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Educational Environments and Student Outcomes

Educational Environments and Student Outcomes is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 12k 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 research related to learning environments in education, including topics such as classroom environment, teacher-student relationships, learning spaces, student perceptions, educational design, interpersonal behavior, academic achievement, school architecture, pedagogic change, and student outcomes.

  • Classroom Environment
  • Teacher-Student Relationships
  • Learning Spaces
  • Student Perceptions
  • Educational Design
  • Interpersonal Behavior
  • Academic Achievement
  • School Architecture
  • Pedagogic Change
  • Student Outcomes
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Environments and Student Outcomes

Which countries lead Educational Environments and Student Outcomes research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (618 and 324 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 618 works
  2. 2 China 324 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 213 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 157 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 153 works
  6. 6 Australia 145 works
  7. 7 India 129 works
  8. 8 Nigeria 102 works
  9. 9 Italy 95 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 94 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: 30.4%China: 16.0%Türkiye: 10.5%Indonesia: 7.7%6 others listed: 35.4%30%largest
United States618 · 30.4%China324 · 16.0%Türkiye213 · 10.5%Indonesia157 · 7.7%6 others listed718 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Environments and Student Outcomes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universiti Teknologi MARA publishes the most Educational Environments and Student Outcomes research, followed by The University of Melbourne and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 17 works
  2. 2 The University of MelbourneAustralia 16 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 14 works
  4. 4 University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 11 works
  6. 6 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 10 works
  7. 7 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Monash UniversityAustralia 10 works
  9. 9 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 9 works
  10. 10 Curtin UniversityAustralia 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Environments and Student Outcomes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Environments and Student Outcomes include Reuben M. Baron.

  1. 1 Reuben M. Baron United States 147k 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 Environments and Student Outcomes?

The most cited paper in Educational Environments and Student Outcomes is "Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement" (John Hattie, 2008), with 6,967 citations. Next come "Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design: Recent Developments" (2,976) and "Rethinking the Connections Between Campus Courses and Field Experiences in College- and University-Based Teacher Education" (2,581).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement John Hattie 19 Nov 2008 6,967
2 Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design: Recent Developments FRED G. W. C. PAAS, Alexander Renkl, John Sweller · Educational Psychologist 2003 2,976
3 Rethinking the Connections Between Campus Courses and Field Experiences in College- and University-Based Teacher Education Ken Zeichner · Journal of Teacher Education 30 Dec 2009 2,581
4 The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring Benjamin S. Bloom · Educational Researcher Jun 1984 2,495
5 Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century: Skills for the Future Stephanie Bell · The Clearing House A Journal of Educational Strategies Issues and Ideas 27 Jan 2010 2,472
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Where is Educational Environments and Student Outcomes research done?

The largest centres of Educational Environments and Student Outcomes research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 44 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 42 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 39 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 36 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 25 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 24 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 CairoEgypt 23 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Educational Environments and Student Outcomes?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Melbourne, Curtin University and Beijing Normal University 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
1The University of MelbourneAustralia 74.022.0%4.7×16 -16.5%
2Curtin UniversityAustralia 65.329.6%9.5×9 -33.0%
3Beijing Normal UniversityChina 60.730.0%3.6×9 +25.5%
4Monash UniversityAustralia 59.920.0%3.1×10 +21.1%
5Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 56.43.4%7.0×17 +55.6%
6UNSW SydneyAustralia 53.920.7%2.8×8 +27.6%
7University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 52.82.4%12.2×13 +611.9%
8University of HelsinkiFinland 49.715.6%3.7×8 +26.5%
9Georgia State UniversityUnited States 41.76.1%10.7×10 +392.4%
10Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 39.48.1%4.5×9 +31.7%

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 Environments and Student Outcomes, country by country

Is Educational Environments and Student Outcomes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Environments and Student Outcomes.

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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 Environments and Student Outcomes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educational Environments and Student Outcomes 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 Environments and Student Outcomes10.2% 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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