OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Breadth of Impacts from the Abecedarian Project Early Intervention on Cognitive Skills	51
Your Child Missed Learning the Alphabet Today: A Randomized Trial of Sending Teacher-Written Postcards Home to Reduce Absences	38
Forced to Redshirt: Quasi-Experimental Impacts of Delayed Kindergarten Entry	20
The Effects of Higher-Stakes Teacher Evaluation on Office Disciplinary Referrals	18
Estimating and Comparing Growth Using Longitudinal Interim Achievement Data with Seasonal Trends	14
A Chain as Strong as Its Strongest Link? Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Biases Arising from Selective Analysis and Reporting of Research Results	11
Assessing the Effect of Corequisite English Instruction Using a Randomized Controlled Trial	9
Changing the Odds: Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention	8
Optimal Sample Allocation for Three-Level Multisite Cluster-Randomized Trials	8
The Long-Term Effects of Grade Retention: Evidence on Persistence through High School and College	7
Matching Methods for Clustered Observational Studies in Education	7
The Costs and Impacts of Descubriendo la Lectura : Evidence From a Multisite Experimental Study	6
Design Parameter Values for Planning Mediation Studies with Teacher and Student Mathematics Outcomes	6
Long-Term Impacts of Reading Recovery through 3rd and 4th Grade: A Regression Discontinuity Study	6
Supporting Teachers in Argument Writing Instruction at Scale: A Replication Study of the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP)	6
Treatment Effects in Longitudinal Two-Method Measurement Planned Missingness Designs: An Application and Tutorial	6
Empirical Support for Establishing Common Assumptions in Cost Research in Education	6
Effects of a Parental Involvement Intervention to Promote Child Literacy in Tanzania: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	5
What Works for Whom: Exploring the Students, Settings, and Outcomes in What Works Clearinghouse Study Data	5
Quantifying and Predicting Variation in the Medium-Term Effects of an Oversubscribed Prekindergarten Program	5
The Effect of Active Learning Professional Development Training on College Students’ Academic Outcomes	5
Persistence and Emergence of Literacy Skills: Long-Term Impacts of an Effective Early Grade Reading Intervention in South Africa	5
Covariate Balance for Observational Effectiveness Studies: A Comparison of Matching and Weighting	5
Using Existing School Messaging Platforms to Inform Parents about Their Child’s Attendance	5
The Impact of Restorative Practices with Diplomas Now on School Climate and Teachers’ Turnover Intentions: Evidence from a Cluster Multi-Site Randomized Control Trial	5

Reading Interventions for Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners at Risk for Reading Difficulties: A Meta-Analysis	5
Redefining Populations of Inference for Generalizations from Small Studies	5
Too Late or Too Soon for School? The Impact of School Entry Age	5
Propensity Score Methods and Difference-in-Differences with an Exogenous Time-Varying Confounder: Evaluation of Methods	4
A Simulation Study on Latent Transition Analysis for Examining Profiles and Trajectories in Education: Recommendations for Fit Statistics	4
Using Quotas Constructed from Auxiliary Data to Guide the Recruitment of Sites for Randomized Controlled Trials	4
Integrating Literacy and Science Instruction in Kindergarten: Results From the Efficacy Study of Zoology One	4
Estimation of Teacher Value Added in the Presence of Missing Data	4
Contextual Characteristics Inside and Outside of School Walls as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Teacher Professional Development	4
College or Bust… or Both: The Effects of the Great Recession on College Enrollment for Black and Latinx Young Adults	4
Evaluation of a State-Wide Mathematics Support Program for at-Risk Students in Grade 1 and 2 in Germany	4
Does Principal Professional Development Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Pennsylvania’s Inspired Leadership Induction Program	4
Design and Analytic Features for Reducing Biases in Skill-Building Intervention Impact Forecasts	4
Empirical Benchmarks for Effect Size Interpretation and Study Planning with Social and Behavioral Outcomes	4
Accelerating Literacy for Adolescents (ALFA): Evaluating ALFA Lab Using a Regression Discontinuity Study	3
Impact of Providing Teachers and Principals with Performance Feedback on Their Practice and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment	3
Experimental Design and Statistical Power for Cluster Randomized Cost-Effectiveness Trials	3
Three-Year Outcomes for Low-Income Parents of Young Children in a Two-Generation Education Program	3
The Impacts on College Enrollment of a Charter Network Serving Disadvantaged Students: Evidence From KIPP Middle School Lotteries	3
Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	3
The Effects of Grade Retention on High School Outcomes: Evidence from New York City Schools	3
Long-Term Effects of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways Model: Evidence from a Randomized Trial	3
Growth on 2019 State Achievement Tests: Empirical Benchmarks and the Role of Scale Choice	3
Effects of Apprenticeship on the Short-Term Educational Outcomes of Vocational High-School Students	3
The Cost-Effectiveness of an Accelerated Learning Program on the Literacy, Numeracy and Social-Emotional Learning Outcomes of Out-of-School Children in Northeast Nigeria: Evidence from a Mixed Methods	3
Implementation Support Improves Outcomes of a Fluency-Based Mathematics Strategy: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial	3
Does Teacher Professional Development Improve Student Learning? Evidence from Leading Educators’ Fellowship Model	3
Conjuring Power from a Theory of Change: The PWRD Method for Trials with Anticipated Variation in Effects	2
Identifying Progress Toward Ethnoracial Achievement Equity Across U.S. School Districts: A New Approach	2
The Implications of Population Changes on Generalization and Study Design	2
Which Students Benefit from Independent Practice? Experimental Evidence from a Math Software in Private Schools in India	2
A Strong Case for Rethinking Causal Inference	2
Closing the Gap: A Conceptual Replication of an Early Reading Intervention	2
Impacts of School Entry Age on Academic Growth through 2nd Grade: A Multi-State Regression Discontinuity Analysis	2
Children Learning and Parents Earning: Exploring the Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Head Start on Parental Earnings	2
Does One More Year Matter? Dosage Effect of the One-Village-One-Preschool Intervention in Rural China	2
Why Does a Growth Mindset Intervention Impact Achievement Differently across Secondary Schools? Unpacking the Causal Mediation Mechanism from a National Multisite Randomized Experiment	2
The Impact of a Virtual Coaching Program to Improve Instructional Alignment to State Standards	2
Using Robust Standard Errors for the Analysis of Binary Outcomes with a Small Number of Clusters	2
The Internal Validity of the School-Level Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design: Evidence From Four New Within-Study Comparisons	2
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job: Screening Tools for Systematic Reviews in Education	1
The Meta-Analytic Rain Cloud Plot: A New Approach to Visualizing Clearinghouse Data	1
Reading Skills Transfer Best from Home Language to a Second Language: Policy Lessons from Two Field Experiments in South Africa	1
Empirical Benchmarks to Interpret Intervention Effects on Student Achievement in Elementary and Secondary School: Meta-Analytic Results from Germany	1
Gauging 21st Century Competencies of Chinese Students: A Rural-Urban Comparative Perspective	1
Impact of Technology-Aided Activity-Based Learning Approaches on Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Community Schools in Rural Zambia	1
How Do the Impacts of Healthcare Training Vary with Credential Length? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program	1
A Team-Based Perspective for School Improvement: The Mediating Role of School Management Teams	1
The Uncertain Role of Educational Software in Remediating Student Learning: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Three Local Education Agencies	1
Advantages of Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals for Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios: A Comparison of Five Methods	1

A Framework for Addressing Instrumentation Biases When Using Observation Systems as Outcome Measures in Instructional Interventions	1
Expanding Student Success: The Impact of a Comprehensive College Transition Program on Psychosocial Outcomes	1
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the City Year Whole School Whole Child Model's Tier 2 Services in Five Urban School Districts	1
Science Outcome Design Parameters for Cluster-Randomized Trials Involving Teachers	1
The Efficacy of Two Models of Professional Development Mediated by Fidelity on Fourth Grade Student Reading Outcomes ^†	1
Intervention Effect or Measurement Artifact? Using Invariance Models to Reveal Response-Shift Bias in Experimental Studies	1
Implementation Takes Time: Reduction of Literacy Problems in Schools Implementing an Early-Literacy Intervention	1
Heterogeneity in Short- and Long-Term Impacts of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) on Academic Outcomes, Behavioral Outcomes, and Criminal Activity	1
Heterogeneity in Mathematics Intervention Effects: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of 191 Randomized Experiments	1
Money Well Spent? The Cost-Effectiveness of a Texting Intervention Targeting College Persistence	1
Universal Early Childhood Education and Care for Toddlers and Achievement Outcomes in Middle Childhood	1
Supporting Community College Student Success: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Accelerating Early Math Learning with Research-Based Personalized Learning Games: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	1
A Meta-Analysis of Mathematical Interventions for Increasing the Word Problem Solving Performance of Upper Elementary and Secondary Students with Mathematics Difficulties	1
The Spanish- and English-Language Literacy Impacts of Descubriendo la Lectura across Three Experimental Replications	1
Directional Links Between Students’ Perceptions of School Climate and Academic Performance in Urban Schools	1
How to Measure Quality of Delivery: Focus on Teaching Practices That Help Students to Develop Proximal Outcomes	1
Using a Multi-Site RCT to Predict Impacts for a Single Site: Do Better Data and Methods Yield More Accurate Predictions?	1
A Recipe for Disappointment: Policy, Effect Size, and the Winner’s Curse	1
Overlap Violations in Clustered Observational Studies of Educational Interventions	1
Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program within a Randomized Controlled Trial	1