| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy | American Educational Research Journal | 1995 | 3,944 |
| 2 | What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers | American Educational Research Journal | 2001 | 2,868 |
| 3 | Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects | American Educational Research Journal | 2008 | 2,121 |
| 4 | Effects of Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on Student Achievement | American Educational Research Journal | 2005 | 1,622 |
| 5 | Teacher Turnover and Teacher Shortages: An Organizational Analysis | American Educational Research Journal | 2001 | 1,590 |
| 6 | What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy | American Educational Research Journal | 2004 | 1,430 |
| 7 | Foundations of Behavioral Research | American Educational Research Journal | 1974 | 1,346 |
| 8 | Design and Analysis: A Researcher's Handbook | American Educational Research Journal | 1975 | 1,333 |
| 9 | Self-Motivation for Academic Attainment: The Role of Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Personal Goal Setting | American Educational Research Journal | 1992 | 1,313 |
| 10 | Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge, Cognitive Activation in the Classroom, and Student Progress | American Educational Research Journal | 2010 | 1,294 |
| 11 | Concerns of Teachers: A Developmental Conceptualization | American Educational Research Journal | 1969 | 1,232 |
| 12 | Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores | American Educational Research Journal | 1969 | 1,174 |
| 13 | Development of a Structured Interview for Assessing Student Use of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies | American Educational Research Journal | 1986 | 1,151 |
| 14 | When the Problem Is Not the Question and the Solution Is Not the Answer: Mathematical Knowing and Teaching | American Educational Research Journal | 1990 | 970 |
| 15 | What Are the Effects of Induction and Mentoring on Beginning Teacher Turnover? | American Educational Research Journal | 2004 | 896 |
| 16 | Student Engagement in Instructional Activity: Patterns in the Elementary, Middle, and High School Years | American Educational Research Journal | 2000 | 895 |
| 17 | Collective Teacher Efficacy: Its Meaning, Measure, and Impact on Student Achievement | American Educational Research Journal | 2000 | 872 |
| 18 | Building Student Capacity for Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning: An Analysis of Mathematical Tasks Used in Reform Classrooms | American Educational Research Journal | 1996 | 809 |
| 19 | What Makes Professional Development Effective? Strategies That Foster Curriculum Implementation | American Educational Research Journal | 2007 | 801 |
| 20 | Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-analysis of Findings | American Educational Research Journal | 1982 | 792 |
| 21 | Norms of Collegiality and Experimentation: Workplace Conditions of School Success | American Educational Research Journal | 1982 | 784 |
| 22 | The Classroom Social Environment and Changes in Adolescents’ Motivation and Engagement During Middle School | American Educational Research Journal | 2001 | 784 |
| 23 | Back to the Future: Directions for Research in Teaching and Teacher Education | American Educational Research Journal | 2008 | 766 |
| 24 | Dropping Out of Middle School: A Multilevel Analysis of Students and Schools | American Educational Research Journal | 1995 | 761 |
| 25 | Sex-Related Differences in Mathematics Achievement, Spatial Visualization and Affective Factors | American Educational Research Journal | 1977 | 741 |
| 26 | The “Grammar” of Schooling: Why Has it Been so Hard to Change? | American Educational Research Journal | 1994 | 722 |
| 27 | Adolescents’ Perceptions of School Environment, Engagement, and Academic Achievement in Middle School | American Educational Research Journal | 2010 | 708 |
| 28 | Foundations of Place: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Place-Conscious Education | American Educational Research Journal | 2003 | 707 |
| 29 | How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement | American Educational Research Journal | 2013 | 696 |
| 30 | High Access and Low Use of Technologies in High School Classrooms: Explaining an Apparent Paradox | American Educational Research Journal | 2001 | 685 |
| 31 | Impact of Self-Regulatory Influences on Writing Course Attainment | American Educational Research Journal | 1994 | 677 |
| 32 | Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle Over Educational Goals | American Educational Research Journal | 1997 | 676 |
| 33 | A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness | American Educational Research Journal | 1969 | 669 |
| 34 | Parent Involvement, Cultural Capital, and the Achievement Gap Among Elementary School Children | American Educational Research Journal | 2006 | 643 |
| 35 | Verbal and Math Self-Concepts: An Internal/External Frame of Reference Model | American Educational Research Journal | 1986 | 626 |
| 36 | Using Knowledge of Children’s Mathematics Thinking in Classroom Teaching: An Experimental Study | American Educational Research Journal | 1989 | 616 |
| 37 | Early Child Care and Children’s Development Prior to School Entry: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care | American Educational Research Journal | 2002 | 612 |
| 38 | Question Asking During Tutoring | American Educational Research Journal | 1994 | 593 |
| 39 | Teachers’ Professional Community in Restructuring Schools | American Educational Research Journal | 1996 | 587 |
| 40 | Quality of Learning With an Active Versus Passive Motivational Set | American Educational Research Journal | 1984 | 568 |
| 41 | Why Students Choose STEM Majors | American Educational Research Journal | 2013 | 555 |
| 42 | Factors Affecting Technology Uses in Schools: An Ecological Perspective | American Educational Research Journal | 2003 | 532 |
| 43 | Pursuing a “Sense of Success”: New Teachers Explain Their Career Decisions | American Educational Research Journal | 2003 | 532 |
| 44 | Cognition and Improvisation: Differences in Mathematics Instruction by Expert and Novice Teachers | American Educational Research Journal | 1989 | 517 |
| 45 | Discussion-Based Approaches to Developing Understanding: Classroom Instruction and Student Performance in Middle and High School English | American Educational Research Journal | 2003 | 508 |
| 46 | On the Reading of Historical Texts: Notes on the Breach Between School and Academy | American Educational Research Journal | 1991 | 505 |
| 47 | Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis | American Educational Research Journal | 1995 | 497 |
| 48 | From Social Ties to Social Capital: Class Differences in the Relations Between Schools and Parent Networks | American Educational Research Journal | 2003 | 497 |
| 49 | Below the Bubble: “Educational Triage” and the Texas Accountability System | American Educational Research Journal | 2005 | 493 |
| 50 | Against the Odds: Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Women in Mathematical, Scientific, and Technological Careers | American Educational Research Journal | 2000 | 481 |
