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

Article	Citations
Estimating and Comparing Growth Using Longitudinal Interim Achievement Data with Seasonal Trends	59
Optimal Sample Allocation for Three-Level Multisite Cluster-Randomized Trials	41
The Challenges of Scaling up Effective Child-Rearing Practices Using Technology in Developing Settings: Experimental Evidence From India	26
Empirical Support for Establishing Common Assumptions in Cost Research in Education	18
The Effect of Active Learning Professional Development Training on College Students’ Academic Outcomes	16
Effects of a Parental Involvement Intervention to Promote Child Literacy in Tanzania: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	12
Redefining Populations of Inference for Generalizations from Small Studies	11
Quantifying and Predicting Variation in the Medium-Term Effects of an Oversubscribed Prekindergarten Program	10
Long-Term Effects of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways Model: Evidence from a Randomized Trial	10
Growth on 2019 State Achievement Tests: Empirical Benchmarks and the Role of Scale Choice	10
Using Robust Standard Errors for the Analysis of Binary Outcomes with a Small Number of Clusters	9
Which Students Benefit from Independent Practice? Experimental Evidence from a Math Software in Private Schools in India	9
Overlap Violations in Clustered Observational Studies of Educational Interventions	8
How Do the Impacts of Healthcare Training Vary with Credential Length? Evidence from the Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program	8
Impact of Technology-Aided Activity-Based Learning Approaches on Learning Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Community Schools in Rural Zambia	8
Intervention Effect or Measurement Artifact? Using Invariance Models to Reveal Response-Shift Bias in Experimental Studies	7
Expanding Student Success: The Impact of a Comprehensive College Transition Program on Psychosocial Outcomes	7
CritSEM: Advancing QuantCrit to Examine Racialized Resegregation in Special Education	7
When Should Evaluators Lose Sleep Over Measurement? Toward Establishing Best Practices	7
Taking Space for Anti-Racist Research: Learnings from the Margins of Educational Effectiveness	7
Leading Indicators of Long-Term Success in Community Schools: Evidence from New York City	7
Teacher Talk in Early Years Classrooms following an Oral Language and Literacy Professional Learning Program	6
Exploring the Effects of a Social-Emotional Learning Intervention in Brazilian Primary Schools: Findings from Year Two of Implementation	6
Effects of the Triple Q Intervention on Argument Writing: Findings from a Small-Scale Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial	6
The Sensitivity of Small Area Estimates under Propensity Score Subclassification for Generalization	6

Item Response Theory Models for Difference-in-Difference Estimates (and Whether They Are Worth the Trouble)	6
Oceania in the Desert: A QuantCrit Analysis of the (Under)Counting of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Students at an AANAPISI-HSI	5
Statistical Power Analysis for Univariate Meta-Analysis: A Three-Level Model	5
Your Child Missed Learning the Alphabet Today: A Randomized Trial of Sending Teacher-Written Postcards Home to Reduce Absences	5
Evaluating the Impact of Supplemental Computer-Assisted Math Instruction in Elementary School: A Conceptual Replication	5
High-Stakes Testing and Educational Careers: Exploiting the Differences in Cutoffs Between Test Recommendations in The Netherlands	5
Mixed but Not Scrambled: Gender Gaps in Coed Schools with Single-Sex Classrooms	5
The Effects of Higher-Stakes Teacher Evaluation on Office Disciplinary Referrals	5
Remedial Programming and Skill-Targeted SEL in Low-Income and Crisis-Affected Contexts: Experimental Evidence From Niger	5
Replication and Extension of Family-Based Training Program to Improve Cognitive Abilities in Young Children	5
A Chain as Strong as Its Strongest Link? Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Biases Arising from Selective Analysis and Reporting of Research Results	5
Does One More Year Matter? Dosage Effect of the One-Village-One-Preschool Intervention in Rural China	4
Assessing the Effect of Corequisite English Instruction Using a Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Implementation Support Improves Outcomes of a Fluency-Based Mathematics Strategy: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Reading Skills Transfer Best from Home Language to a Second Language: Policy Lessons from Two Field Experiments in South Africa	4
Forced to Redshirt: Quasi-Experimental Impacts of Delayed Kindergarten Entry	4
Conjuring Power from a Theory of Change: The PWRD Method for Trials with Anticipated Variation in Effects	4
Science Outcome Design Parameters for Cluster-Randomized Trials Involving Teachers	4
The Costs and Impacts of Descubriendo la Lectura : Evidence From a Multisite Experimental Study	4
Minimum Detectable Effect Size Computations for Cluster-Level Regression Discontinuity Studies: Specifications Beyond the Linear Functional Form	3
A Recipe for Disappointment: Policy, Effect Size, and the Winner’s Curse	3
Can a Developmental Education Reform Promote Momentum to Mid-Term and Longer-Term Student Success? Evidence from Florida	3
Multilevel Modeling Resolves Ambiguities in Analyses of Discipline Disproportionality: A Demonstration Comparing Title 1 Montessori and Non-Montessori Schools	3
The Uncertain Role of Educational Software in Remediating Student Learning: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Three Local Education Agencies	3
Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale	3
The Impact of Community Eligibility Provision on Multilingual Learner Outcomes	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
The Impact of Mathematics-Focused Read-Alouds on Mathematics Outcomes for Preschool Children: A Pilot Study	3
Leveraging Home Reading to Strengthen Literacy Development: Applying Principal Stratification to Explore Efficacy Trial Effects	3
Mentors Matter Recruitment Replication & Extension: Investigating Effects Across Implementation Years	3
A Cautionary Tale of Tutoring Hard-to-Reach Students in Kenya	2
The Effect of Worked Examples and Self-Explanation Prompts on Mathematics Standardized Assessments	2
The Breadth of Impacts from the Abecedarian Project Early Intervention on Cognitive Skills	2
Does Teacher Professional Development Improve Student Learning? Evidence from Leading Educators’ Fellowship Model	2
Integrating Literacy and Science Instruction in Kindergarten: Results From the Efficacy Study of Zoology One	2
Estimating Treatment Effects with the Explanatory Item Response Model	2
Is Reputational Pressure Enough to Create Competitive School Choice Effects? Evidence from Seoul’s School Choice Policy	2
Evidence Gap Maps in Education Research	2
Reading Aloud to Children, Social Inequalities and Vocabulary Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Empirical Benchmarks for Effect Size Interpretation and Study Planning with Social and Behavioral Outcomes	2
Which Students Benefit from Computer-Based Individualized Instruction? Experimental Evidence from Public Schools in India	2
Heterogeneity of Item-Treatment Interactions Masks Complexity and Generalizability in Randomized Controlled Trials	2
Evaluation of a State-Wide Mathematics Support Program for at-Risk Students in Grade 1 and 2 in Germany	2
Contextual Characteristics Inside and Outside of School Walls as Predictors of Differential Effectiveness in Teacher Professional Development	2
Conditions Under Which College Students Can Be Responsive to Text-Based Nudging	2
A Multisite Randomized Study of an Online Learning Approach to High School Credit Recovery: Effects on Student Experiences and Proximal Outcomes	1
Persistence and Emergence of Literacy Skills: Long-Term Impacts of an Effective Early Grade Reading Intervention in South Africa	1
Performance Evaluations as a Measure of Teacher Effectiveness When Implementation Differs: Accounting for Variation across Classrooms, Schools, and Districts	1
The Meta-Analytic Rain Cloud Plot: A New Approach to Visualizing Clearinghouse Data	1

Is Big Data Better? LMS Data and Prediction Accuracy in Postsecondary Education	1
A Meta-Analysis of Mathematical Interventions for Increasing the Word Problem Solving Performance of Upper Elementary and Secondary Students with Mathematics Difficulties	1
Estimation of Teacher Value Added in the Presence of Missing Data	1
The Spanish- and English-Language Literacy Impacts of Descubriendo la Lectura across Three Experimental Replications	1
Supporting Teachers in Argument Writing Instruction at Scale: A Replication Study of the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP)	1
Illustrating and Enacting a Critical Quantitative Approach to Measurement with MIMIC Models	1
Reading Interventions for Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners at Risk for Reading Difficulties: A Meta-Analysis	1
Does Universal SEL Work under Typical Implementation Practices? Outcomes of a First Grade Effectiveness Trial	1
Advantages of Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals for Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios: A Comparison of Five Methods	1
Quantitative Research and Inequality Narratives: A Systematic Review	1
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	1
Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program within a Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Using Existing School Messaging Platforms to Inform Parents about Their Child’s Attendance	1
A Framework for Addressing Instrumentation Biases When Using Observation Systems as Outcome Measures in Instructional Interventions	1
Practice-Based Teacher Education Pedagogies Improve Responsiveness: Evidence from a Lab Experiment	1
Consistency between Household and County Measures of Onsite Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Can Nudging Mentors Weaken Student Support? Experimental Evidence from a Virtual Communication Intervention	1
Cost-Effectiveness of Algebraic Technological Applications	1
Supporting Community College Student Success: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	1
Why Do We Find These Effects? An Examination of Mediating Pathways Explaining the Effects of School Turnaround	1
Using a Multi-Site RCT to Predict Impacts for a Single Site: Do Better Data and Methods Yield More Accurate Predictions?	1
The Effects of Grade Retention on High School Outcomes: Evidence from New York City Schools	1
Changing the Odds: Student Achievement after Introduction of a Middle School Math Intervention	1