OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Assessment in Education-Principles Policy & Practice 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
More is not always better: the nonlinear relationship between formative assessment strategies and reading achievement	32
Oral exams in four Norwegian secondary schools – characteristics and variations in practice and possible threats to validity and fairness	22
Lower secondary school teachers’ arguments on the use of a 26-point grading scale and gender differences in use and perceptions	16
Rethinking equity and assessment through opportunity to learn	15
Who responds inconsistently to mixed-worded scales? Differences by achievement, age group, and gender	13
High stakes assessment in the era of COVID-19: interruption, transformation, regression or business as usual?	13
Assessment quality	11
Friendship bias in peer assessment of EFL oral presentations	10
Assessing fairness in selection toward applicants who request accommodations in higher education admissions tests	9
Numeracy across grades – vertically scaling the Norwegian national numeracy tests	9
COVID-19 impact on high stakes assessment: a New Zealand journey of collaborative adaptation amidst disruption	9
Estimating sub-domain scores within national assessments. A case study using the Key Stage 2 statutory mathematics test in England	8
Using rubrics for formative purposes: identifying factors that may affect the success of rubric implementations	8
Exploring the roles of academic self-concept and perseverance of effort in self-assessment practices	8
Development of the measure of assessment self-efficacy (MASE) for quizzes and exams	7
Anchored in praise? Potential manifestation of the anchoring bias in feedback reception	7
A self-feedback model (SEFEMO): secondary and higher education students’ self-assessment profiles	6
How curriculum and assessment policies affect the role of reading in an assessment culture: a New Zealand case study	6
Educational assessment in Ghana: The influence of historical colonization and political accountability	6
Examining grading purpose and practices: A multivariate analysis of secondary stakeholder perceptions	6
Exploring the potential of exit tickets as formative assessments of student affect	6
The Future of Educational Assessment: Self-assessment, Grit and ChatGPT?	6
Critiquing the rationales for using comparative judgement: a call for clarity	5
Standardised Assessment in Irish Primary Schools: Teachers' Views on Purpose, Pressure and Practice	5
Policy and practice in relation to external moderation of school-based assessment in 13 examination systems internationally	5

Assessment ecosystems	5
Current controversies in educational assessment	5
Classroom assessment in secondary schools in Ethiopia: teachers’ attitudes, perceived practices, and challenges	5
Measurement error in pre-school children’s emerging knowledge and skills. A case study from the UK	5
Examining the process of developing evaluative judgement in Japanese elementary schools—utilising the co-regulation and evaluative judgement model	5
The importance of community in assessment	5
Authentic assessment training for university teachers	5
Factors affecting students’ performance on national assessments of mathematics in Italy: a random forest approach	5
Searching students’ reflective writing for linguistic correlates of their tendency to ignore instructors’ feedback	5
New national tests for the Danish public school system – Tensions between renewal and orthodoxy before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Unpacking teachers’ assessment conceptions and practices in post-colonial contexts	4
Assessment is contagious: the social contagion of formative assessment practices and self-efficacy among teachers	4
An implementation of argument-based validation for assessing college major preferences with a hybrid of Likert-rating and forced-choice formats	4
Moderation of non-exam assessments: a novel approach using comparative judgement	4
Impact of self-construal on rater severity in peer assessments of oral presentations	4
Equal opportunity or unfair advantage? The impact of test accommodations on performance in high-stakes assessments	4
EduSEL-R – the refined educators’ social-emotional learning questionnaire: expanded scope and improved validity	3
Feedback practices and transparency in data analysis	3
Reconceptualising student feedback agency from a social cognitive perspective	3
Overclaiming. An international investigation using PISA data	3
Perceived fairness of exam accommodations for students with special educational needs	3
Exploring self-assessment practices and learning approaches in science among upper secondary students	3
Relationship between formative assessment practices and students’ academic achievement: the mediating role of student engagement	3
Cultivating realistic self-appraisal: examining student overclaiming and fair assessment through PISA and classroom data	3
Principals’ implementation of teacher evaluation and its relationship to intended purpose, perceived benefits, training and background variables	3
Benchmark rating procedure, best of both worlds? Comparing procedures to rate text quality in a reliable and valid manner	3
Student views on the assessment medium for General Certificates of Secondary Education in England: insights from the 2020 examination cancellations	3
Student self-assessment: a meta-review of five decades of research	3
Pre-service and in-service assessment training: impacts on elementary teachers’ self-efficacy, attitudes, and data-driven decision making practice	2
Insight from research across the world: examining student responses, assessment practices, and feedback engagement	2
Exploring students’ receptivity to feedback: A latent profile analysis	2
Urban–rural inequality and over-grading in Romanian schools	2
The blind side: Exploring item variance in PISA 2018 cognitive domains	2
The appliance of science: exploring the use of context in reformed GCSE science examinations	2
The validity of the assessment for learning measurement instrument for Ethiopian middle school mathematics teachers	2
The Education and Assessment System in Lithuania	2
Assessing writing quality using crowdsourced non-expert comparative judgement ratings	2