OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Instruction is 10. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review	156
EARLI Association News	147
Uncovering everyday dynamics in students’ perceptions of instructional quality with experience sampling	86
Developmental changes in the contributions of phonological processing skills to Chinese character reading and arithmetic	84
Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in relation to text characteristics and reading comprehension	78
Constructive retrieval: Benefits for learning, motivation, and metacognitive monitoring	72
The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar	68
Can you have your cake and eat it too?	65
Gender-specific trajectories of academic achievement in Chinese elementary school students: Relations with life satisfaction trajectories and suicidal ideation trajectories	64
Teacher motivation: Implications for instruction and learning. Introduction to the special issue	59
Self-regulation prompts promote the achievement of learning goals – But only briefly: Uncovering hidden dynamics in the effects of a psychological intervention	55
The relative strength of relations between different facets of teacher motivation and core dimensions of teaching quality in mathematics - A multilevel analysis	55
Do vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in second language facilitate the development of each other in young children?	54
Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms	45
Domain-specific self-regulated learning interventions for elementary school students	44
Dynamic relationships between text reading fluency and reading comprehension across three stages of reading development in Chinese children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	41
Improving the teaching and learning of statistics	38
Distilling playful stances to learning: Looking across cultures, contexts, roles and generations	35
Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension	35
Editorial board/Publication information	34
Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning	34
A Bayesian approach to students’ perceptions of teachers’ autonomy support	33
Opportunities and limitations of using the linguistic category model as a measure of teachers’ implicit stereotypes in Germany	33
University students in COVID-19 lockdown: The role of adaptability and fluid reasoning in supporting their academic motivation and engagement	33
How does teacher bias influence students?: An introduction to the special issue on teachers’ implicit attitudes, instructional practices, and student outcomes	31

“They would make you feel stupid” - Ability grouping, Children’s friendships and psychosocial Wellbeing in Irish primary school	30
Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology	29
Image interpretation scaffolds support adolescents’ historical reasoning	29
Other-self similarity, motivation, emotion, and learning	28
Editorial board/Publication information	28
The influence of seductive details in learning environments with low and high extrinsic motivation	28
The immigrant paradox and math self-concept: An SES-of-origin-country hypothesis	28
Training flexibility in dealing with additive situations	28
Playful learning is the missing link in educational success	27
Editorial board/Publication information	27
Perceived classroom disruption undermines the positive educational effects of perceived need-supportive teaching in science	26
Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency – Development and parallel processes during the early school years	26
Scripted interventions versus reciprocal teaching in collaborative learning: A comparison of pedagogical and teachable agents using a cognitive architecture	25
Rating writing: Comparison of holistic and analytic grading approaches in pre-service teachers	25
Benefits of turning the illustrations in a narrated slideshow into cartoons: An extension of the positivity principle	25
Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement:A multilevel moderated mediation model	25
The quizzing effect depends on hope of success and can be optimized by cognitive load-based adaptation	25
Digital education through guided pretend play	25
Shedding light on relations between teacher emotions, instructional behavior, and student school well-being – Evidence from disadvantaged schools	24
Do easy-to-read adaptations really facilitate sentence processing for adults with a lower level of education? An experimental eye-tracking study	24
Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?	23
Modeling teachers’ reactions to unexpectedness	23
Providing external feedback and prompting the generation of internal feedback fosters achievement, strategies and motivation in concept learning	23
Learning to diagnose collaboratively – Effects of adaptive collaboration scripts in agent-based medical simulations	23
Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries	23
Does learning how to use data mean being motivated to use it? Effects of a data use intervention on data literacy and motivational beliefs of pre-service teachers	22
Strategies for regulating achievement emotions: Conceptualization and relations with university students’ emotions, well-being, and health	22
Editorial for the special issue “Advances in simulation-based learning in higher education”	21
The effects of direct and indirect training in metacognitive learning strategies on near and far transfer in self-regulated learning	21
Classroom management and students' mathematics achievement: The role of students’ disruptive behavior and teacher classroom management	21
EARLI Association News	21
Overcoming the gap between knowledge and use in mathematical flexibility: Examining the role of inhibitory control	21
Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies	21
Enhancing learning with a two-page study manual	21
Developmental pathways of early numerical skills during the preschool to school transition	21
Pizzas or no pizzas: An advantage of word problems in fraction arithmetic?	21
Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students’ text revisions	20
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement	20
Stimulating individual learning of the concept of fraction equivalence: How students utilize adaptive features in digital learning environments mediates their effect	20
The role of strategy-based motivation in mathematical problem solving: The case of learner-generated drawings	20
The impact of a usefulness intervention on students’ learning achievement in a virtual biology lesson: An eye-tracking-based approach	19
Time-of-day matters in text learning and recall: Evening lessons are advantageous for adults with ADHD though not for typical peers	18
Do preservice teacher education candidates’ implicit biases of ethnic differences and mindset toward academic ability change over time?	18
The relationship between early childhood teachers' instructional quality and children's mathematics development	17
Student well-being: In search of definitions, measures, and research designs	17
“The more I learn, the more I know nothing”: A longitudinal registered report of doctoral students’ uncertainty in learning	17
Role of home math environment in the intergenerational transmission of math skills	17
Opening up the black box: Teacher competence, instructional quality, and students’ learning progress	17
Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage	17
Differences between low and high achievers in whole-classroom dialogue participation quality	16

The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade	16
Trait resilience against classroom discrimination: Exploring protective effects on immigrant students’ academic achievement across 59 economies	16
EARLI Association News	16
Teacher motivation, quality instruction, and student outcomes: Not a simple path	16
Effects of digitalisation on learning to write – A naturalistic experiment	16
Phatic expressions influence perceived helpfulness in online peer help-giving: A mixed methods study	16
Does embedding learning supports enhance transfer during game-based learning?	16
Linguistic precursors of sixth-grade geometric and fraction skills in children with and without Developmental Language Disorder	16
A multi-informant study on teachers' mindset, classroom practices, and student well-being	15
Effectiveness of a minecraft education intervention for improving spatial thinking in primary school children: A mixed methods two-level cluster randomised trial	15
Adjusting expectations or maintaining first impressions? The stability of teachers' expectations of students’ mathematics achievement	15
Little and often: Causal inference machine learning demonstrates the benefits of homework for improving achievement in mathematics and science	15
Introducing the DYNAMICS framework of moment-to-moment development in achievement motivation	15
The more, the better? Learning with feedback and instruction	15
Feedback to diverse language learners: Where are we and where do we need to go in literacy research? An introduction to the Special Issue on Literacy and Feedback	15
EARLI Association News	14
The role of social networks in digital learning gamification: Learner communication preferences and performance effects	14
Ecological validity of retrospective reflections in eye tracking	14
Do teachers' achievement goals and self-efficacy beliefs matter for students’ learning experiences? Evidence from two studies on perceived teaching quality and emotional experiences	14
EARLI Association News	14
Invited commentary: Towards more inclusive and Integrated approaches to reading and writing feedback research	14
How do professional development programs on comparing solution methods and classroom discourse affect students' achievement in mathematics? The mediating role of students’ subject matter justification	13
How effective is feedback for L1, L2, and FL learners’ writing? A meta-analysis	13
The happy-fish-little-pond effect on enjoyment: Generalizability across multiple domains and countries	13
Integrating AIGC into product design ideation teaching: An empirical study on self-efficacy and learning outcomes	13
Explaining procedures and interleaving practice in fraction arithmetic	12
Toward adaptive support of pre-service teachers' assessment competencies: Log data in a digital simulation reveal engagement modes	12
EARLI Association News	12
Uncovering the situational impact in educational settings: Studies on motivational and emotional experiences	12
Does watching an explainer video help learning with subsequent text? – Only when prompt-questions are provided	12
Disciplinary vocabulary and mastery of educational objectives in first-grade	12
Design fit in gamified online programming learning environment	12
Playful enactive interventions can enhance agency, empathy and social integration in children	12
Children’s and mothers’ understanding of play and learning: Repertoires across five cultures	12
EARLI Association News	12
The role of inhibition in overcoming arithmetic natural number bias in the Chinese context: Evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments	11
How to teach Bayesian reasoning: An empirical study comparing four different probability training courses	11
Enhancing spatial skills through mechanical problem solving	11
Can simulations help higher education in training professional skills?	11
Interleaved practice enhances grammar skill learning for similar and dissimilar tenses in Romance languages	11
Learning programming from erroneous worked-examples. Which type of error is beneficial for learning?	11
The role of interactive dialogue in students’ learning of mathematical reasoning: A quantitative multi-method analysis of feedback episodes	11
Pre-service teachers’ desire to control bias: Implications for the endorsement of culturally affirming classroom practices	11
SES and academic achievement are (not always) related: Profiles of student SES, academic achievement and their links to socio-emotional, cognitive, and metacognitive characteristics	11
How to guide learners' processing of multimedia lessons with pedagogical agents	11
How does interest in a course interact with course learning?	10
Editorial board/Publication information	10
Really? It depends! How authentic learning material affects involvement with personal stories of the past	10
Taking a closer look at how higher education students process and use (discrepant) peer feedback	10
Analysing classroom videos in teacher education— How different instructional settings promote student teachers’ professional vision of classroom management	10
Are profiles of self-regulated learning and intelligence mindsets related to students’ self-regulated learning and achievement?	10
The interplay of rewards and competition in digital game-based learning: Effects on intrinsic motivation, game performance and behaviors, and computational thinking	10
Commentary on within-person designs and motivational science	10
EARLI title page	10
Teacher personality domains and facets: Their unique associations with student-ratings of teaching quality and teacher enthusiasm	10
Higher education students’ achievement emotions and their antecedents in e-learning amid COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country survey	10
Effects of interruption on eye movements and comprehension during reading on digital devices	10
A meta-analysis of students’ academic learning losses over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Rich data, poor information? Teachers’ perceptions of mean differences in graphical feedback from statewide tests	10
Reflecting on their mission increases preservice teachers’ growth mindsets	10
The application of arithmetic principles predicts mathematical achievement in college students	10
Boosting debiasing: Impact of repeated training on reasoning	10
Complexity affects performance, cognitive load, and awareness	10
Investigating learner characteristics and processes in Productive Failure and Vicarious Failure to design adaptive guidance	10