OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of School Effectiveness and School Improvement is 3. 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
Identifying the characteristics of effective teacher professional development: a critical review	71
Teacher and school determinants of teacher job satisfaction: a multilevel analysis	47
Did students learn less during the COVID-19 pandemic? Reading and mathematics competencies before and after the first pandemic wave	43
Does school leadership matter for teachers’ classroom practice? The influence of instructional leadership and distributed leadership on instructional quality	36
The effects of distributed leadership and inquiry-based work on primary teachers’ capacity to change: testing a model	25
Are professional learning communities beneficial for teachers? A multilevel analysis of teacher self-efficacy and commitment in China	23
Observed teaching behaviour in secondary education across six countries: measurement invariance and indication of cross-national variations	20
Teacher collaboration as a core objective of school development	17
Enhancing the sustainability of school improvement initiatives	16
Organizational characteristics of successful and failing schools: a theoretical framework for explaining variation in student achievement	12
Is the school context associated with instructional quality? The effects of social composition, leadership, teacher collaboration, and school climate	12
Does school climate that includes students’ views deliver academic achievement? A multilevel meta-analysis	11
To what extent are characteristics of a school’s student body, instructional quality, school quality, and school achievement interrelated?	10
The participant effects of private school vouchers around the globe: a meta-analytic and systematic review	9
Mapping teacher collaboration for school success	9
To what extent is shared instructional leadership related to teacher self-efficacy and student academic performance in China?	9
Factors related to differences in digitally measured student perceptions of teaching quality	8
Tools of the trade: a look at educators’ use of assessment systems	8
Disciplinary climate, opportunity to learn, and mathematics achievement: an analysis using doubly latent multilevel structural equation modeling	7
Fostering sustained teacher learning: a longitudinal assessment of the influence of vision building and goal interdependence on information sharing	7
Determinants of teachers’ feedback acceptance during a school inspection visit	6
Unravelling the challenges of the data-based approach to teaching improvement	6
The effects of school choice on mental health	6
Do single-sex schools help Australians major in STEMM at university?	6
Testing the predictive power of an instrument titled “Orientation to School Renewal”	5

School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: exploring implications for performance monitoring and accountability	5
Promoting primary school pupils’ language achievement: investigating the impact of school-based language policies	5
The impact of schools as learning organisations on teachers’ self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a cross-country analysis	5
Examining the contextual factors of science effectiveness: a machine learning-based approach	5
Do you reap what you sow? The relationship between primary school students’ self-regulated learning and student, teacher, and school determinants	5
Back on track? How civic learning opportunities widen the political knowledge gap in a tracked education system	5
Variation, context, and inequality: comparing models of school effectiveness in two states in India	4
A comparison of value-added models for school accountability	4
Capturing quality. Educational quality in secondary analyses of international large-scale assessments: a systematic review	4
The effects of early between-school tracking on gender segregation and gender gaps in achievement: a differences-in-differences study	4
Testing the dynamic model of educational effectiveness: the impact of teacher factors on interest and achievement in mathematics and biology in Serbia	4
Does the quality of school instruction relate to the use of additional tutoring in science? Comparative analysis of five post-socialist countries	4
Does the duration of school interventions matter? The effectiveness and sustainability of using the dynamic approach to promote quality and equity	4
Principal support, professional learning community, and group-level teacher expectations	4
Country and school family composition’s effects on mathematics achievement	4
The contributions of school and classroom climate to mathematics test scores: a three-level analysis	4
The implementation and potential effects of teacher evaluation under local control	3
Responses to positive and negative feedback on organizational aspects of school quality: teachers’ and leaders’ views on a Swiss traffic light approach to school inspection	3
Supporting school leaders to become more effective in leading reading improvements	3
Constructs of leadership and diverging institutional environments: an exploratory comparative study in the United States and Germany	3
The impact of an assessment for learning teacher professional development program on students’ metacognition	3
Data use processes in rural schools: management structures undermining leadership opportunities and instructional change	3
Assessing the impact of collaborative inquiry on teacher performance and effectiveness	3