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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Further education and mental health during the pandemic: the moral impasse of meritocracy	30
Making decisions about attainment grouping in mathematics: teacher agency and autonomy in Norway	19
Using pupils’ grade obtained in national examinations as an outcome measure in evaluations: some considerations for the design of randomised controlled trials	19
Does personality matter? The relationship between child personality and interaction quality in preschools	18
The impact of school culture, school climate, and teachers’ job satisfaction on the teacher-student relationship: a case study in four Estonian schools	14
How novel can examination questions really be? Exploring the boundaries of creativity in examination question writing	13
Unlocking the power of big ideas in education: a systematic review from 2010 to 2022	11
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being ‘Gifted’: Perceptions of the Label by Gifted Pupils	11
Practicing voice: student voice experiences, democratic school culture and students’ attitudes towards voice	10
Examination of the core curriculum from the perspective of reference framework of competences for democratic culture: Northern Cyprus case	9
Students’ contrasting their experiences of teacher expectations in streamed and mixed ability classes: A study of Grade 10 students in Western Australia	9
Knotworking — not working: Interprofessional collaboration and co-figuration of pre-service special education teachers	9
Teacher–student relationship and students’ social competence in relation to the quality of educational dialogue	9
Playful punctuation in primary children’s narrative writing	8
Developing metalinguistic understanding in the secondary English classroom: the role of teachers’ framing questions and responsive talk moves in dialogic metalinguistic talk about written text	8
Fair enough?! Investigating the specific challenges of diverse university first-year students	8
Anti-bullying tensions in Chile: a figurational social-ecological analysis of policies, schools and families	8
Adaptive responses to contextualised and differentiated school improvement. Identifying institutional profiles of secondary schools	7
Understanding subject choices from report card grades: gender and educational level disparities	7
Shared spaces, separate places: desegregation and boundary change in Northern Ireland’s schools	7
An immersive, ‘Faster Read’: a pilot, mixed-method study, developing whole-text reading comprehension and engagement with adolescent struggling readers	6
Postgraduate research in a sick society	6
Whose goal emphases play a more important role in ESL/EFL learners’ motivation, self-regulated learning and achievement?: Teachers’ or parents’	6
Therapeutic discourse in teacher professional discourse: on multidimensionality and elasticity of psychology-based reasoning	6
On reducing errors in assessment instruments	6

Conceptualising the art of belonging for young refugees and asylum-seekers: reflections from England and Sweden	6
Staying on track in higher secondary education in Flanders (Belgium). Mechanisms explaining social inequality in educational choice	5
Is academic selection in Northern Ireland a barrier to social cohesion?	5
More is more: exploring the relationship between young people’s experiences of school-based career education, information, advice and guidance at age 14–16 and wider adult outcomes at age 21–22 in Eng	5
Ability grouping and student performance: A longitudinal investigation of teacher support as a mediator and moderator	5
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds	5
Scope, nature and progress of impact in practice-oriented educational research: a conceptual and empirical substantiation	5
The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives	5
Teacher learning in the context of teacher collaboration: connecting teacher dialogue to teacher learning	5
Using habitus and ethnic identity theory to investigate the decision-making of Canadian Modern Orthodox young people	4
International students’ identity negotiation in the context of international education: experiences of Burmese students in Hong Kong	4
Educational dialogue of preschool teachers experiencing different levels of stress	4
The emotional journey of the beginning teacher: Phases and coping strategies	4
Experienced burnout and teacher–working environment fit: a comparison of teacher cohorts with or without persistent turnover intentions	4
Primary preservice teachers’ exploration of possible selves through narrated metaphors during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Upper secondary school students’ perspectives on un/fairness in group work assessment	3
Career motivations and interest in teaching of tertiary students taking mathematics and science subjects	3
Effective practice in EAL education: enacting distributed school leadership	3
Fostering culturally responsive pedagogy related competencies among pre-service teachers: a systematic review of the recent research literature	3
Why do students leave? Persistence in selective universities	3
The Pupil Premium and policy transfer in English standalone and system leader multi-academy trust academies	3
School-level competition for US high school extracurricular resources	3
Intertextuality and the advance of mathematisation in young children’s inscriptions	3
Rigidity of class ability grouping practices in Australia	3
Early dropout, earnings and skills in later life: evidence from Spain	3
Interpreting the mental health and wellbeing agenda in adult community learning	3
Dialogic feedback and literary disciplinary knowledge in L2 writing instruction: how attitude to feedback influences academic achievement	3
Adaptation, change and reaffirmation: investigating the limits of young working-class men adapting to elite higher education institutions	3
Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe	3
Exploring the effectiveness of clinical simulations to develop student teachers’ parent-teacher communication competence	3
A structured discussion of the fairness of GCSE and A level grades in England in summer 2020 and 2021	3
Illustrating conceptual understanding in international business undergraduate writing	3
Teachers’ professionalism and relations with parents: teachers’ and parents’ views	3
Tracking and political engagement: an investigation of the mechanisms driving the effect of educational tracking on voting intentions among upper secondary students in France	3
Leadership for school mindfulness: the role of school ambidexterity and leaders’ cognitive complexity	3
Examining the relationship between ethnicity, school attainment and higher education participation in England	2
Be true to your school? Teachers’ turnover intentions: the role of socioeconomic composition, teachability perceptions, emotional exhaustion and teacher efficacy	2
The long road to secondary school: background, home learning environment, and transition difficulties in Scotland	2
Parent priorities when navigating the decision to delay school entry	2
Challenges for implementation in diverse settings: reflections on two randomised controlled trials of educational interventions in South American communities	2
The what and why of supplementary schooling in Flanders: purposes and underlying motives as perceived by initiators	2
Digital peer assessment in school teacher education and development: a systematic review	2
Teachers matter: linking teachers and students’ self-regulated learning	2
A decolonial reading of the history curriculum: towards undoing historicide for curricular justice for the Zimbabwean learner	2
‘It was just as political as it was pragmatic’: the (in)formal roles and policy work of ‘curriculum leaders’ in a federated education context	2
Scoping review of conceptions of literacy in middle school science	2