean differences in graphical feedback from statewide tests	10
How does interest in a course interact with course learning?	10
Getting lost in new contexts: Weak generalization in artificial orthography learning among groups with literacy deficits	10
Emotional dynamics and regulation in collaborative learning	10
Higher education students’ achievement emotions and their antecedents in e-learning amid COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country survey	10
The interplay of rewards and competition in digital game-based learning: Effects on intrinsic motivation, game performance and behaviors, and computational thinking	10
Examining myside bias on a controversial historical event after engagement in dialogic argumentation: Insights from a think aloud study	10
Are direct effects of cognitive activation on student outcomes enough? Exploring the role of adaptation and use of opportunities	10