OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Psychology Review is 18. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Meeting John Bransford	226
Conditions for Effective Learning from Erroneous Examples: A Systematic Review	208
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education	156
A Systematic Review on Student Engagement in Undergraduate Mathematics: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Learning Outcomes	125
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper	117
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	114
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom	110
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education	106
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	104
Commentary: How can We Come to Terms when Discussing the Role of Effort from the Perspective of Cognitive Load Theory and Theories of Self-regulated Learning?	89
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review	83
A Computational Model of School Achievement	82
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation	80
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy	74
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis	73
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories	66
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	63
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis	63
Does Retrieval Demand Moderate the Effectiveness of Covert Retrieval Practice? Comparing Covert and Overt Retrieval Practice for Learning Key Terms and Definitions	55
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?	54
Retrieval Practice Versus Elaborative Encoding: A Systematic and Meta-analytic Review	52
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses	52
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures	49
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	48
Directional Ordering of Self-Concept, School Grades, and Standardized Tests Over Five Years: New Tripartite Models Juxtaposing Within- and Between-Person Perspectives	47

Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively	47
Motivating Motivation Regulation Research—An Evidence and Gap Map Approach	47
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement	46
The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout	45
Benefits of Taking a Virtual Field Trip in Immersive Virtual Reality: Evidence for the Immersion Principle in Multimedia Learning	45
The Relation Between Perceived Mental Effort, Monitoring Judgments, and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis	44
Concreteness and Abstraction in Mathematics Education: A Taxonomy of the Semantic Landscape	44
A Systematic Review of Sequential Multiple-Assignment Randomized Trials in Educational Research	43
Culture, Motivation, Self-Regulation, and the Impactful Work of Dennis M. McInerney	43
Self-regulated Learning in the Digitally Enhanced Science Classroom: Toward an Early Warning System	43
Black and Latinx Adolescents’ STEM Motivational Beliefs: a Systematic Review of the Literature on Parent STEM Support	41
The Effect of Prequestions on Learning: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis	39
On Being Accepted: Interrogating How University Cultural Scripts Shape Personal and Political Facets of Belonging	39
Why Do Learners (Under)Utilize Interleaving in Learning Confusable Categories? The Role of Metastrategic Knowledge and Utility Value of Distinguishing	39
Seeking a Comprehensive Theory About the Development of Scientific Thinking	39
Emotion Regulation Strategies and Academic Achievement among Secondary and University Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	38
Effects of Scaffolding in Digital Game-Based Learning on Student’s Achievement: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	38
Control-Value Theory: From Achievement Emotion to a General Theory of Human Emotions	38
The Reciprocal Effects Model is Robust to Alternative Modeling Specifications: A Response to Sorjonen et al., 2025	37
Introducing the FoRe-Squares Model: Focus Support and Reward as Key Predictors of Effective Technology-Augmented Instruction	37
Navigating Spatial Ability for Mathematics Education: a Review and Roadmap	37
Adaptive Education: Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain	37
Gender Disparity in Computational Thinking Pedagogy and Assessment: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	36
The Role of Haptic Interaction in Embodied Extended-Reality Learning: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	36
A Systematic Review of Graduate Students’ Research Motivation: Themes, Theories, and Methodologies	35
The Transfer of Teacher Training to Inclusive Classroom Practice: A Meta-Analytic SEM Approach	35
Effects of Learner-Generated Highlighting and Instructor-Provided Highlighting on Learning from Text: A Meta-Analysis	34
Active Student Participation in Whole-School Interventions in Secondary School. A Systematic Literature Review	34
Screening Smarter, Not Harder: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Screening Algorithms and Heuristic Stopping Criteria for Systematic Reviews in Educational Research	34
A Meta-Analysis on Teachers’ Growth Mindset	33
The Past, Present, and Future of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning	32
A Motivational Perspective on (Anticipated) Mental Effort Investment: The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat	32
Managing Student Digital Distraction in the College Classroom: a Self-Determination Theory Perspective	32
How Strong Is the Evidence for a Causal Reciprocal Effect? Contrasting Traditional and New Methods to Investigate the Reciprocal Effects Model of Self-Concept and Achievement	32
The Forward Effect of Judgements of Learning on Memory and Transfer in Inductive Learning	32
Children’s Evolved Learning Abilities and Their Implications for Education	31
Harnessing Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation: Dale H. Schunk’s Enduring Influence	31
Understanding Learning Strategy Use Through the Lens of Habit	31
A Systematic Review of Self-Regulated Learning through Integration of Multimodal Data and Artificial Intelligence	30
Effects of School-led Greenspace Interventions on Mental, Physical and Social Wellbeing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	30
The Effects of Contextual Interference Learning on the Acquisition and Relatively Permanent Gains in Skilled Performance: A Critical Systematic Review with Multilevel Meta-Analysis	29
A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements	29
A Scoping Review of School-Based Prevention Programs for Indigenous Students	29
Designing Effective Pre-service Teacher Training in Inclusive Education: a Narrative Review of the Effects of Duration and Content Delivery Mode on Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Inclusive Education	29
Toward an Organising Theoretical Model for Teacher Clarity, Feedback and Self-Efficacy in the Classroom	29
Moving Beyond the Ableist Roots of Educational Psychology: Audit of the Field and a Path Forward	28
Measuring the Quality of Adult–Child Interactions in the Context of ECEC: a Systematic Review on the Relationship with Developmental and Educational Outcomes	28
Unleashing the Power of Positivity: How Positive Instructors Benefit Learning from Instructional Videos — A Meta-analytic Review	27
Visualizing a Task Performer’s Gaze to Foster Observers’ Performance and Learning—a Systematic Literature Review on Eye Movement Modeling Examples	27
The Intersection of the Peer Ecology and Teacher Practices for Student Motivation in the Classroom	27

A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators	26
An In-depth Review of Conscientiousness and Educational Issues	26
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students	26
Four Guideposts toward an Integrated Model of Academic Motivation: Motivational Resilience, Academic Identity, Complex Social Ecologies, and Development	26
Toward an Integrated Model of the Individual Differences in Mathematical Flexibility	26
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I	26
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review	25
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling	25
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023	25
Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology	25
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework	24
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology	24
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions	24
The Effect of Psychological Interventions on Statistics Anxiety, Statistics Self-Efficacy, and Attitudes Toward Statistics in University Students: A Systematic Review	24
Peer Mindset Culture as a Developmental Context for Belonging	23
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions	23
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?	22
A Network Meta-analysis of Multi-component Reading Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Active-Ingredient vs. Ingredient-Interaction?	22
Differential Effects of Objective and Subjective Nature Contact on Social, Cognitive, and Academic Outcomes across the Lifespan: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis	21
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses	21
Strengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review	21
Practice Recommendations or Not? The LoGeT Model as Empirical Approach to Generate Localized, Generalized, and Transferable Evidence	21
Research Avenues Supporting Embodied Cognition in Learning and Instruction	21
Increasing Video Lecture Playback Speed Can Impair Test Performance – a Meta-Analysis	20
Situational Motivation in Academic Learning: A Systematic Review	20
The Personalized Learning by Interest Effect on Interest, Cognitive Load, Retention, and Transfer: A Meta-Analysis	20
Tracing and Pointing Support Multimedia Learning: A Cross-Cultural Replication	19
To Trace or Not to Trace? Mimicry in Timed Multimedia Lessons with Pointing and Tracing	19
The Role of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Collaborative Research: A systematic Review	19
Spaced Retrieval Practice Imposes Desirable Difficulty in Calculus Learning	19
Discovering Internal Validity Threats and Operational Concerns in Single-Case Experimental Designs Through Directed Acyclic Graphs	19
Is Adolescent Bullying an Evolutionary Adaptation? A 10-Year Review	19
A Cognitive Load Theory Approach to Defining and Measuring Task Complexity Through Element Interactivity	19
Reporting and Design Considerations for SMART Behavioral Science Research	19
Encouraging Students to Use Retrieval Practice: a Review of Emerging Research from Five Types of Interventions	18
Cognitive Control in Adolescents and Young Adults with Media Multitasking Experience: a Three-Level Meta-analysis	18
Promoting Temporal Investigations of Development in Context: a Systematic Review of Longitudinal Research Linking Childhood Circumstances and Learning-related Outcomes	18
Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Factors, and Arithmetic Word Problem Success: a Review of Behavioral Studies	18
The Affordability Solution: a Systematic Review of Open Educational Resources	18
Evolution of a Learning Theory: In Praise of Scientific Speculation	18
Re-Experiencing vs. Self-Explaining: Comparing Generative Learning Activities in VR	18
A Multilevel Meta-analysis of Language Mindsets and Language Learning Outcomes in Second Language Acquisition Research	18