OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Asia Pacific Journal of Education 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Dynamic assessment of students’ academic writing: Vygotskian and systemic functional linguistic perspectives	72
Future readiness for redesigning school education from the impacts of Covid-19 on school teachers in Japan: a case of teachers in Hiroshima	44
Job stressors and the innovative work behaviour of STEM teachers: serial multiple mediation role of creative self-efficacy and creative motivation	32
Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a methodology for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): a meth	28
Correction	28
Global education in rural region of China: a case study of basic education teachers’ perceptions and practices	24
Exploring the nexus of self-efficacy in digital literacy and technology acceptance: insights from L2 Chinese teachers	23
English language teacher education in changing times: Perspectives, strategies and new ways of teaching and learning English language teacher education in changing times: Perspectives,	20
Ethnic minority students’ access, participation and outcomes in preparatory classes in China: a case study of a School of Minzu Education	18
Leading to enhance university faculty members’ positive working attitudes: the mediating roles of research self-efficacy and job stress	18
Education and economic development: A social and statistical analysis	17
Staying ahead with generative artificial intelligence for learning: navigating challenges and opportunities with 5Ts and 3Rs	17
How Learning Study could empower teachers to embrace education initiatives through research–practice partnership in Hong Kong	17
Towards Asia “curriculum-as-lived”: Amplifying student voice in the Asia literacy curricular landscape	15
The ‘hidden curriculum’ of vietnam’s English school textbooks: a longitudinal analysis	15
Forcing quality without substance: a critical analysis of evaluating teacher education programmes in South Korea	15
Learning to teach critical thinking: testimonies of three EFL teachers in China	14
(Re)imagining ambivalent Australia: the curriculum as a tool of nation	14
The integration of Internet of Toys in early childhood education. Research from Australia, England, and Norway The integration of Internet of Toys in early childhood education. Research	13
Enhancing students’ science learning using virtual simulation technologies: a systematic review	13
Family capital and parental involvement among parents in public elementary and secondary schools in the Philippines: perspectives of parents and children	13
Learners’ speaking self-efficacy, self-efficacy sources and their relations in the traditional and flipped instructional modes	12
Assessing metacognitive writing strategies and the predictive effects on multimedia writing	12
Unpacking in-service EFL teachers’ professional learning in a study abroad teacher education programme: an ecological perspective	12
“Why are we doing this in the first place?”: youth motivations, school environments, and volunteer experiences in a system of compulsory school-based volunteerism	11

“Bright, busy, but Doesn’t go extra mile”: how school racial context moderates personality penalties on Asians’ high school GPA	10
Book review of technology and entrepreneurship education: adopting creative digital approaches to learning and teaching	10
International higher education and the rise of soft power as cultural diplomacy: a comparative study of Morocco and South Korea International higher education and the rise of soft power	9
Using student ratings and external observations to detect the effects of quality of teaching on student learning outcomes: a longitudinal study in the Maldives	9
Academic satisfaction and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents: the multiple mediating roles of interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being	9
Educational equity in China: The experience of school choice reform in Shanghai	9
Digital learning based education: transcending physical barriers	9
Handbook of practical second language teaching and learning	9
Chinese university EFL learners’ foreign language classroom anxiety and enjoyment in an online learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The role of context in language teachers’ self development and motivation: Perspectives from multilingual settings	9
Applying modified TATE framework in equipping learners with action competence on future skills: Towards learners’ future-readiness	8
Examining teacher-academic collaboration in lesson study for its potential in shaping teacher research identity	8
Perspectives of Indonesian parents towards school-based sexuality education	8
Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds Understanding Emotions in English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds	8
Developing excellence in teaching and learning in higher education through observation Developing excellence in teaching and learning in higher education through observation	8
Countering stuckness: international doctoral students’ experiences of disrupted mobility amidst COVID-19	8
Parental involvement and barriers in East Asian countries: understanding home-school relations	7
A sensory approach to STEAM teaching and learning: materials-based units for student K-6 A sensory approach to STEAM teaching and learning: materials-based units for student K-6	7
New Generation Schools in Cambodia: a farewell to shadow education?	7
Contesting globalization and internationalization of higher education: discourse and responses in the Asia Pacific Region	7
Fundamental motor skills correlate with mathematical performance rather than language performance in kindergarten children	7
How Chinese students manage their transition to higher education effectively: student initiative at Sino-Foreign cooperative universities	7
English language education in Singapore: research, practice & implications	7
Learning intelligence: innovative and digital transformative learning strategies - Cultural and Social Engineering Perspectives	7
History of subjectivity in dispositif: changing arrangements of Vietnamese teachers’ meeting through lesson study for learning community	6
AI and education in China: imagining the future, excavating the past	6
Leaders of future-ready learners in the Singapore education system: perceptions, roles and implications	6
Children and Interculturality in Education Children and Interculturality in Education , by Andreas Jacobsson, Heidi Layne & Fred Dervin, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, 118 p	6
The role of involution on Chinese youth pursuit of postgraduate education abroad: examine through the lens of normative social behaviour	6
Factors influencing academic resilience of master students in China	6
Sources of pre-service teacher self-efficacy: a longitudinal qualitative inquiry	5
Instilling the need for academic honesty into Hong Kong university students: how well are we doing?	5
Determinants of Chinese students’ increasing pursuit of UK’s taught master degree under the third wave of international education mobility	5
Has the smart classroom revolutionized general education in Chinese universities? A comparative analysis of its influence path with that of traditional multimedia classrooms	5
Exploring the significance of Indian logic in overcoming contemporary limitations in the Indian education system	5
Effects of socioeconomic status and its components on academic achievement: evidence from Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang (China)	5
English for Young Learners in Asia: Challenges and Directions for Teachers Education	5
Voices on “voice”: A juxtaposition of teachers’ and students’ perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of student voice in teaching and learning	5
Understanding spiritual health, depression, anxiety, and stress among tertiary students under the impact of COVID-19 in Hong Kong	5
Teachers’ understanding of inclusive education: comparing perspectives in China and Italy	5
English teacher competency: a study with different school levels and teaching experience	5
Innovation in language learning and teaching: the case of Vietnam and Cambodia	5
Advancing e-assessment for learning in the primary EFL writing classroom: the role of collaborative teacher professional learning	4
Understanding students’ college choices in Taiwan: an investigation of social-class inequalities in choices of institutional types and college pathways	4
Contemporary Issues in Science and Technology Education	4
Factors influencing teachers’ willingness to move in the Chinese school system	4
Utopia as method: a response to education in crisis?	4
Factors influencing Chinese parents’ willingness to send children to study abroad: findings from the China family panel studies	4
Careers for students with special educational needs: perspectives on development and transitions from the Asia-Pacific Region	4
Teacher-student relationships and hope among rural adolescents: a moderated mediation model	4

Exploring EFL university teachers’ beliefs in integrating ChatGPT and other large language models in language education: a study in China	4
Instructional leadership, power distance, teacher enthusiasm, and differentiated instruction in Turkey: testing a multilevel moderated mediation model	4
A comparison of structure and effectiveness of principal leadership between elementary and secondary schools in China	4
Formative assessment in English language teaching: exploring the enactment practices of teachers within three primary schools in Singapore	4
The international political economy of educational policy development in Nepal: 1950-2020	4
Interdisciplinary practices in academia: writing, teaching and assessment	4
English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in use English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in use , by Ee Ling Low and Anne Pakir	4
Differences between Chinese and Western English-speaking teachers in providing disagreement in EFL teaching in China	4
The comparison of general tips for mathematical problem solving generated by generative AI with those generated by human teachers	4
Repositioning Singlish in Singapore’s language-in-education policies	4
Daily activities and social interactions predict students’ positive feelings	4
Pre-service CEIT teachers’ preferred YouTube use motives, engagements, video categories, and differences by gender	3
The roles of growth mindsets and psychological speaking needs in the relationships between grit and willingness to communicate among foreign language learners	3
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) through lesson and learning studies in Asia: moving beyond steps to support transformation of practices	3
Twenty-first century learning skills and music engagement among young children: a systematic review	3
“I wonder who I am when my assessment ideas are not respected”: a case-study inquiry into the role of institutional policies in English language teachers’ assessment identity	3
Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and social justice Critical pedagogies for modern languages education: criticality, decolonization, and	3
Work values, perceived employability and rural employment intention among Chinese college students: the mediating effect of protean career orientation	3
Learning through EMI (English-medium instruction) in a Macau university: students’ perspectives and content and language outcomes	3
A mixed-method inquiry into Arabic-speaking students’ experiences with English academic writing at the undergraduate level	3
Correction	3
Ecological factors influencing early-career teachers retention and attrition: insights from Bhutan	3
The impact of digital transformation on the quality of college English teaching: the mediating role of teachers’ support	3
The impact of the future time perspective on student learning motivation and autonomous learning behaviours in the context of a work-based program	3
Digital storytelling for global citizenship education: a Chinese case study	3
A comparative analysis of career trajectories for U.S.-trained and Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs in engineering	3
A critical discourse analysis of cultural representation in language learning tasks: The case of an English language textbook used in Indonesian secondary schools	3
East Asian perspectives on silence in English language education	3
Generative AI in higher education: the ChatGPT effect	3
Using English to Realize “the Chinese dream”: the political-economic ideology of language planning in China	3
Linguistic distance and translanguaging: teaching Malay-English bilingual learners	3
How teacher characteristics shape Chinese undergraduate EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety	3
Education for the Elderly in the Asia Pacific	3
Rethinking international student mobility through the lens of “crisis” at a juncture of pandemic and global uncertainties	3
The appraisal antecedents of Shanghai students’ mathematics anxiety and the moderating effects of teacher behaviours: from the perspective of the control-value theory	3
Correction	3
The impact of teachers’ organizational silence on job performance: a serial mediation effect of psychological empowerment and organizational affective commitment	2
“For me, it is important to maintain self while adapting.” Understanding Chinese foreign language teachers’ identity in an intercultural context	2
“Voices unheard”: a critical policy analysis of teacher participation in South Korea’s 2022 curriculum reform	2
Refining the opportunity to learn construct through the Productive Disciplinary Engagement framework	2
Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia Language teacher motivation, autonomy and development in East Asia , edited by Yuzo Kimura, Luxin Yang	2
Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education , edited by Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith, Darla K. Deardorff	2
Identity and teacher professional development: a reflective, collaborative and agentive learning journey	2
Understanding interpersonal interaction characteristics in a blended synchronous classroom: a multimodal discourse analytic perspective	2
Effective writing pedagogy in Aotearoa New Zealand’s bicultural context: a review of literature	2
Exploring Chinese university English teachers’ language assessment literacy: a mixed-method study	2
Toward equity innovations: lower tracked students and classroom digital media use in Singapore	2
Defining and operationalizing professional learning communities: what does the literature say?	2
Exploring perspectives on creativity theory and research in education	2
Language learning motivation and identity construction among Indonesian and Thai university students: A comparative case study	2
Being and Bildung : appropriating Heidegger and Aquinas	2
Study abroad at home: first-year undergraduates’ socialization into the community of practice in a Sino-America cooperative education institute in China	2
Enhancing self-management skills of students through primary school class activities based on the Selection, Design, Organization, and Assessment model: a mixed methods study	2
Curriculum deliberation and expansive learning through lesson study – Teaching Inference skills through an Aesop’s fable	2
Development and application of an anti-racist approach in English language teaching: from theory to practice	2
Japan’s pursuit of meritocracy, cosmopolitanism, and global rankings in higher education: a Bourdieusian interpretation	2
Exploring the problems of learning science in the English medium: a study on high school students’ perceptions and attitudes in China	2
Educational leadership and Asian culture: culturally sensitive leadership practice	2
Ethics and context in second language testing: rethinking validity in theory and practice	2
Internationalization and the academic profession: comparative perspective	2
A framework informing the interplay of physical, digital and social spaces in supporting an environment for active learning	2
The role of learning style in engineering design thinking via project-based STEM course	2
Fundamental considerations in technology mediated language assessment Fundamental considerations in technology mediated language assessment , edited by Karim Sadeghi and	2
The mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction in the relationship between teacher-student relationships and academic engagement in China	2