British Educational Research Journal

Article	Citations
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria	87
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation	76
Growth mindset is positively associated with mathematics attainment in Scotland—But socioeconomic status plays a greater role	63
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data	61
Prosocial behaviour in primary and secondary school students. Effects of the CYBUPRE intervention	53
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence using PISA data	40
Children's perceptions and challenges of participation in decision‐making: A case study of a participatory initiative in a Chinese primary school	27
The philosophy of listening in early childhood: A reflective inquiry into hearing the child's voice	26
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes	23
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis	22
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education	22
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme	22
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education	22
Predictors of authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland	22
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition	21
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England	21
Teachers', parents', and pupils' perceptions and described experiences of toilet provisions and practices within English schools	21
Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees	20
Caught in the vacuum: Policies addressing online harms in Maltese secondary schools	20
Learning to explain environmental crises: A dialogic analysis of teacher professional learning between Chile and the United States	20
RETRACTION : Examining the Impact of Gamified Mobile and AI ‐Assisted Language Learning on Academic Integrity, Creativ	20
RETRACTED: Performance motivation and emotion regulation as drivers of academic competence and problem‐solving skills in AI‐enhanced preschool education: A SEM study	19
Factors influencing the retake rate of college entrance examinations: A macro perspective analysis	18
‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools	18
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish	17

Operational and demographic influences on monitoring student academic progress at an Australian university: A strategic, social and economic perspective	16
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	16
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?	15
Care trajectories and imagining potential: Positioning the need for skills, confidence and communication among key professionals supporting the higher education progression of care‐experienced young p	15
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐19	14
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research	14
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century	14
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process	14
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis	14
University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses	13
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England	13
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data	13
RETRACTED: Poe or Gemini for fostering writing skills in Japanese upper‐intermediate learners: Uncovering the consequences on positive emotions, boredom to write, academic self‐efficacy and writing de	13
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study	13
Issue Information	12
Retention among newly qualified second‐year teachers: The reception–integration model	12
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom	12
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth	12
Issue Information	12
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review	11
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis	11
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England	11
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom	11
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children	11
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective	11
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal	10
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet	10
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education	10
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–2020	10
‘Fish in simulated water’? A Bourdieusian analysis of Chinese doctoral students' learning experiences in Southeast Asian developing countries	10
‘I make a lot of the choices myself—I think I've taught myself that through the imbalance of support’: The internal conversations, reflexivity and post‐school educational achievement of care‐experienc	10
The role of teacher agency in realising EdTech 's potential to reduce teacher workload and improve teacher retention	10
RETRACTED: Reducing anxiety, promoting enjoyment and enhancing overall English proficiency: The impact of AI ‐assisted language learning in Chinese	10
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme	10
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university	10
The strange times of international studentship: A comparative study of the United Kingdom , Denmark	10
International student agency in academic self‐formation: Mobility as agency situated within knowledge structures	10
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Strategies teachers use to support students' self‐regulation skill development in mainstream primary schools: A scoping review	10
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–2022	10
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers	10
The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki	10
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders	10
Reimagining school leadership: A qualitative study on how distributed leadership models influence innovation culture in semi‐government schools in Pakistan	10
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Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review	9
RETRACTED: Ethical AI in language education: A Delphi study focusing on social and emotional aspects of learning	9
Growing in organisations: The multifaceted effects of organisational support on teachers' digital literacy	9
RETRACTED: Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI ‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing pe	9
RETRACTED: To be in AI ‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2	9

Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction	9
Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study	9
Enhancing teacher innovative practices through principal learning‐centred leadership and teacher knowledge sharing	9
Enhancing climate change and sustainability education through critical and collaborative dialogue between Global South and North education communities	9
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample	9
The relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of technology leadership and their technology integration into higher education—Evidence from China	9
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds	9
‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson	9
Afro‐Amerindian cosmopolitics in environmental education: A decolonial analysis of academic discourses involving the epistemological disputes around the term sustainability	9
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Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?	9
RETRACTION : Reducing Anxiety, Promoting Enjoyment and Enhancing Overall English Proficiency: The Impact of AI ‐assist	9
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 1994	9
Under‐standing: The ‘sleeping beauty’ of educational metaphors	8
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion	8
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates	8
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use	8
A systematic review of facilitators and barriers to school staff development projects using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research	8
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis	8
Features of measuring soft skills in a saturated digital environment: Exploring the relationship between cognitive control and digital literacy at the individual level	8
To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities	8
Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective	8
Flexible working and professional relationships in schools: An ecological approach	8
Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work	8
Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world	8
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Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?	8
Factors influencing the adoption of generative AI in education: A systematic review, proposed framework and future research agenda	8
Community college student success: A tale of cohort and institutional characteristics, market factors and enrollment status	8
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context	8
School partnered approaches to emotionally based school avoidance in UK primary and secondary school‐age learners: A systematic review	8
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‘A completely different space’: Teachers' perspectives on disadvantage, access to nature and outdoor learning	8
Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 1984	8
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics	8
Early career orientation of primary school students: The impact of pedagogical intervention on future teachers and pupils	8
Drivers and pathways of AI academic mentor acceptance: An SEM ‐ fsQCA	7
Validation of the ABL  +  DT model: An ecosystemic framework for integrating arts and digital tech	7
Our World, Our Futures: A dialogic approach to environmental literacy and global citizenship education in primary schools in the Maldives and England	7
Parental involvement and academic achievement in Year 4 and Year 8 students: A meta‐analysis based on large‐scale assessments in China	7
Academic misconduct appeal services in China: Platform logics, self‐platformization and implications for integrity education	7
Emotional experiences and stigma among families benefiting from Barcelona's shock plan against school segregation and for inclusion and equal opportunities and educational success	7
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education	7
RETRACTION : Exploring EFL Learners' Positive Emotions, Technostress and Psychological Well‐Being in	7
Enhancing online MBA programmes: Student perceptions and key factors in programme design and delivery	7
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England	7
Achievement goals, academic engagement and performance: The mediating role of self‐regulated learning strategies	7
The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education	7
The influence mechanism of family capital on children's academic performance in Western Chinese counties: The mediating effect of family educational investment	7
Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with	7
Technology‐enhanced learning in higher education institutions: Exploring the lived experiences of students with specific learning differences and their lecturers	6
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data	6
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation	6
‘… They're talking to you as if they're kind of dumbing it down’: A thematic analysis of Black students' perceived reasons for the university awarding gap	6
Indonesian inquiry: A narrative of biocultural teaching on Sulawesi Utara	6
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations	6
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?	6
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland	6
RETRACTION : Modelling the Complex Dynamic Effect of L2 Speaking Anxiety in Metaverse on Students' Academic Enjoyment,	6
Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications	6
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?	6
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment	6
RETRACTED: AI ‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassio	6
Longitudinal links of negative student–teacher relationships and positive class climate with traditional bullying and cyberbullying perpetration	6
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes	6
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors	6
Rethinking recruitment: Using reflexivity to understand career changers' decisions to become STEM teachers	6
Parental involvement and engagement during COVID ‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home	6
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Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees	6
Beyond salaries: Teachers' experiences of navigating early years education amid economic instability in Türkiye	6
What are the possibilities for promoting teacher resilience at the school level? Insights from the co‐development of a participatory approach in England	6
How does dialogic teaching facilitate students' creative thinking? Evidence from a sequential analysis of teacher–student dialogue in primary language classrooms	6
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation	6
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature	6
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN	6
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality	5
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children	5
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal	5

RETRACTION : EFL University Students’ Emotional Engagement in AI ‐M	5
RETRACTED: Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL	5
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability	5
Issue Information	5
Making teaching more attractive: Promising evidence of impact from Australia	5
RETRACTION : To Be in AI ‐Integrated Language Classes or Not to Be: Academic Emotion Regulation, Self‐Esteem,	5
‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China	5
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education	5
When ease becomes a barrier: What influences student intentions to use Generative AI in higher education?	5
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines	5
RETRACTION : Performance Motivation and Emotion Regulation as Drivers of Academic Competence and Problem‐Solving Skills in AI	5
RETRACTION : Story‐Driven Learning and Holistic Development: Effects on Concept Mastery, Creativity and Empathy in EFL	5
The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia	5
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Navigating the dilemmas of educational reform: A case study of Montessori implementation in a Taiwanese public school	5
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study	5
Lessons from primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence school connectedness	5
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study	5
Opposing pathways linking gender school belonging and mathematics achievement: Evidence from PISA 2018 and 2022 in Nordic countries	5
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness	5
Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university	5
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia	5
RETRACTION : Intersections Between Cognitive‐Emotion Regulation, Critical Thinking and Academic Resilience with Academic Motivation and Autonomy in <	4
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Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic	4
Developing teacher professional capital: A case study of Master Teacher Studios in Zhejiang province, China	4
A systematic review of second language ( L2 ) student writers' metacognitive experiences	4
Unravelling teacher status through a socio‐ecological lens: A comparative analysis of teacher and public perspectives in China	4
RETRACTED: Unboxing the intersections between self‐esteem and academic mindfulness with test emotions, psychological wellness and academic achievement in artificial intelligence‐supported learning env	4
Some clarifications on educational research and practice	4
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools	4
The role of beliefs and social–emotional skills in shaping educational expectations among Romanian adolescents	4
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications	4
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?	4
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy	4
Deciphering the layers of reading achievement: A multi‐level analysis of student and school‐level predictors in top‐performing PIRLS 2021 countries	4
‘Self’ and ‘othering’ as a byproduct of large‐scale assessment: An investigation into the Gaokao retake policy	4
RETRACTION : Learner Emotions and Performance in Hypercasual VR Games with Adaptive AI	4
The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England	4
Addressing racialised awarding gap in higher education: Insights from personal tutors	4
Educational pathways and outcomes for care‐experienced children: A 16‐year longitudinal study	4
To persist or not? Examining the relations between parental education, self‐regulation, school engagement and persistence in post‐compulsory education	4
From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada	4
The impact of trauma‐informed teacher education	4
The impact of ‘bursary tourism’ or the desire for a ‘fulfilling, challenging, and emotionally rewarding career’? Career entry motivations and perceptions of preservice teachers from England	4
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students	4
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education	4
Re‐thinking teachers' professional development: An analysis of National Professional Qualifications for school leaders in England	4
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care	4
Novice teachers' classroom behaviour management: Situations, responses and impact on student behaviour	4
Are track recommendations dependent on schools and school boards? A study of trends in the level of track recommendations, number of double recommendations and reconsiderations in Dutch urban and rura	4
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AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices	4
RETRACTION: Unboxing the Intersections Between Self‐Esteem and Academic Mindfulness with Test Emotions, Psychological Wellness and Academic Achievement in Artificial Intelligence‐Supported Learning En	4
Understanding the paradox of primary teacher shortage in low‐income countries: Insights from Malawi	4
Teacher professional standards across leading education systems	4
“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England	4
How far behind in number are socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils when they start school in England?	4
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review	4
‘Being a man isn't about standing above others’: Reworking Confucian masculinities in cross‐border transitions	4
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	4
Predatory competition, student expectations, unclear purpose: University leaders’ perceptions of the ‘neoliberal future’ of higher education in Brazil	4
One way or another: An optimal matching analysis of students' educational pathways and the impact of socioeconomic background and engagement	4
Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools	4
Capturing variations in how spelling is taught in primary school classrooms in England	3
Supportive but suspicious: Ideology, institutional trust, electoral participation and gender shape public opinion on citizenship education in the UK	3
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives	3
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act	3
Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework	3
Issue Information	3
How do principals’ paternalistic leadership impact teachers’ emotional labor and efficacy: Do gender or region of teachers make a difference?	3
The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile	3
Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions	3
Issue Information	3
Inequalities in school spending across local authorities in England: A time‐trend analysis	3
Boredom strikes back: Triggers and solutions for English as a foreign language teachers	3
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement	3
GenAI ‐assisted interpreting learning: A survey of Chinese postgraduates' experience, evaluation and expectations	3
Exploring LGBTQ+ teacher professional identity through the power threat meaning framework	3
Funds of knowledge: Towards an asset‐based approach to refugee education and family engagement in England	3
Effects of critical thinking instruction on Chinese college students with varying baseline critical thinking abilities: A quasi‐experimental study	3
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?	3
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education	3
Publicly funded private schools and academic achievement: A comparative analysis of PISA data in European countries	3
Linking students' grit and academic engagement: Mediating role of academic motivation and self‐regulated learning	3
Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools	3
Pedagogical considerations in the automation era: A systematic literature review of AIEd in K‐12 authentic settings	3
Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice?	3
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts	3
Teacher digital identity divergences: From teacher education to classroom	3
The invisible costs of education reform: Understanding teacher deprofessionalisation in Thailand	3
Editorial	3
Can AI replace humans? Comparing the capabilities of AI tools and human performance in a business management education scenario	3
Does desegregation matter? A comparative study of school‐based social capital for university‐bound minority students in segregated and desegregated school contexts of Hong Kong	3
‘The best year’/‘I struggled with everything’: Widening participation experiences of pandemic online learning	3