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Educational Assessment and Improvement

Educational Assessment and Improvement is a research topic within Information Systems and Management. Science Explorer counts 10k 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 use of data-driven decision making in education, particularly in the context of improving instructional practices and educational outcomes. It explores topics such as research-practice partnerships, teacher capacity for data use, school inspections, and the impact of accountability policies on educational improvement.

  • Data Use
  • Educational Improvement
  • Research-Practice Partnerships
  • Teacher Decision Making
  • School Inspections
  • Instructional Improvement
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Data Literacy
  • Accountability Policies
  • Student Achievement
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Assessment and Improvement

Which countries lead Educational Assessment and Improvement research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (714 and 172 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 714 works
  2. 2 Germany 172 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 144 works
  4. 4 China 105 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 86 works
  6. 6 Philippines 79 works
  7. 7 Australia 72 works
  8. 8 Canada 54 works
  9. 9 Norway 53 works
  10. 10 South Africa 48 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: 46.8%Germany: 11.3%United Kingdom: 9.4%China: 6.9%6 others listed: 25.6%47%largest
United States714 · 46.8%Germany172 · 11.3%United Kingdom144 · 9.4%China105 · 6.9%6 others listed392 · 25.6%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Assessment and Improvement research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Oslo publishes the most Educational Assessment and Improvement research, followed by University of Virginia and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of OsloNorway 17 works
  2. 2 University of VirginiaUnited States 14 works
  3. 3 Monash UniversityAustralia 12 works
  4. 4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  5. 5 Leibniz AssociationGermany 10 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Education University of Hong KongChina 9 works
  8. 8 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 9 works
  9. 9 University of MünsterGermany 9 works
  10. 10 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Assessment and Improvement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Assessment and Improvement include James Thomas, John W. Creswell and Yvonna S. Lincoln.

  1. 1 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  2. 2 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
  3. 3 Yvonna S. Lincoln United States 148k 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 Assessment and Improvement?

The most cited paper in Educational Assessment and Improvement is "Criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries" (Egon G. Guba, 1981), with 5,550 citations. Next come "Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs" (5,441) and "What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers" (5,053).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries Egon G. Guba · ECTJ Jun 1981 5,550
2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for Mixed-Method Evaluation Designs Jennifer C. Greene, Valerie J. Caracelli, Wendy F. Graham · Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Sep 1989 5,441
3 What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers Michael S. Garet, Andrew C. Porter, Laura M. Desimone et al. · American Educational Research Journal 2001 5,053
4 Educational Leadership Ann Weaver Hart · Educational Management & Administration Jul 1999 2,383
5 The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education Dirk Windhorst · Brock Education Journal Open access May 2011 1,847
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Where is Educational Assessment and Improvement research done?

The largest centres of Educational Assessment and Improvement research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Washington D.C. (United States), Oslo (Norway) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 26 works
  3. 3 OsloNorway 25 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 23 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 21 works
  7. 7 CharlottesvilleUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 SantiagoChile 13 works
  9. 9 ZurichSwitzerland 13 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 13 works
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Where is the best place to study Educational Assessment and Improvement?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, University of Oslo and University of Gothenburg 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.

0%20%40%mean 15.45%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Education University…University of Gothen…University College L…University of Oslo
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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
1Education University of Hong KongChina 65.633.9%30.9×9 -20.8%
2University of OsloNorway 58.311.0%12.4×17 -14.2%
3University of GothenburgSweden 52.921.4%8.5×8 +12.2%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 49.921.3%3.2×11 -29.3%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 47.88.7%5.9×12 -7.4%
6University of MichiganUnited States 45.616.6%3.0×10 -8.7%
7University of AucklandNew Zealand 41.214.0%7.0×8 -3.0%
8The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 37.716.0%4.9×9 +66.0%
9University of VirginiaUnited States 34.75.1%10.8×14 -20.9%
10TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 29.26.5%17.3×9 +211.2%

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 Assessment and Improvement, country by country

Is Educational Assessment and Improvement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Assessment and Improvement.

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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 Assessment and Improvement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0080% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educational Assessment and Improvement 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.

still counting5%10%15%Educational Assessment and Improvement10.6% in 2025200020102020

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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