Most cited papers in Educational Assessment and Improvement
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).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 490 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | May 2011 | 1,847 |
| 6 | Towards a theory of leadership practice: a distributed perspective James P. Spillane, Richard Halverson, John B. Diamond · Journal of Curriculum Studies | 2004 | 1,805 |
| 7 | Conceptualizing Teacher Professional Learning V. Darleen Opfer, David Pedder · Review of Educational Research | 22 Jul 2011 | 1,779 |
| 8 | Writing about structural equation models. Rick H. Hoyle, Abigail T. Panter | 1995 | 1,595 |
| 9 | Effects of Professional Development on Teachers’ Instruction: Results from a Three-year Longitudinal Study Laura M. Desimone, Andrew C. Porter, Michael S. Garet et al. · Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis | Jun 2002 | 1,577 |
| 10 | Exploring the Principal's Contribution to School Effectiveness: 1980‐1995∗ Philip Hallinger, Ronald H. Heck · School Effectiveness and School Improvement | Jun 1998 | 1,569 |
| 11 | Designing a Qualitative Study Joseph A. Maxwell | 2009 | 1,565 |
| 12 | Formative assessment: a critical review Randy Elliot Bennett · Assessment in Education Principles Policy and Practice | 25 Jan 2011 | 1,447 |
| 13 | What Makes Professional Development Effective? Strategies That Foster Curriculum Implementation William R. Penuel, Barry Fishman, Ryoko Yamaguchi et al. · American Educational Research Journal | Dec 2007 | 1,352 |
| 14 | What is Lesson-Drawing? Richard B. Rose · Journal of Public Policy | 1991 | 1,304 |
| 15 | High-Stakes Testing and Curricular Control: A Qualitative Metasynthesis Wayne W. Au · Educational Researcher | Jun 2007 | 1,241 |
| 16 | Collective Sensemaking about Reading: How Teachers Mediate Reading Policy in Their Professional Communities Cynthia E. Coburn · Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis | Jun 2001 | 1,173 |
| 17 | Back to the Future: Directions for Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Pam Grossman, Morva A. McDonald · American Educational Research Journal | Mar 2008 | 1,163 |
| 18 | A Knowledge Base for the Teaching Profession: What Would It Look Like and How Can We Get One? James C. Hiebert, Ronald Gallimore, James W. Stigler · Educational Researcher | Jun 2002 | 1,135 |
| 19 | Leadership for learning: lessons from 40 years of empirical research Philip Hallinger · Journal of Educational Administration | 12 Mar 2011 | 1,082 |
| 20 | Getting to Scale with Good Educational Practice Richard F. Elmore · Harvard Educational Review | Apr 1996 | 1,073 |
| 21 | Defining, Conceptualizing, and Measuring Fidelity of Implementation and Its Relationship to Outcomes in K–12 Curriculum Intervention Research Carol O’Donnell · Review of Educational Research | 25 Feb 2008 | 1,035 |
| 22 | Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago James M. McPartland · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 2011 | 1,033 |
| 23 | Rethinking Scale: Moving Beyond Numbers to Deep and Lasting Change Cynthia E. Coburn · Educational Researcher | Aug 2003 | 1,026 |
| 24 | Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, & Keith Morrison (2011). Research methods in education (7a ed.). New York: Routledge. Daniela Marcucci · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) | Dec 2011 | 1,026 |
| 25 | Instructional Leadership and the School Principal: A Passing Fancy that Refuses to Fade Away Philip Hallinger · Leadership and Policy in Schools | Sep 2005 | 1,013 |
| 26 | Toward a Knowledge Base for School Learning Margaret C. Wang, Geneva D. Haertel, Herbert J. Walberg · Review of Educational Research | Sep 1993 | 979 |
| 27 | A Review of Multiple-Choice Item-Writing Guidelines for Classroom Assessment Thomas M. Haladyna, Steven M. Downing, Michael C. Rodriguez · Applied Measurement in Education | Jul 2002 | 964 |
| 28 | Teachers’ Professional Community in Restructuring Schools Karen Seashore Louis, Helen M. Marks, Sharon D. Kruse · American Educational Research Journal | 1996 | 943 |
| 29 | Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Cynthia E. Coburn, William R. Penuel · Educational Researcher | 2016 | 925 |
| 30 | How Should Research Contribute to Instructional Improvement? The Case of Lesson Study Catherine Lewis, Rebecca Perry, Aki Murata · Educational Researcher | Apr 2006 | 895 |
| 31 | Against the Quantitative-Qualitative Incompatibility Thesis or Dogmas Die Hard Kenneth R. Howe · Educational Researcher | Nov 1988 | 892 |
| 32 | Reforming Again, Again, and Again Larry Cuban · Educational Researcher | 1990 | 876 |
| 33 | Unpacking Black Boxes: Mechanisms and Theory Building in Evaluation Brad Astbury, Frans L. Leeuw · American Journal of Evaluation | Sep 2010 | 861 |
| 34 | The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research James D. Unnever · Economics of Education Review | Oct 2001 | 833 |
| 35 | Why Triangulate? Sandra Mathison · Educational Researcher | Mar 1988 | 791 |
| 36 | Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L. Vigdor · Economics of Education Review | Dec 2007 | 790 |
| 37 | Distributed Leadership and School Improvement Alma Harris · Educational Management Administration & Leadership | 2004 | 787 |
| 38 | Why ‘What Works’ Still Won’t Work: From Evidence-Based Education to Value-Based Education Gert Biesta · Studies in Philosophy and Education | 8 Jul 2010 | 783 |
| 39 | Collaborative leadership and school improvement: understanding the impact on school capacity and student learning Philip Hallinger, Ronald H. Heck · School Leadership and Management | Apr 2010 | 783 |
| 40 | Causal Explanation, Qualitative Research, and Scientific Inquiry in Education Joseph A. Maxwell · Educational Researcher | Mar 2004 | 780 |
| 41 | Core Practices and Pedagogies of Teacher Education Morva A. McDonald, Elham Kazemi, Sarah Schneider Kavanagh · Journal of Teacher Education | 5 Jul 2013 | 776 |
| 42 | Teacher Efficacy and the Effects of Coaching on Student Achievement John A. Ross · Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l éducation | 1992 | 776 |
| 43 | Comment: Educational Research:The Hardest Science of All David C. Berliner · Educational Researcher | Nov 2002 | 772 |
| 44 | Instructional Policy and Classroom Performance: The Mathematics Reform in California David K. Cohen, Heather C. Hill · Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education | Feb 2000 | 760 |
| 45 | Below the Bubble: “Educational Triage” and the Texas Accountability System Jennifer Booher‐Jennings · American Educational Research Journal | 2005 | 760 |
| 46 | Multisite Qualitative Policy Research: Optimizing Description and Generalizability Robert E. Herriott, William A. Firestone · Educational Researcher | Feb 1983 | 756 |
| 47 | Linking teacher and student learning to improve professional development in systemic reform Barry Fishman, Ronald W. Marx, Stephen Best et al. · Teaching and Teacher Education | Aug 2003 | 751 |
| 48 | Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement* Jesse Rothstein · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 2010 | 740 |
| 49 | Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing Linda M. McNeil · NASSP Bulletin | 2001 | 738 |
| 50 | The craft of interviewing in realist evaluation Ana Manzano · Evaluation | 5 Apr 2016 | 731 |
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