OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of School Effectiveness and School Improvement is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Critical examination of the measurement quality of student outcomes: a systematic review	76
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
Teachers’ perception of the characteristics of an evidence-informed school: initiative, supportive culture, and shared reflection	13
Streamlining your school: understanding the relationship between instructional program coherence and school performance	13
Capturing quality. Educational quality in secondary analyses of international large-scale assessments: a systematic review	13
How to conceptualize teaching quality in the future: some confirming, some complementary, and some critical remarks, and some of them hopefully helpful	13
A focus on students’ and teachers’ learning through strategic human resource management	11
How does leadership affect teacher collaboration? Evidence from teachers in US schools	10
Rethinking teaching-quality research: a reflection on the role of core working assumptions and possible pathways for future research	9
School sector and satisfaction: evidence from a nationally representative sample	8
Teachers can differentiate between standards-based leadership skills in principal evaluation surveys: a multilevel analysis	7
Disciplinary climate, opportunity to learn, and mathematics achievement: an analysis using doubly latent multilevel structural equation modeling	7
Are class size and teacher characteristics associated with cognitive outcomes in early grades?	7
Tracking effects on achievement and opportunities of middle-high ability students: a case study in Switzerland	7
The strengths and limitations of using quantitative data to inform school inspections	6
Positive education in daily teaching, the promotion of wellbeing, and engagement in a whole school approach: a clustered quasi-experimental trial	6
Advancing the field of educational effectiveness and equity	5
School leadership and students’ decisions about further education: exploring the roles of goal setting and school socioeconomic composition	5
High-quality teachers in low-quality schools: understanding the variation in teaching quality in low-achieving Chilean schools	5
Place-based disparities faced by stuck schools in England: a contextual understanding of low performance and the role of inspection outcomes	5
The effect of school leaders’ feedback on teaching quality perceived by students – results of an intervention study	5
Conceptualizing teaching quality: problems, prospects, and a proposal for moving forward	5
Investigating differential teacher effectiveness: searching for the impact of classroom context factors	4
Against the odds: predictors of academic success and excellence in majority-minority schools	4
A best-evidence meta-analysis of the effects of digital monitoring tools for teachers on student achievement	4

Promoting school belonging for immigrant students: the interplay of inclusive school climate and multicultural education	4
Measuring social marginalisation: using SEM to uncover essential social factors underlying social marginalisation in public schools	4
From improvement to relationship management: a case study of data artifact creation and use in a school improvement network	4
The overwhelming importance of prior achievement when assessing school effects: evidence from the Australian national assessments	4
Factors related to differences in digitally measured student perceptions of teaching quality	4
Sustaining school improvement initiatives: advice from educational leaders	4
The school matters: Hong Kong secondary schools’ grade-retention composition, students’ educational performance, and educational inequality	4
Examining the contextual factors of science effectiveness: a machine learning-based approach	4