British Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of British Educational Research Journal 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes37
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata37
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data34
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England32
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation26
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme23
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria21
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis19
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education16
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education16
Performance motivation and emotion regulation as drivers of academic competence and problem‐solving skills in AI‐enhanced preschool education: A SEM study15
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition14
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Teachers', parents', and pupils' perceptions and described experiences of toilet provisions and practices within English schools14
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process13
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment13
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia13
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis13
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century12
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?12
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities12
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study12
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐1912
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England12
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish12
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 p12
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 development11
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research11
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–202210
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‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom10
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data10
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth9
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis9
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?8
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet8
How do homeschoolers approach creative arts learning and how can they be supported? Developing a flexible framework for homeschool contexts8
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education8
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom8
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme8
Practitioners’ perspectives and needs: Developing skills to support unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASCs) in experiencing ‘belonging’ in English educational spaces7
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England7
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Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative7
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal7
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?7
Reducing anxiety, promoting enjoyment and enhancing overall English proficiency: The impact of AI‐assisted language learning in Chinese EFL contexts7
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds7
The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki7
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective7
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children7
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review7
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Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–20207
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university6
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools6
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction6
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates6
The relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of technology leadership and their technology integration into higher education—Evidence from China6
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders6
‘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‐experienc6
Empowering children to speak up and act on social justice issues: The use of folktales and collaborative storytelling as tools of social imagination6
Growing in organisations: The multifaceted effects of organisational support on teachers' digital literacy6
‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson6
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19946
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample6
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers6
To be in AI‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2 learning experiences and growth mindsets are in focus6
School partnered approaches to emotionally based school avoidance in UK primary and secondary school‐age learners: A systematic review6
Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing performance6
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes5
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England5
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context5
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN5
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion5
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use5
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature5
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations5
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education5
Parental involvement and academic achievement in Year 4 and Year 8 students: A meta‐analysis based on large‐scale assessments in China5
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?5
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Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19845
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors5
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?5
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis5
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Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with5
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics5
Achievement goals, academic engagement and performance: The mediating role of self‐regulated learning strategies5
Enhancing online MBA programmes: Student perceptions and key factors in programme design and delivery5
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland5
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data4
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Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment4
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?4
The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia4
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability4
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness4
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d4
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation4
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Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications4
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The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children4
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia4
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study4
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees4
‘… 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 gap4
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation4
Navigating the dilemmas of educational reform: A case study of Montessori implementation in a Taiwanese public school4
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education4
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Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines4
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality4
Deciphering the layers of reading achievement: A multi‐level analysis of student and school‐level predictors in top‐performing PIRLS 2021 countries3
Developing teacher professional capital: A case study of Master Teacher Studios in Zhejiang province, China3
From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada3
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education3
Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools3
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study3
Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL learners: Contributions of AI‐mediated 3
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications3
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?3
Clarification for: Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section by Hussain and Yunus (2021)3
The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England3
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care3
To persist or not? Examining the relations between parental education, self‐regulation, school engagement and persistence in post‐compulsory education3
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 England3
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools3
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review3
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students3
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing3
Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic3
One way or another: An optimal matching analysis of students' educational pathways and the impact of socioeconomic background and engagement3
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?3
Unboxing the intersections between self‐esteem and academic mindfulness with test emotions, psychological wellness and academic achievement in artificial intelligence‐supported learning environments: 3
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis3
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 rura3
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England3
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal3
Some clarifications on educational research and practice3
Preservice teacher perceptions of preparedness for teaching: Insights from survey research exploring the links between teacher professional standards and agency3
When ease becomes a barrier: What influences student intentions to use Generative AI in higher education?3
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AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices3
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Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters2
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education2
How do principals’ paternalistic leadership impact teachers’ emotional labor and efficacy: Do gender or region of teachers make a difference?2
Supportive but suspicious: Ideology, institutional trust, electoral participation and gender shape public opinion on citizenship education in the UK2
Funds of knowledge: Towards an asset‐based approach to refugee education and family engagement in England2
Novice teachers' classroom behaviour management: Situations, responses and impact on student behaviour2
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto2
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Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools2
Linking students' grit and academic engagement: Mediating role of academic motivation and self‐regulated learning2
Understanding teacher ethico‐political identity formation from a Foucauldian perspective2
Research‐informed teaching: The case of Musical Futures2
Why does school socio‐economic composition matter to adolescents’ academic performance? Role of classroom climate and school resources2
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Voices from the edge: Girls' experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion2
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery2
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China2
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts2
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A study on the social integration of international secondary students in Canadian high schools2
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees2
Teacher digital identity divergences: From teacher education to classroom2
SATs, sets and allegations of bias: The allocation of 11‐year‐old students to mathematics sets in some English schools in 2015. A response to Connolly et al., 20192
Beyond the ‘dilemma of difference’: An analysis of stories from experienced teachers, about their inclusive practice2
Boredom strikes back: Triggers and solutions for English as a foreign language teachers2
Failing children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in England: New evidence of poor outcomes and a postcode lottery at the Local Authority level at Key Stage 12
‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID‐192
Capturing variations in how spelling is taught in primary school classrooms in England2
Supporting teacher judgement and decision‐making: Using focused analysis to help teachers see students, learning, and quality in assessment data2
Predatory competition, student expectations, unclear purpose: University leaders’ perceptions of the ‘neoliberal future’ of higher education in Brazil2
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support2
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives2
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Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?2
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Music always helps: Associations of music subject choices with academic achievement in secondary education2
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2005 to 20142
Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions2
Exploring LGBTQ+ teacher professional identity through the power threat meaning framework2
Can AI replace humans? Comparing the capabilities of AI tools and human performance in a business management education scenario2
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement2
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Effects of critical thinking instruction on Chinese college students with varying baseline critical thinking abilities: A quasi‐experimental study2
Pedagogical considerations in the automation era: A systematic literature review of AIEd in K‐12 authentic settings2
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy2
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Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice?2
Targeting adolescents as agents of change for an entomophageous future2
Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education2
Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education2
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Unravelling the effectiveness of self‐regulated language learning intervention on Chinese EFL Students’ motivation, strategic competence and English proficiency: A mixed methods study2
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act2
Transitions from primary to secondary school in Greater Manchester: A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of Year 6 children who receive pupil premium funding2
Does desegregation matter? A comparative study of school‐based social capital for university‐bound minority students in segregated and desegregated school contexts of Hong Kong2
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The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile2
Teacher perspectives on enhancing wellbeing education through integrating arts‐based practices1
Research–practice partnerships in education: Lessons from the United States1
To what extent do England's local offer websites adhere to the statutory guidance as set out in the special educational needs and disabilities code of practice?1
Analysis of digital capital for social inclusion in educational context1
Achievement vs. engagement: Providing support in socially disadvantaged schools1
(Re)moving exclusions: School exclusion reduction in Glasgow and London1
Schools and food charity in England1
The positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape1
Post‐secondary vocational education for youth leaving care: Examining a potential pathway to successful outcomes1
Does school matter for children's cognitive and non‐cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India1
Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity1
Facilitating or disrupting: Understanding the impacts of social media usage on international students' cross‐cultural psychology and cross‐cultural adjustment1
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Brokering knowledge from laboratory experiments in evidence‐based education: The case of interleaving1
Cognitive ability or motivation, or both: An integrative path analysis of the interplay between two key factors in academic achievement1
Nationalising the international in China: A phenomenological study on the purpose of international schooling in an era of regulation1
‘You work, I copy’. Images, narratives and metaphors around academic plagiarism through Fotovoz1
An analysis of attainment grouping policy in Singapore1
Understanding UK university academic staff attitudes towards recognising and responding to student radicalisation1
Relative age and the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile: How do birth month and peer group age composition determine attribution of a ‘Good Level of Development’—and what does this tell us about how1
Impact of reciprocal peer observation on teacher collaboration perceptions1
Resettlement and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: The influence and challenges of statutory guidance from professional perspectives for young people released from prison1
‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education1
The mental health of adolescents in England: How does it vary during their time at school?1
Learner emotions and performance in hypercasual VR games with adaptive AI difficulty1
A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK1
How teachers understand and strategize about emerging conflicts1
Impact of COVID‐19 lockdown in England on challenging behaviour and adaptive skills for children in a special school: A longitudinal study1
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Do participants in widening participation outreach programmes in England progress to selective universities at a higher rate than would otherwise be expected?1
Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people: Introduction to the special issue1
Lyceum and university aspirations among migrants and non‐migrants in Italy1
Beyond the door frame: The role of educational policies and guidelines in (un)welcoming Black refugee students1
The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency1
Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report1
Teachers’ understandings of barriers to Indigenous children's academic success in Taiwan1
I've always known that I would become a teacher’: How White women narrate their choice to teach, and what this means for teacher recruitment1
Was 2021–2022 an Annus Horribilis for teacher educators? Reflections on a survey of teacher educators1
How do higher degree research students and supervisors navigate ethics‐in‐practice for educational research in sensitive or ‘fragile’ contexts?1
Mindfulness in education: Critical debates and pragmatic considerations1
Setting research priorities for applied cognitive sciences—What do teachers want from research?1
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