OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research Papers in 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Fostering student engagement with motivating teaching: an observation study of teacher and student behaviours	34
New evidence on teachers’ working hours in England. An empirical analysis of four datasets	26
Teacher–Student Relationship Quality and Student Engagement: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study	24
Attainment grouping in English secondary schools: A national survey of current practices	20
Interested but not being served: mapping young people’s participation in informal STEM education through an equity lens	19
Is technology always helpful?: A critical review of the impact on learning outcomes of education technology in supporting formative assessment in schools	17
‘Just playing around with Excel and pivot tables’ - the realities of data-driven schooling	17
Is inclusive education really for everyone? Family stories of children and young people labelled with ‘severe and multiple’ or ‘profound’ ‘disabilities’	16
Problem-based learning, self- and peer assessment in higher education: towards advancing lifelong learning skills	14
Digital peer assessment in school teacher education and development: a systematic review	14
Unpacking the dynamics of collegial networks in relation to beginning teachers’ job attitudes	12
Student pedagogic voice in the literacy classroom: a review	10
Teacher learning in the context of teacher collaboration: connecting teacher dialogue to teacher learning	8
University teachers’ well-being during a pandemic: the experiences of five academics	8
‘The more public it is, the more severe it is’: teachers’ perceptions on the roles of publicity and severity in cyberbullying	7
The long road from teacher professional development to student improvement: A school-wide professionalization on self-regulated learning in primary education	7
What do we know about enabling education as an alternative pathway into Australian higher education, and what more do we need to know? A meta-scoping study	7
Decision-making regarding adjustments for students with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms	7
The transition between primary and secondary school: a thematic review emphasising social and emotional issues	7
School social segregation and social inequalities in political engagement among 16 to 20 year olds in fourteen countries	7
Ability grouping and student performance: A longitudinal investigation of teacher support as a mediator and moderator	7
‘They make time for you’: upwardly mobile working-class boys and understanding the dimensions of nurturing and supportive student–teacher relationships	6
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	6
Formal instruction vs informal exposure. What matters more for teenagers’ acquisition of English as a second language?	6
Do School-Related Factors Affect Private Tutoring Attendance? Predictors of Private Tutoring in Maths and German among German Tenth-Graders	6

Moving along the STEM pipeline? The long-term employment patterns of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates in the United Kingdom	6
The relationships between workgroup emotional climate and teachers’ burnout and coping style	6
Participatory Action Research: a case study on the school democratisation process	6
Pre-service Teachers’ conceptions of their own learning: does context make a difference?	5
Assessing the impact of Pupil Premium funding on primary school segregation and attainment	5
A typology of learner profiles to anticipate and guide differentiation in primary classes	5
The hullabaloo of schooling: the influence of school factors on the (dis)continuation of lesson study	5
International students’ identity negotiation in the context of international education: experiences of Burmese students in Hong Kong	5
Schools, policy and social change: Scottish secondary education in the second half of the twentieth century	5
Teachers’ professionalism and relations with parents: teachers’ and parents’ views	5
Musical play in the early years: the impact of a professional development programme on teacher efficacy of early years generalist teachers	4
Gaming the no-choice system? School choice and persistent educational inequality in China	4
Similarities and differences in social and emotional profiles among students in Canada, USA, China, and Singapore: PISA 2015	4
Does personality matter? The relationship between child personality and interaction quality in preschools	4
‘I’ve changed in every possible way someone could change’ – transformative university transitions	4
Attitudes and values of teachers and leaders towards entrepreneurship education	4
Writing as a craft: Re-considering teacher subject content knowledge for teaching writing	4
Shared spaces, separate places: desegregation and boundary change in Northern Ireland’s schools	3
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	3
Be true to your school? Teachers’ turnover intentions: the role of socioeconomic composition, teachability perceptions, emotional exhaustion and teacher efficacy	3
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	3
It’s a hard-knock life for us: a multilevel analysis on the association between grade retention and being bullied in 25 countries	3
Investigating Dutch teachers’ beliefs on working with linguistic metaconcepts to improve students' L1 grammatical understanding	3
Exploring types of educational classroom talk in early childhood education centres	3
Challenges for implementation in diverse settings: reflections on two randomised controlled trials of educational interventions in South American communities	3
Shared education: a case study in social cohesion	3
Rethinking interculturalism: student voices on promoting intercultural school development	3
Exploring the effectiveness of clinical simulations to develop student teachers’ parent-teacher communication competence	3
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	3
Atmospheres, spaces and job crafting: home visits in Alternative Provision	3
The emotional journey of the beginning teacher: Phases and coping strategies	3
“I get all my ideas from the tree”: investigating elementary students’ views as reflexive writers	3
Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the ‘science literate boy’	3
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	2
Special educational needs and disability tribunals in England 1994-2019	2
Engaging dropouts with differentiated practices: some evidence from Chile	2
Shadow education: a double-edged sword for Czech mainstream schools in the competitive educational market	2
Constructing and confronting bullying and normality at Finnish comprehensive schools from the perspective of critical bullying studies	2
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	2
Responding to Child Neglect in Schools: factors which scaffold safeguarding practice for staff in mainstream education in Wales	2
Bilingual school choice and socio-economic segregation: an analysis for Spain based on PISA 2015	2
Understanding novice teachers’ identities through metaphors: a multi-perspective study	2
The Pupil Premium and policy transfer in English standalone and system leader multi-academy trust academies	2
‘Possible Selves’ in practice: how students at Further Education Colleges in England conceptualise university	2
A comparison of home education legislation in Europe from the perspective of geography of education	2
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	2
Enhancing inclusion through the collective activity of collaboration: a cultural historical activity theory perspective	2
A beginning teacher’s living of counter stories in a high-needs school in rural China	2
Evolution of ‘whole institution’ approaches to improving health in tertiary education settings: a critical scoping review	2
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	2

Teaching culture in the EFL classroom as informed by teachers’ approaches to student diversity	2
Transformative research collaboration as third space and creative understanding : learnings from higher education research and doctoral su	2
Demythologising A level Exam Standards	2