OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Educational Evaluation is 9. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Challenges and Prospects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Utilization among Primary School Teachers: A Developing Country Perspective	88
Teacher support and academic engagement among EFL learners: The role of positive academic emotions	71
Perceptions of STEM alumni and students on developing 21st century skills through methods of teaching and learning	65
HEISQUAL: A modern approach to measure service quality in higher education institutions	54
Misconceptions about data-based decision making in education: An exploration of the literature	52
Advantages of authentic assessment for improving the learning experience and employability skills of higher education students: A systematic literature review	50
Assessing the professional identity of primary student teachers: Design and validation of the Teacher Identity Measurement Scale	45
Modelling environmental literacy with environmental knowledge, values and (reported) behaviour	39
Educational Data Mining: Identification of factors associated with school effectiveness in PISA assessment	38
A case study of a formative assessment practice and the effects on students’ self-regulated learning	38
The effects of peer assessment on learner autonomy: An empirical study in a Chinese college English writing class	36
Searching for the impact of teacher behavior on promoting students’ cognitive and metacognitive skills	31
Hong Kong primary students’ self-regulated writing strategy use: Influences of gender, writing proficiency, and grade level	30
Assessment for learning in the Hong Kong assessment reform: A case of policy borrowing	29
Chinese university EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices of classroom writing assessment	27
Effects of school organizational conditions on teacher professional learning in China: The mediating role of teacher self-efficacy	26
Creating a forum for researching teaching and its quality more synergistically	26
A scoping review on the notions of Assessment as Learning (AaL), Assessment for Learning (AfL), and Assessment of Learning (AoL)	26
The impact of interventions to prevent truancy: A review of the research literature	25
Core practices in practice-based teacher education: A systematic literature review of its teaching and assessment process	25
Teachers’ beliefs about feedback practice as related to student self-regulation, self-efficacy, and language skills in teaching English as a foreign language	24
Evaluation of construct-irrelevant variance yielded by machine and human scoring of a science teacher PCK constructed response assessment	24
A measurement model of entrepreneurship education effectiveness based on methodological triangulation	23
A co-orientation analysis of teachers’ and students’ perceptions of online teaching and learning in Hong Kong higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Using Opinion Mining as an educational analytic: An integrated strategy for the analysis of students’ feedback	22

Using standards to evaluate accountability policy in context: School administrator and teacher perceptions of a teacher evaluation system	22
Measurement invariance of information, communication and technology (ICT) engagement and its relationship with student academic literacy: Evidence from PISA 2018	21
Dimensionality and reliability of a screening instrument for students at-risk of dropping out from Higher Education	20
When artificial intelligence meets educational leaders’ data-informed decision-making: A cautionary tale	20
Structural validity and invariance of the Feedback Perceptions Questionnaire	18
Conceptualizing and exploring the quality of teaching using generic frameworks: A way forward	18
Evaluation of university teaching as sound performance appraisal	18
On the value of data-based decision making in education: The evidence from six intervention studies	18
Evaluating school inspection effectiveness: A systematic research synthesis on 30 years of international research	18
Impact of distributed leadership on teacher job satisfaction in China: The mediating roles of teacher autonomy and teacher collaboration	17
Effect of number of response options on the psychometric properties of Likert-type scales used with children	17
Analyzing the relationship between principals’ learning-centered leadership and teacher professional learning: The mediation role of trust and knowledge sharing behavior	17
Construction and validation of a test to assess (pre-service) teachers' technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK)	16
How is a professional development programme related to the development of university teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and teaching conceptions?	16
We agree on what we see: Teacher and student perceptions of formative assessment practice	16
Applying Q methodology to teacher evaluation research	15
Reflection through assessment: A systematic narrative review of teacher feedback and student self-perception	15
The impact of the scoring system of a large-scale standardized EFL writing assessment on its score variability and reliability: Implications for assessment policy makers	15
The effectiveness of the GoKoan e-learning platform in improving university students’ academic performance	15
Young learners’ reading and writing performance: Exploring collaborative modeling of text structure as an additional component of self-regulated strategy development	15
Measuring mathematics competence in international and national large scale assessments: Linking PISA and the national educational panel study in Germany	14
Evaluating peer feedback as a reliable and valid complementary aid to teacher feedback in EFL writing classrooms: A feedback giver perspective	14
Assessing math attitude through the Attitude Toward Mathematics Inventory – Short form in introductory statistics course students	14
University students’ learning approaches: An adaptation of the revised two-factor study process questionnaire to Norwegian	14
Creativity development in preschoolers: The effects of children’s museum visits and other education environment factors	14
Bachelor’s degree student dropouts: Who tend to stay and who tend to leave?	14
Assessment for learning in constrained contexts: How does the teacher’s self-directed development play out?	13
The ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes towards different environmental phenomena: A sample of Syrian refugee children	13
Professional vision of inclusive classrooms: A validation of teachers’ reasoning on differentiated instruction and teacher-student interactions	13
The role of engagement and academic behavioral skills on young students’ academic performance—A validation across four countries	13
Teacher support, growth language mindset, and academic engagement: The mediating role of L2 grit	13
A continuum of data literacy for teaching	13
Building undergraduate STEM majors’ capacity for delivering inquiry-based mathematics and science lessons: An exploratory evaluation study	13
From fixing the work to improving the learner: An initial evaluation of a professional learning intervention using a new student-centred feedback model	13
Perceived university support and entrepreneurial intentions: Do different students benefit differently?	13
Data use for equity?: How data practices incite deficit thinking in schools	12
Intelligence quotient, short-term memory and study habits as academic achievement predictors of elementary school: A follow-up study	12
Structural relationship between learners’ perceptions of a test, learning practices, and learning outcomes: A study on the washback mechanism of a high-stakes test	12
The dynamic relationship between response processes and self-regulation in critical thinking assessments	12
Academics’ beliefs towards holistic competency development and assessment: A case study in engineering education	12
Perfectionism and foreign language achievement: The mediating role of emotions and achievement goals	12
Measuring graduate students’ global competence: Instrument development and an empirical study with a Chinese sample	12
Testing measurement invariance of PISA 2015 mathematics, science, and ICT scales using the alignment method	11
Analyzing the effects of mathematical discourse-based instruction on eleventh-grade students’ procedural and conceptual understanding of probability and statistics	11
Exposure to crime and academic achievement: A case study for Costa Rica using PISA data	11
Data-based individualization in mathematics to support middleschool teachers and their students with mathematics learning difficulty	11
Using data on school strengths and weaknesses for school improvement	11
Affordances and constraints of mathematics-specific observation frameworks and general elements of teaching quality	11
Developing teacher assessment skills: The impact of the dynamic approach to teacher professional development	11
How to measure soft skills in the educational context: psychometric properties of the SKILLS-in-ONE questionnaire	11

Linking university mathematics classroom environments to student achievement: The mediation of mathematics beliefs	11
Teachers as evaluators: Results from a systematic literature review	11
Exploring factors related with resilience in primary education: Evidence from European countries	11
Working more collaboratively to better understand teaching and its quality: Challenges faced and possible solutions	11
Flipping the 4th grade social studies course in a cooperative way: Effects on academic achievement and motivation	11
To assess or not to assess holistic competencies – Student perspectives in Hong Kong	11
The effects of an AWE-aided assessment approach on business English writing performance and writing anxiety: A contextual consideration	11
Action research as a methodology for professional development in leading an educational process	10
A cross-cultural study of student self-efficacy profiles and the associated predictors and outcomes using a multigroup latent profile analysis	10
A systematic review of item response theory in language assessment: Implications for the dimensionality of language ability	10
Evaluation of the ‘Feedback Engagement Enhancement Tool’ to examine and enhance students’ engagement with feedback on their writing	10
Re-evaluation of the D21-digital-index assessment instrument for measuring higher-level digital competences	10
The quality assurance of a national English writing assessment: Policy implications for quality improvement	10
Capacity building to bridge data use and instructional improvement through evidence on student thinking	10
Explaining self-efficacy development in an authentic higher education learning context of role-play simulations	10
Geography tests in the Finnish Matriculation Examination in paper and digital forms – An analysis of questions based on revised Bloom’s taxonomy	9
Toward a multidimensional conceptualization of motivation to transfer training: Validation of the transfer motivation questionnaire from a self-determination theory perspective using bifactor-ESEM	9
Initial teacher education in a dual-system: Addressing the observation of teaching performance	9
Providence talks: A citywide partnership to address early childhood language development	9
Connecting feedback to self-efficacy: Receiving and providing peer feedback in teacher education	9
Hybrid content-specific and generic approaches to lesson observation: Possibilities and practicalities	9
Student – Feedback Interaction Model: Revised	9
Automatic evaluation of open-ended questions for online learning. A systematic mapping	9
Online teaching during COVID-19 pandemic: A phenomenological study of university educators’ experiences and challenges	9
Formative peer assessment to enhance primary school pupils’ oral skills: Comparison of written feedback without discussion or oral feedback during a discussion	9
Bullying: Group differences of being victim and being bully and the influence of social relations	9
School bullying: Prevalence and variation in and between school systems in TIMSS 2015	9
Bridging the gap – How effective are remedial math courses in Germany?	9
Fair student assessment: A phenomenographic study on teachers’ conceptions	9
Comparing two constructs for describing and analyzing teachers’ diagnostic processes	9