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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Unseen roots and unfolding flowers? Prison learning, equality and the education of socially excluded groups60
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education59
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition35
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data34
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England30
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation29
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education28
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme26
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata22
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis18
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria17
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes15
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The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia14
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis14
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data14
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 development13
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment13
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century13
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study12
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?12
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research12
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England12
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐1912
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
Pressures and influences on school leaders navigating policy development during the COVID‐19 pandemic11
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme11
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities11
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?11
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BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–202211
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth10
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom10
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet10
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom10
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England9
Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis9
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children9
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective8
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
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review8
To be in AI‐integrated language classes or not to be: Academic emotion regulation, self‐esteem, L2 learning experiences and growth mindsets are in focus7
Individual participant data meta‐analysis of the impact of educational interventions on pupils eligible for Free School Meals7
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal7
Empowering children to speak up and act on social justice issues: The use of folktales and collaborative storytelling as tools of social imagination7
The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki7
Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative7
School experiences of Children in Need: Learning and support7
Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–20207
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders7
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?7
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The culture of disciplines: Reconceptualising multi‐subject curricula7
Motility, viscosity and field: A portrayal of migrant teachers' professional mobility and ethical conflicts in American and Australian faith‐based schools7
Personality‐sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9‐ to 10‐year‐olds7
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction7
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university6
Practitioners’ perspectives and needs: Developing skills to support unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASCs) in experiencing ‘belonging’ in English educational spaces6
‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson6
‘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
Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing performance6
Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context6
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
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19946
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion6
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation5
Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications5
Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis5
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment5
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Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland5
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Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors5
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Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19845
Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with5
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes5
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Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England5
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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
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics5
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation5
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates5
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?5
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?5
Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education5
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 20145
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?5
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d5
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN5
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations5
Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL learners: Contributions of AI‐mediated 4
‘… 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
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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
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal4
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children4
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data4
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education4
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing4
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia4
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines4
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees4
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality4
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School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study4
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness4
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study3
Preservice teacher perceptions of preparedness for teaching: Insights from survey research exploring the links between teacher professional standards and agency3
Reading intervention at age 6: Long‐term effects of Reading Recovery in the UK on qualifications and support at age 163
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care3
AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices3
Clarification for: Right‐wing populism and education: Introduction to the special section by Hussain and Yunus (2021)3
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students3
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools3
Academic leisure crafting: More than a respite to breath?3
Some clarifications on educational research and practice3
Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic3
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?3
From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada3
Popular boys, the ideal schoolboy, and blended patterns of masculinity for 10‐ to 11‐year‐olds in two London schools3
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
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications3
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The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England3
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?3
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
Unboxing the intersections between self‐esteem and academic mindfulness with test emotions, psychological wellness and academic achievement in artificial intelligence‐supported learning environments: 3
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review3
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education3
Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support2
Teacher and youth priorities for education for environmental sustainability: A co‐created manifesto2
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Music always helps: Associations of music subject choices with academic achievement in secondary education2
Teacher digital identity divergences: From teacher education to classroom2
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery2
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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
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Lessons from lockdown: Autistic students, parents and mainstream schools2
Developing teacher professional capital: A case study of Master Teacher Studios in Zhejiang province, China2
Supportive but suspicious: Ideology, institutional trust, electoral participation and gender shape public opinion on citizenship education in the UK2
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Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice?2
One way or another: An optimal matching analysis of students' educational pathways and the impact of socioeconomic background and engagement2
Beyond the ‘dilemma of difference’: An analysis of stories from experienced teachers, about their inclusive practice2
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts2
Employability skills in mainstream education: Innovations in schooling and institutional isomorphism2
Geographical mobility and children’s non‐completion of upper secondary education in Finland and Germany: Do parental resources matter?2
The effect of school closures on standardised student test outcomes2
Unravelling the effectiveness of self‐regulated language learning intervention on Chinese EFL Students’ motivation, strategic competence and English proficiency: A mixed methods study2
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy2
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2005 to 20142
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement2
Funds of knowledge: Towards an asset‐based approach to refugee education and family engagement in England2
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives2
Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions2
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
Why does school socio‐economic composition matter to adolescents’ academic performance? Role of classroom climate and school resources2
The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile2
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Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education2
To persist or not? Examining the relations between parental education, self‐regulation, school engagement and persistence in post‐compulsory education2
Predatory competition, student expectations, unclear purpose: University leaders’ perceptions of the ‘neoliberal future’ of higher education in Brazil2
How do principals’ paternalistic leadership impact teachers’ emotional labor and efficacy: Do gender or region of teachers make a difference?2
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act2
Understanding teacher ethico‐political identity formation from a Foucauldian perspective2
Supporting teacher judgement and decision‐making: Using focused analysis to help teachers see students, learning, and quality in assessment data2
Research‐informed teaching: The case of Musical Futures2
Can AI replace humans? Comparing the capabilities of AI tools and human performance in a business management education scenario2
Epistemology of the Nakba in Israeli education2
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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
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
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?2
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education2
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Youth representations of environmental protest2
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China2
Linking students' grit and academic engagement: Mediating role of academic motivation and self‐regulated learning2
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis2
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Deciphering the layers of reading achievement: A multi‐level analysis of student and school‐level predictors in top‐performing PIRLS 2021 countries2
Capturing variations in how spelling is taught in primary school classrooms in England2
Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters2
Novice teachers' classroom behaviour management: Situations, responses and impact on student behaviour2
Exploring LGBTQ+ teacher professional identity through the power threat meaning framework2
Effects of critical thinking instruction on Chinese college students with varying baseline critical thinking abilities: A quasi‐experimental study2
The relationship between child behaviour problems at school entrance and teenage vocabulary acquisition: A comparison of two generations of British children born 30 years apart2
Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education2
Exploring undergraduate students’ conceptions of learning via auto‐photography: A cross‐sectional analysis1
Children in care in education: Who is entered for exams and who reaches critical thresholds of success at age 16?1
The increasing use of private special schools: A policy gap for inclusive education1
Analysis of digital capital for social inclusion in educational context1
How do higher degree research students and supervisors navigate ethics‐in‐practice for educational research in sensitive or ‘fragile’ contexts?1
(Re)moving exclusions: School exclusion reduction in Glasgow and London1
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
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Lyceum and university aspirations among migrants and non‐migrants in Italy1
Exploring teachers' strategies for navigating compulsory digital transformations in Danish primary and lower secondary schools1
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
The role of achievement, gender, SES, location and policy in explaining the Indigenous gap in high‐school completion1
Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance1
‘In most supermarkets food does not cost £3 per day …’ The impact of the school food voucher scheme during COVID‐191
The development of host language achievement gaps by migration background during primary school: A path model of educational inequalities1
Targeting adolescents as agents of change for an entomophageous future1
Exploring teachers' views of cultural capital in English schools1
The evolution of socio‐economic disparities in literacy skills from age 15 to age 27 in 20 countries1
The mental health of adolescents in England: How does it vary during their time at school?1
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Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people: Introduction to the special issue1
Was 2021–2022 an Annus Horribilis for teacher educators? Reflections on a survey of teacher educators1
Beyond the door frame: The role of educational policies and guidelines in (un)welcoming Black refugee students1
Achievement vs. engagement: Providing support in socially disadvantaged schools1
The International Education Index: A global approach to education policy analysis, performance and sustainable development1
The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency1
Economic impact of innovative entrepreneurship education: Dynamic modelling methods1
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An educated society is an ideas‐informed society: A proposed theoretical framework for effective ideas engagement1
Widening Participation in Scotland 1997–2021: A semi‐systematic literature review and avenues for further research1
‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education1
British education research and its quality: An analysis of Research Excellence Framework submissions1
Transitions from primary to secondary school in Greater Manchester: A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of Year 6 children who receive pupil premium funding1
Does school matter for children's cognitive and non‐cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India1
CSOs working for peace through education in conflict‐affected areas: The case of Cyprus1
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
Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity1
Teachers’ understandings of barriers to Indigenous children's academic success in Taiwan1
Understanding UK university academic staff attitudes towards recognising and responding to student radicalisation1
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The positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape1
Demystifying the nexus between social support, teacher support and psychological needs fulfilment with peace of mind, achievement emotions and situational motivation in artificial intelligence1
An analysis of attainment grouping policy in Singapore1
Voices from the edge: Girls' experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion1
Problematising teachers' accounts of privilege in elite high schools1
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The road (not) taken: Principals' perceptions of at‐risk pupils' participation in collective decision‐making1
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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
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