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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Do vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in second language facilitate the development of each other in young children?	129
Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review	121
Telling stories as preparation for learning: A Bayesian analysis of transfer performance and investigation of learning mechanisms	82
EARLI Association News	77
Uncovering everyday dynamics in students’ perceptions of instructional quality with experience sampling	75
Gender-specific trajectories of academic achievement in Chinese elementary school students: Relations with life satisfaction trajectories and suicidal ideation trajectories	65
Developmental changes in the contributions of phonological processing skills to Chinese character reading and arithmetic	63
Gender differences in reading: Examining text-based interest in relation to text characteristics and reading comprehension	59
Domain-specific self-regulated learning interventions for elementary school students	58
Constructive retrieval: Benefits for learning, motivation, and metacognitive monitoring	52
Self-regulation prompts promote the achievement of learning goals – But only briefly: Uncovering hidden dynamics in the effects of a psychological intervention	52
The relative strength of relations between different facets of teacher motivation and core dimensions of teaching quality in mathematics - A multilevel analysis	51
The same yet different? Teaching quality differs across a teacher’s classes, but teachers with higher knowledge make teaching quality more similar	46
Teacher motivation: Implications for instruction and learning. Introduction to the special issue	44
Dynamic relationships between text reading fluency and reading comprehension across three stages of reading development in Chinese children: A longitudinal cross-lagged study	43
Improving the teaching and learning of statistics	41
Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension	40
Distilling playful stances to learning: Looking across cultures, contexts, roles and generations	40
“They would make you feel stupid” - Ability grouping, Children’s friendships and psychosocial Wellbeing in Irish primary school	37
How does teacher bias influence students?: An introduction to the special issue on teachers’ implicit attitudes, instructional practices, and student outcomes	35
Opportunities and limitations of using the linguistic category model as a measure of teachers’ implicit stereotypes in Germany	34
Editorial board/Publication information	34
University students in COVID-19 lockdown: The role of adaptability and fluid reasoning in supporting their academic motivation and engagement	34
Exploring the necessary conditions for observing interleaved practice benefits in math learning	30
A Bayesian approach to students’ perceptions of teachers’ autonomy support	30

Resilience research in learning disabilities: Guiding principles from developmental psychopathology	30
Image interpretation scaffolds support adolescents’ historical reasoning	29
Providing external feedback and prompting the generation of internal feedback fosters achievement, strategies and motivation in concept learning	29
Other-self similarity, motivation, emotion, and learning	28
Training flexibility in dealing with additive situations	27
The immigrant paradox and math self-concept: An SES-of-origin-country hypothesis	27
Editorial board/Publication information	26
Editorial board/Publication information	26
Playful learning is the missing link in educational success	26
Income inequality is associated with heightened test anxiety and lower academic achievement: A cross-national study in 51 countries	26
Shedding light on relations between teacher emotions, instructional behavior, and student school well-being – Evidence from disadvantaged schools	25
Achievement emotions and arithmetic fluency – Development and parallel processes during the early school years	25
Benefits of turning the illustrations in a narrated slideshow into cartoons: An extension of the positivity principle	24
Perceived classroom disruption undermines the positive educational effects of perceived need-supportive teaching in science	24
Rating writing: Comparison of holistic and analytic grading approaches in pre-service teachers	24
University students’ use of motivational regulation during one semester	24
Teacher feedback, disciplinary climate, student self-concept, and reading achievement:A multilevel moderated mediation model	23
Scripted interventions versus reciprocal teaching in collaborative learning: A comparison of pedagogical and teachable agents using a cognitive architecture	23
The quizzing effect depends on hope of success and can be optimized by cognitive load-based adaptation	23
Modeling teachers’ reactions to unexpectedness	23
The influence of seductive details in learning environments with low and high extrinsic motivation	23
Do easy-to-read adaptations really facilitate sentence processing for adults with a lower level of education? An experimental eye-tracking study	23
Digital education through guided pretend play	23
Does changing learning environments affect student motivation?	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
Classroom management and students' mathematics achievement: The role of students’ disruptive behavior and teacher classroom management	22
Pizzas or no pizzas: An advantage of word problems in fraction arithmetic?	22
Learning to diagnose collaboratively – Effects of adaptive collaboration scripts in agent-based medical simulations	21
Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies	21
Developmental pathways of early numerical skills during the preschool to school transition	21
Music lessons enhance executive functions in 6- to 7-year-old children	21
The effects of direct and indirect training in metacognitive learning strategies on near and far transfer in self-regulated learning	21
Enhancing learning with a two-page study manual	20
Overcoming the gap between knowledge and use in mathematical flexibility: Examining the role of inhibitory control	20
At a first glance – How reliable and valid is the thin slices technique to assess instructional quality?	20
Editorial for the special issue “Advances in simulation-based learning in higher education”	20
EARLI Association News	20
The role of strategy-based motivation in mathematical problem solving: The case of learner-generated drawings	19
Does embedding learning supports enhance transfer during game-based learning?	19
Completion of upper secondary education: Predictions of the psychosocial learning environment and academic achievement	19
Individualizing goal-setting interventions using automated writing evaluation to support secondary school students’ text revisions	19
The impact of a usefulness intervention on students’ learning achievement in a virtual biology lesson: An eye-tracking-based approach	19
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	18
Student well-being: In search of definitions, measures, and research designs	17
Double disadvantage: Female first-generation-students think of themselves as least talented, contributing to disproportionate disadvantage	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
Time-of-day matters in text learning and recall: Evening lessons are advantageous for adults with ADHD though not for typical peers	17
The timing of executive function development is associated with growth in math achievement from preschool through second grade	16

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