OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Educational Research Journal is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Me, my child and Covid‐19: Parents' reflections on their child's experiences of lockdown in the UK and China	217
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Teachers as epistemic agents: A case study of interdisciplinary pedagogy	34
Supporting the supporters: How peer mentoring engagement reduces citizenship fatigue for sophomores in universities	29
“I get by with a little help from my friends”: The importance of peer‐led emotion work during the primary to secondary school transition	28
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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., 2019	20
‘Doing well’ and ‘being well’—secondary school teachers’ perspectives	19
The mediating role of student engagement in the relationship between teacher and digital support and learner satisfaction in blended learning environments at higher education	18
A study on the social integration of international secondary students in Canadian high schools	18
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The mental health of adolescents in England: How does it vary during their time at school?	17
Classroom social networks, students' peer‐related social experiences and sense of belonging: The specific case of students with SEN	14
Producing British education by Chinese parents: Fulfilling parenting responsibilities in WeChat	14
‘It's missing the heart of what writing is about’: teachers' interpretations of writing assessment criteria	13
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The ups and downs in perceived societal appreciation of the teaching profession during COVID‐19: A longitudinal trajectory analysis	12
Music always helps: Associations of music subject choices with academic achievement in secondary education	12
Teachers’ responses to ethnic discrimination: An exploratory study in Flemish secondary schools	12
When constellations align: What early childhood pre‐service teachers need from online learning to become confident and competent teachers of the arts	12
Educational research in the global north and south; reflections on the field and future directions	12
Politics of evidence: Think tanks and the Academies Act	11

Why does school socio‐economic composition matter to adolescents’ academic performance? Role of classroom climate and school resources	11
(Re)moving exclusions: School exclusion reduction in Glasgow and London	11
Do we have to rethink inclusive pedagogies for secondary schools? A critical systematic review of the international literature	11
Educating ‘others’: Drawing on the collective wisdom of intercultural experts	11
Understanding UK university academic staff attitudes towards recognising and responding to student radicalisation	11
The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency	10
Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods	10
Unseen roots and unfolding flowers? Prison learning, equality and the education of socially excluded groups	9
Children in care in education: Who is entered for exams and who reaches critical thresholds of success at age 16?	9
Early detection of risk of reading difficulties using a working memory assessment battery	9
From invitation to destination: A systematic literature review of the use of picturebooks in inquiry‐based education	9
Tensions in teaching balanced controversial history: Competing voices within a student teacher in Northern Ireland	8
Cultural capital, curriculum policy and teaching Latin	8
Do they know what they know? Accuracy in teacher candidates' self‐assessments and its influencing factors	8
An integrated conceptual model for enhancing refugee education	8
Combatting conspiracies in the classroom: Teacher strategies and perceived outcomes	8
Math task experiences and motivation to learn more: How prior knowledge and interest interact with Task‐Interest & Task‐Difficulty perceptions and feed a desire to reengage	7
Implications of the genomic revolution for education research and policy	7
Lyceum and university aspirations among migrants and non‐migrants in Italy	7
What are the success factors for schools in remote Indigenous communities?	7
From challenge to innovation: A grassroots study of teachers’ classroom assessment innovations	7
Teacher‐composed cases of practice as and for dissemination, reflection and data	7
The long‐term consequences of early school absences for educational attainment and labour market outcomes	6
Achievement vs. engagement: Providing support in socially disadvantaged schools	6
A critical analysis of Athena Swan as a policy‐scoring scheme	6
Applying the online language learners' characteristics model in connection with various personality traits: A latent profile analysis	6
Beyond the door frame: The role of educational policies and guidelines in (un)welcoming Black refugee students	6
An analysis of attainment grouping policy in Singapore	6
Can AI replace humans? Comparing the capabilities of AI tools and human performance in a business management education scenario	6
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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 Kong	5
Doctoral students' well‐being through the lens of social practice theory: An auto‐photography study	5
Preventing violent extremism: Resourcing, stakeholder strategies and fostering belonging and connection in Australian schools	5
Effectiveness of educational interventions: An ecological systems analysis of initiatives from the UK opportunity areas programme	5
Addressing the diversity principle–practice gap in Western higher education institutions: A systematic review on intersectionality	5
Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters	5
The effects of free tuition policy on university academic performance in Chile	5
Ethos within the British boarding school: A small‐scale analysis of the ‘Head's Welcome’ as an act of legitimation	5
It’s all about the story: Personal narratives in children’s literature about refugees	5
Towards sustainable school food: An experiential planetary health framework integrating meals and food education	5
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 2014	5
The meanings, risk factors and consequences of religious extremism: The perceptions of Islamic education teachers from Israel	5
Levelling down? Understanding the decline of the maintained nursery sector in England	5
Effects of educational disruption and changes in school context on children's mental health: Associations with school level disadvantage and individual bullying involvement	5
Single‐sex schooling, gender and educational performance: Evidence usingPISAdata	5
Choice and diversity in governance in the English alternative provision sector: Implications for educational equity	4
Gender, participation and attainment in STEM: A comprehensive overview of long‐term trends in the United Kingdom	4
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	4
Pandemic, a catalyst for change: Strategic planning for digital education in English secondary schools, before during and post Covid	4
Exploring teacher perceptions and the measured impacts of a progressive curriculum reform for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds	4

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?	4
Social inequalities in early childhood competences, and the relative role of social and emotional versus cognitive skills in predicting adult outcomes	4
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The path increasingly travelled: Vocational entry qualifications, socioeconomic status and university outcomes	4
Ability grouping in primary physical education in England: Moving beyond binary discourses and practices	4
AI‐assisted learning environments in China: Exploring the intersections of emotion regulation strategies, grit tendencies, self‐compassion, L2 learning experiences and academic d	4
Silence at school: Uses and experiences of silence in pedagogy at a secondary school	4
Teacher digital identity divergences: From teacher education to classroom	4
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 how	4
Teaching on the cheap? The extent and impact of teaching assistants covering classes and leading lessons	4
Mental health, bullying and school connectedness: A comparative analysis of school transition at age 11 from within the Welsh education system	4
Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England	4
From classroom challenges to scholarly insights: A bibliometric analysis of novice teacher research	4
Students' preferences for setting and/or mixed‐ability grouping in secondary school physical education in England	4
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Where should phonics teaching start? ‘satpin’ and its origins, rivals and implications	3
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Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy?	3
The effects of schools providing compensatory cultural capital on student reading in the case of Taiwanese students participating in PISA	3
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Mindfulness in education: Critical debates and pragmatic considerations	3
The impact of COVID‐19 on A Level exams in England: Students as consumers	3
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Thinking beyond deficits in Southwest China: Perspectives of ethnic minority teachers on academic achievement disparities among students	3
The Ruskin Speech and Great Debate in English education, 1976–1979: A study of motivation	3
Rurality, socio‐economic disadvantage and educational mobility: A Scottish case study	3
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Can the role of a personal tutor contribute to reducing the undergraduate degree awarding gap for racially minoritised students?	3
Special school staff perspectives on how careers guidance is provided to their autistic young people	3
Teacher perspectives on the introduction of linguistics in the languages classroom: Evidence from a co‐creation project on French, German and Spanish	3
The role of the teacher's culture in classroom management: A case study of primary schools in French Polynesia	3
Pressures and influences on school leaders navigating policy development during the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
Presidential Address: BERA. Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?	3
Accept or challenge? Exploring the experiences of pre‐service teachers from minoritised groups	3
Setting research priorities for applied cognitive sciences—What do teachers want from research?	2
‘The power to SAY what I want to and it gets written down’: Situating children's and adults' voices and silence in participatory research	2
Participating in professional development programmes or learning in the wild? Understanding the learning ecologies of Holocaust educators	2
Organizational and Psychological factors in teacher educators’ professional identity development: An empirical analysis	2
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	2
Teachers’ understandings of barriers to Indigenous children's academic success in Taiwan	2
Analysis of digital capital for social inclusion in educational context	2
Care‐experienced students in higher education: A case for re‐figuring higher education worlds to widen access and further social justice	2
Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care‐experienced people: Introduction to the special issue	2
Unsettling subject English in the twenty‐first century	2
Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC	2
Out‐of‐school suspension among young persons in care: The need to respond to attachment needs and provide a secure base that promotes learning	2
A critical exploration of inclusion policies of elite UK universities	2
Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education	2
Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications	2
‘… 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	2
Antecedents of environmental protection participation intentions among Chinese adolescents: The perspectives of rational choice, moral norms, and supporting environment	2
Can the teaching style reduce inequality in the classroom? Evidence from a quasi‐experiment	2
Effects of critical thinking instruction on Chinese college students with varying baseline critical thinking abilities: A quasi‐experimental study	2
An ethico‐political analysis of a national teacher competence framework: Unravelling a ‘preferred’ teacher identity	2
Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity	2
How do higher degree research students and supervisors navigate ethics‐in‐practice for educational research in sensitive or ‘fragile’ contexts?	2
How robust are socio‐economic achievement gradients usingPISAdata? A case study from Germany	2
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Exploring the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards the adoption of the metaverse in education: A qualitative inquiry using big data	2
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Editorial	2
Learning from failure: A context‐informed perspective on RCTs	2
Chile’s enduring educational segregation: A trend unchanged by different cycles of reform	2
Precarious privilege in the time of pandemic: A hybrid (auto)ethnographic perspective on COVID‐19 and international schooling in China	2
‘The participation group means that I'm low ability’: Students’ perspectives on the enactment of ‘mixed‐ability’ grouping in secondary school physical education	2
Exploring LGBTQ+ teacher professional identity through the power threat meaning framework	2
Beyond the ‘dilemma of difference’: An analysis of stories from experienced teachers, about their inclusive practice	2
How do principals’ paternalistic leadership impact teachers’ emotional labor and efficacy: Do gender or region of teachers make a difference?	2
Funds of knowledge: Towards an asset‐based approach to refugee education and family engagement in England	2
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 development	2
Unlocking education through relationship building: Identity and agency in English educational institutions during Covid‐19	2
The QAA's subject benchmarks and critical pedagogy: The example of ‘gateway to King's’	2
Was 2021–2022 an Annus Horribilis for teacher educators? Reflections on a survey of teacher educators	2
A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK	2