British Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of British Educational Research Journal is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Caught in the vacuum: Policies addressing online harms in Maltese secondary schools71
Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees43
Performance motivation and emotion regulation as drivers of academic competence and problem‐solving skills in AI‐enhanced preschool education: A SEM study43
Teachers', parents', and pupils' perceptions and described experiences of toilet provisions and practices within English schools42
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence using PISA data35
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England34
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation33
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme31
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes21
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria20
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education20
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition19
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education19
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data19
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis18
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities17
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study17
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 p15
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process15
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 development15
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia14
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century14
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis13
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐1913
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment13
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education12
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England12
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data12
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish12
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research12
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?12
Reducing anxiety, promoting enjoyment and enhancing overall English proficiency: The impact of AI‐assisted language learning in Chinese EFL contexts11
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom11
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme11
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis11
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children11
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England11
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–202210
How do homeschoolers approach creative arts learning and how can they be supported? Developing a flexible framework for homeschool contexts10
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth10
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom10
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective10
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?9
Retention among newly qualified second‐year teachers: The reception–integration model9
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The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review8
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers8
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university8
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal8
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet8
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The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki8
‘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
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds8
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?8
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–20208
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction8
Growing in organisations: The multifaceted effects of organisational support on teachers' digital literacy7
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19947
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Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use7
Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success7
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Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing performance7
To be in AI‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2 learning experiences and growth mindsets are in focus7
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders7
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion7
School partnered approaches to emotionally based school avoidance in UK primary and secondary school‐age learners: A systematic review7
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis7
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‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson7
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates7
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample7
International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures7
The relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of technology leadership and their technology integration into higher education—Evidence from China7
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools7
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context7
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England7
Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19847
To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities7
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics7
Reimagining school leadership: A qualitative study on how distributed leadership models influence innovation culture in semi‐government schools in Pakistan7
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Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with6
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Achievement goals, academic engagement and performance: The mediating role of self‐regulated learning strategies6
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation6
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?6
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education6
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
Longitudinal links of negative student–teacher relationships and positive class climate with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration6
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland6
Indonesian inquiry: A narrative of biocultural teaching on Sulawesi Utara6
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?6
Enhancing online MBA programmes: Student perceptions and key factors in programme design and delivery6
Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England6
How does dialogic teaching facilitate students' creative thinking? Evidence from a sequential analysis of teacher–student dialogue in primary language classrooms6
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN6
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?5
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature5
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d5
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment5
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees5
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children5
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines5
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data5
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors5
Navigating the dilemmas of educational reform: A case study of Montessori implementation in a Taiwanese public school5
Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications5
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When ease becomes a barrier: What influences student intentions to use Generative AI in higher education?5
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality5
Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL learners: Contributions of AI‐mediated 5
‘… 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 gap5
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes5
Technology‐enhanced learning in higher education institutions: Exploring the lived experiences of students with specific learning differences and their lecturers5
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The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation5
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education5
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students4
Unboxing the intersections between self‐esteem and academic mindfulness with test emotions, psychological wellness and academic achievement in artificial intelligence‐supported learning environments: 4
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Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools4
From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada4
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 England4
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability4
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia4
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Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools4
To persist or not? Examining the relations between parental education, self‐regulation, school engagement and persistence in post‐compulsory education4
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis4
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care4
Developing teacher professional capital: A case study of Master Teacher Studios in Zhejiang province, China4
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?4
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
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education4
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications4
Some clarifications on educational research and practice4
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness4
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing4
The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia4
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study4
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?4
AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices4
Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic4
The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England4
The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents4
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review4
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal4
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study4
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England4
Can AI replace humans? Comparing the capabilities of AI tools and human performance in a business management education scenario3
Inequalities in school spending across local authorities in England: A time‐trend analysis3
Effects of critical thinking instruction on Chinese college students with varying baseline critical thinking abilities: A quasi‐experimental study3
A study on the social integration of international secondary students in Canadian high schools3
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
Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions3
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Why does school socio‐economic composition matter to adolescents’ academic performance? Role of classroom climate and school resources3
Sustaining the teaching profession: Innovating the ‘golden thread’ in university‐led teacher education3
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees3
Supportive but suspicious: Ideology, institutional trust, electoral participation and gender shape public opinion on citizenship education in the UK3
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives3
Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education3
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Teacher digital identity divergences: From teacher education to classroom3
Predatory competition, student expectations, unclear purpose: University leaders’ perceptions of the ‘neoliberal future’ of higher education in Brazil3
Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters3
Boredom strikes back: Triggers and solutions for English as a foreign language teachers3
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
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery3
Music always helps: Associations of music subject choices with academic achievement in secondary education3
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The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile3
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy3
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto3
Understanding teacher ethico‐political identity formation from a Foucauldian perspective3
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How do principals’ paternalistic leadership impact teachers’ emotional labor and efficacy: Do gender or region of teachers make a difference?3
Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools3
Exploring LGBTQ+ teacher professional identity through the power threat meaning framework3
Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice?3
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement3
The professionalisation of teachers in France at a time of new reform: A comparative perspective of teacher‐trainers and students in pre‐service training3
One way or another: An optimal matching analysis of students' educational pathways and the impact of socioeconomic background and engagement3
Linking students' grit and academic engagement: Mediating role of academic motivation and self‐regulated learning3
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act3
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education3
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Pedagogical considerations in the automation era: A systematic literature review of AIEd in K‐12 authentic settings3
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
Novice teachers' classroom behaviour management: Situations, responses and impact on student behaviour3
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
Beyond the ‘dilemma of difference’: An analysis of stories from experienced teachers, about their inclusive practice3
Deciphering the layers of reading achievement: A multi‐level analysis of student and school‐level predictors in top‐performing PIRLS 2021 countries3
Unravelling the effectiveness of self‐regulated language learning intervention on Chinese EFL Students’ motivation, strategic competence and English proficiency: A mixed methods study2
A rights‐informed and respecting approach to more inclusive schools: Based on a Citizens' Panel pilot project2
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support2
Schools and food charity in England2
Non‐formal educators' roles in environmental education: Insights from Latin America2
The role of achievement, gender, SES, location and policy in explaining the Indigenous gap in high‐school completion2
Understanding inclusion from the inside out: How inclusive education fulfilment, perceptions and agency shape teacher competence2
Starting with trees: Between and beyond environmental education2
Funds of knowledge: Towards an asset‐based approach to refugee education and family engagement in England2
Post‐secondary vocational education for youth leaving care: Examining a potential pathway to successful outcomes2
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
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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
The achievement gap: The impact of between‐class attainment grouping on pupil attainment and educational equity over time2
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Beyond winning in physical education: The role of continuing professional development in fostering a learning‐focused climate2
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 England2
The review and development of professional standards through the lens of Democratic Anchorage points2
Targeting adolescents as agents of change for an entomophageous future2
Impact of reciprocal peer observation on teacher collaboration perceptions2
The invisible costs of education reform: Understanding teacher deprofessionalisation in Thailand2
A systematic review on multi‐criteria decision‐making methods in educational research2
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?2
Supporting or stifling? Experiences of beginning teachers working within the Early Career Framework2
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China2
‘They have somewhere to turn to’: Wellbeing support for newly arrived refugee and migrant adolescents in English secondary schools2
‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID‐192
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Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools2
The development of host language achievement gaps by migration background during primary school: A path model of educational inequalities2
The role of growth mindset in shaping teachers' intercultural competencies: A study among Finnish teachers2
Applying the theory of planned behaviour to examine teachers' intentions to teach in inclusive classrooms and their inclusive practices2
The decline in breaktimes and lunchtimes in primary and secondary schools in England: Results from three national surveys spanning 25 years2
Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education2
The road (not) taken: Principals' perceptions of at‐risk pupils' participation in collective decision‐making2
Understanding international students' agency in developing employability: Case study of a post‐1992 university in the United Kingdom2
Exploring teachers' strategies for navigating compulsory digital transformations in Danish primary and lower secondary schools2
Parental choice of private tuition: Valuing attention, judging quality and navigating access in England's underregulated supplementary education market2
Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report2
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Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying: Extended listening to South Australian young people on bullying and violence2
Economic impact of innovative entrepreneurship education: Dynamic modelling methods2
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Research‐informed teaching: The case of Musical Futures2
Widening Participation in Scotland 1997–2021: A semi‐systematic literature review and avenues for further research2
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance2
Transitions from primary to secondary school in Greater Manchester: A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of Year 6 children who receive pupil premium funding2
Thinking skills and creativity in second language acquisition: Insights from an action research study2
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