AERA Open

Papers
(The median citation count of AERA Open 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Gender Differences in Leadership Aspirations: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study of College Students From Adverse Backgrounds46
Do Dual Enrollment Students Realize Better Long-Term Earnings? Variations in Financial Outcomes Among Key Student Groups in Texas45
Measuring Self-Efficacy for Equity-Centered Teaching: A Scale Development and Evaluation Study42
Tracing the Impact of COVID-19 on Early Language and Literacy Development from Pre-K Through First Grade39
Equity Intersections: Teachers’ Experiences with Student Wellness Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic36
The Geography of Principal Internships in North Carolina32
Epistemic Carcerality and Resistance in Higher Education32
Inside the Black Box of Divisive Concepts and Difficult History: Introducing a Typology of Collective Trauma in Social Studies Education30
Initial Implementation Outcomes for Scripted and Adaptive Versions of the Developing Talkers Read-Aloud Curricula for Kindergarten and Grade 1 Teachers29
How and Why Teachers Taught About the 2020 U.S. Election: An Analysis of Survey Responses From Twelve States28
Instruction Increases Canadian Students’ Preference for and Use of Lateral Reading Strategies to Fact-Check Online Information23
The Front End of the CTE Teacher Pipeline: Characterizing the Prior Work Experiences of CTE Teachers19
Toward Dissolving the Institutionalization of “Othering”: Organizational Conditions that Support Shared Responsibility18
The Holistic Capital Model: Time and Body Capital as Sources of Inequity17
Critical Quantitative Literacy: An Educational Foundation for Critical Quantitative Research16
Examining the Effects of Differential Tuition Policies on Bachelor’s Degree Completions16
Leveraging Research and Demanding Proof In Response To Legislative Attacks on DEI in U.S. Higher Education16
Cross-national Differences in Socioeconomic Achievement Inequality in Early Primary School: The Role of Parental Education and Income in Six Countries15
A Holistic Examination of How Professional Learning and Curriculum Relate to Ambitious and Culturally Relevant Instruction and Student Engagement15
Examining Enactments of Project-based Learning in Secondary English Language Arts15
Complicating “Statistical Soundness”: How States Legitimize Subgroup Composition and N-Size Decisions in ESSA Plans14
Estimating the Impact of Integrated Student Support on Elementary School Achievement: A Natural Experiment14
Silent Covenants and Structural Barriers: State Standards Committees and the Maintenance of Race-Evasive Social Studies Standards14
Universal Pre-K and College Enrollment: Is There a Link?14
What Matters and for Whom? Exploring Characteristics of Teacher Residency Programs and Their Relationship to Participant Perceptions13
The Financial Needs of Students in Community College Promise Programs13
Artful Approaches for the Study of Multiracial Student Experiences: Not Artifact, But Aperture13
The (Conference) Room Where it Happens: Explaining Disproportional Representation in Gifted and Talented Education13
Ties in Tumultuous Times: Educators’ Workplace Relationships as the Intersection of People, Policy, and Politics12
Linking Student Absenteeism on Different Weekdays to Student Achievement12
What Does ESL Mean to Her? An Analysis of Women of Color Recounting Their Attempts to Exit EL Instructional Services12
Enrollment Practices in Early Education Centers: Examining Implementation in the Arkansas State Pre-K Program12
The Right to Belong in School: A Critical, Transdisciplinary Conceptualization of School Belonging12
The Effects of School Finance Reforms on Teacher Salary and Turnover: Evidence from National Data11
Understanding the Landscape of Rural Racial Achievement Gaps: Locale, Race, and Achievement Gaps11
Promises and Limitations in District Digital Capacity for Education During COVID-1910
Examining the Mixed-Delivery System During Pre-K Expansion in North Carolina10
Career and Technical Education at Community Colleges: A Review of the Literature10
Teacher Use of an Online Platform to Support Independent Practice in Middle School Mathematics During COVID-19 Disruptions10
Money Isn’t Free: A Systematic Content Analysis of Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges Title V Awardees Proposals10
Are Teachers Satisfied With Their Evaluations? The Importance of Teaching Context and Trends Over Time9
The Effects of High-Impact Tutoring on Student Attendance: Evidence From a State Initiative9
Test Score Outcomes of Native American Students: A Large Empirical Analysis from Oklahoma9
A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence Linking Mathematics and Science Professional Development Interventions to Teacher Knowledge, Classroom Instruction, and Student Achievement9
Writing About Educational Research Related to Research–Practice Partnerships9
Exploring Patterns of Absenteeism from Prekindergarten Through Early Elementary School and Their Associations With Children’s Academic Outcomes8
Effects of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program on Public School Students’ Achievement and Graduation Rates8
Revisiting Evidence on the Role of Funding Adequacy in School Reopening During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Response to Weber and Baker8
What Are Literacy Researchers Telling Public Audiences? An Analysis of Researcher Interviews Via a Scholarly Podcast8
Living in the Big Pond: Adding the Neighborhood as a Frame of Reference for Academic Self-Concept Formation8
Relational Rhythms: Investigating Longitudinal Advice Networks of a Leadership Team During Reform8
Undergraduate Research Experience, Graduate School Choice, and Expected and Unanticipated Transitions to and through Graduate School8
Seeking Direct Accountability for Disproportionate Discipline and Dis/ability Classification8
IELTS and Written Syntactic Complexity as Predictors of GPA of Multilingual International Graduate Students8
Bureaucratic Representation May Lead to Less Discriminatory Outcomes for American Indian and Two-Spirit Youth: Evidence from an Online Experiment on School Criminalization8
A Bad Commute: Travel Time to Work Predicts Teacher Turnover and Other Workplace Outcomes7
Principal and Teacher Shared Race and Gender Intersections: Teacher Turnover, Workplace Conditions, and Monetary Benefits7
Reviewer Acknowledgments 20257
Where Does Data Science Live in High School Curricular Standards?7
Improving the Design of Evaluations that Include Students, Teachers, and Schools: An Empirical Investigation of Key Design Parameters7
Development and Initial Validation of the Transformative Justice Scale: Assessing Teachers’ Capacity for Transformative Practices in Education7
Leveraging Quarterly Workforce Indicators to Analyze K–12 Education Labor Market Dynamics: Inequitable Trends in Turnover7
“Kids Have Taught Me. I Listen to Them”: Principals Legitimizing Student Voice in Their Leadership7
The Short-Term Effects of the Shift From Prior-Year to Current-Year Enrollment on School Inputs in Arizona7
Causal Stories and Problem Definitions: How Policymakers and Superintendents Frame School Turnaround6
Do Teachers Feel Valued in Society? Occupational Value of the Teaching Profession in OECD Countries6
Hiring Under Constraint: How School Administrators Perceive and Respond to Centralized Screening by the District6
The Politics of Belonging and Implications for School Organization: Autophotographic Perspectives on “Fitting In” at School6
It’s About Time, Part II: Does Time Poverty Contribute to Inequitable College Outcomes by Gender and Race/Ethnicity?6
Are Community-College Students Increasingly Choosing High-Paying Fields of Study? Evidence from Massachusetts6
Moderating Role of Race/Ethnicity on Associations Between Externalizing Behavior Ratings and School Suspensions6
Career and Technical Education Alignment Across Five States6
Cross-National Comparison of the Relative Size of Lower-Tail and Upper-Tail SES Achievement Gaps6
What Do We Know About the Extent of Teacher Shortages Nationwide? A Systematic Examination of Reports of U.S. Teacher Shortages6
Undergraduate Grading Practices of International and Domestic Faculty: Evidence From Three Large U.S. Public Universities6
Envisioning Transbordered Algorithmic Identities Across African and Asian Immigrants’ Digital Narratives6
A Meta-Review of Education Meta-Analyses: Relevance, Applicability, and Accessibility of Findings6
Exploring Culturally Sustaining Onto-Epistemologies of Teaching Artists in a Multigenerational Learning Community5
Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Among Early Educators5
The “Good” Schools: Academic Performance Data, School Choice, and Segregation5
The Impact and Implementation of Academic Interventions During COVID-19: Evidence from the Road to Recovery Project5
Multilingual Learners and Elementary Science Achievement: Exploring Trends and Heterogeneity Across Subgroups5
Disruptiveness of COVID-19: Differences in Course Engagement, Self-Appraisal, and Learning5
Weighing Risks: How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During COVID-195
Civic Online Reasoning Across the Curriculum: Developing and Testing the Efficacy of Digital Literacy Lessons5
Item Orientation as a Confound in Epistemology Scales5
Adolescent Exposure to Restorative Practices and Their Perceptions of Support, Structure, and Bullying in the School Climate5
School Accountability, Underfunding, and Inefficiency5
Reviewer Acknowledgments5
Methodological Complexity: A Both/And Approach to Address Tool Validity and Reliability for Assessment of Cultural Responsiveness in Indigenous Serving Schools5
Middle and High School Teachers’ Perceived Expertise and Needs in Disciplinary Literacy5
On the Interplay of Motivational Characteristics and Academic Achievement: The Role of Need for Cognition5
School Climate, Teacher Characteristics, and School Discipline: Evidence From New York City5
Admissions, Organization, Culture, and Policy: Understanding the Postsecondary Structures that Shape Women’s Entry into Computing Bachelor’s Programs4
Does School Funding Matter in a Pandemic? COVID-19 Instructional Models and School Funding Adequacy4
Emotion-Focused Teaching Differs Across Preschool Activity Settings4
Policy and Place: Immigration, Schooling, and the Local Context4
Exploring Whether and How Teacher Residencies Offer a Different Kind of Preparation4
Trends in Parents’ Time Investment at Children’s Schools During a Period of Economic Change4
Teaching Anxiety in Mathematics: Associations with Teacher Agency and Communion in Teacher-Student Dyads4
Reliability of ChatGPT’s Scoring and Actionability of Its Feedback in IELTS Writing Preparation Classrooms: Teacher and Student Acceptance in China4
Teacher Beliefs About Race, Empathy, and Black Boys: S-TEAAM 2.04
Uncovering the Connections Among Rural Science Teachers: A Social Network Analysis4
Pathways into the CTE Teaching Profession: A Descriptive Analysis of Degrees, Licenses, and Race in Maryland4
Unintended Consequences of Teacher Autonomy and Principal Leadership: Evidence from Teacher–Parent Communication and Teacher Well-Being4
Investigating Data Sharing Practices in Teaching Effectiveness Research4
Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Spanish–English Emergent Bilinguals’ Language Development and Experiences4
Reviewer Acknowledgments4
Unintended Consequences of Expanding Teacher Preparation Pathways: Does Alternative Licensure Attenuate New Teacher Pay?4
The Geography of Mathematical (Dis)Advantage: An Application of Multilevel Simultaneous Autoregressive (MSAR) Models to Public Data in Education Research4
Mathematics Motivation and Mathematics Performance: Does Gender Play a Role?4
Inequality at the Starting Line: Underrepresentation in Gifted Identification and Disparities in Early Achievement4
Major Selection as Iteration: Observing Gendered Patterns of Major Selection Under Elective Curriculums4
Superintendent Turnover and Retention: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Leavers and Stayers In Rural Districts4
Affirming and Extending Professional Visions of Equitable Teaching: Managing Dilemmas in Teacher-Researcher Collaboration4
Contextualized High School Performance: Evidence to Inform Equitable Holistic, Test-Optional, and Test-Free Admissions Policies3
Designing Field Experiments to Integrate Research on Costs3
Making Sense of Segregation: Asian American Youth Perspectives3
Racial Category Usage in Education Research: Examining the Publications from AERA Journals3
High School Math Course-Taking: Shifts in Access and Achievement Post-COVID-193
Addressing Threats to Validity in Supervised Machine Learning: A Framework and Best Practices for Education Researchers3
Effects of the 5E Instructional Model: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis3
Getting Back to “Traditional” Education: Racialized Norms in School Governance3
Unpacking Students’ Language, Literacy, Math, and Executive Functioning Growth Across 2 Years of Prekindergarten3
From School to School: Examining the Contours of Within-Field Switching in the Special Education Teacher Labor Market3
De Facto Suspensions: Informal Exclusionary Discipline Practices in Public Preschool and Early Elementary Settings3
An Exploration of Teacher Sense-Making Around Whiteness During a Critical Professional Development Course3
The Black Teacher Pipeline: Insights From a State Longitudinal Data System3
The Choice-in-Context Model: An Interdisciplinary Theory of Decision-Making in School Choice Contexts3
Erratum to “Early Avenues of the Afterlife : Antiblackness in K–12 School Discipline Post- Brown3
Enhancing Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences With Large Language Models (LLMs): A Methodological Case Study in Educational Research3
Metropolitan, Urban, and Rural Regions: How Regional Differences Affect Elementary School Students in Germany3
Predictive Validity of the Algebra Concept Inventory (ACI): The Importance of Algebraic Conceptual Understanding to College Math and STEM Outcomes3
Getting It “Right”: Educators’ Experiences With School Diversity in a Gentrifying Neighborhood3
Building a Stronger Case for Independent Reading at School3
Advancing “Intersectional Servingness” in Research, Practice, and Policy With Hispanic-Serving Institutions3
Navigating Higher Education “Nontraditionally”: Opportunities and Obstacles in Post-Traditional College Pathways to the Baccalaureate3
Evaluating Program Enhancement Strategies for Remedial Tutoring: A Cluster-Randomized Control Trial With Syrian Refugee Students in Lebanon3
“More About the Neighborhood Than the School”: Leveraging “Don’t Know” Survey Responses to Probe Parental Evaluations of School Safety3
Constructing Dominant Narratives: Twitter, Public Discourse, and the Politics of an Educational Organization in Controversy3
Exploring Prospective Teachers’ Intentions for Artificial Intelligence Integration in Education: The Role of Motivation3
Strengthening Education Research Publications Through Open, Principled, and Pragmatic Experimentation: AERA Open Editors’ Vision Statement 2025–20273
Role of the Policy Environment in Shaping the Work of Professional Learning Partnerships3
The Impact of Early Colleges on Postsecondary Performance and Completion3
Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching, Geography, and Novice Teacher Career Outcomes3
From Deficit to Difference: Understanding the Relationship Between K–12 Teacher Training and Disability Discussion3
Black Children’s Refusal in a “Hege-Mindful” World3
Testing a Holistic Framework of Early Care and Education and K–12 Leaders’ Working Conditions and Well-Being3
Classroom Segregation without Tracking: Chance, Legitimacy, and Myth in “Racial Paradise”3
Understanding the Nature and Correlates of Students’ Heterogeneous Perceptions of Opportunities for Deeper Learning3
Behavior Change in Educational Technology Adoption: Insights From a Three-Year Case Study in Lesotho3
Earning to Learn: Working While Enrolled in Tennessee Colleges and Universities3
The Alignment of P–3 Math Instruction2
Navigating the Politics of Race, Research, and Role in a University-School District Research-Practice Partnership2
Reorienting to Organizational Climate in Engineering Doctoral Education: An Integrative Framework and Meta-Synthesis2
Access, Supports, and Performance in Dual Enrollment: A COVID-19 Case’s Implications for Equity2
Exploring the Principal’s Role in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Sensemaking and Politics in a High-Performing Early College High School2
Head Start, Household Instability, and Children’s Externalizing Behavior Problems2
Inside the Black Box: Detecting and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias Across Racialized Groups in College Student-Success Prediction2
A Longitudinal Portrait of California’s Kindergarten English Learners & Their Learning Outcomes2
Swimming in the Deep End: School Board Members Making Sense of Their Roles and Responsibilities2
Bridging the Gap Between Imagined and Plausible Futures for Refugees: What Students Wish Their Teachers Knew2
Unpacking Relational Trust Mechanisms in Teacher-Researcher Co-Design Partnerships: Insights from a Case Study2
High Turnover With Low Accountability: Local School Board Elections in 16 States2
Where There Is No Equity Engine: Unequal Geographies of College Success for Low-Income Students2
Consequential Intersections: Examining Equity Expressions and Experiences Within Special Education Ecosystems2
Unapologetically Disrupting Systemic Inequities Impacting Black Youth: CBES Leaders Navigating Insider–Outsider Roles in School Partnership2
Validating Classrooms: Teaching Strategies to Advance Equity in Developmental Education2
Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions of Mixed Reality Simulations: Variations by Task, Support, and Mode of Delivery2
Bowing to External Pressures: How the Threat of Lawsuits Dilutes Bias Response in Higher Education2
The Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement, Pre- and Post-COVID2
The Missing Middle? General and Special Educators’ Views of Effective Mathematics Instruction2
Differential Prediction for Disadvantaged Students and Schools: The Role of High School Characteristics2
The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers’ Leave Decisions and Well-Being Following a Miscarriage2
Boards in the Balance: Governing Higher Education Amid Anti-DEI Policy2
Inequitable Interactions: A Critical Quantitative Analysis of Mentorship and Psychosocial Development Within Computing Graduate School Pathways2
(No) Common Time: High School Teachers’ Collaboration During a Pandemic and Beyond2
Collective Teacher Efficacy and Its Enabling Conditions: A Proposed Framework for Influencing Collective Efficacy in Schools2
Postdoctoral of Color Racialized Agency Toward Tenure-Track Careers2
Leading During Crisis: State and Local Education Leaders’ Equity Focused Approaches During the COVID-19 Pandemic2
No Matter How You Slice It, Black Students Are Punished More: The Persistence and Pervasiveness of Discipline Disparities2
Racial Economic Segregation across U.S. Public Schools, 1991–20222
A Novel Approach for Evaluating a Schoolwide Antiracist Curriculum Intervention2
U.S. Ninth Graders’ Math Course Placement at the Intersection of Learning Disability Status, Race, and Socioeconomic Status2
Teachers’ Knowledge and Preparedness for Retirement: Results From a Nationally Representative Teacher Survey2
Same Major, Different Peers: Gender Sorting Across and Within Majors2
Protest and Resistance: Conceptualizing a Blackamerican Institutional Schema and the Contemporary Relevance of Pre- Brown Educators2
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