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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Using productive failure to learn genetics in a game-based environment	28
Spaced recall reduces forgetting of fundamental mathematical concepts in a post high school precalculus course	28
“Anything taking shape?” Capturing various layers of small group collaborative problem solving in an experiential geometry course in initial teacher education	27
Outside the standard test: The development of a model-based assessment and corresponding rubric	23
Scoping deliberations: scaffolding engagement in planning collective action	17
Comparing the effectiveness of multiple text reading and rereading on knowledge retention and metacognitive accuracy	17
The Effects of Group differentiation by students’ learning strategies	17
Promoting interdisciplinary understanding in asynchronous online higher education courses: a learning communities approach	17
Are you inspired or overwhelmed? The benefits of teachers setting challenging expectations	17
Designing computer-based tests: design guidelines from multimedia learning studied with eye tracking	16
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	14
Generative learning supports learning from video lectures: evidence from an EEG study	14
Walking the number line: towards an enactive understanding of integer arithmetic	14
Examining relations between math anxiety, prior knowledge, hint usage, and performance of math equivalence in two different online learning contexts	14
Learners’ understandings of peer relationships in inquiry: the role of friends versus acquaintance peers in collaboration	14
University students’ perceptions of using generative AI in translation practices	13
Refined use of the eye-mind hypothesis for scientific argumentation using multiple representations	13
Significance of forms and foci of metacognitive regulation in collaborative science learning of less and more successful outcome groups in diverse contexts	13
Improving multiple document comprehension with a lesson about multi-causal explanations in science	13
Detecting threshold concepts through Bayesian knowledge tracing: examining research skill development in biological sciences at the doctoral level	13
Developing a needs-based plagiarism management in second-language writing in a higher education institute: practice-oriented research	11
Moderating effects of students’ dispositions on relationships between instructional activity and students’ science literacy using PISA 2015	11
Data to decision-making: how elementary students use their Community and Citizen Science project to reimagine their school campus	11
Promoting teachers' in-class SRL practices: effects of Authentic Interactive Dynamic Experiences (AIDE) based on simulations and video	10

Community and citizen science in schools: nested inquiries, productive tensions, and the role of communities	10
How preparation-for-learning with a worked versus an open inventing problem affect subsequent learning processes in pre-service teachers	10
Noticing and weighing alternatives in the reflection of regular classroom teaching: Evidence of expertise using mobile eye-tracking	10
Fostering students’ motivation towards learning research skills: the role of autonomy, competence and relatedness support	10
Medical education videos as a tool for rehearsal: efficiency and the cases of background music and difficulty	10
How vocal and silent forms of participation in combination relate to student achievement	9
Self-regulated learning and video annotation in a high school acting classroom	9
Fostering pre-service teachers’ theoretical knowledge application: studying with and without text-based cases	9
How many words are enough? Investigating the effect of different configurations of a software scaffold for formulating scientific hypotheses in inquiry-oriented contexts	9
Problem-solving prior to instructional explanations when learning javelin throwing in primary school	9
Making crosscutting concepts explicit for senior high school students through concept-based instructions and improving their understanding thereof	9
Do medium and Context Matter when learning from multiple complementary Digital texts and videos?	9
Why do people not desire to know all their unknowns? Exploring the potential of interest as a factor in arousing curiosity in science	9
Feedback features and revision uptake in dialogic peer feedback: the moderating effect of self-efficacy and prior knowledge	8
English learners learn from worked example comparison in algebra	8
Conceptual socialization in debriefing: tactics as an object of knowledge in wargame interactions	8
The scripted computer-supported collaborative argumentation in a secondary school classroom: an exploratory study	8
Retrieval-based concept mapping as an effective learning strategy for the transfer of knowledge	8
When do students provide more peer feedback? The roles of performance and prior feedback experiences	7
Learning from interactive video: the influence of self-explanations, navigation, and cognitive load	7
Using self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student STEM interest and identity development	7
Enhancing students’ critical thinking skills: is comparing correct and erroneous examples beneficial?	6
Comparison of more effective and typical teachers’ instructional quality and implementation of engaged reader processes	6
Effectiveness of invention tasks and explicit instruction in preparing intellectually gifted adolescents for learning	6
Research on the correlation between teacher classroom questioning types and student thinking development from the perspective of discourse analysis	6
The collaborative discourse characteristics of high school students during a web-based module for a socioscientific issue	6
Learning from erroneous examples in the mathematics classroom: do students with different naïve ideas benefit equally?	6
In pursuit of mutual benefits in school-based citizen science: who wins what in a win-win situation?	6
CID: a framework for the cognitive analysis of composite instructional designs	6
Infusing teacher-preparation curriculum with case-based instruction focused on culturally responsive, sustaining pedagogy: comparing instructor-facilitated and instructor-supported approaches	6
Designing to support equity-as-transformation perspectives for multilingual science learners	5
Transfer of responsibility in novice and experienced Iranian EFL teachers’ scaffolding: interactional characteristics	5
Refuting student teachers’ misconceptions about multimedia learning	5
Orchestrating the flow and advancement of knowledge artifacts in an online class	5
Instruction in creative and argumentative writing: transfer and crossover effects on writing process and text quality	4
Localizing, describing, interpreting: effects of different audio text structures on attributing meaning to digital pictures	4
Promoting learning transfer in science through a complexity approach and computational modeling	4
An experimental test of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect using an immersive virtual reality classroom	4
Kindergarten instructional practices and child reading and math growth from kindergarten through third grade	4
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
Correction to: Is drawing after learning effective for metacognitive monitoring only when supported by spatial scaffolds?	4
Computer versus longhand note taking: Influence of revision	4
Teacher noticing to scaffold knowledge-building inquiry in two grade 5 classrooms	4
Can failure be made productive also in Bayesian reasoning? A conceptual replication study	4
Semiempty collaborative concept mapping in history education: students’ engagement in historical reasoning and coconstruction	4
When is observing failure productive? Investigating the role of solution diversity in vicarious failure	3
Beliefs influence argumentative essay writing	3
Signaling cues and focused prompts for professional vision support: The interplay of instructional design and situational interest in preservice teachers’ video analysis	3
Seductive details hamper learning even when they do not disrupt	3

Designing for learning across disciplines: leveraging graphs to improve knowledge integration in science	3
Correction to: Futurising science education: students’ experiences from a course on futures thinking and quantum computing	3
Strategies for facilitating processing of transient information in instructional videos by using learner control mechanisms	3
Learning to solve ill-defined statistics problems: does self-explanation quality mediate the worked example effect?	3
Effects of instruction colour and learner empathy on aesthetic appreciation of Chinese poetry	3
Boundary Crossing in Student-Teacher-Scientist-Partnerships: Designer Considerations and Methods to Integrate Citizen Science with School Science	3
Futurising science education: students’ experiences from a course on futures thinking and quantum computing	3
Eye movements in the manipulation of hands-on and computer-simulated scientific experiments: an examination of learning processes using entropy and lag sequential analyses	3
How do higher education students regulate their learning with video modeling examples, worked examples, and practice problems?	3
Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	3
Explanatory inferencing in simulation-based discovery learning: sequence analysis using the edit distance median string	3
Fostering noticing of classroom discussion features through analysis of contrasting cases	3
A generative professional development program for the development of science teacher epistemic orientations and teaching practices	3
Investigating factors affecting student academic achievement in mathematics and science: cognitive style, self-regulated learning and working memory	2
Uncertain instruction: effects on curiosity, learning, and transfer	2
Reciprocal interactions between teachers’ instructional moves and students’ social reasoning during collaborative small group discussions	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
Concept map as a tool to assess and enhance students' system thinking skills	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
Investigating students’ perceived authenticity of learning activities in an out-of-school lab for social sciences: a replication study	2
Correction: Fostering university students’ online reading: effects of teacher-led strategy training embedded in a digital literacy course	2
Examining ontological and self-monitoring scaffolding to improve complex systems thinking with a participatory simulation	2
Fostering engineering and science students’ and teachers’ systems thinking and conceptual modeling skills	2
A framework for supporting systems thinking and computational thinking through constructing models	2
Investigating the role of an inquiry-based science lab on students’ scientific literacy	2
Enhancing computational thinking skills of students with disabilities	2
Bridging communities and schools in Urban development: community and citizen science	2