AERA Open

Papers
(The median citation count of AERA Open is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring Gender Differences in Leadership Aspirations: A Four-Year Longitudinal Study of College Students From Adverse Backgrounds41
The Geography of Principal Internships in North Carolina41
Do Dual Enrollment Students Realize Better Long-Term Earnings? Variations in Financial Outcomes Among Key Student Groups in Texas40
Measuring Self-Efficacy for Equity-Centered Teaching: A Scale Development and Evaluation Study33
Tracing the Impact of COVID-19 on Early Language and Literacy Development from Pre-K Through First Grade32
Equity Intersections: Teachers’ Experiences with Student Wellness Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic30
Epistemic Carcerality and Resistance in Higher Education29
Examining Enactments of Project-based Learning in Secondary English Language Arts27
Inside the Black Box of Divisive Concepts and Difficult History: Introducing a Typology of Collective Trauma in Social Studies Education24
Initial Implementation Outcomes for Scripted and Adaptive Versions of the Developing Talkers Read-Aloud Curricula for Kindergarten and Grade 1 Teachers23
Cross-national Differences in Socioeconomic Achievement Inequality in Early Primary School: The Role of Parental Education and Income in Six Countries21
Critical Quantitative Literacy: An Educational Foundation for Critical Quantitative Research19
How and Why Teachers Taught About the 2020 U.S. Election: An Analysis of Survey Responses From Twelve States16
The Holistic Capital Model: Time and Body Capital as Sources of Inequity15
Leveraging Research and Demanding Proof In Response To Legislative Attacks on DEI in U.S. Higher Education15
Examining the Effects of Differential Tuition Policies on Bachelor’s Degree Completions15
Toward Dissolving the Institutionalization of “Othering”: Organizational Conditions that Support Shared Responsibility15
The (Conference) Room Where it Happens: Explaining Disproportional Representation in Gifted and Talented Education13
Complicating “Statistical Soundness”: How States Legitimize Subgroup Composition and N-Size Decisions in ESSA Plans13
Estimating the Impact of Integrated Student Support on Elementary School Achievement: A Natural Experiment13
The Front End of the CTE Teacher Pipeline: Characterizing the Prior Work Experiences of CTE Teachers13
The Financial Needs of Students in Community College Promise Programs13
Enrollment Practices in Early Education Centers: Examining Implementation in the Arkansas State Pre-K Program13
Instruction Increases Canadian Students’ Preference for and Use of Lateral Reading Strategies to Fact-Check Online Information13
What Matters and for Whom? Exploring Characteristics of Teacher Residency Programs and Their Relationship to Participant Perceptions12
Linking Student Absenteeism on Different Weekdays to Student Achievement12
A Holistic Examination of How Professional Learning and Curriculum Relate to Ambitious and Culturally Relevant Instruction and Student Engagement12
Silent Covenants and Structural Barriers: State Standards Committees and the Maintenance of Race-Evasive Social Studies Standards12
Artful Approaches for the Study of Multiracial Student Experiences: Not Artifact, But Aperture11
What Does ESL Mean to Her? An Analysis of Women of Color Recounting Their Attempts to Exit EL Instructional Services11
Ties in Tumultuous Times: Educators’ Workplace Relationships as the Intersection of People, Policy, and Politics11
Career and Technical Education at Community Colleges: A Review of the Literature10
Universal Pre-K and College Enrollment: Is There a Link?10
Are Teachers Satisfied With Their Evaluations? The Importance of Teaching Context and Trends Over Time10
The Right to Belong in School: A Critical, Transdisciplinary Conceptualization of School Belonging10
Teacher Use of an Online Platform to Support Independent Practice in Middle School Mathematics During COVID-19 Disruptions9
Money Isn’t Free: A Systematic Content Analysis of Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges Title V Awardees Proposals9
Promises and Limitations in District Digital Capacity for Education During COVID-199
The Effects of School Finance Reforms on Teacher Salary and Turnover: Evidence from National Data9
Writing About Educational Research Related to Research–Practice Partnerships8
Revisiting Evidence on the Role of Funding Adequacy in School Reopening During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Response to Weber and Baker8
A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence Linking Mathematics and Science Professional Development Interventions to Teacher Knowledge, Classroom Instruction, and Student Achievement8
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
Bureaucratic Representation May Lead to Less Discriminatory Outcomes for American Indian and Two-Spirit Youth: Evidence from an Online Experiment on School Criminalization8
Exploring Patterns of Absenteeism from Prekindergarten Through Early Elementary School and Their Associations With Children’s Academic Outcomes7
Living in the Big Pond: Adding the Neighborhood as a Frame of Reference for Academic Self-Concept Formation7
What Are Literacy Researchers Telling Public Audiences? An Analysis of Researcher Interviews Via a Scholarly Podcast7
Seeking Direct Accountability for Disproportionate Discipline and Dis/ability Classification7
Effects of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program on Public School Students’ Achievement and Graduation Rates7
A Bad Commute: Travel Time to Work Predicts Teacher Turnover and Other Workplace Outcomes7
Test Score Outcomes of Native American Students: A Large Empirical Analysis from Oklahoma7
IELTS and Written Syntactic Complexity as Predictors of GPA of Multilingual International Graduate Students7
Improving the Design of Evaluations that Include Students, Teachers, and Schools: An Empirical Investigation of Key Design Parameters7
Leveraging Quarterly Workforce Indicators to Analyze K–12 Education Labor Market Dynamics: Inequitable Trends in Turnover7
The Effects of High-Impact Tutoring on Student Attendance: Evidence From a State Initiative6
“Kids Have Taught Me. I Listen to Them”: Principals Legitimizing Student Voice in Their Leadership6
What Do We Know About the Extent of Teacher Shortages Nationwide? A Systematic Examination of Reports of U.S. Teacher Shortages6
Development and Initial Validation of the Transformative Justice Scale: Assessing Teachers’ Capacity for Transformative Practices in Education6
Principal and Teacher Shared Race and Gender Intersections: Teacher Turnover, Workplace Conditions, and Monetary Benefits6
Are Community-College Students Increasingly Choosing High-Paying Fields of Study? Evidence from Massachusetts6
Reviewer Acknowledgments 20256
Do Teachers Feel Valued in Society? Occupational Value of the Teaching Profession in OECD Countries6
The Short-Term Effects of the Shift From Prior-Year to Current-Year Enrollment on School Inputs in Arizona6
Causal Stories and Problem Definitions: How Policymakers and Superintendents Frame School Turnaround5
Civic Online Reasoning Across the Curriculum: Developing and Testing the Efficacy of Digital Literacy Lessons5
Middle and High School Teachers’ Perceived Expertise and Needs in Disciplinary Literacy5
Undergraduate Grading Practices of International and Domestic Faculty: Evidence From Three Large U.S. Public Universities5
Hiring Under Constraint: How School Administrators Perceive and Respond to Centralized Screening by the District5
The Politics of Belonging and Implications for School Organization: Autophotographic Perspectives on “Fitting In” at School5
The Impact and Implementation of Academic Interventions During COVID-19: Evidence from the Road to Recovery Project5
The “Good” Schools: Academic Performance Data, School Choice, and Segregation5
Weighing Risks: How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During COVID-195
Cross-National Comparison of the Relative Size of Lower-Tail and Upper-Tail SES Achievement Gaps5
Envisioning Transbordered Algorithmic Identities Across African and Asian Immigrants’ Digital Narratives5
A Meta-Review of Education Meta-Analyses: Relevance, Applicability, and Accessibility of Findings5
Methodological Complexity: A Both/And Approach to Address Tool Validity and Reliability for Assessment of Cultural Responsiveness in Indigenous Serving Schools5
Exploring Culturally Sustaining Onto-Epistemologies of Teaching Artists in a Multigenerational Learning Community5
School Climate, Teacher Characteristics, and School Discipline: Evidence From New York City5
Career and Technical Education Alignment Across Five States5
It’s About Time, Part II: Does Time Poverty Contribute to Inequitable College Outcomes by Gender and Race/Ethnicity?5
Moderating Role of Race/Ethnicity on Associations Between Externalizing Behavior Ratings and School Suspensions5
Major Selection as Iteration: Observing Gendered Patterns of Major Selection Under Elective Curriculums4
Multilingual Learners and Elementary Science Achievement: Exploring Trends and Heterogeneity Across Subgroups4
Disruptiveness of COVID-19: Differences in Course Engagement, Self-Appraisal, and Learning4
Investigating Data Sharing Practices in Teaching Effectiveness Research4
Does School Funding Matter in a Pandemic? COVID-19 Instructional Models and School Funding Adequacy4
Affirming and Extending Professional Visions of Equitable Teaching: Managing Dilemmas in Teacher-Researcher Collaboration4
Emotion-Focused Teaching Differs Across Preschool Activity Settings4
On the Interplay of Motivational Characteristics and Academic Achievement: The Role of Need for Cognition4
School Accountability, Underfunding, and Inefficiency4
Adolescent Exposure to Restorative Practices and Their Perceptions of Support, Structure, and Bullying in the School Climate4
Uncovering the Connections Among Rural Science Teachers: A Social Network Analysis4
Teacher Beliefs About Race, Empathy, and Black Boys: S-TEAAM 2.04
Superintendent Turnover and Retention: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Leavers and Stayers In Rural Districts4
Exploring Whether and How Teacher Residencies Offer a Different Kind of Preparation4
Inequality at the Starting Line: Underrepresentation in Gifted Identification and Disparities in Early Achievement4
Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Among Early Educators4
Reviewer Acknowledgments4
Policy and Place: Immigration, Schooling, and the Local Context4
Pathways into the CTE Teaching Profession: A Descriptive Analysis of Degrees, Licenses, and Race in Maryland4
Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Spanish–English Emergent Bilinguals’ Language Development and Experiences4
Mathematics Motivation and Mathematics Performance: Does Gender Play a Role?4
“More About the Neighborhood Than the School”: Leveraging “Don’t Know” Survey Responses to Probe Parental Evaluations of School Safety3
Testing a Holistic Framework of Early Care and Education and K–12 Leaders’ Working Conditions and Well-Being3
Teacher-Principal Ethnoracial Matching, Geography, and Novice Teacher Career Outcomes3
Admissions, Organization, Culture, and Policy: Understanding the Postsecondary Structures that Shape Women’s Entry into Computing Bachelor’s Programs3
Navigating Higher Education “Nontraditionally”: Opportunities and Obstacles in Post-Traditional College Pathways to the Baccalaureate3
From School to School: Examining the Contours of Within-Field Switching in the Special Education Teacher Labor Market3
Earning to Learn: Working While Enrolled in Tennessee Colleges and Universities3
Metropolitan, Urban, and Rural Regions: How Regional Differences Affect Elementary School Students in Germany3
Effects of the 5E Instructional Model: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis3
Getting It “Right”: Educators’ Experiences With School Diversity in a Gentrifying Neighborhood3
Predictive Validity of the Algebra Concept Inventory (ACI): The Importance of Algebraic Conceptual Understanding to College Math and STEM Outcomes3
An Exploration of Teacher Sense-Making Around Whiteness During a Critical Professional Development Course3
De Facto Suspensions: Informal Exclusionary Discipline Practices in Public Preschool and Early Elementary Settings3
Reliability of ChatGPT’s Scoring and Actionability of Its Feedback in IELTS Writing Preparation Classrooms: Teacher and Student Acceptance in China3
The Geography of Mathematical (Dis)Advantage: An Application of Multilevel Simultaneous Autoregressive (MSAR) Models to Public Data in Education Research3
Unintended Consequences of Expanding Teacher Preparation Pathways: Does Alternative Licensure Attenuate New Teacher Pay?3
Building a Stronger Case for Independent Reading at School3
Racial Category Usage in Education Research: Examining the Publications from AERA Journals3
The Impact of Early Colleges on Postsecondary Performance and Completion3
Evaluating Program Enhancement Strategies for Remedial Tutoring: A Cluster-Randomized Control Trial With Syrian Refugee Students in Lebanon3
Black Children’s Refusal in a “Hege-Mindful” World3
Understanding the Nature and Correlates of Students’ Heterogeneous Perceptions of Opportunities for Deeper Learning3
Classroom Segregation without Tracking: Chance, Legitimacy, and Myth in “Racial Paradise”3
Reviewer Acknowledgments3
Trends in Parents’ Time Investment at Children’s Schools During a Period of Economic Change3
Advancing “Intersectional Servingness” in Research, Practice, and Policy With Hispanic-Serving Institutions3
Getting Back to “Traditional” Education: Racialized Norms in School Governance3
The Black Teacher Pipeline: Insights From a State Longitudinal Data System3
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
Postdoctoral of Color Racialized Agency Toward Tenure-Track Careers2
Protest and Resistance: Conceptualizing a Blackamerican Institutional Schema and the Contemporary Relevance of Pre- Brown Educators2
A Novel Approach for Evaluating a Schoolwide Antiracist Curriculum Intervention2
The Relationship Between Student Attendance and Achievement, Pre- and Post-COVID2
Erratum to “Early Avenues of the Afterlife : Antiblackness in K–12 School Discipline Post- Brown2
Making Sense of Segregation: Asian American Youth Perspectives2
Designing Field Experiments to Integrate Research on Costs2
Access, Supports, and Performance in Dual Enrollment: A COVID-19 Case’s Implications for Equity2
The Influence of Policies and Professional Expectations on Teachers’ Leave Decisions and Well-Being Following a Miscarriage2
U.S. Ninth Graders’ Math Course Placement at the Intersection of Learning Disability Status, Race, and Socioeconomic Status2
High Turnover With Low Accountability: Local School Board Elections in 16 States2
Boards in the Balance: Governing Higher Education Amid Anti-DEI Policy2
Enhancing Quantitative Analysis in Social Sciences With Large Language Models (LLMs): A Methodological Case Study in Educational Research2
Exploring the Principal’s Role in Cross-Sector Partnerships: Sensemaking and Politics in a High-Performing Early College High School2
The Missing Middle? General and Special Educators’ Views of Effective Mathematics Instruction2
From Deficit to Difference: Understanding the Relationship Between K–12 Teacher Training and Disability Discussion2
Strengthening Education Research Publications Through Open, Principled, and Pragmatic Experimentation: AERA Open Editors’ Vision Statement 2025–20272
Consequential Intersections: Examining Equity Expressions and Experiences Within Special Education Ecosystems2
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
Inside the Black Box: Detecting and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias Across Racialized Groups in College Student-Success Prediction2
(No) Common Time: High School Teachers’ Collaboration During a Pandemic and Beyond2
Navigating the Politics of Race, Research, and Role in a University-School District Research-Practice Partnership2
No Matter How You Slice It, Black Students Are Punished More: The Persistence and Pervasiveness of Discipline Disparities2
A Longitudinal Portrait of California’s Kindergarten English Learners & Their Learning Outcomes2
Exploring Prospective Teachers’ Intentions for Artificial Intelligence Integration in Education: The Role of Motivation2
Role of the Policy Environment in Shaping the Work of Professional Learning Partnerships2
Contextualized High School Performance: Evidence to Inform Equitable Holistic, Test-Optional, and Test-Free Admissions Policies2
Validating Classrooms: Teaching Strategies to Advance Equity in Developmental Education2
Teachers’ Knowledge and Preparedness for Retirement: Results From a Nationally Representative Teacher Survey2
Differential Prediction for Disadvantaged Students and Schools: The Role of High School Characteristics2
Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions of Mixed Reality Simulations: Variations by Task, Support, and Mode of Delivery2
Early Avenues of the Afterlife : Antiblackness in K–12 School Discipline Post- Brown1
Inequitable Interactions: A Critical Quantitative Analysis of Mentorship and Psychosocial Development Within Computing Graduate School Pathways1
Racial-Religious Decoupling in the University: Investigating Religious Students’ Perceptions of Institutional Commitment to Diversity1
The Interplay Between Fiscal Institutions and the Great Recession: Evidence From U.S. School Districts1
Racial Truth-Telling in Dual Enrollment: Exploring Organizational Constraints and Possibilities in the Anti-CRT Era1
Collective Teacher Efficacy and Its Enabling Conditions: A Proposed Framework for Influencing Collective Efficacy in Schools1
Reorienting to Organizational Climate in Engineering Doctoral Education: An Integrative Framework and Meta-Synthesis1
Exploring the Impact of New York City’s Gifted and Talented Program: A Matched Comparison Study1
Leading During Crisis: State and Local Education Leaders’ Equity Focused Approaches During the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Measuring the Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration Perceptions of U.S. Scientists, Engineers, and Educators1
Turkish and US Future-Teachers on War and Peace Education1
Racial, Linguistic, and Economic Diversity Across Schools with Two-Way Dual Language Immersion Programs: Evidence from the Los Angeles Unified School District1
Tracking Vertical Transfer Students’ Credits: Changes in Applicability to Degree Requirements1
Replicating a Middle-School Belonging Intervention: Evidence from a Randomized Trial Within a New School District1
Effectiveness of a Social-Emotional Learning Program for Both Teachers and Students1
Are Law Schools Cream-Skimming to Bolster Their Bar Exam Pass Rates? A Multilevel Regression Approach to Estimate How Attrition and Transfer Rates Affect Bar Passage1
National Board Certification as a Signal of Cooperating Teacher Quality1
Head Start Children’s Dual Enrollment in State Pre-K: Prevalence and Child Outcomes1
Social Determinants of Learning: Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice1
Same Major, Different Peers: Gender Sorting Across and Within Majors1
Against the Carceral Logics of Schools: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Restorative Justice and Politicized Caring in a Black School1
A Primer on MIMIC Models and Critical Quantitative Methods to Increase Their Use1
The Alignment of P–3 Math Instruction1
Discourse in Research-Practice Partnership Meetings: A Comparison of Conditions Across Contexts1
Unapologetically Disrupting Systemic Inequities Impacting Black Youth: CBES Leaders Navigating Insider–Outsider Roles in School Partnership1
Family Child Care Program Closure in Alabama During the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Racial Economic Segregation across U.S. Public Schools, 1991–20221
Is It Any Better? A Comparison of PhD Students’ Experiences and Degree Completion Plans Between the Summers of 2020 and 20211
Rising Arizona: Participation and Results of the 2018 Red for Ed Strike1
The Cost-Effectiveness of School Nursing Communities of Practice on Elementary Student Attendance and Chronic Absenteeism: A Clustered Randomized Controlled Trial1
The Effects of School Accountability Ratings in California Under ESSA on Student Graduation and College and Career Readiness1
Whole-School Inclusion Programs and Student Academic and Behavioral Outcomes1
Investigating Nature-based Preschoolers Gains in Early Literacy and Select Executive Function Skills1
Leaks in the College Access Pipeline: Examining Summer Melt in a Large Urban School District1
Targeted Intervention for Long-Term English Learners’ English Language Development and Reading Outcomes1
Honoring Local Context: Designing Collaborative Pre-K–12 School Literacy Action Plans1
Do Students Respond to Sticker-Price Reductions? Evidence From the North Carolina Promise1
Unpacking Relational Trust Mechanisms in Teacher-Researcher Co-Design Partnerships: Insights from a Case Study1
Teachers’ Self-Censorship of Children’s Literature in Texas—What’s Legislation Got to Do With It?1
Professional Identity and Integrity: Special Education Teachers’ Perspectives on Pedagogy and Practice1
Bowing to External Pressures: How the Threat of Lawsuits Dilutes Bias Response in Higher Education1
Racial Change in Suburbia: America’s Diversifying Elementary Districts and Their Effect on School Segregation1
Who Gets Their First Choice? Race and Class Differences in College Admissions Outcomes1
Cameras On: How Schools Reify Unequal Relationships Through Decisions About Online Visibility1
Racially-Affirming Community in Instructional Servingness for Latin* Students’ Gateway Mathematics Classroom Participation1
Where There Is No Equity Engine: Unequal Geographies of College Success for Low-Income Students1
Estimates of Teach for America Effects on Student Test and Nontest Academic Outcomes Over Time1
Head Start, Household Instability, and Children’s Externalizing Behavior Problems1
Exploring Queer and Trans Students’ Mathematics Identity in Relation to STEM as a White Cisheteropatriarchal Space1
Policy Boundaries in School Districts: When and How School Mathematics Enters the Policy Conversation1
How Do Students Understand the Concept of “Curiosity?” Critical Implications for Research From a Multiple Methods Investigation1
(Mis)Alignment of Challenges and Strategies in Promoting Inclusive Racial Climates in STEM Graduate Departments1
Data Deidentification for Data Sharing in Education and Psychological Research: Importance, Barriers, and Techniques1
A Political Spectacle: A Policy Analysis of States’ Responses to Federal Assessment Waivers During the Coronavirus (COVID) Pandemic1
A Dakota Cultural Intervention’s Influence on Native Students’ Sense of Belonging: A CBPR Case Study1
Racialized Early Grade (Mis)Behavior: The Links Between Same-Race/Ethnicity Teachers and Discipline in Elementary School1
The Relationship of School Modality With Stress and Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Variation Across Sociodemographic Groups1
Parsing Coaching Practice: A Systematic Framework for Describing Coaching Discourse1
Health Policies as Education Policies? A Review of Causal Evidence and Mechanisms1
Overpoliced? A Descriptive Portrait of School-Based Targeted Police Interventions in New York City1
How Well Do Students Understand “Free Community College”? Promise Programs as Informational Interventions1
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