OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of School Effectiveness and School Improvement is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Teachers’ perception of the characteristics of an evidence-informed school: initiative, supportive culture, and shared reflection	73
Streamlining your school: understanding the relationship between instructional program coherence and school performance	34
Effects of after-school program participation on students’ noncognitive development in China: an empirical study of a Wuhan sample under the “Double Reduction” policy	21
A focus on students’ and teachers’ learning through strategic human resource management	20
Capturing quality. Educational quality in secondary analyses of international large-scale assessments: a systematic review	13
School value-added models for multivariate academic and non-academic outcomes: exploring implications for performance monitoring and accountability	13
School sector and satisfaction: evidence from a nationally representative sample	11
How does leadership affect teacher collaboration? Evidence from teachers in US schools	10
Teachers can differentiate between standards-based leadership skills in principal evaluation surveys: a multilevel analysis	10
Are class size and teacher characteristics associated with cognitive outcomes in early grades?	9
Disciplinary climate, opportunity to learn, and mathematics achievement: an analysis using doubly latent multilevel structural equation modeling	8
High-quality teachers in low-quality schools: understanding the variation in teaching quality in low-achieving Chilean schools	7
Positive education in daily teaching, the promotion of wellbeing, and engagement in a whole school approach: a clustered quasi-experimental trial	7
Tracking effects on achievement and opportunities of middle-high ability students: a case study in Switzerland	7
The effect of school leaders’ feedback on teaching quality perceived by students – results of an intervention study	6
Advancing the field of educational effectiveness and equity	6
The strengths and limitations of using quantitative data to inform school inspections	6
Place-based disparities faced by stuck schools in England: a contextual understanding of low performance and the role of inspection outcomes	6
School leadership and students’ decisions about further education: exploring the roles of goal setting and school socioeconomic composition	5
Factors related to differences in digitally measured student perceptions of teaching quality	5
Promoting school belonging for immigrant students: the interplay of inclusive school climate and multicultural education	5
Against the odds: predictors of academic success and excellence in majority-minority schools	5
Investigating differential teacher effectiveness: searching for the impact of classroom context factors	5
Measuring social marginalisation: using SEM to uncover essential social factors underlying social marginalisation in public schools	5
Sustaining school improvement initiatives: advice from educational leaders	5