OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of School Effectiveness and School Improvement is 5. 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 effects of school choice on mental health	6
Unravelling the challenges of the data-based approach to teaching improvement	6
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 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
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

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