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Educational and Psychological Assessments

Educational and Psychological Assessments is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of dynamic assessment in educational psychology, emphasizing Vygotskian praxis, mediated learning experience, and the zone of proximal development. It explores the use of dynamic assessment for language development, cognitive modifiability, and the effectiveness of nurture groups and peer mediation. The papers also discuss assessment practices and the role of educational psychologists in promoting learning potential.

  • Dynamic Assessment
  • Educational Psychology
  • Vygotskian Praxis
  • Mediated Learning Experience
  • Zone of Proximal Development
  • Cognitive Modifiability
  • Nurture Groups
  • Peer Mediation
  • Language Development
  • Assessment Practices
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational and Psychological Assessments

Which countries lead Educational and Psychological Assessments research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 502 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 502 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 403 works
  4. 4 Australia 195 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 182 works
  6. 6 Germany 167 works
  7. 7 Canada 156 works
  8. 8 Iran 148 works
  9. 9 Japan 127 works
  10. 10 South Africa 125 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 37.6%China: 15.6%United Kingdom: 12.5%Australia: 6.1%6 others listed: 28.2%38%largest
United States1,208 · 37.6%China502 · 15.6%United Kingdom403 · 12.5%Australia195 · 6.1%6 others listed906 · 28.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Educational and Psychological Assessments research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Educational and Psychological Assessments research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 49 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 26 works
  3. 3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  4. 4 Monash UniversityAustralia 20 works
  5. 5 University of AucklandNew Zealand 18 works
  6. 6 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 18 works
  7. 7 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 18 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 17 works
  9. 9 University of JyväskyläFinland 16 works
  10. 10 Education University of Hong KongChina 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational and Psychological Assessments?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational and Psychological Assessments include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  6. 6 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  7. 7 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  8. 8 Ronald Carl Petersen United States 207k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Educational and Psychological Assessments?

The most cited paper in Educational and Psychological Assessments is "Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling" (Rex B. Kline, 1998), with 36,227 citations. Next come "Construct validity in psychological tests." (11,076) and "Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive–developmental inquiry." (10,374).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling Rex B. Kline 27 May 1998 36,227
2 Construct validity in psychological tests. Lee J. Cronbach, Paul E. Meehl · Psychological Bulletin Open access Jul 1955 11,076
3 Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive–developmental inquiry. John H. Flavell · American Psychologist Oct 1979 10,374
4 Structural Equation Modelling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit Daire Hooper, Joseph P. Coughlan, Michael R. Mullen · Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) Open access 2008 8,799
5 The effects of feedback interventions on performance: A historical review, a meta-analysis, and a preliminary feedback intervention theory. Avraham N. Kluger, Angelo S. DeNisi · Psychological Bulletin Mar 1996 5,900
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Where is Educational and Psychological Assessments research done?

The largest centres of Educational and Psychological Assessments research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 84 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 81 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 58 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 48 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 46 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 44 works
  7. 7 TehranIran 41 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 36 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 34 works
  10. 10 TashkentUzbekistan 34 works
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Where is the best place to study Educational and Psychological Assessments?

Among universities, judged by research, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Education University of Hong Kong and University of Cambridge score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Chinese University of Hong KongChina 69.148.1%3.0×11 +62.2%
2Education University of Hong KongChina 61.529.7%22.9×16 +11.0%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 59.826.8%3.0×17 +100.5%
4University of AucklandNew Zealand 53.111.1%7.0×18 +57.9%
5University of Hong KongChina 52.831.3%2.3×10 +40.6%
6Monash UniversityAustralia 51.918.5%4.3×20 +9.0%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 51.717.9%2.8×22 +1.4%
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 48.912.4%3.2×12 +23.9%
9University of OsloNorway 48.014.0%4.8×15 +42.3%
10University of JyväskyläFinland 46.85.6%18.6×16 +80.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Educational and Psychological Assessments, country by country

Is Educational and Psychological Assessments research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Educational and Psychological Assessments.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Educational and Psychological Assessments as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educational and Psychological Assessments over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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