Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Science Teaching is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context50
Examining key capitals contributing to students' science‐related career expectations and their relationship patterns: A machine learning approach47
Are there any “science people” in undergraduate health science courses? Assessing science identity among pre‐nursing and pre‐allied health students in a community college setting47
Instructor recommendations for student learning strategies and metacognition: An analysis of undergraduate biology syllabi39
A review of literature that uses the lens of the next generation science crosscutting concepts: 2012–201938
Rebuilding relations and countering erasure through community‐driven and owned science: A key tool to Inuit self‐determination and social transformations35
“It is what it is”: Using Storied‐Identity and intersectionality lenses to understand the trajectory of a young Black woman's science and math identities35
High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement32
Equity analysis of an augmented reality‐mediated group activity in a college biochemistry classroom32
Exploring new depths: Applying machine learning for the analysis of student argumentation in chemistry30
Portraying secondary science teacher retention with the person‐position framework: An analysis of a state cohort of first‐year science teachers28
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Preservice elementary teachers' perceptions of their science laboratory instructors in a phenomena‐based laboratory and how it impacts their conceptual development26
Presenting domain information or self‐exploration to foster hypothesis generation in simulation‐based inquiry learning26
Infrastructural injustices in community‐driven afterschoolSTEAM26
Going beyond #RetireELL: A call for anti‐colonial approaches to languages in STEM education25
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Navigating socio‐emotional risk through comfort‐building in physics teacher professional development: A case study25
Including teachers in the social justice equation of project‐based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin24
Good intentions are not enough: A case study uncovering perpetuation of internalized and interpersonal oppression in middle schoolSTEMclassrooms24
Factors predicting teachers' implementation of inquiry‐based teaching practices: Analysis of South African TIMSS 2019 data from an ecological perspective24
Early elementary (K‐4) teachers' perceptions of the developmental appropriateness, importance, and potential for classroom inclusion of key nature of science aspects23
The Effect of Seductive Details on Knowledge Retention in Physics Videos: A Mixed Methods Study23
Sensemaking as a goal of science education, abduction as a process of scientific sensemaking23
Influence of self‐assessment and conditional metaconceptual knowledge on students' self‐regulation of intuitive and scientific conceptions of evolution20
Experiences of marginalized women pursuing doctoral degrees in chemistry: The critical role of recognition20
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Call for papers: Special issue: Learning and teaching in times of science denial and disinformation20
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Factors affecting students' learning from a design‐based implementation research project in diverse education systems18
“Powered by emotions”: Exploring emotion induction in out‐of‐school authentic science learning18
Embracing equity and excellence while constructing science teacher identities in urban schools: Voices of new Teachers of Color18
Toward a justice‐centered ambitious teaching framework: Shaping ambitious science teaching to be culturally sustaining and productive in a rural context18
How do digital textbook platforms promote active learning in undergraduate biology courses?18
Building a computational model of food webs: Impacts on middle school students' computational and systems thinking skills18
A Multimodal Interactive Framework for Science Assessment in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence17
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Being a physicist: Gendered identity negotiations on the pathways to becoming an elite female physicist in the United Kingdom15
The glue that makes it “hang together”: A framework for identifying how metadiscourse facilitates uncertainty navigation during knowledge building discussions15
Do we have the capacity? The policy imperative for equity‐focused K‐12 computer science education15
Harmonious or disjointed?: Epistemological framing and its role in an integrated science and engineering activity15
Exploring science teaching in interaction at the instructional core15
Which ideas, when, and why? An experienced teacher's in‐the‐moment pedagogical reasoning about facilitating student sense‐making discussions14
Teaching and learning floating and sinking: A meta‐analysis14
Experimenting at an outreach science lab versus at school—Differences in students' basic need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and flow experience14
Professional development to support principals' vision of science instruction: Building from their prior experiences to support the science practices14
Causal‐mechanical explanations in biology: Applying automated assessment for personalized learning in the science classroom13
A site of radical possibilities: Examining how a multigenerational counterspace promotedSTEMpersistence among undergraduate Women of Color13
Expanding opportunities to learn in secondary science classrooms using unconventional forms of classroom assessments13
Science teachers in research labs: Expanding conceptions of social dialogic dimensions of scientific argumentation13
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Responsive instructional design for students' epistemic agency: Documenting episodes of principled improvisation in storyline enactment11
A hypothetico‐deductive theory of science and learning11
Using computational essays to foster disciplinary epistemic agency in undergraduate science11
Epistemological beliefs and values as predictors of preservice science teachers' environmental moral reasoning11
Teaching science to transgress: Portraits of feminist praxis11
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Incorporating an engineering context into science learning: The effects of task context and response structuring on science understanding and investigation behaviors in a simulation11
Teaching and learning about respiratory infectious diseases: A scoping review of interventions in K‐12 education10
Students' situational engagement profiles in formal and informal science learning environments10
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Toward pedagogías entrenzadas: Braiding critical and asset‐based pedagogies of sciences, languages, and cultural responsiveness10
Justice‐centered STEM education with multilingual learners to address societal challenges: A conceptual framework10
Countering science as White property through linguistic justice10
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Using automated analysis to assess middle school students' competence with scientific argumentation10
“I see myself as a STEM person”: Exploring high school students' self‐identification with STEM10
Science education for and as resiliency through indoor agriculture10
Applying machine learning to automatically assess scientific models10
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Engaging the racist science of human intelligence: Towards a more just science education future10
How do thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking? A structural equation modeling analysis10
TRANSforming language use in science education through trans and queer studies9
Spontaneous Scientific Argumentation and Socially Shared Metacognitive Regulation of High‐ and Low‐Performing Small Groups in Virtual Collaborative Science Learning9
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Connected learning: An approach for teaching nature of science aspects and argumentation components9
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Assessing concept mapping competence using item expansion‐based diagnostic classification analysis9
Breaking down the STEM pathway: Utilizing neighborhood resources to improve Mexican‐origin adolescents' life chances9
Examining models constructed by kindergarten children9
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Distributing epistemic functions and tasks—A framework for augmenting human analytic power with machine learning in science education research9
“I feel listened to and heard”: How social support fosters a sense of belonging for low‐income STEM majors8
Gender differences in high school students' STEM career expectations: An analysis based on multi‐group structural equation model8
The role of equitable classroom cultures for supporting interest in science8
Epistemic orientation toward teaching science for knowledge generation: Conceptualization and validation of the construct8
High school students' evolving alternative conception related to the volume of gas: A Lakatosian perspective8
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I'm not giving up on you: Exploring the roles of politicized trust and critical agency in the Scratch coding trajectory of two Black boys8
High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations8
A methodology to analyze students' intertwined speech and drawings—Aesthetic experiences in science education8
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Investigation of the relationships among science teachers' epistemic orientations, epistemic understanding, and implementation of Next Generation Science Standards science practices8
“Science theatre makes you good at science”: Affordances of embodied performances in urban elementary science classrooms7
Constructing STEM identity: An expanded structural model for STEM identity research7
Exploring science teachers' efforts to frame phenomena in the community7
The role of inclusion, discrimination, and belonging for adolescent Science, Technology, Engineering and Math engagement in and out of school7
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Defining epigenetic literacy: How to integrate epigenetics into the biology curriculum7
The role of achievement goals in productive collaborative argumentation7
Call for papers: Journal of Research in Science Teaching—Special issue on “Examining translanguaging in science and engineering education research”7
Color‐blind or racially conscious? How college science faculty make sense of racial/ethnic underrepresentation in STEM7
Science at the center: Meaningful science learning in a preschool classroom7
The scientific rules, roles, and values that life sciences doctoral students want to see upheld by undergraduate researchers7
Evidence of graphical literacy in students' oral presentations: An example from undergraduate chemistry education7
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The effectiveness of an integratedSTEMcurriculum unit on middle school students' life science learning6
Predicting undergraduate career goal change in aresearch‐intensivecommunity6
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Preservice teachers' framing and noticing of elementary students' ways of communicating scientific ideas6
Characterizing relationships between collective enterprise and student epistemic agency in science: A comparative case study6
The first 5 years of teaching science: The beliefs, knowledge, practices, and opportunities to learn of secondary science teachers6
Transformative experience in an informal science learning program about climate change6
Understandings entrenzados: A commentary6
Influence of science text reading difficulty and hands‐on manipulation on science learning: An eye‐tracking study6
Examining science teachers' engagement in professional development: A multimodal situated perspective6
Masculinized discourses of STEM interest, performance, and competence that shape university STEM students' recognition of a “STEM person”6
“I got to see, and I got to be a part of it”: How cued gesturing facilitates middle‐school students' explanatory modeling of thermal conduction6
Toward a system of gesture–speech relations in elementary science teaching6
Open for whom? The need to define open science for science education6
Students' awareness and conceptions of science‐related communication mechanisms on social media5
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Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies5
People who have more science education rely less on misinformation—Even if they do not necessarily follow the health recommendations5
A structural model of student experiences in a career‐forward chemistry laboratory curriculum5
A self‐reported instrument to measure and foster students' science connection to life with the CAREKNOWDO model and open schooling for sustainability5
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Black Lives Matter and other signs of solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM graduate students5
The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and “goodness” of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists5
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Making an impression: What do students who attended an informal evolution enrichment program in the sixth‐grade recall from the experience 3 years later?5
Instructional practices in secondary science: How teachers achieve local and standards‐based success5
Competency Profiles of PCK Using Unsupervised Learning: What Implications for the Structures of pPCK Emerge From Non‐Hierarchical Analyses?5
Exploring the predictiveness of curiosity and interest in science learning in and after class5
“Things your history teacher won't teach you: Science edition”: Black women science teachers as anti‐racist teachers4
Bias, bias everywhere: A response to Li et al. and Zhai and Nehm4
Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators' sense‐making about the Next Generation Science Standards4
White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well‐started White anti‐racist science teacher4
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Isolation, resilience, and faith: Experiences of Black Christian students in biology graduate programs4
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Translanguaging practices in global K‐12 science education settings: A systematic literature review4
Game‐based learning has good chemistry with chemistry education: A three‐level meta‐analysis4
Teacher curricular sensemaking: Revealing salient moments of a science teacher's (un)certainty in relation to opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking4
The effect of a student–teacher–scientist partnership program on high school students' science achievement and attitudes about scientists4
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Translingual negotiation in mixed‐gender communication: An analysis of the interactions in research group meetings in engineering4
Using technology‐mediated inquiry to help young learners reimagine the visible world through simple particle models4
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Developing and validating an Next Generation Science Standards‐aligned construct map for chemical bonding from the energy and force perspective4
Elementary teachers' verbal supports of science and engineering practices in anNGSS‐alignedscience, engineering, and computational thinking unit4
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Students' engagement with Socioscientific issues: Use of sources of knowledge and attitudes3
Epistemic networks and the social nature of public engagement with science3
Paths into and out of STEM fields: A qualitative study of women and students of color at a predominately white institution3
Science students' social bonds and knowledge construction3
Investigating science teacher educator identity through the politics of domestication and critical positional praxis3
Elementary Students' Metacognitive Knowledge of Epistemic Criteria3
Narrating science: Can it benefit science learning, and how? A theoretical review3
Combining debates and reflective activities to develop students' argumentation on socioscientific issues3
Student and advisor gender identity in STEM doctoral programs: Examining longitudinal and mediating effects with latent growth models3
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Motivational outcomes of the science outreach lab S'Cool LAB at CERN: A multilevel analysis3
The decision is in the details: Justifying decisions about socioscientific issues3
Relationships between undergraduate instructors' conceptions of how students learn and their instructional practices3
Sources of gender differences in competency beliefs and retention in an introductorypremedicalscience course3
Beyond assessing knowledge about models and modeling: Moving toward expansive, meaningful, and equitable modeling practice3
Supporting Learning About Energy With Fields—Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study3
STEM Teacher Characteristics and Mobility: Longitudinal Evidence From the American Midwest, 2010 Through 20232
Development of VAScoR: A rubric to qualify and score responses to the views of nature of science (VNOS) questionnaire2
Effect of design‐based learning on achievement in K‐12 education: A meta‐analysis2
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning: Analyzing students' design talk and drawings using the chemical thinking framework2
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AI and formative assessment: The train has left the station2
“Well that's how the kids feel!”—Epistemic empathy as a driver of responsive teaching2
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Unveiling effectiveness: A meta‐analysis of professional development programs in science education2
Epistemic uncertainty and the support of productive struggle during scientific modeling for knowledge co‐development2
“So, we kind of started from scratch, no pun intended”: What can students learn from designing games?2
African American Language in science education: A translanguaging perspective2
“We are sorry to inform you…”—The effects of early elimination on science competition participants’ career aspirations2
Unpacking the connections between 8th graders' climate literacy and epistemic cognition2
Translanguaging in US K–12 science and engineering education: A review of the literature through the lens of equity2
Computational Thinking for Science: Positioning coding as a tool for doing science2
Black men doctoral scientists and engineers persisting: Peer support and racism in science and engineering2
Preparing students for the modern information landscape and navigating science–technology–society issues2
Examining the relationship between disciplinary counterspaces for undergraduate women and sense of belonging: A physics exemplar2
Learning Computational Thinking Through Unplugged Algorithmic Explanations of Natural Selection2
How stereotypes and relationships influence women and underrepresented minority students' fit in engineering2
A proficiency model for pre‐service physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—What constitutes high‐level PCK?2
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