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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar	110
Self-regulation prompts promote the achievement of learning goals – But only briefly: Uncovering hidden dynamics in the effects of a psychological intervention	90
EARLI Association News	73
Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms	71
Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in relation to text characteristics and reading comprehension	68
Uncovering everyday dynamics in students’ perceptions of instructional quality with experience sampling	60
Teacher motivation: Implications for instruction and learning. Introduction to the special issue	58
Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review	56
Domain-specific self-regulated learning interventions for elementary school students	53
Do vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in second language facilitate the development of each other in young children?	51
Gender-specific trajectories of academic achievement in Chinese elementary school students: Relations with life satisfaction trajectories and suicidal ideation trajectories	50
Developmental changes in the contributions of phonological processing skills to Chinese character reading and arithmetic	48
Constructive retrieval: Benefits for learning, motivation, and metacognitive monitoring	45
The relative strength of relations between different facets of teacher motivation and core dimensions of teaching quality in mathematics - A multilevel analysis	41
Opportunities and limitations of using the linguistic category model as a measure of teachers’ implicit stereotypes in Germany	40
Dynamic relationships between text reading fluency and reading comprehension across three stages of reading development in Chinese children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	40
Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning	38
Improving the teaching and learning of statistics	38
Enhancing children's math motivation with a joint intervention on mindset and gender stereotypes	37
A Bayesian approach to students’ perceptions of teachers’ autonomy support	35
“They would make you feel stupid” - Ability grouping, Children’s friendships and psychosocial Wellbeing in Irish primary school	34
University students in COVID-19 lockdown: The role of adaptability and fluid reasoning in supporting their academic motivation and engagement	33
Editorial board/Publication information	33
How does teacher bias influence students?: An introduction to the special issue on teachers’ implicit attitudes, instructional practices, and student outcomes	31
Training flexibility in dealing with additive situations	30

Digital education through guided pretend play	29
Providing external feedback and prompting the generation of internal feedback fosters achievement, strategies and motivation in concept learning	27
The immigrant paradox and math self-concept: An SES-of-origin-country hypothesis	27
Perceived classroom disruption undermines the positive educational effects of perceived need-supportive teaching in science	27
Editorial board/Publication information	26
Benefits of turning the illustrations in a narrated slideshow into cartoons: An extension of the positivity principle	26
The quizzing effect depends on hope of success and can be optimized by cognitive load-based adaptation	26
Editorial board/Publication information	25
Image interpretation scaffolds support adolescents’ historical reasoning	25
Rating writing: Comparison of holistic and analytic grading approaches in pre-service teachers	25
Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency – Development and parallel processes during the early school years	24
University students’ use of motivational regulation during one semester	24
Playful learning is the missing link in educational success	24
Other-self similarity, motivation, emotion, and learning	24
EARLI Association News	24
Shedding light on relations between teacher emotions, instructional behavior, and student school well-being – Evidence from disadvantaged schools	23
Do easy-to-read adaptations really facilitate sentence processing for adults with a lower level of education? An experimental eye-tracking study	22
The influence of seductive details in learning environments with low and high extrinsic motivation	22
Scripted interventions versus reciprocal teaching in collaborative learning: A comparison of pedagogical and teachable agents using a cognitive architecture	22
Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement:A multilevel moderated mediation model	22
Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries	22
Music lessons enhance executive functions in 6- to 7-year-old children	21
Developmental pathways of early numerical skills during the preschool to school transition	21
Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?	21
The effects of direct and indirect training in metacognitive learning strategies on near and far transfer in self-regulated learning	21
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
Pizzas or no pizzas: An advantage of word problems in fraction arithmetic?	21
Learning to diagnose collaboratively – Effects of adaptive collaboration scripts in agent-based medical simulations	21
Modeling teachers’ reactions to unexpectedness	21
Classroom management and students' mathematics achievement: The role of students’ disruptive behavior and teacher classroom management	21
Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies	20
The impact of a usefulness intervention on students’ learning achievement in a virtual biology lesson: An eye-tracking-based approach	20
The role of strategy-based motivation in mathematical problem solving: The case of learner-generated drawings	20
Overcoming the gap between knowledge and use in mathematical flexibility: Examining the role of inhibitory control	20
Editorial for the special issue “Advances in simulation-based learning in higher education”	20
Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage	19
EARLI Association News	19
Enhancing learning with a two-page study manual	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
Does embedding learning supports enhance transfer during game-based learning?	18
At a first glance – How reliable and valid is the thin slices technique to assess instructional quality?	18
Do preservice teacher education candidates’ implicit biases of ethnic differences and mindset toward academic ability change over time?	18
The relationship between early childhood teachers' instructional quality and children's mathematics development	18
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement	17
Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students’ text revisions	17
Effects of digitalisation on learning to write – A naturalistic experiment	16
Teacher motivation, quality instruction, and student outcomes: Not a simple path	16
Adjusting expectations or maintaining first impressions? The stability of teachers' expectations of students’ mathematics achievement	16
Opening up the black box: Teacher competence, instructional quality, and students’ learning progress	16

Phatic expressions influence perceived helpfulness in online peer help-giving: A mixed methods study	16
Editorial board/Publication information	15
Linguistic precursors of sixth-grade geometric and fraction skills in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	14
Introducing the DYNAMICS framework of moment-to-moment development in achievement motivation	14
The more, the better? Learning with feedback and instruction	14
Little and often: Causal inference machine learning demonstrates the benefits of homework for improving achievement in mathematics and science	14
Prerequisite knowledge and time of testing in learning with animations and static pictures: Evidence for the expertise reversal effect	14
Effectiveness of a minecraft education intervention for improving spatial thinking in primary school children: A mixed methods two-level cluster randomised trial	14
EARLI Association News	14
The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade	14
A multi-informant study on teachers' mindset, classroom practices, and student well-being	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	13
The happy-fish-little-pond effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries	13
Parent-child cohesion, self-esteem, and academic achievement: The longitudinal relations among elementary school students	13
EARLI Association News	13
Differences between low and high achievers in whole-classroom dialogue participation quality	13
The role of social networks in digital learning gamification: Learner communication preferences and performance effects	13
EARLI Association News	13
Do teachers' achievement goals and self-efficacy beliefs matter for students’ learning experiences? Evidence from two studies on perceived teaching quality and emotional experiences	12
Does watching an explainer video help learning with subsequent text? – Only when prompt-questions are provided	12
Integrating AIGC into product design ideation teaching: An empirical study on self-efficacy and learning outcomes	12
How effective is feedback for L1, L2, and FL learners’ writing? A meta-analysis	12
SES and academic achievement are (not always) related: Profiles of student SES, academic achievement and their links to socio-emotional, cognitive, and metacognitive characteristics	12
Invited commentary: Towards more inclusive and Integrated approaches to reading and writing feedback research	12
Design fit in gamified online programming learning environment	12
How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses	12
EARLI Association News	11
Can simulations help higher education in training professional skills?	11
Explaining procedures and interleaving practice in fraction arithmetic	11
Disciplinary vocabulary and mastery of educational objectives in first-grade	11
EARLI Association News	11
The role of interactive dialogue in students’ learning of mathematical reasoning: A quantitative multi-method analysis of feedback episodes	11
The role of inhibition in overcoming arithmetic natural number bias in the Chinese context: Evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments	11
Pre-service teachers’ desire to control bias: Implications for the endorsement of culturally affirming classroom practices	11
Toward adaptive support of pre-service teachers' assessment competencies: Log data in a digital simulation reveal engagement modes	11
Enhancing spatial skills through mechanical problem solving	10
Playful enactive interventions can enhance agency, empathy and social integration in children	10
Interleaved practice enhances grammar skill learning for similar and dissimilar tenses in Romance languages	10
Editorial board/Publication information	10
Learning programming from erroneous worked-examples. Which type of error is beneficial for learning?	10
Children’s and mothers’ understanding of play and learning: Repertoires across five cultures	10
Really? It depends! How authentic learning material affects involvement with personal stories of the past	10
Aged-based differences in spatial language skills from 6 to 10 years: Relations with spatial and mathematics skills	10
Uncovering the situational impact in educational settings: Studies on motivational and emotional experiences	10
How to guide learners' processing of multimedia lessons with pedagogical agents	10
EARLI title page	10
Reflecting on their mission increases preservice teachers’ growth mindsets	10