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Barry J. Fraser

Barry J. Fraser

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Australia
2025

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
99
Citations
34114
World Ranking
102
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Barry J. Fraser is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has a substantial body of work focusing on educational environments and their impact on student outcomes. Their research spans multiple aspects of social sciences, particularly education, and intersects with areas including health, toxicology, mutagenesis, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

The primary research topics covered by Fraser include:

  • Educational Environments and Student Outcomes
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Education and Technology Integration
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Online and Blended Learning
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports

Fraser has contributed significantly to academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Learning Environments Research
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Education Sciences
  • International Journal of Hospitality Management
  • Social Psychology of Education

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Fraser include:

  • "Assessing Classroom Emotional Climate in STEM classrooms: developing and validating a questionnaire," 2020, Learning Environments Research
  • "The Evolution of the Field of Learning Environments Research," 2023, Education Sciences

Besides these, Fraser has collaborated on works with other researchers, such as:

  • Felicity McLure
  • Rekha Koul
  • Paul E. Rijken
  • Christopher Sean Long
  • Becky Sinclair

Recognition of Fraser's contributions to the scientific community includes being awarded Fellow status by:

  • The American Educational Research Association in 2008
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1997

Best Publications

  • CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT INSTRUMENTS: DEVELOPMENT, VALIDITY AND APPLICATIONS

    Barry J. Fraser

  • International handbook of science education

    Barry J. Fraser;Kenneth George Tobin

  • Syntheses of educational productivity research

    Barry J. Fraser;Herbert J. Walberg;Wayne W. Welch;John A. Hattie

  • Monitoring constructivist classroom learning environments

    Peter C. Taylor;Barry J. Fraser;Darrell L. Fisher

  • Science Learning Environments: Assessment, Effects and Determinants

    Barry J. Fraser

  • Predicting Students’ Outcomes from Their Perceptions of Classroom Psychosocial Environment

    Barry J Fraser;Darrell L Fisher

  • Educational environments : evaluation, antecedents and consequences

    Barry J. Fraser;Herbert J. Walberg

  • Investigating Classroom Environments in Taiwan and Australia With Multiple Research Methods

    Jill M. Aldridge;Barry J. Fraser;Tai-Chu Iris Huang

  • Assessment of Learning Environments: Manual for Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) and My Class Inventory (MCI). Third Version.

    Barry J. Fraser

  • Learning Environment, Attitudes and Achievement among Middle-school Science Students Using Inquiry-based Laboratory Activities

    Stephen J. Wolf;Barry J. Fraser

  • Development and Validation of an Instrument for Assessing Distance Education Learning Environments in Higher Education: The Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES).

    Scott L. Walker;Barry J. Fraser

  • Second international handbook of science education

    Barry J. Fraser;Kenneth George Tobin;Campbell J. McRobbie

  • Development of a test of science‐related attitudes

    Barry J. Fraser

  • Teachers’ views of their school climate and its relationship with teacher self-efficacy and job satisfaction

    Jill M. Aldridge;Barry J. Fraser

  • LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH: YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

    Barry J. Fraser

  • Constructivist learning environments in a crossnational study in Taiwan and Australia

    Jill M. Aldridge;Barry J. Fraser;Peter C. Taylor;Chung-Chih Chen

  • Two decades of classroom environment research.

    Barry J. Fraser

  • Twenty years of classroom climate work: progress and prospect

    Barry J. Fraser

  • Validity and use of an instrument for assessing classroom psychosocial environment in higher education

    Barry J. Fraser;David F. Treagust

  • Evolution and Validation of a Personal Form of an Instrument for Assessing Science Laboratory Classroom Environments.

    Barry J. Fraser;Geoffrey J. Giddings;Campbell J. McRobbie

  • A Cross-cultural Study of Classroom Learning Environments in Australia and Taiwan

    Jill M. Aldridge;Barry J. Fraser

Frequent Co-Authors

Darrell L. Fisher
Darrell L. Fisher Curtin University
Kenneth Tobin
Kenneth Tobin City University of New York
Herbert J. Walberg
Herbert J. Walberg University of Illinois at Chicago
David F. Treagust
David F. Treagust Curtin University
Léonie J. Rennie
Léonie J. Rennie Curtin University
Martin S. Hagger
Martin S. Hagger University of California, Merced
Mieke Brekelmans
Mieke Brekelmans Utrecht University
John Hattie
John Hattie University of Melbourne
Peter J. Fensham
Peter J. Fensham Monash University
Justin Dillon
Justin Dillon University of Exeter

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