British Educational Research Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of British Educational Research Journal is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data65
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England40
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation38
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme37
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata34
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes30
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education28
Teachers', parents', and pupils' perceptions and described experiences of toilet provisions and practices within English schools24
Performance motivation and emotion regulation as drivers of academic competence and problem‐solving skills in AI‐enhanced preschool education: A SEM study19
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria18
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition18
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education17
Caught in the vacuum: Policies addressing online harms in Maltese secondary schools16
The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis16
Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees15
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis14
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia14
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From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research13
Young athletes as sports activists: Empowerment as a fundamental element of the process13
The association between family socioeconomic status and urban–rural and high‐school attainment gaps: A logistic regression analysis of the China Family Panel Studies data13
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment13
Teachers’ gender bias in STEM: Results from a vignette study13
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐1912
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century12
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
Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?12
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 development12
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England11
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish11
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities11
Time well spent? Temporal dimensions of study abroad and implications for student experiences and outcomes under the UK Turing Scheme10
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 2015–202210
How do homeschoolers approach creative arts learning and how can they be supported? Developing a flexible framework for homeschool contexts10
Issue Information10
‘Sir, I don't know what I'm doing’: An investigation into the role of happy accidents in a secondary school art classroom9
The lasting influence of an open climate of classroom discussion on political trust: Results from a seven‐year panel study among English youth9
Experiences in times of COVID‐19: Home‐life, social connections, and schooling for Aotearoa New Zealand children8
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Workplace support for newly qualified doctors and secondary school teachers: A comparative analysis8
How hermeneutics can guide grading in integrated STEAM education: An evidence‐informed perspective8
Reducing anxiety, promoting enjoyment and enhancing overall English proficiency: The impact of AI‐assisted language learning in Chinese EFL contexts8
Does study abroad affect student academic achievement?8
The potential of deep learning in improving K‐12 students' writing skills: A systematic review8
Children's agency in England's primary schools: A case for structured freedom8
Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education7
Practitioners’ perspectives and needs: Developing skills to support unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASCs) in experiencing ‘belonging’ in English educational spaces7
Intergenerational transmission of educational disadvantage: Education progression of children of care leavers compared to a general population sample7
‘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‐experienc7
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Amplifying organisational discourses to the public: Media narratives of Teach For Australia, 2008–20207
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
The link between school leadership, staff job satisfaction and retention. Longitudinal evidence from England7
The ‘Friday effect’: School attendance over the weeki7
Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet7
Does pedagogical metamorphosis exist? Exploring the practices of primary school teachers at different stages of their careers7
Re‐imagining a decolonised, anti‐racist curriculum within initial teacher education in a Welsh university7
Examining the impact of gamified mobile and AI‐assisted language learning on academic integrity, creative trait motivation and writing performance6
Australian senior‐secondary teachers’ perceptions of leadership and policy for differentiated instruction6
The relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of technology leadership and their technology integration into higher education—Evidence from China6
BERJ 50th anniversary collection: Virtual issue 1985 to 19946
Editorial: BERJ 50th Anniversary Collection: Virtual issue 1975 to 19846
‘Populism’ and competing epistemic communities in English educational policy: A response to Craske and Watson6
The role of autonomy in forming an integrated identity among early career academics6
Whose ‘voice’ is it anyway? The paradoxes of the participatory narrative6
Distributed leadership in action: Different manifestations and what they require from school leaders6
Growing in organisations: The multifaceted effects of organisational support on teachers' digital literacy6
The role of social capital in the job quality of Chilean university graduates6
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Drivers of school choice: Primary school selection in a free choice context6
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
Teachers taking perceptions of student attributes into consideration when formulating track recommendations?6
The future of educational research: Observations from the outgoing editors of the British Educational Research Journal6
School partnered approaches to emotionally based school avoidance in UK primary and secondary school‐age learners: A systematic review6
Issue Information6
The GCSE attainment gap: Assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion6
The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes5
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors5
Do schools that employ an inspector get better inspection grades?5
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation5
Achievement goals, academic engagement and performance: The mediating role of self‐regulated learning strategies5
Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic5
Enhancing online MBA programmes: Student perceptions and key factors in programme design and delivery5
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?5
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature5
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Assessing the learning of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream school physical education5
‘… 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 gap5
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Rigour in interpretive qualitative research in education: Ideas to think with5
Representations of schooling and childhood during the COVID‐19 pandemic in England5
Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation5
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland5
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Categorisations of care: Exploring representations of care leavers in higher education through critical praxis5
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations5
Mental wellbeing among higher education students in England during the pandemic: A longitudinal study of COVID‐19 experiences, social connectedness and greenspace use5
Parental involvement and academic achievement in Year 4 and Year 8 students: A meta‐analysis based on large‐scale assessments in China5
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN5
School health and wellbeing and national education system reform: A qualitative study4
Curriculum leadership in a rural indigenous high school in Taiwan implementing the 108 Curriculum Guidelines4
Intersections between cognitive‐emotion regulation, critical thinking and academic resilience with academic motivation and autonomy in EFL learners: Contributions of AI‐mediated 4
Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data4
Navigating the dilemmas of educational reform: A case study of Montessori implementation in a Taiwanese public school4
The moderation effect of morphological awareness on the relationship between word detection skills and reading comprehension in Chinese children with and without dyslexia4
Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications4
Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non‐Indigenous boarders’ and non‐boarders’ wellbeing4
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When ease becomes a barrier: What influences student intentions to use Generative AI in higher education?4
Are local students disadvantaged? Understanding institutional, local and national sense of belonging in higher education4
Satisfied teachers are good teachers: The association between teacher job satisfaction and instructional quality4
Crafting agency in a host community: Accessing and participating in the English higher education sector by Ukrainian refugees4
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?4
Understanding Biesta's three purposes of education: A framework proposal4
Can teacher quality be profiled? A cluster analysis of teachers' beliefs, practices and students' perceptions of effectiveness4
A model for principals' STEM leadership capability4
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia4
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Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment4
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d4
The role of visual perception and executive functions on writing skills with learning disabilities: The case of Turkish‐speaking children4
AI voice journaling for future language teachers: A path to well‐being through reflective practices3
From silence to academic engagement: How refugee children with disabilities access learning through inclusive ‘artful’ schools in Canada3
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 13
Predatory competition, student expectations, unclear purpose: University leaders’ perceptions of the ‘neoliberal future’ of higher education in Brazil3
One way or another: An optimal matching analysis of students' educational pathways and the impact of socioeconomic background and engagement3
Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic3
Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education3
School playgroups: Which features of provision matter?3
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
Some clarifications on educational research and practice3
The impact of student conduct problems on teacher wellbeing following the onset of the Covid‐19 pandemic: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis3
Listening to young children with disabilities: Experiences of quality in mainstream primary education3
Pedagogical considerations in the automation era: A systematic literature review of AIEd in K‐12 authentic settings3
Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice?3
Understanding teacher ethico‐political identity formation from a Foucauldian perspective3
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Developing teacher professional capital: A case study of Master Teacher Studios in Zhejiang province, China3
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
An ecological perspective of student engagement through digital technology: Practical application and implications3
“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England3
Safe spaces and beyond: Examining the role of LGBT+ Pride Groups in fostering ontological security and allyship within UK schools3
The five‐year itch: Motivational factors that influence the career decisions of early career teachers in England3
Novice teachers' classroom behaviour management: Situations, responses and impact on student behaviour3
Supportive but suspicious: Ideology, institutional trust, electoral participation and gender shape public opinion on citizenship education in the UK3
Socioeconomic status and students' science self‐efficacy3
Deciphering the layers of reading achievement: A multi‐level analysis of student and school‐level predictors in top‐performing PIRLS 2021 countries3
Does grammar school attendance increase the likelihood of attending a prestigious UK university?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
Chinese PhD candidates in British universities: Understanding the practices of international doctorate students3
The importance of school culture in supporting student mental health in secondary schools. Insights from a qualitative study3
Practice‐based educational and theatre research: A scoping review3
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