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908

Patricia Broadfoot publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patricia Broadfoot sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 222 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Patricia Broadfoot D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patricia Broadfoot sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patricia Broadfoot is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within the social sciences and computer science.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

More specifically, the subfields addressed in their work cover:

  • Education
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Social Psychology
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications

The main topics they have worked on are:

  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Competency Development and Evaluation
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education
  • Online Learning and Analytics

Their recent papers include:

  • Generative AI and the social functions of educational assessment, 2025, Oxford Review of Education
  • Competence, competition, content and control: sociological perspectives on educational assessment, 2025, Oxford Review of Education

Patricia Broadfoot has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Michelle Meadows
  • Guoxing Yu
  • Jo-Anne Baird
  • James Rockey

Publication venues they have contributed to are focused on a single journal:

  • Oxford Review of Education

Best Publications

  • Redefining assessment? The first ten years of assessment in education

    Patricia Broadfoot;Paul Black

  • Developing an Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory: the ELLI Project

    Ruth Deakin Crick;Patricia Broadfoot;Guy Claxton

  • Assessment for Learning: 10 Principles

    Patricia Broadfoot;Richard Daugherty;John Gardner;Wynne Harlen

  • Rethinking assessment in a digital age: opportunities, challenges and risks

    Sue E Timmis;Patricia Broadfoot;Rosamund Sutherland;Alison Oldfield

  • Education, assessment, and society

    Patricia M. Broadfoot

  • What Pupils Say: Changing Policy and Practice in Primary Education

    Andrew Pollard;Pat Triggs;Patricia Broadfoot;Elizabeth McNess

  • Education, assessment, and society : a sociological analysis

    Patricia Broadfoot

  • A Systematic Review of the Impact of Summative Assessment and Tests on Students’ Motivation for Learning

    Wynne Harlen;Ruth Deakin Crick;Patricia Broadfoot;Richard Daugherty

  • What Teachers Do: Changing Policy and Practice in Primary Education

    MJ Osborn;EM McNess;PM Broadfoot;AJ Pollard

  • Comparative Education for the 21st Century: Retrospect and prospect

    Patricia Broadfoot

  • An Introduction to Assessment

    Patricia Broadfoot

  • Comparative and International Research in Education: Scope, Problems, and Potential.

    Michael Crossley;Patricia Broadfoot

  • Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

    PM Broadfoot

  • What Professional Responsibility Means to Teachers: national contexts and classroom constants

    Patricia Broadfoot;Marilyn Osborn;M. Gilly;A. Paillet

  • A World Of Difference? Comparing Learners Across Europe

    MJ Osborn;PM Broadfoot;EM McNess;B Ravn

  • Is the effective compromising the affective

    Elizabeth McNESS;Patricia Broadfoot;Marilyn Osborn

  • The ecology of learning: factors contributing to learner‐centred classroom cultures

    Ruth Deakin Crick;Barbara McCombs;Alice Haddon;Patricia Broadfoot

  • Perceptions of teaching : primary school teachers in England and France

    Patricia Broadfoot;Marilyn Osborn;Michel Gilly;Arlette Bûcher

  • Assessment, Schools and Society

    Patricia Broadfoot

  • Assessment and the improvement of education

    Wynne Harlen;Caroline Gipps;Patricia Broadfoot;Desmond Nuttall

  • Assessment: What's In It For Schools?

    Paul Weeden;Jan Winter;Patricia Broadfoot

  • The Intuitive Practitioner: On the value of not always knowing what one is doing

    PM Broadfoot

Frequent Co-Authors

Wynne Harlen
Wynne Harlen University of Bristol
Paul Black
Paul Black King's College London
Michael W Crossley
Michael W Crossley University of Bristol
Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam University College London

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