OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Educational Psychology Review is 12. 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
How Prosodic Sensitivity Contributes to Reading Comprehension: a Meta-Analysis	202
Graduate Student Award Winners in Educational Psychology: What Made Them Successful?	180
Citizenship in the Elementary Classroom Through the Lens of Peer Relations	147
Disentangling the Long-Term Compositional Effects of School-Average Achievement and SES: a Substantive-Methodological Synergy	138
Daniel H. Robinson: Bloody Mary for the AERA Attendee’s Soul: Volume I	117
Teacher Expectations and Self-Determination Theory: Considering Convergence and Divergence of Theories	115
Opting Out as an Untapped Resource in Instructional Design: Review and Implications	102
Finger Use and Arithmetic Skills in Children and Adolescents: a Scoping Review	90
A Computational Model of School Achievement	84
A Theoretical and Metatheoretical Reframing of the Development of Cognitive Processing and Learning	82
Teachers’ Feedback on Oral Reading: A Critical Review of its Effects and the use of Theory in Research	77
How Does Cognitive Load Interact with Self-Regulated Learning? A Dynamic and Integrative Model	71
The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis	66
A Theory of Knowledge Revision: The Development of the KReC Framework	59
Long-Lasting Effects of an Instructional Intervention on Interleaving Preference in Inductive Learning and Transfer	59
Meeting John Bransford	56
The Relationship Between Self-Regulated Learning and Executive Functions—a Systematic Review	55
Cracking Chicken-Egg Conundrums: Juxtaposing Contemporaneous and Lagged Reciprocal Effects Models of Academic Self-Concept and Achievement’s Directional Ordering	54
An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns	52
A Half Century of Progress in US Student Achievement: Agency and Flynn Effects, Ethnic and SES Differences	51
How to Assess Whether an Instructional Intervention Has an Effect on Learning	51
Identifying the Most Cited Articles and Authors in Educational Psychology Journals from 1988 to 2023	48
Peer Victimization: an Integrative Review and Cross-National Test of a Tripartite Model	44
To Clarity and Beyond: Situating Higher-Order, Critical, and Critical-Analytic Thinking in the Literature on Learning from Multiple Texts	44
Prediction Versus Explanation in Educational Psychology: a Cross-Theoretical Approach to Using Teacher Behaviour to Predict Student Engagement in Physical Education	40

Ten Years of Dimensional Comparison Theory: On the Development of a Theory from Educational Psychology	38
Confounded or Controlled? A Systematic Review of Media Comparison Studies Involving Immersive Virtual Reality for STEM Education	38
Integrating Motivation and Instruction: Towards a Unified Approach in Educational Psychology	37
Revisiting the Metacognitive and Affective Model of Self-Regulated Learning: Origins, Development, and Future Directions	36
The Validity of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) in Educational Research and a Synthesis of Recommendations	36
Narrowing (Achievement) Gaps in Higher Education with a Social-Belonging Intervention: A Systematic Review	35
Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis	34
The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	33
Semi-automating the Scoping Review Process: Is it Worthwhile? A Methodological Evaluation	32
Correction to: Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?	31
Writing Motivation Questionnaire: Factorial and Construct Validity with Middle School Students	31
Evolution of Self-Awareness and the Cultural Emergence of Academic and Non-academic Self-Concepts	30
Evolutionary Perspectives on Educational Psychology: Motivation, Instructional Design, and Child Development	30
Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom	30
The More the Better? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Benefits of More than Two External Representations in STEM Education	30
Effective Strategies for Research Integrity Training—a Meta-analysis	29
Let Learners Monitor the Learning Content and Their Learning Behavior! A Meta-analysis on the Effectiveness of Tools to Foster Monitoring	28
A Systematic Review of Emotion Regulation Assessments in US Schools: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Educators	28
The Relation Between Spontaneous Focusing on Numerosity and Mathematics Performance: A Meta-Analysis	28
Worth the Effort: the Start and Stick to Desirable Difficulties (S2D2) Framework	27
Complex Social Ecologies and the Development of Academic Motivation	27
The Impasse on Gender Differences in Intelligence: a Meta-Analysis on WISC Batteries	27
How Does Family Socioeconomic Status Influence Children’s Reading Ability? Evidence from Meta-analytic Structural Equation Modeling	26
Motivating the Learning Process: Integrating Self-Determination Theory Into a Dynamical Systems Framework	26
How Eye Read: A Social Network Approach	25
Sequencing Tracing with Imagination	25
Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis	25
How Are Curiosity and Interest Different? Naïve Bayes Classification of People’s Beliefs	25
Emotional Wellbeing in the Context of Primary-Secondary School Transitions: A Concept Analysis Paper	25
Measuring Children’s Engagement in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Literature Review	25
Improving Elementary Grade Students’ Science and Social Studies Vocabulary Knowledge Depth, Reading Comprehension, and Argumentative Writing: a Conceptual Replication	24
Do I Fit In: Race/Ethnicity and Feelings of Belonging in School	24
Cognitive Profiles of Children with Isolated and Comorbid Learning Difficulties in Reading and Math: a Meta-analysis	24
The Effects of Problem-Based, Project-Based, and Case-Based Learning on Students’ Motivation: a Meta-Analysis	23
John Glover: a Long Overdue Account of His Productive Scholarship Methods	22
Is Empathy the Key to Effective Teaching? A Systematic Review of Its Association with Teacher-Student Interactions and Student Outcomes	22
Effects of Rubrics on Academic Performance, Self-Regulated Learning, and self-Efficacy: a Meta-analytic Review	22
Math Performance and Academic Anxiety Forms, from Sociodemographic to Cognitive Aspects: a Meta-analysis on 906,311 Participants	22
The Development of Cognitive Load Theory: Replication Crises and Incorporation of Other Theories Can Lead to Theory Expansion	22
The Theory of Immersive Collaborative Learning (TICOL)	22
Happy Together? On the Relationship Between Research on Retrieval Practice and Generative Learning Using the Case of Follow-Up Learning Tasks	21
Study Demands–Resources Theory: Understanding Student Well-Being in Higher Education	21
What Can Educational Psychology Learn From, and Contribute to, Theory Development Scholarship?	20
School Engagement in Elementary School: A Systematic Review of 35 Years of Research	20
Correction: Cognitive Load Theory and Its Relationships with Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective	20
From Hand to Eye: a Meta-Analysis of the Benefit from Handwriting Training in Visual Graph Recognition	20
The Effect of the Write, Talk, and Rewrite Dialogic Writing Treatment on Argumentative Texts: a Replication Study in Türkiye	19
A Systematic Review of Mathematical Flexibility: Concepts, Measurements, and Related Research	18
The Effects of Morphological Instruction on Literacy Outcomes for Children in English-Speaking Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	18
Effects of Family Socioeconomic Status on Educational Outcomes in Primary and Secondary Education: A Systematic Review of the Causal Evidence	18

Comparing Mental Effort, Difficulty, and Confidence Appraisals in Problem-Solving: A Metacognitive Perspective	17
Effect of the Instructor’s Eye Gaze on Student Learning from Video Lectures: Evidence from Two Three-Level Meta-Analyses	17
Disentangling the Association Between the Big Five Personality Traits and Student Achievement: Meta-Analytic Evidence on the Role of Domain Specificity and Achievement Measures	17
Sociocultural Contexts and Relationships as the Cornerstones of Students’ Motivation: Commentary on the Special Issue on the “Other Half of the Story”	17
The association between initial metacognition and subsequent academic achievement: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	16
Correction to: Semi-automating the Scoping Review Process: Is It Worthwhile? A Methodological Evaluation	16
How do Students Regulate Their Use of Multiple Choice Practice Tests?	16
Correction to: Factors Associated with Teacher Wellbeing: A Meta-analysis	15
Assessing Writing Motivation: a Systematic Review of K-5 Students' Self-Reports	15
How to Optimize Self-Assessment Accuracy in Cognitive Skill Acquisition When Learning from Worked Examples	15
Improving Computer-Assisted Language Learning Through the Lens of Cognitive Load	15
Psychological Benefits of Attending Forest School for Preschool Children: a Systematic Review	15
Intervention Programs Targeting the Mental Health, Professional Burnout, and/or Wellbeing of School Teachers: Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses	15
When More Is Not Better: Effects of Interim Testing and Feature Highlighting in Natural Category Learning	14
Single- and Multilevel Perspectives on Covariate Selection in Randomized Intervention Studies on Student Achievement	14
What Does Research Say About the Science of Reading for K-5 Multilingual Learners? A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews	13
Test Anxiety: An Integration of the Test Anxiety and Achievement Motivation Research Traditions	13
Growing Out of the Experience: How Subjective Experiences of Effort and Learning Influence the Use of Interleaved Practice	13
How Rigorous is Active Learning Research in STEM Education? An Examination of Key Internal Validity Controls in Intervention Studies	13
Do Students Effectively Regulate Their Use of Self-Testing as a Function of Item Difficulty?	13
Investigating Success in the Transition to University: A Systematic Review of Personal Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Academic Achievement	13
Charting the Murky Waters of Motivational Climate Measurement: Past Approaches and Future Directions	13
Satisfied and High Performing? A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of the Correlates of Teachers’ Job Satisfaction	13
Frustration in the Classroom: Causes and Strategies to Help Teachers Cope Productively	12
Epistemic Beliefs in Science—A Systematic Integration of Evidence From Multiple Studies	12
Correction: The Effectiveness of Concept Maps on Students’ Achievement in Science: A Meta-Analysis	12
A Systematic Review of Evidence-Based Wellbeing Initiatives for Schoolteachers and Early Childhood Educators	12
Combining Retrieval Practice with Elaborative Encoding: Complementary or Redundant?	12
Correlates of teachers’ classroom management self-efficacy: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry?	12