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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustaining a Sense of Success: The Protective Role of Teacher Working Conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic	51
Technology-Assisted Vocabulary Learning for EFL Learners: A Meta-Analysis	34
Accelerating Early Math Learning with Research-Based Personalized Learning Games: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	20
An Applied Researcher’s Guide to Estimating Effects from Multisite Individually Randomized Trials: Estimands, Estimators, and Estimates	17
Making Sense of Effect Sizes: Systematic Differences in Intervention Effect Sizes by Outcome Measure Type	16
A Team-Based Perspective for School Improvement: The Mediating Role of School Management Teams	14
Heterogeneity in Mathematics Intervention Effects: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of 191 Randomized Experiments	11
Early College, Continued Success: Longer-Term Impact of Early College High Schools	11
Multilevel Design Parameters to Plan Cluster-Randomized Intervention Studies on Student Achievement in Elementary and Secondary School	9
Success for All: A Quantitative Synthesis of U.S. Evaluations	8
Assessing the Effect of Corequisite English Instruction Using a Randomized Controlled Trial	8
The Effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program on Student Achievement and College Entrance	8
A Meta-Analysis of Mathematical Interventions for Increasing the Word Problem Solving Performance of Upper Elementary and Secondary Students with Mathematics Difficulties	7
The Effect of English Learner Reclassification on Student Achievement and Noncognitive Outcomes	7
Expanding Student Success: The Impact of a Comprehensive College Transition Program on Psychosocial Outcomes	7
Quantifying “Promising Trials Bias” in Randomized Controlled Trials in Education	7
Teacher Talk in Early Years Classrooms following an Oral Language and Literacy Professional Learning Program	6
Does Principal Professional Development Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Pennsylvania’s Inspired Leadership Induction Program	6
Evidence Gap Maps in Education Research	6
Why Do We Find These Effects? An Examination of Mediating Pathways Explaining the Effects of School Turnaround	6
A Cautionary Tale of Tutoring Hard-to-Reach Students in Kenya	6
Identifying Progress Toward Ethnoracial Achievement Equity Across U.S. School Districts: A New Approach	6
Operator Versus Partner: A Case Study of Blueprint School Network’s Model for School Turnaround	5
A Framework for Addressing Instrumentation Biases When Using Observation Systems as Outcome Measures in Instructional Interventions	5
A Simulation Study on Latent Transition Analysis for Examining Profiles and Trajectories in Education: Recommendations for Fit Statistics	5

The Breadth of Impacts from the Abecedarian Project Early Intervention on Cognitive Skills	5
Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale	5
Effects of Apprenticeship on the Short-Term Educational Outcomes of Vocational High-School Students	5
Effects of a Parental Involvement Intervention to Promote Child Literacy in Tanzania: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Minimum Detectable Effect Size Computations for Cluster-Level Regression Discontinuity Studies: Specifications Beyond the Linear Functional Form	5
A Recipe for Disappointment: Policy, Effect Size, and the Winner’s Curse	5
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	5
Long-Term Effects of Social-Emotional Learning on Academic Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of INSIGHTS	5
Empirical Support for Establishing Common Assumptions in Cost Research in Education	4
Remedial Programming and Skill-Targeted SEL in Low-Income and Crisis-Affected Contexts: Experimental Evidence From Niger	4
Raising Teacher Retention in Online Courses through Personalized Support. Evidence from a Cross-National Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Universal Early Childhood Education and Care for Toddlers and Achievement Outcomes in Middle Childhood	4
Implementation Support Improves Outcomes of a Fluency-Based Mathematics Strategy: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Optimal Sample Allocation for Three-Level Multisite Cluster-Randomized Trials	4
The Learning Curve: Revisiting the Assumption of Linear Growth during the School Year	4
Heterogeneity in Short- and Long-Term Impacts of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) on Academic Outcomes, Behavioral Outcomes, and Criminal Activity	4
Impact of Providing Teachers and Principals with Performance Feedback on Their Practice and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment	4
Long-Term Impacts of Reading Recovery through 3rd and 4th Grade: A Regression Discontinuity Study	4
Estimating Treatment Effects with the Explanatory Item Response Model	4
Performance Evaluations as a Measure of Teacher Effectiveness When Implementation Differs: Accounting for Variation across Classrooms, Schools, and Districts	4
Integrating Literacy and Science Instruction in Kindergarten: Results From the Efficacy Study of Zoology One	4
Examining the Impact of a First Grade Whole Number Intervention by Group Size	3
Does Word-Problem Performance Maintain? Follow-Up One Year After Implementation of a Word-Problem Intervention	3
The Efficacy of Two Models of Professional Development Mediated by Fidelity on Fourth Grade Student Reading Outcomes ^†	3
Why Does a Growth Mindset Intervention Impact Achievement Differently across Secondary Schools? Unpacking the Causal Mediation Mechanism from a National Multisite Randomized Experiment	3
Reflective Goal-setting Improves Academic Performance in Teacher and Business Education: A Large-scale Field Experiment	3
The Meta-Analytic Rain Cloud Plot: A New Approach to Visualizing Clearinghouse Data	3
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job: Screening Tools for Systematic Reviews in Education	3
Children Learning and Parents Earning: Exploring the Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Head Start on Parental Earnings	3
Using a Factorial Design to Maximize the Effectiveness of a Parental Text Messaging Intervention	3
Replication and Extension of Family-Based Training Program to Improve Cognitive Abilities in Young Children	3
Empirical Benchmarks to Interpret Intervention Effects on Student Achievement in Elementary and Secondary School: Meta-Analytic Results from Germany	3
Using a Multi-Site RCT to Predict Impacts for a Single Site: Do Better Data and Methods Yield More Accurate Predictions?	3
Matching Methods for Clustered Observational Studies in Education	3
Impacts of School Entry Age on Academic Growth through 2nd Grade: A Multi-State Regression Discontinuity Analysis	2
The Impact of Restorative Practices with Diplomas Now on School Climate and Teachers’ Turnover Intentions: Evidence from a Cluster Multi-Site Randomized Control Trial	2
Treatment Effects in Longitudinal Two-Method Measurement Planned Missingness Designs: An Application and Tutorial	2
Student Behavior Ratings and Response to Tier 1 Reading Intervention: Which Students Do Not Benefit?	2
Item Response Theory Models for Difference-in-Difference Estimates (and Whether They Are Worth the Trouble)	2
The Internal Validity of the School-Level Comparative Interrupted Time Series Design: Evidence From Four New Within-Study Comparisons	2
The Effect of Active Learning Professional Development Training on College Students’ Academic Outcomes	2
The Long-Term Effects of Grade Retention: Evidence on Persistence through High School and College	2
Is There a Catholic School Effect on Kindergarteners’ Absenteeism?	2
Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program within a Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Which Students Benefit from Independent Practice? Experimental Evidence from a Math Software in Private Schools in India	2
Student Log-Data from a Randomized Evaluation of Educational Technology: A Causal Case Study	2
Consistency between Household and County Measures of Onsite Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Evaluation of a Social Skills Program for Early Elementary Students: We Have Skills	2
High-Stakes Testing and Educational Careers: Exploiting the Differences in Cutoffs Between Test Recommendations in The Netherlands	1
How to Measure Quality of Delivery: Focus on Teaching Practices That Help Students to Develop Proximal Outcomes	1

Exploring the Effects of a Social-Emotional Learning Intervention in Brazilian Primary Schools: Findings from Year Two of Implementation	1
Supporting Community College Student Success: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Does One More Year Matter? Dosage Effect of the One-Village-One-Preschool Intervention in Rural China	1
Impacting 9th Grade Educational Outcomes: Results from a Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial of the BARR Model	1
Experimental Design and Statistical Power for Cluster Randomized Cost-Effectiveness Trials	1
Cost-Effectiveness of Algebraic Technological Applications	1
Covariate Balance for Observational Effectiveness Studies: A Comparison of Matching and Weighting	1
Improving Children’s Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence: An Efficacy Study	1
A Multisite Randomized Study of an Online Learning Approach to High School Credit Recovery: Effects on Student Experiences and Proximal Outcomes	1
Impact of Technology-Aided Activity-Based Learning Approaches on Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Community Schools in Rural Zambia	1
Mixed but Not Scrambled: Gender Gaps in Coed Schools with Single-Sex Classrooms	1
The Impact of a Virtual Coaching Program to Improve Instructional Alignment to State Standards	1
Using Robust Standard Errors for the Analysis of Binary Outcomes with a Small Number of Clusters	1
Evaluating the Impact of Supplemental Computer-Assisted Math Instruction in Elementary School: A Conceptual Replication	1
The Impacts on College Enrollment of a Charter Network Serving Disadvantaged Students: Evidence From KIPP Middle School Lotteries	1
Challenges with Evaluating Education Policy Using Panel Data during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Estimating and Comparing Growth Using Longitudinal Interim Achievement Data with Seasonal Trends	1
Can Nudging Mentors Weaken Student Support? Experimental Evidence from a Virtual Communication Intervention	1
How Do the Impacts of Healthcare Training Vary with Credential Length? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program	1
A Knowledge Mobilization Framework: Toward Evidence-Based Statistical Communication Practices in Education Research	1
Reading Skills Transfer Best from Home Language to a Second Language: Policy Lessons from Two Field Experiments in South Africa	1
The Implications of Population Changes on Generalization and Study Design	1
Selecting Districts and Schools for Impact Studies in Education: A Simulation Study of Different Strategies	1
Three-Year Outcomes for Low-Income Parents of Young Children in a Two-Generation Education Program	1
Heterogeneity of Item-Treatment Interactions Masks Complexity and Generalizability in Randomized Controlled Trials	1
Contextual Characteristics Inside and Outside of School Walls as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Teacher Professional Development	1
Multilevel Modeling Resolves Ambiguities in Analyses of Discipline Disproportionality: A Demonstration Comparing Title 1 Montessori and Non-Montessori Schools	1
Intervention Effect or Measurement Artifact? Using Invariance Models to Reveal Response-Shift Bias in Experimental Studies	1