OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Studies in Educational Evaluation is 9. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Challenges and Prospects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Utilization among Primary School Teachers: A Developing Country Perspective	94
Teacher support and academic engagement among EFL learners: The role of positive academic emotions	72
Perceptions of STEM alumni and students on developing 21st century skills through methods of teaching and learning	65
HEISQUAL: A modern approach to measure service quality in higher education institutions	55
Misconceptions about data-based decision making in education: An exploration of the literature	53
Advantages of authentic assessment for improving the learning experience and employability skills of higher education students: A systematic literature review	52
Modelling environmental literacy with environmental knowledge, values and (reported) behaviour	40
Educational Data Mining: Identification of factors associated with school effectiveness in PISA assessment	39
A case study of a formative assessment practice and the effects on students’ self-regulated learning	38
Assessment for learning in the Hong Kong assessment reform: A case of policy borrowing	30
Hong Kong primary students’ self-regulated writing strategy use: Influences of gender, writing proficiency, and grade level	30
A scoping review on the notions of Assessment as Learning (AaL), Assessment for Learning (AfL), and Assessment of Learning (AoL)	30
Creating a forum for researching teaching and its quality more synergistically	29
Chinese university EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices of classroom writing assessment	28
Core practices in practice-based teacher education: A systematic literature review of its teaching and assessment process	27
Effects of school organizational conditions on teacher professional learning in China: The mediating role of teacher self-efficacy	27
A measurement model of entrepreneurship education effectiveness based on methodological triangulation	25
The impact of interventions to prevent truancy: A review of the research literature	25
Evaluation of construct-irrelevant variance yielded by machine and human scoring of a science teacher PCK constructed response assessment	24
When artificial intelligence meets educational leaders’ data-informed decision-making: A cautionary tale	22
Using Opinion Mining as an educational analytic: An integrated strategy for the analysis of students’ feedback	22
A co-orientation analysis of teachers’ and students’ perceptions of online teaching and learning in Hong Kong higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Dimensionality and reliability of a screening instrument for students at-risk of dropping out from Higher Education	21
Measurement invariance of information, communication and technology (ICT) engagement and its relationship with student academic literacy: Evidence from PISA 2018	21
Effect of number of response options on the psychometric properties of Likert-type scales used with children	19

Evaluation of university teaching as sound performance appraisal	19
Conceptualizing and exploring the quality of teaching using generic frameworks: A way forward	19
Structural validity and invariance of the Feedback Perceptions Questionnaire	19
On the value of data-based decision making in education: The evidence from six intervention studies	19
Evaluating school inspection effectiveness: A systematic research synthesis on 30 years of international research	19
Analyzing the relationship between principals’ learning-centered leadership and teacher professional learning: The mediation role of trust and knowledge sharing behavior	18
Impact of distributed leadership on teacher job satisfaction in China: The mediating roles of teacher autonomy and teacher collaboration	18
Construction and validation of a test to assess (pre-service) teachers' technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK)	17
How is a professional development programme related to the development of university teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and teaching conceptions?	16
Young learners’ reading and writing performance: Exploring collaborative modeling of text structure as an additional component of self-regulated strategy development	16
The impact of the scoring system of a large-scale standardized EFL writing assessment on its score variability and reliability: Implications for assessment policy makers	16
We agree on what we see: Teacher and student perceptions of formative assessment practice	16
The effectiveness of the GoKoan e-learning platform in improving university students’ academic performance	15
Applying Q methodology to teacher evaluation research	15
From fixing the work to improving the learner: An initial evaluation of a professional learning intervention using a new student-centred feedback model	15
Creativity development in preschoolers: The effects of children’s museum visits and other education environment factors	14
A continuum of data literacy for teaching	14
Evaluating peer feedback as a reliable and valid complementary aid to teacher feedback in EFL writing classrooms: A feedback giver perspective	14
Measuring mathematics competence in international and national large scale assessments: Linking PISA and the national educational panel study in Germany	14
Bachelor’s degree student dropouts: Who tend to stay and who tend to leave?	14
Professional vision of inclusive classrooms: A validation of teachers’ reasoning on differentiated instruction and teacher-student interactions	14
Teacher support, growth language mindset, and academic engagement: The mediating role of L2 grit	14
Perceived university support and entrepreneurial intentions: Do different students benefit differently?	14
Assessment for learning in constrained contexts: How does the teacher’s self-directed development play out?	13
The role of engagement and academic behavioral skills on young students’ academic performance—A validation across four countries	13
The ecocentric and anthropocentric attitudes towards different environmental phenomena: A sample of Syrian refugee children	13
The dynamic relationship between response processes and self-regulation in critical thinking assessments	13
The effects of an AWE-aided assessment approach on business English writing performance and writing anxiety: A contextual consideration	13
Perfectionism and foreign language achievement: The mediating role of emotions and achievement goals	12
Intelligence quotient, short-term memory and study habits as academic achievement predictors of elementary school: A follow-up study	12
Exploring factors related with resilience in primary education: Evidence from European countries	12
How to measure soft skills in the educational context: psychometric properties of the SKILLS-in-ONE questionnaire	12
Academics’ beliefs towards holistic competency development and assessment: A case study in engineering education	12
Data use for equity?: How data practices incite deficit thinking in schools	12
Automatic evaluation of open-ended questions for online learning. A systematic mapping	12
Measuring graduate students’ global competence: Instrument development and an empirical study with a Chinese sample	12
Developing teacher assessment skills: The impact of the dynamic approach to teacher professional development	11
Affordances and constraints of mathematics-specific observation frameworks and general elements of teaching quality	11
Flipping the 4th grade social studies course in a cooperative way: Effects on academic achievement and motivation	11
Data-based individualization in mathematics to support middleschool teachers and their students with mathematics learning difficulty	11
Explaining self-efficacy development in an authentic higher education learning context of role-play simulations	11
Analyzing the effects of mathematical discourse-based instruction on eleventh-grade students’ procedural and conceptual understanding of probability and statistics	11
Working more collaboratively to better understand teaching and its quality: Challenges faced and possible solutions	11
Exposure to crime and academic achievement: A case study for Costa Rica using PISA data	11
Evaluation of the ‘Feedback Engagement Enhancement Tool’ to examine and enhance students’ engagement with feedback on their writing	11
Testing measurement invariance of PISA 2015 mathematics, science, and ICT scales using the alignment method	11
Student – Feedback Interaction Model: Revised	11
To assess or not to assess holistic competencies – Student perspectives in Hong Kong	11
Linking university mathematics classroom environments to student achievement: The mediation of mathematics beliefs	11
How do primary school English textbooks teach moral values? A critical discourse analysis	10

Capacity building to bridge data use and instructional improvement through evidence on student thinking	10
Re-evaluation of the D21-digital-index assessment instrument for measuring higher-level digital competences	10
Supporting students’ generation of feedback in large-scale online course with artificial intelligence-enabled evaluation	10
Formative peer assessment to enhance primary school pupils’ oral skills: Comparison of written feedback without discussion or oral feedback during a discussion	10
Online teaching during COVID-19 pandemic: A phenomenological study of university educators’ experiences and challenges	10
A systematic review of item response theory in language assessment: Implications for the dimensionality of language ability	10
The quality assurance of a national English writing assessment: Policy implications for quality improvement	10
Does inequality in opportunity perpetuate inequality in outcomes? International evidence from four TIMSS cycles	10
A cross-cultural study of student self-efficacy profiles and the associated predictors and outcomes using a multigroup latent profile analysis	10
Geography tests in the Finnish Matriculation Examination in paper and digital forms – An analysis of questions based on revised Bloom’s taxonomy	9
Bullying: Group differences of being victim and being bully and the influence of social relations	9
Students’ experiences of fairness in summative assessment: A study in a higher education context	9
The impact on student achievement of an assessment for learning teacher professional development program	9
Comparing two constructs for describing and analyzing teachers’ diagnostic processes	9
Fair student assessment: A phenomenographic study on teachers’ conceptions	9
Hybrid content-specific and generic approaches to lesson observation: Possibilities and practicalities	9
Toward a multidimensional conceptualization of motivation to transfer training: Validation of the transfer motivation questionnaire from a self-determination theory perspective using bifactor-ESEM	9
An Expanded Ethical Decision-making Model to Resolve Ethical Dilemmas in Assessment	9
Private supplementary tutoring expenditures and children’s learning outcomes: Gender and locational evidence from Ghana	9
Profiles of instructional quality in primary and secondary education: Patterns, predictors, and relations to student achievement and motivation in science	9
School bullying: Prevalence and variation in and between school systems in TIMSS 2015	9
Connecting feedback to self-efficacy: Receiving and providing peer feedback in teacher education	9
The global rise of online chatting and its adverse effect on reading literacy	9