OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Educational Research is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Language of administration and academic test performance in Ghanaian children	86
The impact of video dubbing app on chinese college students’ oral language skills across different proficiency levels	36
Cultural identity in the arabic language textbooks of arab elementary schools in Israel	32
Teacher voices on teaching students with a refugee background in Greece	31
School teachers’ unions social justice approach in top-bottom decision-making process: A case study of school teachers’ unions in Northern Pakistan	28
The golden path in the lives of Arab-Bedouin female students: "The profession of teaching for myself and for family support as a lever for academic success"	26
Editorial Board	24
Care in the academy: How our online writing group transformed into a caring community	21
‘It's a much bigger deal than people think’: UK undergraduate University students’ discussions around sexual consent	21
Becoming competent global educators: Pre-service teachers’ global engagement and critical examination of human capital discourse in glocalized contexts	21
Literacy practices in childhood from a posthumanist perspective: A systematic review	21
School leadership development and academic achievement: Effectiveness of the High Performing Schools programme	20
The embeddedness of visionary agency within the economic-cultural-capital formation: A case of Sino-Malaysian high school graduates	20
Promoting positive social classroom environments to enhance students’ mental health? Effectiveness of a school-based programme in Norway	19
Exploring the collective process of classroom dialogue using sequential pattern mining technique	18
An ecological, multilingual approach to language learning with newly reunited refugee families in Scotland	18
Teachers’ sense-making of the decentralizing curriculum reform policy: A comparative case study in South Korea	18
UDL for inclusive higher education—What makes group work effective for diverse international students in UK?	17
School work performance in sub-Saharan Africa: A bivariate multilevel analysis	17
Policy reconfiguration as enactment in the strategy of recontextualized neoliberalism: Paradigmatic shift in teacher education policy reform	16
How do the “Pastoral Children” transform into Modern Students? Reflections from the perspectives of cultural reproduction and cultural acculturation	13
Understanding online learning infrastructure in U.S. K-12 schools: A review of challenges and emerging trends	13
Cooperative problem solving for environmental civic engagement: Exploring Storypath's impact on young learners	13
Why Do Teachers Matter? A Meta-Analytic Review of how Teacher Characteristics and Competencies Affect Students’ Academic Achievement	13
Investigating STEM teachers’ personal and sociocultural particularities in the Ghanaian context	12

Digitally situated knowledge: Connectivism, anthropology and epistemological pluralism	12
Exploring the association between forgiveness, meaning-making, and post-traumatic stress symptoms: The case of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico	11
Putting the social into learner agency: Understanding social relationships and affordances	11
Editorial Board	11
Experimentation, policy learning, and China's education reforms	11
Preparing youth for participatory civil society: A call for spiritual, communal, and pluralistic humanism in education with a focus on community of philosophical inquiry	11
The quality and influence of teachers’ curriculum making ego-networks: Scotland and Wales	11
School spaces, school places: Shifting masculinities during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Evaluating the efficacy of Online Verbal Behaviour Training to ABA-Practitioners working with autistic individuals	11
Post-high-school pathways: The role of dispositional beliefs and aspirations	11
Academic achievement for students with and without disabilities in co-taught classrooms: A meta-analysis	11
“Building the business model” or “Broadening our international perspectives”? Staff positioning on the values of hosting international students in the Australian school sector	10
Perception, beliefs and attitudes towards simulation-based learning in health care students: Scoping review protocol	10
Science utility value intervention for elementary school students: A six-month follow-up study	10
The academic aspiration of immigrant youths and their college graduation in young adulthood: A multilevel analysis of individual and contextual carry-over effects	10
Mapping primary students’ mobile collaborative inquiry-based learning behaviours in science collaborative problem solving via learning analytics	10
A tapestry of multiple perspectives: Contextualising inclusive education through the study of a rural government school in Uttarakhand, India	9
Advancing the inclusion agenda in Australia: A multi-case study of the school experiences of children adopted from overseas	9
Primary to high school transition planning for students with disability: A systematic review	9
Teachers’ perception of leadership styles and involvement during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis	9
Immigrant students’ acculturation profile and reading competence development in secondary school and beyond	9
Empowering NEET youth: Assessing the impact of self-directed learning skills intervention	8
Negotiating performative and professional accountability in inclusive mathematics education in Norway	8
Transitioning to an unfamiliar medium of instruction: Strategies used by Rwandan primary school teachers to enable learning	8
Understanding human participant research ethics: The perspectives of social scientists in Central Asia	8
Old tales, new tools: How AI chatbots and the metaverse are transforming premodern classical literature reading activities	8
A co-designed by students “architecture of schooling” framework: Informing a novel architecture lens within the field of inclusive education	8
Light and shadow: Students' first-year transition through the complexities of higher education	8
Predictors of multilingual classroom practices of German primary teachers	8
An analysis of the governance of the Japanese teacher license renewal system	8
Exemplars of purpose: Reliance on moral exemplars supports college students’ purpose in life	8
Educational participation of primary school children with cancer from a Life Course perspective: A critical review of the literature	7
Leveraging pedagogical knowledge for effective technology integration in education: A research-based approach	7
Enhancing students’ metacognitive development in higher education: A classroom-based inquiry	7
Investigating linear and curvilinear relationships between cognitive activation strategies and student achievement in science	7
Whiteness as currency: Exploring racial ideologies in Pakistan's English language teaching sphere	7
What is the role of learning style preferences on the STEM learning attitudes among high school students?	7
Use of radio to share information for supporting learning during and after a global pandemic: A positive deviance study in rural Uganda	7
High skilled workplaces, technological change and employment: Can educational reform do it?	7
Investigating the relationship between family socioeconomic status and online academic help-seeking behaviours: Internet self-efficacy as a mediator	7
A cross-cultural perspective of agency in primary contexts: Validation of the student agency profile across multiple sites	7
How to foster interdisciplinary project management efficacy beliefs in Challenge-based Learning? The role of attitudes and student engagement	7
English-medium education in Kazakhstan: A multifaceted exploration of student and alumni perceptions on language proficiency, academic performance, and career prospects	7
Evaluation of the effectiveness of educational escape rooms within health professions education: A systematic review protocol	7
The transformation of neoliberalism: A critical analysis of shadow education governance policy in China	7
School mechanisms behind achievement differences: A systematic review of multilevel modelling studies in primary schools	7
Do dispositional motivational beliefs predict self-regulated learning strategies? An examination of willpower beliefs	7
Early literacy skill development and motivation in the low-income context of Haiti	7
Inward student mobility in China: A reappraisal of the common good contributions and the inherent challenges	7
Education Outside the Classroom in Norway: The prevalence, provision, and nature of uteskole	7

Out queer teachers as role models for queer students? Implications drawn from closeted gay academics' experiences in China	7
Constructing symbolic capital to coordinate teaching-focused university-industry collaborations in China: a documentary, videological and empirical analysis	6
Being resilient to close the gap: Is it enough?	6
Spiritual governance: You in me and me in you — The core of a spiritual democrat	6
Institutional characteristics moderating the relationship between classroom socioeconomic composition and teacher qualifications: Evidence from 46 education systems in TALIS 2018	6
The impact of China's “double world-class” policy on the scientific research outputs of basic disciplines in universities	6
Conceptualising translational research in schools: A systematic literature review	6
Editorial Board	6
Equality of opportunity: Social determinants of university expectation amongst school attending adolescents in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau	6
Editorial Board	6
Effects of personalized approach on fourth-grade students’ academic performance in project-based learning	6
Exploring inequality in high school transitions within an evolving high school system: Using the effectively maintained inequality theory	6
Experimental impacts of teacher professional development on adolescent socio-emotional skills, achievement, and hazardous child labor: Evidence from a remedial school program in Ecuador	6
Spirituality of Japanese Buddhism considered from enlightenment of nonsentient beings	6
Literacy proficiency and political information seeking in the U.S.	6
The assemblage of inanimate objects in educational research: mapping venture philanthropy, policy networks and evidence brokers	6
Editorial Board	5
Transition to post-compulsory education according to migrant background and gender in Catalonia: Exploring the effect of non-native student concentration	5
Variation in teachers’ academic optimism: Examining the impact of classroom composition and school academic optimism	5
Bridging the gap? Evaluating the effectiveness of Punjab's public–private partnership programmes in education	5
Revisiting social reproduction theory: Exploring the influence of economic and cultural capital on students’ achievement in China	5
Revalidation of the homework distraction scale and multilevel antecedents	5
Alternative knowledges in intercultural education and educators as epistemic subjects	5
Protocol: Feasibility study and pilot randomised trial of a multilingual support intervention to improve Norwegian language skills for adult refugees	5
Exploring career changers’ experiences in a school-based initial teacher education programme for science teachers in England	5
Factors influencing communication between parents and early childhood educators in multilingual Luxembourg	5
School leaders' experiences and perceptions of the movement of Ukrainian child refugees into Irish schools	5
The role of gender, psychotype and language in motivation to read books among USA and Japanese students: Increasing motivation through 3D visualization and animation	5
The P3 and academic performance in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Co-regulating the child's emotions in the classroom: Teachers’ interpretations of and decision-making in emotional situations	5
Misalignment of policy priorities and financing for early childhood education: Evidence from Ethiopia, Liberia, and Mainland Tanzania	5
Double the degree, double the identity? Identification and experiences of students studying two simultaneous degrees	5
Impact of international student mobility in rural Portuguese regions	5
Fijian mentors’ experiences of an international teaching practicum for Australian pre-service teachers: Perceptions of a decolonising agenda	5
Education along border regions in Ireland: Challenges and opportunities	5
Reframing English Language Teaching through Engagements with Relationality and Intersectionality	5
External accomplice factors in university success: Narratives of graduates with invisible disabilities in Italy	4
Editorial Board	4
Combining morphological and contextual strategy instruction to enhance word learning	4
Causal variables in the community of inquiry: Creating a directed acyclic graph of the effectiveness of the Philosophy for Children program	4
Listening to locals: Regional spaces in higher education in the global south	4
The politics of school dress codes and uniform policies: Towards gender diversity and gender equity in schools	4
Effects of private tutoring intervention on students’ academic achievement: A systematic review based on a three-level meta-analysis model and robust variance estimation method	4
On saying “enough”: Decolonizing subjectivities in English language learning	4
Does the relationship between competitiveness and student achievement vary based on the culture of competitiveness? Evidence from PISA 2018	4
Students’ perceptions of meaningful intercultural encounters and long-term learning from a school story exchange	4
Unravelling the persistent school access gap in Cameroon: Which factors matter?	4
Do teachers compensate for or compound disparities in academic achievement?	4
Understanding self-regulated learning through the lens of motivation: Motivational regulation strategies vary with students’ motives	4
Occupational classes and inequality in educational expenditures: Reproduction of social hierarchy through school education	4
Development of drama into teacher identity: Exchanges and experiences of English teachers	4
Impact of a Social-emotional Skills-Building Program (Pisotón) on Early Development of Children in Colombia: A Pilot Effectiveness Study	4
Editorial Board	4
Exploring the impact of an English talent program on college students' language proficiency: A mixed-methods study	4
Exploring parental perspectives and engagement in shared reading with digital books: A comparison of urban and rural Chinese families during the Covid-19 pandemic	4
The potential solutions to the challenges faced by leaders of small schools in the UK: A systematic review	4
Exploring the transition challenges of first-year College of Business students in Fiji	4
The effects of motivational and metacognitive variables on immigrant and non-immigrant students’ reading achievement	4
Teaching insertion policies in Mexico: Cognitive tools and ideological vindication	4
How do mathematics interest and self-efficacy influence coding interest and self-efficacy? A structural equation modeling analysis	4
Responding to change: How was school leadership distributed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic? School leader perspectives in Kuwait	4
Engagement with a formative assessment rubric: A case of mathematical reasoning	4
A systematic review of the impact of precision teaching and fluency-building on teaching children diagnosed with autism	4
Learning with serious games in economics education a systematic review of the effectiveness of game-based learning in upper secondary and higher education	4
Evolution to revolution: Critical exploration of educators’ perceptions of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the teaching and learning process in the GCC region	4
Comparing tablet and print mode of a german reading comprehension test in grade 3: Influence of test order, gender and language	4
The impact of open educational resources on student achievement: A meta-analysis	4
School autonomy policies lead to increases in principal autonomy and job satisfaction	4