OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Review 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Higher education expansion and the secondary school curriculum in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century	61
Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years: exploring the ‘impact’, legacy and lessons learned from a national evaluation of Children’s Centres in England	50
Leadership for ethical conduct of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria and the challenge of ‘Miracle Examination Centres’	40
Using GIS to analyse early years provision in Northern Ireland – adding another year of segregated education?	36
Voices from the classroom: perceptions and obstacles in Indonesian curriculum reform	34
What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development	32
Senior-secondary vocational tracking and socio-economic inequality in student educational performance: evidence from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey	32
Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play	25
What do we know about teacher education for difficult topics? A systematic review	25
Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	21
Predictors and mediators of pressure/tension in university students’ distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A self-determination theory perspective	20
Promoting politically contested change by invisible education policies: the case of ultra-Orthodox public schools in Israel	20
Pupil voice as a method in education research: thinking the ‘in-between’	19
Emerging horizons for social justice in assessment: can assessment move beyond competence, competition, content and control?	18
Competing interests of stakeholders in a policy-driven test: a sociological analysis	17
Participant reflexivity and the complexity inherent to navigating ethical quandaries	15
Do teachers read against the text? Studying the prevalence of critical literature pedagogy through a vignette	15
The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark	14
Staffing rural and remote school communities: right fit – right school, right teacher, right community	14
Knowledgeable but not specialist: Virtual School Heads’ experiences of supporting autistic children in care	14
Education, truth and subjectivity: Revisiting Kierkegaard	13
Steering the ‘client’-oriented schooling ship: a moral-ecological assessment framework to preserve professional integrity	13
The marginalised few: reflections from the lived experiences of forced displaced academics in Turkish academia	13
Failing at the basics: disabled university students’ views on enhancing classroom inclusion	12
Children’s early care experiences and their educational attainment: a population data-linkage study in Wales	12

The emerging intersection: the role of architecture in promoting inclusive education	11
‘Start-up’ capital: cultivating the elite child in an elite international kindergarten in Shenzhen, China	11
Raymond Williams and the new industrial trainers: a critique and a proposal	11
Colour-evasive racial ideologies underpinning the hidden curriculum of a majority-minority occupational therapy school in London, England: an analysis of minoritised undergraduate students’ experience	11
The political economy of school exclusion in Northern Ireland: the intersection of perspectives from mainstream education, alternative provision and an official education body	9
Testing for sequential bias in school inspections	9
The impact of part-time community education on the academic achievement of minoritised pupils: evidence from Flanders	9
Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding ‘the international’ in studies of international student mobility	9
Social sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care through play, responsiveness and inclusion: teachers’ responses to children’s non-verbal initiatives in play	9
Formal school exclusions over the educational lifecourse in Wales	9
Student diversity, university rankings and the positioning of Russell Group universities	9
Agenda-setting for education reform: the case of the Vision Statement for the Future of Scottish Education	8
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention	8
Tensions between decolonisation and social justice in education: seeking pathways beyond incommensurability	7
Redefining the meaning of teaching in the era of (post-) performativity: the voices of Singaporean teachers	7
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	7
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	7
Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings: First steps matter	7
Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research	6
Serving their communities? The under-admission of children with disabilities and ‘special educational needs’ to ‘faith’ primary schools in England	6
Shifting power relations in innovative learning environments: implications for initial teacher education and practicum	6
Enduring it all to protect Black students: Black educators’ experiences with racial battle fatigue and burn out	6
Interconnected learning between university and the workplace: a socio-cultural perspective of graduate employability in the UK	6
Privacy, power, and relationship: ethics and the home-school partnership	6
Expanding educational opportunities or widening learning inequalities? Evidence from national reform of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	6
Whose children are they? Using Kymlicka on multiculturalism to evaluate rights and freedom in Christian home education	5
Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education	5
Effects of a positive education programme on secondary school students’ mental health and wellbeing; challenges of the school context	5
Student intersectional sociodemographic and school variation in GCSE final grades in England following Covid-19 examination cancellations	5
The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos	5
Perceptions of key education actors towards PISA: the case of Scotland	5
‘Back to the future’: Thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Alec Clegg (1909–1986) on the promise of education	5
School exclusion policies across the UK: convergence and divergence	5
Indigenous heritage as an educational resource in primary education	5
Anxiety and performance during tests: the roles of coping and updating	5
Youth education decisions and occupational misalignment and mismatch: evidence from a representative cohort study of Australian youth	4
Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children	4
Financial sustainability in a marketised and partially autonomous environment: the case of small new public universities in England	4
‘Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things’ : the ‘low value’ arts degree and the neoliberal university	4
The pronunciation of students’ names in higher education: identity work by academics and professional services staff	3
Factors influencing teachers’ grading standards in mathematics	3
Examining the factors influencing mathematics academic achievement in mainland China: A multilevel analysis	3
Oral language at school entry: dimensionality of speaking and listening skills	3
Pedagogical practice and students’ perceptions of fully online flipped instruction during COVID-19	3
The influence of socio-demographics and school factors on GCSE attainment: results from the first record linkage data in Northern Ireland	3
Adolescents in transition: experiences and appraisals of immigrant students in school education	3
Conceptualising small rural school-community relationships within a divided society: people, meanings, practices and spaces	3
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing	3
Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things	3
Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review	3

Redefining student voice: applying the lens of critical pragmatism	3
Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy	3
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings	3
Teaching and learning: what matters for intervention	2
Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education	2
Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation	2
Perceptions and pedagogical considerations in professional development training for integration of an early literacy program in Kenya	2
Breaks in the chain: using theories of social practice to interrogate professionals’ experiences of administering Pupil Premium Plus to support looked after children	2
‘We want to, but we can’t’: pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach primary physical education	2
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: a Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century	2
Early school leaving, number of siblings and birth order in Spain	2
Measuring indicators of Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1: factor structure of a direct assessment tool in four Asian countries	2
Who are the children we teach? Considering identities, place and time-space in education	2
School absences, academic achievement, and adolescents’ post-school destinations	2
The costs of school exclusion: a case study analysis of England, Wales and Scotland	2
Intellectual authority and participation in group work	2
Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives	2
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools	2
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India	2
Statistically guided grading judgements: contextualisation or contamination?	2
The social practice approach: a pathway to improved academic achievement in adult basic literacy	2
Teacher professional autonomy in an atypical government school: matters of relationality and context	2
Inequalities in late adolescents’ educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Contemporary education and guiding pedagogical principals: the prospects for an embodied and intersubjective interpretation of phenomenology	2
Inter-subject comparability of the Spanish university entrance examinations	2
Bridging the gap: educational aspirations and expectations in Latin American intermediate territories	2
The Sisyphean continuum: countering the racial-colonial challenges of Indigenous education	2
Excluded lives: a ‘home-international’ comparison of school exclusion	2
Personalising assessment in the service of equity	2
The role of teachers’ implicit social goals in pedagogical reforms in Tanzania	2
Foreword to the fiftieth volume	2
Insights on student-centred and knowledge-centred teaching: Jewish studies teachers, pedagogy and community	2