OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of School Effectiveness and School Improvement 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Did students learn less during the COVID-19 pandemic? Reading and mathematics competencies before and after the first pandemic wave	56
Does school leadership matter for teachers’ classroom practice? The influence of instructional leadership and distributed leadership on instructional quality	48
Are professional learning communities beneficial for teachers? A multilevel analysis of teacher self-efficacy and commitment in China	25
Is the school context associated with instructional quality? The effects of social composition, leadership, teacher collaboration, and school climate	20
Organizational characteristics of successful and failing schools: a theoretical framework for explaining variation in student achievement	19
Does school climate that includes students’ views deliver academic achievement? A multilevel meta-analysis	15
Mapping teacher collaboration for school success	15
The participant effects of private school vouchers around the globe: a meta-analytic and systematic review	13
To what extent is shared instructional leadership related to teacher self-efficacy and student academic performance in China?	10
Factors related to differences in digitally measured student perceptions of teaching quality	10
Disciplinary climate, opportunity to learn, and mathematics achievement: an analysis using doubly latent multilevel structural equation modeling	8
Back on track? How civic learning opportunities widen the political knowledge gap in a tracked education system	7
The impact of schools as learning organisations on teachers’ self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a cross-country analysis	6
Assessing the impact of collaborative inquiry on teacher performance and effectiveness	6
Promoting primary school pupils’ language achievement: investigating the impact of school-based language policies	6
School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: exploring implications for performance monitoring and accountability	6
The effects of school choice on mental health	6
Unravelling the challenges of the data-based approach to teaching improvement	6
The overwhelming importance of prior achievement when assessing school effects: evidence from the Australian national assessments	5
Investigating differential teacher effectiveness: searching for the impact of classroom context factors	5
The effects of early between-school tracking on gender segregation and gender gaps in achievement: a differences-in-differences study	5
Examining the contextual factors of science effectiveness: a machine learning-based approach	5
A focus on students’ and teachers’ learning through strategic human resource management	5
The impact of an assessment for learning teacher professional development program on students’ metacognition	5
Country and school family composition’s effects on mathematics achievement	5

The contributions of school and classroom climate to mathematics test scores: a three-level analysis	5
A comparison of value-added models for school accountability	4
Teachers’ perception of the characteristics of an evidence-informed school: initiative, supportive culture, and shared reflection	4
Testing the dynamic model of educational effectiveness: the impact of teacher factors on interest and achievement in mathematics and biology in Serbia	4
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	4
Does the duration of school interventions matter? The effectiveness and sustainability of using the dynamic approach to promote quality and equity	4
Variation, context, and inequality: comparing models of school effectiveness in two states in India	4
Positive education in daily teaching, the promotion of wellbeing, and engagement in a whole school approach: a clustered quasi-experimental trial	4
Capturing quality. Educational quality in secondary analyses of international large-scale assessments: a systematic review	4
Effects of school-wide positive behavior support in Denmark: results from the Danish National Register data	4
The school matters: Hong Kong secondary schools’ grade-retention composition, students’ educational performance, and educational inequality	3
Supporting school leaders to become more effective in leading reading improvements	3
Ethical implications of TIMSS findings: an integrative model of student achievement	3
Are some school inspectors more lenient than others?	3
Principal self-efficacy and school climate as antecedents of collective teacher efficacy	3
Are class size and teacher characteristics associated with cognitive outcomes in early grades?	3
Constructs of leadership and diverging institutional environments: an exploratory comparative study in the United States and Germany	3
School turnaround through network governance: the role of turnaround schools in China’s Shanghai City	3
The implementation and potential effects of teacher evaluation under local control	3
Sustaining school improvement initiatives: advice from educational leaders	3
Data use processes in rural schools: management structures undermining leadership opportunities and instructional change	2
Principals’ severity affects teacher evaluation: statistical adjustments mitigate effects	2
Board effectiveness and school performance: a study of Australian independent schools	2
The stimulation of school improvement processes: the orientation of development perspectives	2
Measuring social marginalisation: using SEM to uncover essential social factors underlying social marginalisation in public schools	2
Beating the school discipline odds: conceptualizing and examining inclusive disciplinary schools in New York City	2
The effectiveness of alternative education: a comparison between primary Dalton schools and traditional schools on outcomes of schooling	2
The effect of different teacher literacy training programmes on student’s word reading abilities in government primary schools in Northern Nigeria	2