OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Oxford Review of Education 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Leadership for ethical conduct of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Nigeria and the challenge of ‘Miracle Examination Centres’	74
Using GIS to analyse early years provision in Northern Ireland – adding another year of segregated education?	53
Voices from the classroom: perceptions and obstacles in Indonesian curriculum reform	43
Challenges facing interventions to promote equity in the early years: exploring the ‘impact’, legacy and lessons learned from a national evaluation of Children’s Centres in England	41
Knowledge infrastructure crisis: digital democratic deficits and alternative designs for education	36
Framing teachers’ curriculum work in the Australian print media: the ‘lesson lottery’, workload, and the evolving role of public policy think tanks	34
Senior-secondary vocational tracking and socio-economic inequality in student educational performance: evidence from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey	29
What is academic development? Contributing a frontier-extending conceptual analysis to the field’s epistemic development	27
Theory-informed beliefs in early childhood education: contradictions in child development theories and models of play	24
What do we know about teacher education for difficult topics? A systematic review	23
Territorial learning and childcare practices: exploring relations between territory and care in the intercultural training of Indigenous educators in Brazil	22
Predictors and mediators of pressure/tension in university students’ distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic: A self-determination theory perspective	21
Promoting politically contested change by invisible education policies: the case of ultra-Orthodox public schools in Israel	21
Pupil voice as a method in education research: thinking the ‘in-between’	17
Emerging horizons for social justice in assessment: can assessment move beyond competence, competition, content and control?	16
Competing interests of stakeholders in a policy-driven test: a sociological analysis	15
Participant reflexivity and the complexity inherent to navigating ethical quandaries	15
Do teachers read against the text? Studying the prevalence of critical literature pedagogy through a vignette	15
Reconceptualising early childhood education in Nigeria: a praxis for policy and research	13
Staffing rural and remote school communities: right fit – right school, right teacher, right community	13
Writing and the walls: new materialist assemblages as pedagogy in English	13
Knowledgeable but not specialist: Virtual School Heads’ experiences of supporting autistic children in care	12
The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark	12
Failing at the basics: disabled university students’ views on enhancing classroom inclusion	11
Education, truth and subjectivity: Revisiting Kierkegaard	10

Children’s early care experiences and their educational attainment: a population data-linkage study in Wales	10
Colour-evasive racial ideologies underpinning the hidden curriculum of a majority-minority occupational therapy school in London, England: an analysis of minoritised undergraduate students’ experience	10
Steering the ‘client’-oriented schooling ship: a moral-ecological assessment framework to preserve professional integrity	10
Partial, hierarchical and stratified space? Understanding ‘the international’ in studies of international student mobility	9
The impact of part-time community education on the academic achievement of minoritised pupils: evidence from Flanders	9
The emerging intersection: the role of architecture in promoting inclusive education	9
The political economy of school exclusion in Northern Ireland: the intersection of perspectives from mainstream education, alternative provision and an official education body	8
Social sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care through play, responsiveness and inclusion: teachers’ responses to children’s non-verbal initiatives in play	7
Student diversity, university rankings and the positioning of Russell Group universities	7
Testing for sequential bias in school inspections	7
Agenda-setting for education reform: the case of the Vision Statement for the Future of Scottish Education	7
Formal school exclusions over the educational lifecourse in Wales	7
The core content framework and the ‘new science’ of educational research	6
Tensions between decolonisation and social justice in education: seeking pathways beyond incommensurability	6
Can a code-based approach to marking and feedback reduce teachers’ workload? An evaluation of the FLASH marking intervention	6
Scaling up early language intervention in educational settings: First steps matter	5
Shifting power relations in innovative learning environments: implications for initial teacher education and practicum	5
Enduring it all to protect Black students: Black educators’ experiences with racial battle fatigue and burn out	5
The power of stories: oral storytelling, schooling and onto-epistemologies in rural Malawi	5
Privacy, power, and relationship: ethics and the home-school partnership	5
Experiential learning of decolonial participatory design based on the Indigenous context of the Colombian Amazon	5
Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research	5
Serving their communities? The under-admission of children with disabilities and ‘special educational needs’ to ‘faith’ primary schools in England	5
Expanding educational opportunities or widening learning inequalities? Evidence from national reform of pre-primary education in Ethiopia	5
Teachers for social justice: exploring the lives and work of teachers committed to social justice in education	4
Knowledge-making in a crisis: English education during and after Covid-19	4
The DECAY of Merton’s scientific norms and the new academic ethos	4
Perceptions of key education actors towards PISA: the case of Scotland	4
‘Back to the future’: Thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Alec Clegg (1909–1986) on the promise of education	4
Whose children are they? Using Kymlicka on multiculturalism to evaluate rights and freedom in Christian home education	4
School exclusion policies across the UK: convergence and divergence	4
Student intersectional sociodemographic and school variation in GCSE final grades in England following Covid-19 examination cancellations	4
Conceptualising small rural school-community relationships within a divided society: people, meanings, practices and spaces	3
Factors influencing teachers’ grading standards in mathematics	3
‘Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things’ : the ‘low value’ arts degree and the neoliberal university	3
Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children	3
Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review	3
Peeling back the layers: contextualising the oralist narratives of listening and spoken language in deaf education and early intervention	3
Tessellation, shamanism, and being alive to things	3
Indigenous heritage as an educational resource in primary education	3
Youth education decisions and occupational misalignment and mismatch: evidence from a representative cohort study of Australian youth	3
Anxiety and performance during tests: the roles of coping and updating	3
The influence of socio-demographics and school factors on GCSE attainment: results from the first record linkage data in Northern Ireland	3
Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy	3
The pronunciation of students’ names in higher education: identity work by academics and professional services staff	3
Effects of a positive education programme on secondary school students’ mental health and wellbeing; challenges of the school context	3
Financial sustainability in a marketised and partially autonomous environment: the case of small new public universities in England	3
Adolescents in transition: experiences and appraisals of immigrant students in school education	3
‘We want to, but we can’t’: pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach primary physical education	2
Intellectual authority and participation in group work	2

The role of teachers’ implicit social goals in pedagogical reforms in Tanzania	2
Foreword to the fiftieth volume	2
Examining the factors influencing mathematics academic achievement in mainland China: A multilevel analysis	2
Statistically guided grading judgements: contextualisation or contamination?	2
Teacher professional autonomy in an atypical government school: matters of relationality and context	2
Examining Teaching for Mastery as an instance of ‘hyperreal’ cross national policy borrowing	2
Inter-subject comparability of the Spanish university entrance examinations	2
The costs of school exclusion: a case study analysis of England, Wales and Scotland	2
The social practice approach: a pathway to improved academic achievement in adult basic literacy	2
Early school leaving, number of siblings and birth order in Spain	2
Who are the children we teach? Considering identities, place and time-space in education	2
Breaks in the chain: using theories of social practice to interrogate professionals’ experiences of administering Pupil Premium Plus to support looked after children	2
Inequalities in late adolescents’ educational experiences and wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
Measuring indicators of Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.2.1: factor structure of a direct assessment tool in four Asian countries	2
Teaching and learning: what matters for intervention	2
Oral language at school entry: dimensionality of speaking and listening skills	2
School absences, academic achievement, and adolescents’ post-school destinations	2
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India	2
Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives	2
Insights on student-centred and knowledge-centred teaching: Jewish studies teachers, pedagogy and community	2
Personalising assessment in the service of equity	2
Excluded lives: a ‘home-international’ comparison of school exclusion	2
Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation	2
Concepts, collaboration, and a company of actors: a Vygotskian model for concept development in the 21st century	2
Good schools or good students? The importance of selectivity for school rankings	2
Bridging the gap: educational aspirations and expectations in Latin American intermediate territories	2
The Sisyphean continuum: countering the racial-colonial challenges of Indigenous education	2
Typologising the corporatisation of parent roles in the ‘modern’ governance of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in subordinated communities	1
Students’ agency for critical interculturalism: from intercultural responsibility to informal leadership	1
Deconstructing representations of reading disability: critical literacy book clubs for literacy specialists	1
International development higher education: Looking from the past, looking to the future	1
Educator views regarding young people’s aspirations in peripheral coastal communities in England: a Q study	1
Systematic review synthesising the effects of study abroad experience on the development of language fluency	1
What makes care-experienced young people ‘survivors’ in education: evidence from China	1
Neglected dimensions of political education: lessons from Karl Mannheim and Leo Strauss	1
Assessment literacy and critical consciousness	1
Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess classroom assessment from the self-regulated learning perspective	1
Knowledge, expertise and policy in the examinations crisis in England	1
Youth experiences of co-designing a well-being intervention: reflections, learnings and recommendations	1
Politicisation, depoliticisation and knowledge in education recovery planning after Covid-19	1
What does success mean to you? Negotiating individual definitions of educational success within an examination-dominated regime of truth	1
Roland Barthes and the death of the teacher	1
Global education governance: insights from a national and historical perspective (Spain 1953–1970)	1
The role of education in a democracy: continuing the debate	1
‘Alternative’ education provision: a mapping and critique	1
‘Shi men’ as key doctoral practice: understanding international doctoral students’ learning communities and research culture in China	1
Perceptions and pedagogical considerations in professional development training for integration of an early literacy program in Kenya	1
What is global higher education?	1
Rethinking the ‘global’ in global higher education studies: From the lens of the Chinese idea oftianxia	1
Socio-economic inequality and education	1
Designing school policies to promote student learning outcomes through improving quality of teaching	1
Choosing private alternative schools in Czechia: parents’ narrative identity study	1
Test anxiety: Is it associated with performance in high-stakes examinations?	1
Analysing English year-one mathematics textbooks through the lens of foundational number sense: A cautionary tale for importers of overseas-authored materials	1
The agony of university choice: Broaden horizons, expand participation?	1
Student voice and teacher voice in educational research: a systematic review of 25 years of literature from 1995–2020	1
Inside mathematics learning inequality: an analysis of Young Lives Survey data, India	1
Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools	1
Effects of a professional development programme on teachers’ classroom practices in Colombia	1
Using Schwab to reform the Religious Education curriculum in England	1
Psychosocial disorder or rational action? Contrasting professional and pupil narratives of school exclusion	1
Increasing inclusion for ethnic minority students by teaching the British Empire and global history in the English history curriculum	1
University students’ interpretations of study-related peer sociality	1
Improving but not equalising opportunity: the objective and effect of regulating fair access to higher education in England, and their implications for understanding higher education policy	1
Formabiap’s Indigenous educative community, Peru: a biosocial pedagogy	1