OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Educational Research Review is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Teacher well-being: A systematic review of the research literature from the year 2000–2019	198
Escape education: A systematic review on escape rooms in education	172
Facilitating flexible learning by replacing classroom time with an online learning environment: A systematic review of blended learning in higher education	170
Early childhood environmental education: A systematic review of the research literature	149
How do pedagogical approaches affect the impact of augmented reality on education? A meta-analysis and research synthesis	143
A systematic review of immersive technology applications for medical practice and education - Trends, application areas, recipients, teaching contents, evaluation methods, and performance	138
The correlates of teacher turnover: An updated and expanded Meta-analysis of the literature	125
Effects of virtual reality on learning outcomes in K-6 education: A meta-analysis	124
Understanding the implementation of personalized learning: A research synthesis	117
A review of feedback models and typologies: Towards an integrative model of feedback elements	109
Teacher noticing: A systematic literature review of conceptualizations, research designs, and findings on learning to notice	98
A review on the accuracy of teacher judgments	93
Using Q methodology: Sorting out subjectivity in educational research	92
The potential of immersive virtual reality to enhance learning: A meta-analysis	90
The association between teacher leadership and student achievement: A meta-analysis	88
Teacher leadership: A systematic review, methodological quality assessment and conceptual framework	71
A systematic review of the role of learning analytics in enhancing feedback practices in higher education	62
A meta-analytic review on incorporating virtual and augmented reality in museum learning	58
The use of social robots in classrooms: A review of field-based studies	57
Perceptions, challenges and coping strategies of science teachers in teaching socioscientific issues: A systematic review	56
Measuring academic resilience in quantitative research: A systematic review of the literature	53
Reflection literacy: A multilevel perspective on the challenges of using reflections in higher education through a comprehensive literature review	50
Synthesizing research evidence on self-regulated learning and academic achievement in online and blended learning environments: A scoping review	44
What promotes teachers’ turnover intention? Evidence from a meta-analysis	43
What makes an expert university teacher? A systematic review and synthesis of frameworks for teacher expertise in higher education	42

Please don't stop the music: A meta-analysis of the cognitive and academic benefits of instrumental musical training in childhood and adolescence	42
Conceptualization and measurement of digital citizenship across disciplines	41
The impact of Covid-19 on student achievement: Evidence from a recent meta-analysis	39
Meta-analyses of flipped classroom studies: A review of methodology	38
Academic dishonesty and its relations to peer cheating and culture: A meta-analysis of the perceived peer cheating effect	37
Let's talk evidence – The case for combining inquiry-based and direct instruction	37
A systematic review of the role of learning games in fostering mathematics education in K-12 settings	37
What do we do when we analyse the temporal aspects of computer-supported collaborative learning? A systematic literature review	36
The relationship between performance and test-taking effort when measured with self-report or time-based instruments: A meta-analytic review	36
Enhancing teacher-student relationship quality: A narrative review of school-based interventions	36
The effects of robot-assisted language learning: A meta-analysis	35
Effects of self-assessment and peer-assessment interventions on academic performance: A meta-analysis	34
A review of research on intercultural learning supported by technology	32
Computational thinking in early childhood education: Reviewing the literature and redeveloping the three-dimensional framework	32
The role of social capital for teacher professional learning and student achievement: A systematic literature review	31
How accurately can learners discriminate their comprehension of texts? A comprehensive meta-analysis on relative metacomprehension accuracy and influencing factors	29
A systematic review of interventions embedded in curriculum to improve university student wellbeing	29
Effectiveness of grade retention: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
A systematic review of teacher roles and competences for teaching synchronously online through videoconferencing technology	27
Mathematical language and mathematical abilities in preschool: A systematic literature review	26
Building the expert teacher prototype: A metasummary of teacher expertise studies in primary and secondary education	25
Uncovering important 21st-century skills for sustainable career development of social sciences graduates: A systematic review	24
Taking the maker movement to school: A systematic review of preK-12 school-based makerspace research	24
Dropout from initial vocational training – A meta-synthesis of reasons from the apprentice's point of view	23
Influences of shadow education on the ecology of education – A review of the literature	23
Does co-teaching improve academic achievement for students with disabilities? A meta-analysis	23
A critical review of the role of texts in fostering Intercultural Communicative competence in the English Language classroom	23
Do students learn what they teach when generating teaching materials for others? A meta-analysis through the lens of learning by teaching	22
Inclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities in physical education: A systematic review and meta-analysis of teachers’ attitudes	22
Psychological detachment and work-related rumination in teachers: A systematic review	22
Race and ethnicity in educational intervention research: A systematic review and recommendations for sampling, reporting, and analysis	22
Fifty years of parental involvement and achievement research: A second-order meta-analysis	22
How well centrality measures capture student achievement in computer-supported collaborative learning? – A systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Is retell a valid measure of reading comprehension?	21
Examining research on the impact of distance and online learning: A second-order meta-analysis study	21
Writing instruction improves students’ writing skills differentially depending on focal instruction and children: A meta-analysis for primary grade students	19
The development of students critical thinking abilities and dispositions through the concept mapping learning method – A meta-analysis	19
Embodied learning and teaching approaches in language education: A mixed studies review	19
Teacher-student attachment relationship, variables associated, and measurement: A systematic review	17
Measuring those who have their minds set: An item-level meta-analysis of the implicit theories of intelligence scale in education	17
LASSI's great adventure: A meta-analysis of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and academic outcomes	16
The association between principal leadership and student achievement: A multivariate meta-meta-analysis	16
A methodological review of systematic literature reviews in higher education: Heterogeneity and homogeneity	16
Peer review of teaching in higher education: A systematic review of its impact on the professional development of university teachers from the teaching expertise perspective	13
Toward a set of design principles for decoding training: A systematic review of studies of English as a foreign/second language listening education	13
Rebooting assessment. Exploring the challenges and benefits of shifting from pen-and-paper to computer in summative assessment	13
Education of unaccompanied refugee minors in high-income countries: Risk and resilience factors	13
Students’ perceptions on the recognition of holistic competency achievement: A systematic mixed studies review	13
The effects of affective pedagogical agent in multimedia learning environments: A meta-analysis	12
Longing for recognition: A literature review of second-career teachers’ induction experiences in secondary education	11

Can e-books foster child language? Meta-analysis on the effectiveness of e-book interventions in early childhood education and care	11
Educational leader wellbeing: A systematic review	11
The effect of feedback on academic achievement in technology-rich learning environments (TREs): A meta-analytic review	11
Students’ feedback seeking behaviour in undergraduate education: A scoping review	11
Moving qualitative synthesis research forward in education: A methodological systematic review	10
Literature review – Parent involvement and mathematic outcome	10
Thirty years of conceptual change research in biology – A review and meta-analysis of intervention studies	10
A conducive learning environment in international higher education: A systematic review of research on students’ perspectives	10
Approaches to studying teacher collaboration for instructional improvement: A review of literature	10
Meta-analysis of movement-based interventions to aid academic and behavioral outcomes: A taxonomy of relevance and integration	10
A systematic review of bilingual education teachers’ competences	10
Eliciting and responding to young children's talk: A systematic review of educators' interactional strategies that promote rich conversations with children aged 2–5 years	9
Towards (Re-)Defining historical reasoning competence: A review of theoretical and empirical research	9
The cohesion of small groups in technology-mediated learning environments: A systematic literature review	9
A systematic literature review of teacher scaffolding in game-based learning in primary education	9
Examining pedagogical approaches and types of mathematics knowledge in educational games: A meta-analysis and critical review	9
Out-of-school programs and interest: Design considerations based on a meta-analysis	9
A meta-synthesis of co-teaching students with and without disabilities	9
The role of linguistic features in science and math comprehension and performance: A systematic review and desiderata for future research	8
Data management and use through research practice partnerships: A literature review	8
A systematic review of the key components of online peer feedback practices in higher education	8
Conceptualizing mentoring in higher education: A systematic literature review	8
What kind of individual support activities in interventions foster pre-service and beginning teachers’ self-efficacy? A meta-analysis	8
Relation between examinees’ true knowledge and examination scores: systematic review and exemplary calculations on Multiple-True-False items	8
Children's self-talk in naturalistic classroom settings in middle childhood: A systematic literature review	8
A systematic review of visual representations for analyzing collaborative discourse	8
Creative methods developed to facilitate the voices of children and young people with complex needs about their education: A systematic review and conceptual analysis of voice	8
Qualitative methods to assess intercultural competence in higher education research: A systematic review with practical implications	7
The myth of contextual interference learning benefit in sports practice: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Mathematics achievement and orientation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of education technology	7
The social impact of schooling on students with dyslexia: A systematic review of the qualitative research on the primary and secondary education of dyslexic students	7
A research synthesis of the impacts of successful educational actions on student outcomes	7
Relation between examinees’ true knowledge and examination scores: systematic review and exemplary calculations on Pick-N items	7
The I of students with ID or SEBD: A systematic literature review of the self-concept of students with ID or SEBD	7
School-based teaching for democracy: A systematic review of teaching methods in quantitative intervention studies	7
Students coping with change in higher education: An overview	7
Developments and trends in research on methods of detecting differential item functioning	7
The evaluation of school-university partnerships that improve teaching and learning practices: A systematic review	7