OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of School Effectiveness and School Improvement 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Advancing the field of educational effectiveness and equity	67
Place-based disparities faced by stuck schools in England: a contextual understanding of low performance and the role of inspection outcomes	23
The strengths and limitations of using quantitative data to inform school inspections	21
The effect of voucher and public school education on Chilean students’ mathematics and reading test score trajectories	18
Testing the dynamic model of educational effectiveness: the impact of teacher factors on interest and achievement in mathematics and biology in Serbia	15
Sekolah versus madrasah: navigating the varied effects of multilevel factors on student English reading performance.	13
The effects of early between-school tracking on gender segregation and gender gaps in achievement: a differences-in-differences study	11
The effect of school leaders’ feedback on teaching quality perceived by students – results of an intervention study	10
Incorporating student mobility in studying academic growth in math: comparing several alternative multilevel formulations	9
Variation, context, and inequality: comparing models of school effectiveness in two states in India	9
High-quality teachers in low-quality schools: understanding the variation in teaching quality in low-achieving Chilean schools	8
Quality of teaching at secondary schools in Nicaragua, South Korea, and the Netherlands	7
“Getting things done” in community schools: the institutional work of community school managers	7
Educational inspections in network governance: evidence from collaborative school turnaround in China	6
Research–practice partnership as a school development method: educators’ experiences on collaborative school development process and outcomes	6
A comparison of methods for evaluating schools with respect to growth of students in subpopulations in three-level models	6
Streamlining your school: understanding the relationship between instructional program coherence and school performance	5
Effects of after-school program participation on students’ noncognitive development in China: an empirical study of a Wuhan sample under the “Double Reduction” policy	5
Enrolment in the first stage of early childhood education and students’ academic performance: a cross-country analysis	5
Unravelling the challenges of the data-based approach to teaching improvement	5
Beyond the silver bullet: unveiling multiple pathways to school turnaround	5
The contributions of school and classroom climate to mathematics test scores: a three-level analysis	5
Constructs of leadership and diverging institutional environments: an exploratory comparative study in the United States and Germany	5
Assessing the impact of collaborative inquiry on teacher performance and effectiveness	5
Capturing quality. Educational quality in secondary analyses of international large-scale assessments: a systematic review	4

The effect of different teacher literacy training programmes on student’s word reading abilities in government primary schools in Northern Nigeria	4
The impact of schools as learning organisations on teachers’ self-efficacy and job satisfaction: a cross-country analysis	4
School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: exploring implications for performance monitoring and accountability	4
Teachers’ perception of the characteristics of an evidence-informed school: initiative, supportive culture, and shared reflection	4
School leadership and students’ decisions about further education: exploring the roles of goal setting and school socioeconomic composition	4
Effects of school renewal on school academic achievement: searching for a turning point	4
Measuring policymaking capacities of schools: validation of the Policy Making Capacities Questionnaire (PMC-Q)	4
Does the duration of school interventions matter? The effectiveness and sustainability of using the dynamic approach to promote quality and equity	4
Measuring social marginalisation: using SEM to uncover essential social factors underlying social marginalisation in public schools	4
The dynamic approach to school improvement: investigating duration and sustainability effects on student achievement in mathematics	3
Mapping teacher collaboration for school success	3
Investigating differential teacher effectiveness: searching for the impact of classroom context factors	3
A focus on students’ and teachers’ learning through strategic human resource management	3
Sustaining school improvement initiatives: advice from educational leaders	3
Factors related to differences in digitally measured student perceptions of teaching quality	2
Exploring learning outcomes: the impact of professional learning networks on members, schools, and students	2
Effects of between-class ability grouping on secondary students’ academic achievement: quasi-experimental evidence from Chile	2
Did students learn less during the COVID-19 pandemic? Reading and mathematics competencies before and after the first pandemic wave	2
Is the school context associated with instructional quality? The effects of social composition, leadership, teacher collaboration, and school climate	2
Against the odds: predictors of academic success and excellence in majority-minority schools	1
The stimulation of school improvement processes: the orientation of development perspectives	1
A focus on quality of teaching in schools increases students’ progress of attainment. Evidence from English secondary schools	1
The effectiveness of alternative education: a comparison between primary Dalton schools and traditional schools on outcomes of schooling	1
What is the impact of a principle-based inspection approach?	1
School sector and satisfaction: evidence from a nationally representative sample	1
Teachers can differentiate between standards-based leadership skills in principal evaluation surveys: a multilevel analysis	1
Selection effects in education and implications for educational opportunity: state of the field and future directions	1
Effects of the comprehensive school reform program Success for All on students’ reading skills in Dutch schools	1
Country and school family composition’s effects on mathematics achievement	1
The relationship between interschool social networks and student achievement	1