OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning and Individual Differences is 6. 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
Multilevel student-perceived teaching practices profiles: Associations with competence beliefs, task value, behavioral engagement, and academic achievement	1879
Persistent effectiveness of mathematics homework time from primary school to early middle school: A longitudinal study from China	128
Language attitude and willingness to communicate: A longitudinal investigation of Chinese young EFL learners	42
Online credibility evaluation skills in upper secondary students: The role of grade level, argument evaluation, and analytic thinking dispositions	42
When mistakes instruct: Explaining errors in diagrams supports comprehension for low spatial individuals	37
Expectancy-value profiles in math: How are student-perceived teaching behaviors related to motivational transitions?	36
Sustained attention plays a critical role in reading comprehension of adults with and without ADHD	34
Passion for science and the pursuit of scientific studies: The mediating role of rigid and flexible persistence and activity involvement	34
Linear and nonlinear relationships between self-evaluation and self-evaluation bias with grades	32
Home learning activities and parental autonomy support as predictors of pre-academic skills: The mediating role of young children's school liking	31
How are incremental theories about studying motivation related to effective motivation regulation?	31
Subject and time specificity of students' cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement at school	30
The role of semantic memory networks in crystallized intelligence and creative thinking ability	30
Taking the next step with generative artificial intelligence: The transformative role of multimodal large language models in science education	29
Students' perceived competence across academic and social-emotional domains: Unique roles in relation to autonomy-supportive teaching, academic engagement, and well-being	29
Mathematically high and low performances tell us different stories: Uncovering motivation-related factors via the ecological model	28
On the nature, predictors, and outcomes of undergraduate students' psychological distress profiles	26
What evidence-based learning activities help students acquire knowledge, correct confidence in their own knowledge, and accurate self-assessment?	25
Editorial Board	25
Relations between geometric proof justification and probabilistic reasoning	24
Individual differences in secondary school students' conceptual knowledge: Latent profile analysis of biology concepts	24
Editorial Board	22
Autonomy as a potential moral resource: Parenting practices supporting youth need for autonomy negatively predict youth acceptance of academic dishonesty	22
The interplay of gender with social and migrant background in the development of elementary school students' interest in mathematics and language arts	20
The relationship between students' gender and their confidence in the correctness of their solutions to complex and difficult mathematics problems	20

Longitudinal links between need for cognition, achievement goals, and school grades: Testing a mediation hypothesis	19
Perceived quality of parental homework assistance and students' academic functioning in secondary school – Does grade level play a role?	18
Editorial Board	18
Personality and the education process: Individual difference preferences for teacher, technology, testing, time and topic	17
How might creative problem-solving be related to prosocial motivation? An exploratory pilot study	17
Academic motivation of intellectually gifted students and their classmates in regular primary school classes: A multidimensional, longitudinal, person- and variable-centered approach	17
Directional or reciprocal? A random intercept cross-lagged panel analysis of the relationships between emotions, motivation, willingness to communicate, and L2 achievement	17
Refocusing reading comprehension: Aligning theory with assessment and intervention	17
Chatbots in education: Hype or help? A meta-analysis	16
Female students and students from more affluent families benefit more from fear of failure in learning achievements: A study based on 77 economies	16
Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties	16
Scaffolding attention and perseverance skills in a diverse population of preschool children in Sweden	16
The influence of competitive and cooperative classroom climate on middle school students' academic help seeking	16
Measuring individual differences in students' knowledge about self-regulated learning strategies with a digital tool	16
Relationships between achievement goal orientations, multidimensional test anxiety, and performance – In conclusion, every facet counts	16
Word reading in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder	15
Editorial Board	15
Trajectories in quantitative and humanities self-efficacy during the first year of college	15
Profiles of student-perceived teacher homework involvement, and their associations with homework behavior and mathematics achievement: A person-centered approach	15
Dissecting achievement motivation: Exploring the link between states, situation perception, and trait-state dynamics	15
Creativity, theory of mind and loneliness – The links between cognitive and social abilities of school-age children	14
Reciprocal effects between reading comprehension and emotional cognitive ability	14
A model of Chinese reading comprehension: The role of cognition and motivation	14
Structural relations among implicit theories, achievement goals, and performance in writing	14
Beyond individual tests: Youth's cognitive abilities on their math and writing skills	14
Emotional intelligence and reading comprehension: Examining mediating roles of word reading, vocabulary, and working memory	13
Science motivation, academic achievement, career aspirations in early adolescents	13
Elaborative learning practices are associated with perceived faculty growth mindset in undergraduate science classrooms	12
Gender differences in academic boredom and its development in secondary school	12
Exploring the role of knowledge in predicting reading and listening comprehension in fifth grade students	12
How (de)motivating teaching styles shape message framing outcomes on students’ self-efficacy, emotions, and grades	12
Comparing relations among autonomy support, motivation, and academic success across face-to-face and pandemic online STEM learning environments	12
The mediating role of executive function between socioeconomic status and academic achievement: A meta-analytic structural equation model	12
Exploring the relationship between intellectual humility and academic performance among post-secondary students: The mediating roles of learning motivation and receptivity to feedback	11
Seeking, mastering, and enjoying cognitive effort: Scrutinizing the role of need for cognition in academic achievement	11
Structure, relationship, and determinants of monitoring strategies and judgment accuracy. An integrated model and evidence from two studies	11
Students’ achievement motivation moderates the effects of interpolated pre-questions on attention and learning from video lectures	11
Contributions of decoding and listening comprehension to reading comprehension at different levels: Exploring the mediating roles of oral and silent reading fluency	11
English as a foreign language learners' metacognitive experiences and writing development: Unraveling the process of learning EFL writing	11
A multilevel person-centered examination of students' learning anxiety and its relationship with student background and school factors	11
Examining the simple view of reading in Kiswahili: Longitudinal evidence from Kenya	11
The prediction from the network-based attributes of school readiness skills to children's state-level fluctuations in academic achievement throughout grade school	11
Editorial Board	11
Group work and student procrastination	11
A moderated mediation analysis of conscientiousness, time management strategies, effort regulation strategies, and university students' performance	11
How classroom management and instructional clarity relate to students' academic emotions in Hong Kong and England: A multi-group analysis based on the control-value theory	10
Investigating the relationship between private tutoring, tutors' use of an individual frame of reference, reasons for private tutoring, and students' motivational-affective outcomes	10
Interaction and learning engagement in online learning: The mediating roles of online learning self-efficacy and academic emotions	10
Positive emotions, engagement, and objective academic performance: A weekly diary study	10
A creative self-efficacy course for nurturing academic thriving and academic engagement among college students in Pakistan	10

Exploring the dynamics of situated expectancy-value theory: A panel network analysis	10
The relationship between positive and painful emotions and cognitive load during an algebra learning task	10
Dark Triad traits, learning styles, and symptoms of depression: Assessing the contribution of mental toughness longitudinally	9
Comparing parental and school pressure in terms of their relations with students' well-being	9
The patterns of task values, success expectations, and task-avoidance among student-athletes across three years of upper secondary sport school	9
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?	9
Opportunities and obstacles: Using profile analysis to examine sources of reading self-efficacy in early adolescence	9
Cooperative mindset and creative self-concept in higher education	9
L1–L2 phonological skills predict L2 early literacy in bilinguals with developmental language disorder	9
High-achieving students in mathematics: A heterogeneous group	9
What is intelligence, really? The futile search for a Holy Grail	9
Early predictors of mathematics learning difficulty in rural Chinese children	9
What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores	8
What successful students do: Evidence-based learning activities matter for students' performance in higher education beyond prior knowledge, motivation, and prior achievement	8
Looking behind the scenes of Learning and Individual Differences: An interview with the editorial team	8
An experience-sampling study of between- and within-individual predictors of emotional engagement in blended learning	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
The Simple View of Reading across different orthographies: Introduction to special issue	8
Independent and joint effects of perceived teacher support and math self-efficacy on math achievement in primary school student: Variable-oriented and person-oriented analyses	8
Home literacy environments and Chinese preschool children's literacy trajectories: Examining the unique contributions of fathers versus mothers	8
Student-centered teaching across OECD countries: An ecological perspective	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Does need for relatedness matter more? The dynamic mechanism between teacher support and need satisfaction in explaining Chinese school children's regulatory styles	8
The role of empathy in problem construction and creative problem solving	7
What drives the association between home chaos and school grades over time? A biometric cross-lagged panel approach	7
First-generation student pathways to persistence and degree attainment: The roles of deeper learning and self-regulated learning beliefs	7
Spatial processing rather than logical reasoning was found to be critical for mathematical problem-solving	7
Test-taking motivation and performance: Do self-report and time-based measures of effort reflect the same aspects of test-taking motivation?	7
Need satisfaction profiles during the transition to secondary school and its implications in later education	7
The Simple View of Reading: Language-specific and contextual characteristics related to Arabic speakers in Saudi Arabia and Canada	7
Examining students' self-efficacy and perceptions of task difficulty in learning from multiple texts	7
Examining factors and mechanisms of reading comprehension and reading fluency: Longitudinal evidence for Chinese children from grade 1 to grade 6	7
The role of domain-related epistemic beliefs for mastering cognitive requirements in multiple document comprehension	6
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	6
Domain-specific and domain-general skills as predictors of arithmetic fluency development	6
A meta-analysis of the effects of foundational skills and multicomponent reading interventions on reading comprehension for primary-grade students	6
Individualisation in cognitive skills training: Essential or superfluous? Examining the effectiveness of an adaptive game for training executive functions in young adults	6
Capturing where the learning process takes place: A person-specific and person-centered primer	6
Dynamic relations between motivation and performance across content in a mathematics learning technology	6
Social and dimensional comparisons of achievement in multifaceted task value formation among adolescents	6
Learning activities in technology-enhanced learning: A systematic review of meta-analyses and second-order meta-analysis in higher education	6
Dweck's social-cognitive model of achievement motivation in science	6
The intrapsychic process of academic procrastination: How should-thinking aggravates self-regulatory failure	6
Parents' implicit intelligence beliefs about children's intelligence: Implications for children's academic self-concept and achievement in Maths, English, and French	6
Associations among parents' math anxiety, math-related leisure activities, children's early numeracy interest and skills	6
Exploring the heterogeneous development of intrinsic value in language arts among secondary school students through growth mixture modelling	6
Reality-based tasks for competency-based education: The need for an integrated analysis of subject-specific, linguistic, and contextual task features	6
Investigating the role of prior knowledge in comprehending intratextual and intertextual relationships when reading multiple texts	6
Development of writing skills within a home-based, shared reading intervention: Re-analyses of evidence from a randomized controlled trial	6
Executive functions, oral vocabularies, and early literacy skills mediate sociodemographic gaps in mathematics and science achievement during elementary school	6
Rational thinking as a general cognitive ability: Factorial structure, underlying cognitive processes, and relevance for university academic success	6
The role of knowledge availability in forming inferences with rural middle grade English learners	6