British Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of British Educational Research Journal is 2. 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.)
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Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England77
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation49
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme47
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes45
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education43
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria41
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data40
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition40
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education33
Caught in the vacuum: Policies addressing online harms in Maltese secondary schools28
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis21
Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees21
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence using PISA data20
Performance motivation and emotion regulation as drivers of academic competence and problem‐solving skills in AI‐enhanced preschool education: A SEM study20
Learning to explain environmental crises: A dialogic analysis of teacher professional learning between Chile and the United States19
Teachers', parents', and pupils' perceptions and described experiences of toilet provisions and practices within English schools19
Care trajectories and imagining potential: Positioning the need for skills, confidence and communication among key professionals supporting the higher education progression of care‐experienced young p18
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century17
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research16
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process16
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐1916
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data16
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia16
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis14
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?14
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study14
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment13
‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools13
Factors influencing the retake rate of college entrance examinations: A macro perspective analysis13
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities13
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England13
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish13
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children12
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review12
Poe or Gemini for fostering writing skills in Japanese upper‐intermediate learners: Uncovering the consequences on positive emotions, boredom to write, academic self‐efficacy and writing development12
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom12
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BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–202211
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The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth11
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom11
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis10
How do homeschoolers approach creative arts learning and how can they be supported? Developing a flexible framework for homeschool contexts10
Retention among newly qualified second‐year teachers: The reception–integration model10
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England10
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme10
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?10
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education10
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective10
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–20209
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction9
Reimagining school leadership: A qualitative study on how distributed leadership models influence innovation culture in semi‐government schools in Pakistan9
Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI ‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing performance9
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?9
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal9
Reducing anxiety, promoting enjoyment and enhancing overall English proficiency: The impact of AI‐assisted language learning in Chinese EFL contexts9
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers9
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet9
The relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of technology leadership and their technology integration into higher education—Evidence from China9
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university8
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Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools8
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders8
Enhancing teacher innovative practices through principal learning‐centred leadership and teacher knowledge sharing8
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics8
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds8
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The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki8
Growing in organisations: The multifaceted effects of organisational support on teachers' digital literacy8
‘Fish in simulated water’? A Bourdieusian analysis of Chinese doctoral students' learning experiences in Southeast Asian developing countries8
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample8
International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures8
‘I make a lot of the choices myself—I think I've taught myself that through the imbalance of support’: The internal conversations, reflexivity and post‐school educational achievement of care‐experienc8
Ethical AI in language education: A Delphi study focusing on social and emotional aspects of learning8
To be in AI‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2 learning experiences and growth mindsets are in focus8
Strategies teachers use to support students' self‐regulation skill development in mainstream primary schools: A scoping review8
Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success7
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England7
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‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson7
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19947
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates7
Features of measuring soft skills in a saturated digital environment: Exploring the relationship between cognitive control and digital literacy at the individual level7
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Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19847
Enhancing online MBA programmes: Student perceptions and key factors in programme design and delivery7
To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities7
Early career orientation of primary school students: The impact of pedagogical intervention on future teachers and pupils7
Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study7
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Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis7
Under‐standing: The ‘sleeping beauty’ of educational metaphors7
Factors influencing the adoption of generative AI in education: A systematic review, proposed framework and future research agenda7
School partnered approaches to emotionally based school avoidance in UK primary and secondary school‐age learners: A systematic review7
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context7
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion7
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation6
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?6
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education6
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes6
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature6
Navigating the dilemmas of educational reform: A case study of Montessori implementation in a Taiwanese public school6
‘… They're talking to you as if they're kind of dumbing it down’: A thematic analysis of Black students' perceived reasons for the university awarding gap6
Indonesian inquiry: A narrative of biocultural teaching on Sulawesi Utara6
Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England6
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use6
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN6
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors6
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland6
Technology‐enhanced learning in higher education institutions: Exploring the lived experiences of students with specific learning differences and their lecturers6
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?6
Longitudinal links of negative student–teacher relationships and positive class climate with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration6
Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with6
Achievement goals, academic engagement and performance: The mediating role of self‐regulated learning strategies6
How does dialogic teaching facilitate students' creative thinking? Evidence from a sequential analysis of teacher–student dialogue in primary language classrooms6
Parental involvement and academic achievement in Year 4 and Year 8 students: A meta‐analysis based on large‐scale assessments in China6
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations6
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees6
Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications6
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education5
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality5
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data5
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children5
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing5
Some clarifications on educational research and practice5
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability5
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal5
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines5
Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL learners: Contributions of AI‐mediated 5
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment5
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?5
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d5
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia5
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The impact of ‘bursary tourism’ or the desire for a ‘fulfilling, challenging, and emotionally rewarding career’? Career entry motivations and perceptions of preservice teachers from England5
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness5
The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia5
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The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation5
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Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review5
The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents5
When ease becomes a barrier: What influences student intentions to use Generative AI in higher education?5
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study5
Predatory competition, student expectations, unclear purpose: University leaders’ perceptions of the ‘neoliberal future’ of higher education in Brazil4
Re‐thinking teachers' professional development: An analysis of National Professional Qualifications for school leaders in England4
Developing teacher professional capital: A case study of Master Teacher Studios in Zhejiang province, China4
To persist or not? Examining the relations between parental education, self‐regulation, school engagement and persistence in post‐compulsory education4
Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic4
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education4
“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England4
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?4
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?4
Understanding teacher ethico‐political identity formation from a Foucauldian perspective4
The professionalisation of teachers in France at a time of new reform: A comparative perspective of teacher‐trainers and students in pre‐service training4
One way or another: An optimal matching analysis of students' educational pathways and the impact of socioeconomic background and engagement4
Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice?4
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Are track recommendations dependent on schools and school boards? A study of trends in the level of track recommendations, number of double recommendations and reconsiderations in Dutch urban and rura4
AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices4
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis4
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study4
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications4
Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools4
Understanding the paradox of primary teacher shortage in low‐income countries: Insights from Malawi4
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care4
Towards a material‐dialogic theory of climate teacher education: A global North–South dialogue4
Supportive but suspicious: Ideology, institutional trust, electoral participation and gender shape public opinion on citizenship education in the UK4
Deciphering the layers of reading achievement: A multi‐level analysis of student and school‐level predictors in top‐performing PIRLS 2021 countries4
Teacher professional standards across leading education systems4
The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England4
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From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada4
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students4
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools4
Unboxing the intersections between self‐esteem and academic mindfulness with test emotions, psychological wellness and academic achievement in artificial intelligence‐supported learning environments: 4
Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education4
Inequalities in school spending across local authorities in England: A time‐trend analysis4
Boredom strikes back: Triggers and solutions for English as a foreign language teachers4
Linking students' grit and academic engagement: Mediating role of academic motivation and self‐regulated learning3
Funds of knowledge: Towards an asset‐based approach to refugee education and family engagement in England3
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy3
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Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto3
Capturing variations in how spelling is taught in primary school classrooms in England3
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts3
Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions3
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Understanding inclusion from the inside out: How inclusive education fulfilment, perceptions and agency shape teacher competence3
Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters3
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?3
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives3
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Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement3
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China3
Music always helps: Associations of music subject choices with academic achievement in secondary education3
Beyond the ‘dilemma of difference’: An analysis of stories from experienced teachers, about their inclusive practice3
A study on the social integration of international secondary students in Canadian high schools3
Effects of critical thinking instruction on Chinese college students with varying baseline critical thinking abilities: A quasi‐experimental study3
Pedagogical considerations in the automation era: A systematic literature review of AIEd in K‐12 authentic settings3
Failing children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in England: New evidence of poor outcomes and a postcode lottery at the Local Authority level at Key Stage 13
SATs, sets and allegations of bias: The allocation of 11‐year‐old students to mathematics sets in some English schools in 2015. A response to Connolly et al., 20193
Sustaining the teaching profession: Innovating the ‘golden thread’ in university‐led teacher education3
Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education3
Exploring LGBTQ+ teacher professional identity through the power threat meaning framework3
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The invisible costs of education reform: Understanding teacher deprofessionalisation in Thailand3
Why does school socio‐economic composition matter to adolescents’ academic performance? Role of classroom climate and school resources3
Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom3
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery3
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees3
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education3
Understanding teacher agency in the context of school‐based climate change and sustainability education: A case study of the experiences of teachers and school students in England3
The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile3
How do principals’ paternalistic leadership impact teachers’ emotional labor and efficacy: Do gender or region of teachers make a difference?3
Novice teachers' classroom behaviour management: Situations, responses and impact on student behaviour3
Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools3
Does desegregation matter? A comparative study of school‐based social capital for university‐bound minority students in segregated and desegregated school contexts of Hong Kong3
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act3
Non‐formal educators' roles in environmental education: Insights from Latin America3
Teacher digital identity divergences: From teacher education to classroom3
‘The best year’/‘I struggled with everything’: Widening participation experiences of pandemic online learning3
Parental choice of private tuition: Valuing attention, judging quality and navigating access in England's underregulated supplementary education market3
Can AI replace humans? Comparing the capabilities of AI tools and human performance in a business management education scenario3
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance2
I've always known that I would become a teacher’: How White women narrate their choice to teach, and what this means for teacher recruitment2
CSOs working for peace through education in conflict‐affected areas: The case of Cyprus2
What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks2
Impact of reciprocal peer observation on teacher collaboration perceptions2
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Schools and food charity in England2
The development of host language achievement gaps by migration background during primary school: A path model of educational inequalities2
The increasing use of private special schools: A policy gap for inclusive education2
The road (not) taken: Principals' perceptions of at‐risk pupils' participation in collective decision‐making2
Widening Participation in Scotland 1997–2021: A semi‐systematic literature review and avenues for further research2
Post‐secondary vocational education for youth leaving care: Examining a potential pathway to successful outcomes2
The review and development of professional standards through the lens of Democratic Anchorage points2
Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report2
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time2
Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools2
Exploring teachers' views of cultural capital in English schools2
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The decline in breaktimes and lunchtimes in primary and secondary schools in England: Results from three national surveys spanning 25 years2
School staff's views on causes of early school leaving in regular secondary and adult education: Identifying the role of individual, job‐related and school climate characteristics2
A systematic review on multi‐criteria decision‐making methods in educational research2
Starting with trees: Between and beyond environmental education2
Thinking skills and creativity in second language acquisition: Insights from an action research study2
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