| Practitioner research for educators: A guide to improving classrooms and schools V Robinson, MK Lai Corwin Press, 2005 | 358 | 2005 |
| Data-based decision making in education: Challenges and opportunities K Schildkamp, MK Lai, L Earl Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 242 | 2012 |
| Data-based decision making: An overview MK Lai, K Schildkamp Data-based decision making in education: Challenges and opportunities, 9-21, 2013 | 226 | 2013 |
| Sustained acceleration of achievement in reading comprehension: The New Zealand experience MK Lai, S McNaughton, M Amituanai-Toloa, R Turner, S Hsiao Theoretical models and processes of Reading 6th edition, 297-338, 2013 | 167* | 2013 |
| Sustained acceleration of achievement in reading comprehension: The New Zealand experience MK Lai, S McNaughton, M Amituanai‐Toloa, R Turner, S Hsiao Reading Research Quarterly 44 (1), 30-56, 2009 | 167 | 2009 |
| Improving achievement in secondary schools: Impact of a literacy project on reading comprehension and secondary school qualifications MK Lai, A Wilson, S McNaughton, S Hsiao Reading Research Quarterly 49 (3), 305-334, 2014 | 126 | 2014 |
| The impact of data use professional development on student achievement MK Lai, S McNaughton Teaching and Teacher Education 60, 434-443, 2016 | 123 | 2016 |
| Editorial article for the special issue on data-based decision making around the world: From policy to practice to results K Schildkamp, M Ehren, MK Lai School effectiveness and school improvement 23 (2), 123-131, 2012 | 119 | 2012 |
| Testing the effectiveness of an intervention model based on data use: A replication series across clusters of schools S McNaughton, MK Lai, S Hsiao School Effectiveness and School Improvement 23 (2), 203-228, 2012 | 116 | 2012 |
| Sustaining continued acceleration in reading comprehension achievement following an intervention MK Lai, S McNaughton, H Timperley, S Hsiao Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability (formerly: Journal of …, 2009 | 109 | 2009 |
| Conclusions and a data use framework K Schildkamp, MK Lai Data-based decision making in education: Challenges and opportunities, 177-191, 2013 | 95 | 2013 |
| A model of school change for culturally and linguistically diverse students in New Zealand: A summary and evidence from systematic replication S McNaughton, MK Lai Teaching Education 20 (1), 55-75, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| Designing more effective teaching of comprehension in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms in New Zealand S McNaughton, M Lai, S MacDonald, S Farry Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, The 27 (3), 184-197, 2004 | 69 | 2004 |
| The explanation of practice: Why Chinese students copy assignments VMJ Robinson, LMEI Kuin International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 12 (2), 193-210, 1999 | 67 | 1999 |
| Teacher talk to improve teaching practices B Annan, MK Lai, V Robinson SET: Research information for teachers 2, 2003 | 58 | 2003 |
| In-service teacher professional learning: Use of assessment in data-based decision-making MK Lai, K Schildkamp Handbook of human and social conditions in assessment, 77-94, 2016 | 56 | 2016 |
| Towards an optimal model for building better schools H Timperley, S McNaughton, MK Lai, M Hohepa, J Parr, D Rachel Weaving evidence, inquiry and standards to build better schools, 25-49, 2010 | 54* | 2010 |
| Analysis and discussion of classroom and achievement data to raise student achievement MK Lai, S McNaughton Data-based decision making in education: Challenges and opportunities, 23-47, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Raising student achievement in poor communities through evidence-based conversations MK Lai, S McNaughton Professional learning conversations: Challenges in using evidence for …, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| Developing data collection and management systems for decision-making: What professional development is required? MK Lai, S Hsiao Studies in Educational Evaluation 42, 63-70, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
