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Educational Assessment and Pedagogy

Educational Assessment and Pedagogy is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the alignment of curriculum, educational objectives, assessment, and instruction, with a particular emphasis on the application and revision of Bloom's Taxonomy. It explores strategies for improving learning outcomes, teaching effectiveness, and the integration of standards into educational practices.

  • Curriculum Alignment
  • Educational Objectives
  • Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Assessment
  • Instruction
  • Standards
  • Learning Outcomes
  • Teaching Strategies
  • Cognitive Levels
  • Educational Research
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Assessment and Pedagogy

Which countries lead Educational Assessment and Pedagogy research?

By volume, Indonesia and Türkiye publish the most (1.1k and 692 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 1.1k works
  2. 2 Türkiye 692 works
  3. 3 United States 542 works
  4. 4 India 154 works
  5. 5 Philippines 141 works
  6. 6 China 134 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 119 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 110 works
  9. 9 ?? 82 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 75 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.

Indonesia: 35.3%Türkiye: 21.9%United States: 17.1%India: 4.9%6 others listed: 20.9%35%largest
Indonesia1,116 · 35.3%Türkiye692 · 21.9%United States542 · 17.1%India154 · 4.9%6 others listed661 · 20.9%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Assessment and Pedagogy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia University of Education publishes the most Educational Assessment and Pedagogy research, followed by Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği and State University of Malang.

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Assessment and Pedagogy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Assessment and Pedagogy include Herbert W. Marsh.

  1. 1 Herbert W. Marsh Australia 128k 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 Pedagogy?

The most cited paper in Educational Assessment and Pedagogy is "Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content- Area Literacy" (Timothy Shanahan, Cynthia R. Shanahan, 2008), with 1,564 citations. Next come "Developing and Using a Codebook for the Analysis of Interview Data: An Example from a Professional Development Research Project" (1,461) and "Historical problem solving: A study of the cognitive processes used in the evaluation of documentary and pictorial evidence." (1,223).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content- Area Literacy Timothy Shanahan, Cynthia R. Shanahan · Harvard Educational Review Apr 2008 1,564
2 Developing and Using a Codebook for the Analysis of Interview Data: An Example from a Professional Development Research Project Jessica T. DeCuir‐Gunby, Patricia L. Marshall, Allison W. McCulloch · Field Methods 27 Dec 2010 1,461
3 Historical problem solving: A study of the cognitive processes used in the evaluation of documentary and pictorial evidence. Sam Wineburg · Journal of Educational Psychology Mar 1991 1,223
4 Enhancing Student Engagement Using the Flipped Classroom Mary Beth Gilboy, Scott Heinerichs, Gina Pazzaglia · Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 25 Sep 2014 1,071
5 Pupils and Paradigms: a Review of Literature Related to Concept Development in Adolescent Science Students Rosalind Driver, Jack A. Easley · Studies in Science Education 1978 1,060
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Where is Educational Assessment and Pedagogy research done?

The largest centres of Educational Assessment and Pedagogy research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Bandung (Indonesia), Malang (Indonesia) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 152 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 97 works
  3. 3 MalangIndonesia 78 works
  4. 4 YogyakartaIndonesia 77 works
  5. 5 MedanIndonesia 67 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 65 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 62 works
  8. 8 SurabayaIndonesia 57 works
  9. 9 SemarangIndonesia 55 works
  10. 10 SurakartaIndonesia 54 works
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Where is the best place to study Educational Assessment and Pedagogy?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Rwanda, Beijing Normal University and State University of Malang 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
1University of RwandaRwanda 61.220.1%36.9×10 +145.5%
2Beijing Normal UniversityChina 54.739.5%2.8×8 +243.8%
3State University of MalangIndonesia 52.75.8%16.3×58 -3.2%
4Mahasarakham UniversityThailand 51.728.1%21.3×8 +141.7%
5Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 50.27.1%19.1×71 -30.9%
6University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 49.423.8%4.1×9 +105.0%
7Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 49.27.7%22.9×49 -15.2%
8Gazi UniversityTürkiye 47.59.7%18.8×33 +5.4%
9Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 45.97.8%12.1×23 +40.1%
10Cukurova UniversityTürkiye 45.619.2%12.1×11 +64.8%

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 Pedagogy, country by country

Is Educational Assessment and Pedagogy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Assessment and Pedagogy.

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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 Pedagogy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educational Assessment and Pedagogy 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 Pedagogy10.2% 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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