OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Individual Differences is 8. 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
State scales in academic achievement: Validating measures of affect, learning experiences, and study-related appraisals	3301
Learning from educational texts: is reduction in global text cohesion a desirable difficulty as structure building skill increases?	195
Scaffolding attention and perseverance skills in a diverse population of preschool children in Sweden	64
Editorial Board	57
Enhancing argumentative writing with data-driven learning: Exploring developmental trajectories and learner profiles	53
What evidence-based learning activities help students acquire knowledge, correct confidence in their own knowledge, and accurate self-assessment?	47
Social background as a moderator of immigration-related disparities in parent-child-activities and in early vocabulary	47
Using collaborative interactivity metrics to analyze students' problem-solving behaviors during STEM+C computational modeling tasks	45
Female students and students from more affluent families benefit more from fear of failure in learning achievements: A study based on 77 economies	43
Comparing relations among autonomy support, motivation, and academic success across face-to-face and pandemic online STEM learning environments	39
Socio-emotional skills matter for academic resilience: A global perspective	39
Profiles of student-perceived teacher homework involvement, and their associations with homework behavior and mathematics achievement: A person-centered approach	35
Cross-linguistic sharing of phonological awareness in word spelling among early Chinese-English literacy learners: A three-wave cross-lagged panel analysis	32
Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis	31
Editorial Board	31
Home learning activities and parental autonomy support as predictors of pre-academic skills: The mediating role of young children's school liking	30
Understanding momentary engagement in university students: Exploring the interaction between competence and value beliefs on emotions and cognitive engagement – A multilevel investigation	30
Cooperative mindset and creative self-concept in higher education	29
A meta-analysis of the effects of foundational skills and multicomponent reading interventions on reading comprehension for primary-grade students	29
What matters for students' social and emotional skills: The associations with student, parent, and teacher growth mindsets?	28
What is the link between an early university entry offer and the academic and personal wellbeing outcomes of students in their final year of school?	27
Editorial Board	26
Does the effectiveness of a reading intervention differ dependent on students' Spanish or English proficiencies?	26
Exploring the heterogeneous development of intrinsic value in language arts among secondary school students through growth mixture modelling	26
To what extent do home numeracy practices and parental number talk relate to children's math skills? A pre-registered study in 5-year-old children	25

Need-supportive teaching is associated with reading achievement via intrinsic motivation across eight cultures	25
Understanding the factors influencing college students' acceptance and adoption of chatbots for learning: A network analysis	24
Dynamic relations between motivation and performance across content in a mathematics learning technology	24
Do socializers’ mindset beliefs matter for student mindset and achievement? A meta-analysis	23
Reading in print and digitally: Profiling and intervening in undergraduates' multimodal text processing, comprehension, and calibration	23
Comorbidity of reading and math learning difficulties in a Chinese sample	22
The Simple View of Reading across different orthographies: Introduction to special issue	22
Parents' implicit intelligence beliefs about children's intelligence: Implications for children's academic self-concept and achievement in Maths, English, and French	22
Self-regulation of motivation in university students – a longitudinal study of interindividual differences and intraindividual trajectories	21
Editorial Board	21
Heritage-bilingualism and educational achievement among second-generation immigrants: Are all school subjects equal?	20
Revisiting multiple pathways to achievement: Re-examining the roles of achievement goals in predicting grades through task values	19
A systematic review of data-driven learning research on language learning and teaching for pre-tertiary learners: Balancing qualitative and quantitative research	19
Identification and characterization of high-achieving student subgroups using two methodological approaches: The role of different achievement indicators and motivational-affective characteristics	18
Executive functions and multiple-text comprehension	18
Raising the bar: Testing prospective reciprocal relationships between multidimensional trait perfectionism and undergraduate academic achievement	18
Reading comprehension for students with reading disabilities: Progress and challenges	17
Exploring and addressing concerns surrounding L2 grit: A longitudinal perspective	17
Weaker groupitizing abilities in magnitude perception in dyscalculia	17
On the relationship between creative potential and creative achievement: Challenges and future directions	17
Prospects in the field of learning and individual differences: Examining the past to forecast the future using bibliometrics	17
Editorial Board	17
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence in Generative Content for enhancing motivation in learning	17
Dimensionality of executive functions and processing speed in preschoolers	17
Tender Shoots: Effects of a preschool shared reading and reminiscing initiative on parent-child interactions and for socio-emotional and self-regulation outcomes after school entry	16
The effects of programming interventions in early childhood: A meta-analysis	16
Elementary school students' metacognitive knowledge and its effects on teacher judgments, school track recommendations, and school transitions	16
Is the treatment weak or the test insensitive: Interrogating item difficulties to elucidate the nature of reading intervention effects	16
Material incentives moderate gender differences in cognitive effort among children	15
A mediated model of study choice profiles and person-environment fit with bachelor's program as predictors of academic success in higher education	15
More is not always better: Profiles of perceived frequency of parental involvement among Chinese students and associations with resilience and academic achievement	15
Transition from childcare to school: Surgency, center-based care and caregiver-child relationship predict self-regulation, social competence and well-being	15
Students’ expectancy-value profiles in the West and the East: Cross-cultural similarities and differences	15
The fluid relation between reading strategies and mathematics learning: A perspective of the Island Ridge Curve	15
Exploring individual's emotional and autonomous learning profiles in AI-enhanced data-driven language learning: An expanded sor perspective	15
Students' and schools' expectancy-value beliefs are associated with reading achievement: A cross-cultural study	15
Understanding the dynamics of EFL learner affective engagement with receiving peer feedback: A case study from the sociocultural perspective	15
The accuracy of performance judgements and academic achievement: A two-sample two-wave study of German primary and lower secondary school students	15
The relationship between English language proficiency and academic performance among English learners: A subgroup analysis by home language background	14
The interplay between scientific motivation, creative process engagement, and scientific creativity: A network analysis study	14
Tailoring interleaved practice: Does adaptive sequencing boost the interleaving effect?	14
How vocabulary breadth and depth influence bilingual reading comprehension: Direct and indirect pathways	14
Exploring undergraduate students' challenge frameworks: A person-centered approach	14
“I can't focus now, I will study tomorrow” - The link between academic procrastination and resistance to distraction	14
A meta-analysis on the relation between handwriting and visual-motor integration	14
Ink and pixels: Impact of highlighting and reading self-efficacy on adolescents' cognitive load, epistemic emotions, and text comprehension	14
Mindfulness intervention for academic procrastination: A randomized control trial	14
Need for Cognition and its relation to academic achievement in different learning environments	14
Linking parental restrictive mediation to adolescents' science achievement: A social cognitive theory perspective	14
Individual differences in fifth graders' math motivation – stability and change across the school year	14

Editorial Board	14
Learning as retention; an examination of retention of self-derived knowledge through memory integration in a diverse sample of elementary students	13
The Simple View of Reading in Italian beginner readers: Converging evidence and open debates on the role of the main components	13
Perceived goal structures and student outcomes: Consistency of motivational experiences within and across classrooms	13
Young children's alphabet learning as a function of instruction and letter difficulty	13
The relationship of word processing with L2 reading comprehension and working memory: Insights from eye-tracking	13
Who loses motivation and who keeps it up? Investigating factors for changes in motivational profiles across multiple domains	12
The effects of the topic-specific and topic-general prior knowledge on learning from multiple complementary texts	12
Self-regulatory abilities as predictors of scientific literacy among children in preschool and primary school years	12
General cognitive and numerical precursors of mathematical difficulty in kindergarten children at risk for dyscalculia	12
Longitudinal relationship between mathematics learning engagement and children's mathematics achievement: Different roles of children's mathematics anxiety and positive parenting style	12
Early literacy and executive function profiles in Spanish-English emergent bilinguals	12
PISA reading achievement, literacy motivation, and school burnout predicting Adolescents' educational track and educational attainment	12
Parental psychological control and preschooler's behavioral problems and pre-academic performance in China: The mediating role of executive function	12
Parental influences on the development of single and co-occurring difficulties in reading and arithmetic fluency	12
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of undergraduate students' psychological distress profiles	11
Student-perceived parental help with homework: Identifying student profiles and their relations with homework effort, procrastination, and achievement	11
Subject and time specificity of students' cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement at school	11
Beyond individual tests: Youth's cognitive abilities on their math and writing skills	11
Investigating the relationship between private tutoring, tutors' use of an individual frame of reference, reasons for private tutoring, and students' motivational-affective outcomes	11
Mathematics achievement and learner characteristics: A systematic review of meta-analyses	11
Gender differences in academic buoyancy: A meta-analysis	11
The relationship between students' gender and their confidence in the correctness of their solutions to complex and difficult mathematics problems	11
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder	11
Mathematically high and low performances tell us different stories: Uncovering motivation-related factors via the ecological model	11
Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties	11
Predicting students' short- and long-term academic achievement in higher education: A cross-classified multilevel study	11
Editorial Board	11
Academic motivation of intellectually gifted students and their classmates in regular primary school classes: A multidimensional, longitudinal, person- and variable-centered approach	10
Science motivation, academic achievement, career aspirations in early adolescents	10
Longitudinal links between need for cognition, achievement goals, and school grades: Testing a mediation hypothesis	10
Structure, relationship, and determinants of monitoring strategies and judgment accuracy. An integrated model and evidence from two studies	10
Chatbots in education: Hype or help? A meta-analysis	10
First-generation student pathways to persistence and degree attainment: The roles of deeper learning and self-regulated learning beliefs	9
Early predictors of mathematics learning difficulty in rural Chinese children	9
Examining the influence of passage and student characteristics on test-taking strategies: An eye-tracking study	9
Rational thinking as a general cognitive ability: Factorial structure, underlying cognitive processes, and relevance for university academic success	9
Do performance goals and fixed mindset explicate the relations between stereotype threat and achievement? Examining differences between racially marginalized and White students in STEM	9
Interaction and learning engagement in online learning: The mediating roles of online learning self-efficacy and academic emotions	9
Math anxiety is associated with skipping problems and less help-seeking behavior after error commission	9
The longitudinal contribution of working memory and visuomotor integration to early and developing handwriting fluency	9
Comparing parental and school pressure in terms of their relations with students' well-being	9
Capturing where the learning process takes place: A person-specific and person-centered primer	9
Unscrambling creativity measurement: An invitation to better formalize the domain generality-specificity of creativity with psychometric modeling	9
What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores	9
Exploring latent writing profiles and their connection to intervention responsiveness	9
Reciprocal association between theory of mind and reading comprehension of narrative (but not expository) text in middle childhood: A latent change score approach	9
Reality-based tasks for competency-based education: The need for an integrated analysis of subject-specific, linguistic, and contextual task features	9
Learning activities in technology-enhanced learning: A systematic review of meta-analyses and second-order meta-analysis in higher education	9
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach	9
Students' social and learning behavior at school: Applying the generalized internal/external frame of reference model	8
Trajectories in cognitive engagement, fatigue, and school achievement: The role of young adolescents' psychological need satisfaction	8
Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment	8
Effectiveness of embodied learning on learning performance: A meta-analysis based on the cognitive load theory perspective	8
Gender differences in young adults' mathematical performance: Examining the contribution of working memory, math anxiety and gender-related stereotypes	8
Adaptability vs. buoyancy: Which offers the greater protection against test anxiety and could relations be reciprocal?	8
Individual toddlers' interactions with teachers, peers, and the classroom environment in Danish and Dutch childcare: First validation of the inCLASS Toddler	8
The highs and lows of mathematical ability: Shared and distinct longitudinal predictors of mathematical ability grouping	8
Triggers for self-regulated learning: A conceptual framework for advancing multimodal research about SRL	8
Testing effects of promoting antecedents of mathematics achievement emotions: A change-change model	8
Editorial Board	8
Test preparation: the roles of expecting access to materials and test anxiety	8