British Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of British Educational Research Journal is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Growth mindset is positively associated with mathematics attainment in Scotland—But socioeconomic status plays a greater role88
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data75
Prosocial behaviour in primary and secondary school students. Effects of the CYBUPRE intervention68
Predictors of authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland64
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme44
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition32
Learning to explain environmental crises: A dialogic analysis of teacher professional learning between Chile and the United States29
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England29
Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees26
Caught in the vacuum: Policies addressing online harms in Maltese secondary schools26
Children's perceptions and challenges of participation in decision‐making: A case study of a participatory initiative in a Chinese primary school25
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence using PISA data25
The philosophy of listening in early childhood: A reflective inquiry into hearing the child's voice24
Teachers', parents', and pupils' perceptions and described experiences of toilet provisions and practices within English schools23
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education23
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation22
RETRACTED: Performance motivation and emotion regulation as drivers of academic competence and problem‐solving skills in AI‐enhanced preschool education: A SEM study21
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis21
RETRACTION : Examining the Impact of Gamified Mobile and AI ‐Assisted Language Learning on Academic Integrity, Creativ21
Otherwise engaged? Learning from non‐participation in research with care‐experienced students20
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes19
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria19
‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools19
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education19
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish18
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment18
Factors influencing the retake rate of college entrance examinations: A macro perspective analysis18
Operational and demographic influences on monitoring student academic progress at an Australian university: A strategic, social and economic perspective17
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?17
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research16
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐1916
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century16
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process16
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
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet15
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis15
RETRACTED: 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 de15
University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses15
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study15
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis14
Retention among newly qualified second‐year teachers: The reception–integration model14
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth14
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom14
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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education14
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective14
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom14
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England13
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–202213
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children13
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Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers12
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review12
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–202012
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal12
RETRACTED: Reducing anxiety, promoting enjoyment and enhancing overall English proficiency: The impact of AI ‐assisted language learning in Chinese 12
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university12
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme12
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction11
Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review11
Afro‐Amerindian cosmopolitics in environmental education: A decolonial analysis of academic discourses involving the epistemological disputes around the term sustainability11
RETRACTED: Ethical AI in language education: A Delphi study focusing on social and emotional aspects of learning11
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Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders11
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?11
Enhancing climate change and sustainability education through critical and collaborative dialogue between Global South and North education communities11
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample11
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The strange times of international studentship: A comparative study of the United Kingdom , Denmark 11
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds11
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International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures11
The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki10
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 199410
RETRACTION : Reducing Anxiety, Promoting Enjoyment and Enhancing Overall English Proficiency: The Impact of AI ‐assist10
Strategies teachers use to support students' self‐regulation skill development in mainstream primary schools: A scoping review10
‘Fish in simulated water’? A Bourdieusian analysis of Chinese doctoral students' learning experiences in Southeast Asian developing countries10
RETRACTED: Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI ‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing pe10
Growing in organisations: The multifaceted effects of organisational support on teachers' digital literacy10
Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study10
Enhancing teacher innovative practices through principal learning‐centred leadership and teacher knowledge sharing10
Reimagining school leadership: A qualitative study on how distributed leadership models influence innovation culture in semi‐government schools in Pakistan10
The role of teacher agency in realising EdTech 's potential to reduce teacher workload and improve teacher retention10
Change fatigue, teacher exhaustion and work engagement: The buffering role of transformational leadership10
‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson10
RETRACTED: To be in AI ‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2 10
‘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‐experienc10
The relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of technology leadership and their technology integration into higher education—Evidence from China10
Under‐standing: The ‘sleeping beauty’ of educational metaphors9
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Factors influencing the adoption of generative AI in education: A systematic review, proposed framework and future research agenda9
To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities9
Beyond literacy interventions: How four secondary schools leverage social capital to raise student outcomes in a remote, rural context in England9
Community college student success: A tale of cohort and institutional characteristics, market factors and enrollment status9
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics9
Flexible working and professional relationships in schools: An ecological approach9
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis9
What is a curriculum for life? Using youth participatory action research and applied arts to understand and amplify undergraduate students', children's and young people's mental health and wellbeing r9
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates9
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context9
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion9
School partnered approaches to emotionally based school avoidance in UK primary and secondary school‐age learners: A systematic review9
Governance of generative AI in higher education: A qualitative analysis of universities' policies and global insights9
Features of measuring soft skills in a saturated digital environment: Exploring the relationship between cognitive control and digital literacy at the individual level9
Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work9
Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective9
Early career orientation of primary school students: The impact of pedagogical intervention on future teachers and pupils9
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?8
Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success8
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The influence mechanism of family capital on children's academic performance in Western Chinese counties: The mediating effect of family educational investment8
Validation of the ABL  +  DT model: An ecosystemic framework for integrating arts and digital tech8
Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world8
Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England8
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education8
The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education8
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use8
Enhancing online MBA programmes: Student perceptions and key factors in programme design and delivery8
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic8
‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning7
Indonesian inquiry: A narrative of biocultural teaching on Sulawesi Utara7
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations7
Rethinking recruitment: Using reflexivity to understand career changers' decisions to become STEM teachers7
Drivers and pathways of AI academic mentor acceptance: An SEMfsQCA7
RETRACTION : Exploring EFL Learners' Positive Emotions, Technostress and Psychological Well‐Being in 7
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England7
Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye7
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN7
Rethinking quality in Early Childhood Education ( ECE ) from Chinese children's perspectives: Engaging with, resisting and reimagining institutional 7
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes7
Who gets published? Academic status and publication opportunities in leading Chinese and international higher education journals7
Parental involvement and academic achievement in Year 4 and Year 8 students: A meta‐analysis based on large‐scale assessments in China7
Academic misconduct appeal services in China: Platform logics, self‐platformization and implications for integrity education7
What are the possibilities for promoting teacher resilience at the school level? Insights from the co‐development of a participatory approach in England7
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?7
RETRACTION : Modelling the Complex Dynamic Effect of L2 Speaking Anxiety in Metaverse on Students' Academic Enjoyment,7
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation7
Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with7
A systematic review of facilitators and barriers to school staff development projects using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research7
Achievement goals, academic engagement and performance: The mediating role of self‐regulated learning strategies7
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?6
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment6
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors6
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees6
Technology‐enhanced learning in higher education institutions: Exploring the lived experiences of students with specific learning differences and their lecturers6
Identifying key predictors of resilience in mathematics engagement: Global evidence from PISA 2022 using machine learning6
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality6
The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia6
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The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation6
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature6
Longitudinal links of negative student–teacher relationships and positive class climate with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration6
‘… 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
Lessons from local area special educational needs and disability inspections: A content analysis of Ofsted and Care Quality Commission outcome letters6
More‐than‐gender? Moving beyond gendered expectations of divergent learners in early childhood education6
Parental involvement and engagement during COVID ‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home6
Navigating the dilemmas of educational reform: A case study of Montessori implementation in a Taiwanese public school6
How does dialogic teaching facilitate students' creative thinking? Evidence from a sequential analysis of teacher–student dialogue in primary language classrooms6
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland6
RETRACTION : To Be in AI ‐Integrated Language Classes or Not to Be: Academic Emotion Regulation, Self‐Esteem, 6
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data6
Making teaching more attractive: Promising evidence of impact from Australia6
RETRACTED: AI ‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassio6
Children's food activism: Reflections on knowledge and responsibility5
RETRACTION : Story‐Driven Learning and Holistic Development: Effects on Concept Mastery, Creativity and Empathy in EFL 5
Single‐subject designs in character education: Methods for rigorous, contextual, and practitioner‐led research5
Opposing pathways linking gender school belonging and mathematics achievement: Evidence from PISA 2018 and 2022 in Nordic countries5
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines5
RETRACTION: Unboxing the Intersections Between Self‐Esteem and Academic Mindfulness with Test Emotions, Psychological Wellness and Academic Achievement in Artificial Intelligence‐Supported Learning En5
‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China5
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review5
RETRACTED: Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL 5
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools5
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students5
When ease becomes a barrier: What influences student intentions to use Generative AI in higher education?5
RETRACTION : Performance Motivation and Emotion Regulation as Drivers of Academic Competence and Problem‐Solving Skills in AI 5
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A model for principals' STEM leadership capability5
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study5
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia5
RETRACTION : Learner Emotions and Performance in Hypercasual VR Games with Adaptive AI 5
Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university5
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education5
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness5
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
How far behind in number are socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils when they start school in England?5
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Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal5
RETRACTION : EFL University Students’ Emotional Engagement in AI ‐M5
Lessons from primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence school connectedness5
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study5
RETRACTION : Intersections Between Cognitive‐Emotion Regulation, Critical Thinking and Academic Resilience with Academic Motivation and Autonomy in <5
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children5
The impact of trauma‐informed teacher education5
“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth5
Some clarifications on educational research and practice5
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The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents5
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