OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Instructional Science is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Using productive failure to learn genetics in a game-based environment	31
Spaced recall reduces forgetting of fundamental mathematical concepts in a post high school precalculus course	31
“Anything taking shape?” Capturing various layers of small group collaborative problem solving in an experiential geometry course in initial teacher education	29
Outside the standard test: The development of a model-based assessment and corresponding rubric	22
How adding structure reduces complexity: more interconnections in concept maps do not increase cognitive load	22
Scoping deliberations: scaffolding engagement in planning collective action	19
Comparing the effectiveness of multiple text reading and rereading on knowledge retention and metacognitive accuracy	18
The Effects of Group differentiation by students’ learning strategies	17
Promoting interdisciplinary understanding in asynchronous online higher education courses: a learning communities approach	16
Are you inspired or overwhelmed? The benefits of teachers setting challenging expectations	16
Learners’ understandings of peer relationships in inquiry: the role of friends versus acquaintance peers in collaboration	15
Detecting threshold concepts through Bayesian knowledge tracing: examining research skill development in biological sciences at the doctoral level	15
Walking the number line: towards an enactive understanding of integer arithmetic	15
Effects of short- and long-term prompting in learning journals on strategy use, self-efficacy, and learning outcomes	15
Correction: Understanding interactions between scientists and elementary school students in a citizen science project	15
University students’ perceptions of using generative AI in translation practices	14
Examining relations between math anxiety, prior knowledge, hint usage, and performance of math equivalence in two different online learning contexts	14
Moderating effects of students’ dispositions on relationships between instructional activity and students’ science literacy using PISA 2015	13
Generative learning supports learning from video lectures: evidence from an EEG study	13
Improving multiple document comprehension with a lesson about multi-causal explanations in science	12
Refined use of the eye-mind hypothesis for scientific argumentation using multiple representations	12
Developing a needs-based plagiarism management in second-language writing in a higher education institute: practice-oriented research	12
Fostering students’ motivation towards learning research skills: the role of autonomy, competence and relatedness support	11
Noticing and weighing alternatives in the reflection of regular classroom teaching: Evidence of expertise using mobile eye-tracking	11
Medical education videos as a tool for rehearsal: efficiency and the cases of background music and difficulty	11

Data to decision-making: how elementary students use their Community and Citizen Science project to reimagine their school campus	11
How preparation-for-learning with a worked versus an open inventing problem affect subsequent learning processes in pre-service teachers	11
Community and citizen science in schools: nested inquiries, productive tensions, and the role of communities	11
Why do people not desire to know all their unknowns? Exploring the potential of interest as a factor in arousing curiosity in science	10
Self-regulated learning and video annotation in a high school acting classroom	10
Promoting teachers' in-class SRL practices: effects of Authentic Interactive Dynamic Experiences (AIDE) based on simulations and video	10
Problem-solving prior to instructional explanations when learning javelin throwing in primary school	9
Do medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos?	9
How many words are enough? Investigating the effect of different configurations of a software scaffold for formulating scientific hypotheses in inquiry-oriented contexts	8
MyDanceDown: evaluating dance competence and emotions in individuals with Down syndrome	8
Conceptual socialization in debriefing: tactics as an object of knowledge in wargame interactions	8
Making crosscutting concepts explicit for senior high school students through concept-based instructions and improving their understanding thereof	8
How vocal and silent forms of participation in combination relate to student achievement	8
Learning from interactive video: the influence of self-explanations, navigation, and cognitive load	7
English learners learn from worked example comparison in algebra	7
Retrieval-based concept mapping as an effective learning strategy for the transfer of knowledge	7
Feedback features and revision uptake in dialogic peer feedback: the moderating effect of self-efficacy and prior knowledge	7
When do students provide more peer feedback? The roles of performance and prior feedback experiences	7
The scripted computer-supported collaborative argumentation in a secondary school classroom: an exploratory study	7
Learning from erroneous examples in the mathematics classroom: do students with different naïve ideas benefit equally?	6
Comparison of more effective and typical teachers’ instructional quality and implementation of engaged reader processes	6
In pursuit of mutual benefits in school-based citizen science: who wins what in a win-win situation?	6
Using self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student STEM interest and identity development	6
CID: a framework for the cognitive analysis of composite instructional designs	5
Transfer of responsibility in novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers’ scaffolding: interactional characteristics	5
SimLab: an intervention to promote expansive learning and organisational change in team-based emergency care simulation	5
Research on the correlation between teacher classroom questioning types and student thinking development from the perspective of discourse analysis	5
Effectiveness of invention tasks and explicit instruction in preparing intellectually gifted adolescents for learning	5
Kindergarten instructional practices and child reading and math growth from kindergarten through third grade	5
Instruction in creative and argumentative writing: transfer and crossover effects on writing process and text quality	5
The collaborative discourse characteristics of high school students during a web-based module for a socioscientific issue	5
Designing to support equity-as-transformation perspectives for multilingual science learners	5
Orchestrating the flow and advancement of knowledge artifacts in an online class	5
Promoting learning transfer in science through a complexity approach and computational modeling	5
Refuting student teachers’ misconceptions about multimedia learning	5
Infusing teacher-preparation curriculum with case-based instruction focused on culturally responsive, sustaining pedagogy: comparing instructor-facilitated and instructor-supported approaches	5
Testing the meshing hypothesis in prospective teachers: Are there effects of matching learning style and presentation mode on learning performance and on metacognitive aspects of learning?	4
Examining the effects of tempo in background music on adolescent learners’ reading comprehension performance: employing a multimodal approach	4
An experimental test of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect using an immersive virtual reality classroom	4
Eye movements in the manipulation of hands-on and computer-simulated scientific experiments: an examination of learning processes using entropy and lag sequential analyses	4
Localizing, describing, interpreting: effects of different audio text structures on attributing meaning to digital pictures	4
Minding the gender gap in advanced STEM courses: effects of student preparedness and activity level	4
Correction to: Futurising science education: students’ experiences from a course on futures thinking and quantum computing	4
Semiempty collaborative concept mapping in history education: students’ engagement in historical reasoning and coconstruction	4
Computer versus longhand note taking: Influence of revision	4
Teacher noticing to scaffold knowledge-building inquiry in two grade 5 classrooms	4
Signaling cues and focused prompts for professional vision support: The interplay of instructional design and situational interest in preservice teachers’ video analysis	4
Strategies for facilitating processing of transient information in instructional videos by using learner control mechanisms	4
Can failure be made productive also in Bayesian reasoning? A conceptual replication study	3
How do higher education students regulate their learning with video modeling examples, worked examples, and practice problems?	3

A generative professional development program for the development of science teacher epistemic orientations and teaching practices	3
Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt	3
When is observing failure productive? Investigating the role of solution diversity in vicarious failure	3
The effects of competitive classroom activities on undergraduates with varied levels of competitive preference	3
Fostering noticing of classroom discussion features through analysis of contrasting cases	3
Effects of instruction colour and learner empathy on aesthetic appreciation of Chinese poetry	3
Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	3
Beliefs influence argumentative essay writing	3
Learning to solve ill-defined statistics problems: does self-explanation quality mediate the worked example effect?	3
Explanatory inferencing in simulation-based discovery learning: sequence analysis using the edit distance median string	3
Promoting Pre-Service Teachers’ Evidence-Informed Reasoning Through Peer-Feedback: Effects of a Feedback Provision Scaffold and a Feedback Integration Scaffold	2
A framework for supporting systems thinking and computational thinking through constructing models	2
The roles that students’ ethnicity and achievement levels play in teachers’ choice of learning materials in online teaching: evidence from two experimental studies	2
Concept map as a tool to assess and enhance students' system thinking skills	2
Reciprocal interactions between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small group discussions	2
Investigating factors affecting student academic achievement in mathematics and science: cognitive style, self-regulated learning and working memory	2
Boundary Crossing in Student-Teacher-Scientist-Partnerships: Designer Considerations and Methods to Integrate Citizen Science with School Science	2
Examining ontological and self-monitoring scaffolding to improve complex systems thinking with a participatory simulation	2
Student teachers’ conceptual knowledge of operant conditioning: How can case comparison support knowledge acquisition?	2
Putting self-regulated learning and teaching into practice: insights from two science teachers and their students	2
Fostering engineering and science students’ and teachers’ systems thinking and conceptual modeling skills	2
Enhancing computational thinking skills of students with disabilities	2
Do students learn more from failing alone or in groups? Insights into the effects of collaborative versus individual problem solving in productive failure	2
Assessing emergency physicians’ motivation to conduct clinical teaching using the Q-methodology approach	2
Designing for learning across disciplines: leveraging graphs to improve knowledge integration in science	2
Correction: Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	2
Bridging communities and schools in Urban development: community and citizen science	2
Learning progression-based design: advancing the synergetic development of energy understanding and scientific explanation	2
Deficit narratives as teacher foils: how vulnerability and emotional regimes shape teacher discourse	2
Investigating the role of an inquiry-based science lab on students’ scientific literacy	2
Futurising science education: students’ experiences from a course on futures thinking and quantum computing	2