OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary Educational Psychology is 9. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining the simple view of reading in a hybrid orthography	197
Incorporating Design Based Implementation Research with a Randomized Controlled Trial to develop and evaluate the efficacy of playful rational number learning	124
Can teachers’ need-supportive practices moderate the big-fish-little-pond effect? A quasi-experimental study with elementary school children	57
Integrating the big-fish-little-pond effect, the basking-in-reflected-glory effect, and the internal/external frame of reference model predicting students’ individual and collective academic self-conc	48
Commitments to doing differently: Paradigm shifts necessary for critical educational psychology research	44
How much active teaching should be incorporated into college course lectures to promote active learning?	40
It’s not all about recognition and Influence: The role of communal and agentic goals and motives in science for diverse high school students	32
Lesson-specific control-value appraisals and achievement emotions in maths: A combination with the standardized questionnaire survey	29
To stay, switch, or leave: A four-year longitudinal study of the situated and stable social influences on women’s STEM major choices	29
Learning from refutation texts about scientific topics with analogical and causal explanations	28
A meta-analysis of the effects of Montessori education on five fields of development and learning in preschool and school-age children	27
Professional development for evidence-based SRSD writing instruction: Elevating fourth grade outcomes	26
Reasoning about text-based evidence	26
Examining the dynamics of mathematics anxiety, perceived cost, and achievement: A control-value theory approach	25
Interactions of gender with predictors of academic achievement	24
Hybrid discourse spaces: A mixed methods study of student engagement in U.S. science classrooms	24
A school-based intervention on elementary students’ school engagement	24
Self-concept a game changer for academic success for high-achieving Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous students: Reciprocal effects between self-concept and achievement	24
Video games and attitude change: A meta-analysis	23
Variables versus numbers: Effects of symbols and algebraic knowledge on students’ problem-solving strategies	22
Is cost separate from or part of subjective task value? An empirical examination of expectancy-value versus expectancy-value-cost perspectives	21
Effects of socioeconomic status and language use on academic language proficiency in children with a migration background: An evaluation using quantile regressions	21
The differential relations between sub-domains of spatial abilities and mathematical performance in children	20
How gender stereotypes of students and significant others are related to motivational and affective outcomes in mathematics at the end of secondary school	19
Expert-Based cognitive models vs theory-based cognitive models: Which cognitive models match students’ cognition on ‘Parallel and Perpendicular Lines’ Better?	19

Classifying the quality of robotics-enhanced lesson plans using motivation variables, word count, and sentiment analysis of reflections	18
Examining students’ help-seeking when learning from multiple texts	17
Editorial Board	17
The impact of remembered success experiences on expectancies, values, and perceived costs	16
Assessing the effects of student perceptions of instructional quality: A cross-subject within-student design	16
Editorial Board	16
Grade goal effects on the interplay between motivation and performance in undergraduate gateway mathematics courses	16
Load reduction instruction in mathematics and English classrooms: A multilevel study of student and teacher reports	15
Understanding and supporting the motivation of students from low-income families	15
The zone of proximal creativity: What dynamic assessment of divergent thinking reveals about students’ latent class membership	15
The role of academic self-determined reading motivation, reading self-concept, home reading environment, and student reading behavior in reading achievement among American Indian and Hispanic students	15
Attributional profiles: Considering multiple causal attributions for success and failure at the beginning of secondary school	15
Comparing the roles and correlates of emotions in class and during online video lectures in a flipped anatomy classroom	15
Realizing the full potential of individualizing learning	15
Adolescents’ trajectories of social anxiety and social withdrawal: Are they influenced by traditional bullying and cyberbullying roles?	14
Decomposing trait and state variability in general and specific subjective task value beliefs	14
Links between teachers’ knowledge about special educational needs and students’ social participation and academic achievement in mainstream classes	14
Between a growth and a fixed mindset: Examining nuances in 3rd-grade students’ mathematics intelligence mindsets	14
Coping profiles among teachers: Implications for emotions, job satisfaction, burnout, and quitting intentions	14
Parent–child conflict during homeschooling in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: A key role for mothers’ self-efficacy in teaching	14
How to help students in their transition to middle school? Effectiveness of a school-based group mentoring program promoting students’ engagement, self-regulation, and goal setting	14
Teacher well-being: A complementary variable- and person-centered approach harnessing Job Demands-Resources theory	13
Does the Jigsaw method improve motivation and self-regulation in vocational high schools?	13
Concern or comfort with social comparisons matter in undergraduate physics courses: Joint consideration of situated expectancy-value theory, mindsets, and gender	13
A multi-study examination of intra-individual feedback loops between competence and value beliefs, procrastination, and goal achievement	12
Affective-motivational effects of performance feedback in computer-based assessment: Does error message complexity matter?	12
Different time and context = Different goals and emotions? Temporal variability and context specificity of achievement goals for teaching and associations with discrete emotions	12
A bioecological perspective on mindset	12
When classmates influence teacher judgment accuracy of students’ cognitive ability: Studying frame-of-reference effects in primary school	12
What is the basis of teacher judgment of student cognitive abilities and academic achievement and what affects its accuracy?	12
Effects of self-explaining feedback on learning from problem-solving errors	11
An exploratory experiment investigating teachers’ attributional race and gender bias and the moderating effects of personal experience of racial discrimination	11
Attendance to notable terms promotes narrative frame analysis when students read multiple expository texts	11
Editorial Board	11
What Happens With Comparison Processes When “the Other” is Very Similar? Academic Self-Concept Formation in Twins	10
Passive, active, and constructive engagement with peer feedback: A revised model of learning from peer feedback	10
The relationship between math anxiety and math achievement in young children is mediated through working memory, not by number sense, and it is not direct	10
Socioemotional classroom environments mediating teacher expectation effects: A multilevel structural equation modeling approach	10
Can you hear it? Toward conceptual clarity of emotional cost and negative emotions	10
Multiple documents of text and picture: Naming a historical painting’s inaccuracies influences conflict regulation strategies	10
Pathways to word problem solving: The mediating roles of schema construction and mathematical vocabulary	10
Race-based trauma: Teacher responses, supports, barriers, and burnout	10
Teachers’ understanding of racial inequity predicts their perceptions of students’ behaviors	10
Quality beats frequency? Investigating students’ effort in learning when introducing technology in classrooms	10
Focus groups as counterspaces for Black girls and Black women: A critical approach to research methods	10
The interplay between father–child and mother–child numeracy activities and preschool children’s mathematical skills	9
Perceived school climate and school grades in secondary school students: The mediating effect of self-determined motivation	9
The generalized internal/external frame of reference model with academic self-concepts, interests, and anxieties in students from different language backgrounds	9
Effect of parents’ mathematics anxiety and home numeracy activities on young children’s math performance-anxiety relationship	9
Developing amid COVID-19: Adolescent meaning making across the first year of the pandemic	9

Learning about science topics of social relevance using lower and higher autonomy-supportive scaffolds	9
Is situational interest a metacognitive risk? An examination of contextual factors in classroom settings	9
Mentoring underrepresented students for success: Self-regulated learning strategies as a critical link between mentor support and educational attainment	9
The joint operations of teacher-student and peer relationships on classroom engagement among low-achieving elementary students: A longitudinal multilevel study	9
Do emotions and prior performance facilitate the use of the learner-generated drawing strategy? Effects of enjoyment, anxiety, and intramathematical performance on the use of the drawing strategy and	9
Addressing the vexing educational challenges of biodiversity loss: A photo-based intervention	9
Developmental trajectories of children's educational expectations in China: Contributions of academic achievement and maternal expectations	9