Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Science Teaching is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Young children's translanguaging as emergent in and through open‐ended science pedagogies56
Bilingual, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color teacher candidates' translanguaging selves: Working with their multilingual assets and identities as future elementary science teachers44
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Toward pedagogías entrenzadas: Braiding critical and asset‐based pedagogies of sciences, languages, and cultural responsiveness41
STEM Teacher Characteristics and Mobility: Longitudinal Evidence From the American Midwest, 2010 Through 202335
“Getting along” and “using evidence”: Elementary engineering as contentious practice35
Understandings entrenzados: A commentary33
Translanguaging in US K–12 science and engineering education: A review of the literature through the lens of equity33
Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context32
Effective Strategies for Learning and Teaching in Times of Science Denial and Disinformation26
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning: Analyzing students' design talk and drawings using the chemical thinking framework25
How do thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking? A structural equation modeling analysis25
Exploring new depths: Applying machine learning for the analysis of student argumentation in chemistry25
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“So, we kind of started from scratch, no pun intended”: What can students learn from designing games?25
Engaging the racist science of human intelligence: Towards a more just science education future24
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Guiding student transduction in elementary school astronomy24
A review of literature that uses the lens of the next generation science crosscutting concepts: 2012–201924
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Instructor recommendations for student learning strategies and metacognition: An analysis of undergraduate biology syllabi22
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Preservice teachers' framing and noticing of elementary students' ways of communicating scientific ideas21
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What affects the continued learning about energy? Evidence from a 4‐year longitudinal study20
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Justice‐centered STEM education with multilingual learners to address societal challenges: A conceptual framework18
Unpacking the connections between 8th graders' climate literacy and epistemic cognition18
Toward decolonizingSTEM: Centering place and sense of place forcommunity‐based problem‐solving18
Equity analysis of an augmented reality‐mediated group activity in a college biochemistry classroom17
The culturally responsive science teaching practices of undergraduate biology teaching assistants17
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Effect of design‐based learning on achievement in K‐12 education: A meta‐analysis17
High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement16
Reasons for not/choosing chemistry: Why advanced level chemistry students in England do/not pursue chemistry undergraduate degrees15
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Effectiveness of conceptual change strategies in science education: A meta‐analysis15
Designing a framework for teachers' integration of computational thinking into elementary science15
To know about science is to love it? Unraveling cause–effect relationships between knowledge and attitudes toward science in citizen science on urban wildlife ecology15
Effectiveness of inquiry‐based science laboratories for improving teamwork and problem‐solving skills and attitudes15
The interplay between students' motivational profiles and science learning15
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 setting14
Open for whom? The need to define open science for science education14
Secondary science teachers' conceptualizations and modifications to support equitable participation in a co‐designed computational thinking lesson13
Rebuilding relations and countering erasure through community‐driven and owned science: A key tool to Inuit self‐determination and social transformations13
Asset and deficit discourses of student ideas in science formative assessment co‐design13
A structural model of student experiences in a career‐forward chemistry laboratory curriculum12
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Promoting teachers' advocacy and agency for equity in STEM education through research and reflection11
How stereotypes and relationships influence women and underrepresented minority students' fit in engineering11
Investigating the dimensions of modeling competence among preservice science teachers: Meta‐modeling knowledge, modeling practice, and modeling product11
Students' situational engagement profiles in formal and informal science learning environments11
A proficiency model for pre‐service physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—What constitutes high‐level PCK?11
Middle school students' use of the energy concept to engage in new learning: What ideas matter?11
“Well that's how the kids feel!”—Epistemic empathy as a driver of responsive teaching11
Validity aspects in measuring evolution acceptance: Evidence from surveys of preservice biology teachers and creationists11
“I see myself as a STEM person”: Exploring high school students' self‐identification with STEM10
Science education for and as resiliency through indoor agriculture10
“It is what it is”: Using Storied‐Identity and intersectionality lenses to understand the trajectory of a young Black woman's science and math identities10
Using automated analysis to assess middle school students' competence with scientific argumentation10
Preparing students for the modern information landscape and navigating science–technology–society issues10
Adolescents' Perceived Opportunities for Creative Thinking, Creative Thinking Competency Belief and Career Interest in STEM: Joint Consideration of Situated Expectancy‐Value Beliefs and Gen10
Examining key capitals contributing to students' science‐related career expectations and their relationship patterns: A machine learning approach10
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Tools for Learning—Promoting Reflection for Student Teachers' Development of PCK9
Including teachers in the social justice equation of project‐based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin9
Science teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning related to content and procedural goals9
Portraying secondary science teacher retention with the person‐position framework: An analysis of a state cohort of first‐year science teachers9
AI and formative assessment: The train has left the station9
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Examining models constructed by kindergarten children9
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Breaking down the STEM pathway: Utilizing neighborhood resources to improve Mexican‐origin adolescents' life chances8
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“We are sorry to inform you…”—The effects of early elimination on science competition participants’ career aspirations8
Prioritizing emotion objects in making sense of student learning of socioscientific issues8
Djaji Mahsheye,Moghrabeye, andLabaneh: Making science relevant8
Presenting domain information or self‐exploration to foster hypothesis generation in simulation‐based inquiry learning8
Learning with multiple external representations in physics: Concreteness fading versus simultaneous presentation8
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Finding the variables that react: Relationships between ability beliefs and student achievement in an inquiry‐based introductory chemistry laboratory course7
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TRANSforming language use in science education through trans and queer studies7
The sense that we're invisible: A longitudinal analysis of diverse women's experiences with structural violence in biomedical doctoral programs7
Preservice elementary teachers' perceptions of their science laboratory instructors in a phenomena‐based laboratory and how it impacts their conceptual development7
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The impact of Geospatial Inquiry lessons on student interest in science and technology careers7
African American Language in science education: A translanguaging perspective7
#Resilience is not enough for Black women in STEM: Counterstories of two young Black women becoming a STEM person7
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Connected learning: An approach for teaching nature of science aspects and argumentation components7
Infrastructural injustices in community‐driven afterschoolSTEAM7
Syrian refugee youths' science learning in a “dialogic” third space: Pushing boundaries in the Lebanese educational system through translanguaging7
Savviness of sixth graders: Student perspectives about translanguaging during science formative assessment7
Making an impression: What do students who attended an informal evolution enrichment program in the sixth‐grade recall from the experience 3 years later?6
Crossing boundaries between research and practitioner communities: The role of research use and cross‐community journal authorship6
People who have more science education rely less on misinformation—Even if they do not necessarily follow the health recommendations6
Distributing epistemic functions and tasks—A framework for augmenting human analytic power with machine learning in science education research6
Exposing the hazards of teaching 19th century genetic science6
“Why am I here?”: A phenomenological exploration of first‐generation college student experiences in STEM majors within a predominantly white institution6
Belonging in science classrooms: Investigating its relation to students' contributions and influence in knowledge building6
The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and “goodness” of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists6
From feeling forces to understanding forces: The impact of bodily engagement on learning in science6
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Assessing concept mapping competence using item expansion‐based diagnostic classification analysis6
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Going beyond #RetireELL: A call for anti‐colonial approaches to languages in STEM education6
Patterns of belief and trust in climate change information6
The impact of high school science pedagogies on students' STEM career interest and on their ratings of teacher quality5
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Examining the relationship between disciplinary counterspaces for undergraduate women and sense of belonging: A physics exemplar5
Examining the interdependence in the growth of students' language and argument competencies in replicative and generative learning environments5
Can we disrupt the momentum of the AI colonization of science education?5
Learning Computational Thinking Through Unplugged Algorithmic Explanations of Natural Selection5
Correction to “Genomics literacy matters: Supporting the development of genomics literacy through genetics education could reduce the prevalence of genetic essentialism”5
Factors Influencing Science Teachers' Professional Development: A Cultural‐Historical Activity Theory Perspective5
A self‐reported instrument to measure and foster students' science connection to life with the CAREKNOWDO model and open schooling for sustainability5
Asset‐orientedframing of science and language learning with multilingual learners5
Declining interest in science in lower secondary school classes: Quasi‐experimental and longitudinal evidence on the role of teaching and teaching quality4
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Students' awareness and conceptions of science‐related communication mechanisms on social media4
Fostering expansive and connective sensemaking with preservice secondary science teachers4
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Community‐driven science and science education: Living in and navigating the edges of equity, justice, and science learning4
Navigating socio‐emotional risk through comfort‐building in physics teacher professional development: A case study4
Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies4
Setting empirically informed content knowledge policy benchmarks for physical science teaching4
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Influence of self‐assessment and conditional metaconceptual knowledge on students' self‐regulation of intuitive and scientific conceptions of evolution4
Artificial intelligence and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching4
A (TRANS)formative approach to gender‐inclusive science education4
Disability and postsecondary fieldwork experiences in the natural sciences: A systematic review4
Multilingual learners' epistemologies in practice in the context of computational modeling in an elementary science classroom4
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Black Lives Matter and other signs of solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM graduate students3
Factors predicting teachers' implementation of inquiry‐based teaching practices: Analysis of South African TIMSS 2019 data from an ecological perspective3
Isolation, resilience, and faith: Experiences of Black Christian students in biology graduate programs3
Identifying aspects of complex and technological systems in the mental models of students who constructed computational models of electric circuits3
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The influence of relational, political, discursive, and structural dimensions of power on increasing equitable access to undergraduate research experiences3
Making Space in Support of Youths' Rightful Presence in Informal STEM Learning3
Connected by emotion: Teacher agency in an online science education course during COVID‐193
Early elementary (K‐4) teachers' perceptions of the developmental appropriateness, importance, and potential for classroom inclusion of key nature of science aspects3
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Teaching health justice and reimagining narratives of place through community‐driven science practices3
A grounded theory model of the dynamics of undergraduate engineering students' researcher identity and epistemic thinking3
Graduate teaching assistants impact student motivation and engagement in course‐based undergraduate research experiences3
Call for papers: Special issue: Learning and teaching in times of science denial and disinformation3
Does role play manipulate students? Persuasive effects of role play on students' attitude and behavior regarding a socioscientific issue3
The role of phenomena and problems in science andSTEMeducation: Traditional, contemporary, and future approaches3
High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations3
Instructional practices in secondary science: How teachers achieve local and standards‐based success3
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Bienvenidos a la conversación: Examinations of translanguaging across science and engineering education research2
Competency Profiles of PCK Using Unsupervised Learning: What Implications for the Structures of pPCK Emerge From Non‐Hierarchical Analyses?2
Good intentions are not enough: A case study uncovering perpetuation of internalized and interpersonal oppression in middle schoolSTEMclassrooms2
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Investigation of the relationships among science teachers' epistemic orientations, epistemic understanding, and implementation of Next Generation Science Standards science practices2
The role of equitable classroom cultures for supporting interest in science2
Deciphering the role of epistemic injustice in school‐based citizen science: Sources, implications, and possible ways for mitigation2
Gendered Positions in Technology Education: A Discourse Analysis of Images From Swedish and Finnish Upper Secondary Schools2
Experiences of marginalized women pursuing doctoral degrees in chemistry: The critical role of recognition2
Spontaneous Scientific Argumentation and Socially Shared Metacognitive Regulation of High‐ and Low‐Performing Small Groups in Virtual Collaborative Science Learning2
Bias, bias everywhere: A response to Li et al. and Zhai and Nehm2
Sensemaking as a goal of science education, abduction as a process of scientific sensemaking2
Exploring the predictiveness of curiosity and interest in science learning in and after class2
Chilean physics teacher educators' hybrid identities and border crossings as opportunities for agency within school and university2
Characterizing variations in the figured worlds of teachers and students in science class2
Translingual negotiation in mixed‐gender communication: An analysis of the interactions in research group meetings in engineering2
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The Effect of Seductive Details on Knowledge Retention in Physics Videos: A Mixed Methods Study2
Learning to think spatially through curricula that embed spatial training2
Using technology‐mediated inquiry to help young learners reimagine the visible world through simple particle models2
Correlates of peer classroom connectedness among undergraduate women in STEM2
STEM Faculty Professional Development: Measuring the Impact on College Student Grades and Identifying Critical Program Components2
“There is no room for me, for a Hawaiian, in science”: Rightful presence in community science2
Elementary preservice teachers' pedagogical decisions about socioscientific issues instruction1
High school students' evolving alternative conception related to the volume of gas: A Lakatosian perspective1
Changes in teachers' beliefs: A longitudinal study of science teachers engaging in storyline curriculum‐based professional development1
Exploring the impact of an intervention on pre‐service science teachers' attitudes and beliefs about gender and sexual diversity‐inclusive science teaching1
“Anybody can do science if they're brave enough”: Understanding the role of science capital in science majors' identity trajectories into and through postsecondary science1
Generating construct maps from a systematic review of atomic models1
“There are other ways to help besides using the stuff”: Using activity theory to understand dynamic student participation in small group science, technology, engineering, and mathematics activities1
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Can we and should we use artificial intelligence for formative assessment in science?1
Jamming power: Youth agency and community‐driven science in a critical technology learning program1
I'm not giving up on you: Exploring the roles of politicized trust and critical agency in the Scratch coding trajectory of two Black boys1
“Science theatre makes you good at science”: Affordances of embodied performances in urban elementary science classrooms1
Game‐based learning has good chemistry with chemistry education: A three‐level meta‐analysis1
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Predicting student science achievement using post‐unit assessment performances in a coherent high school chemistry project‐based learning system1
Assessing high‐school students' modeling performance on Newtonian mechanics1
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Translanguaging practices in global K‐12 science education settings: A systematic literature review1
Epistemic orientation toward teaching science for knowledge generation: Conceptualization and validation of the construct1
Identities in/out of physics and the politics of recognition1
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Strengthening science education through attention to student resources: A conceptualization of socioscientific capital1
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“We need to step it up—We are basically the future”: Latinx young women co‐construct science storylines in high school chemistry1
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White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well‐started White anti‐racist science teacher1
“Things your history teacher won't teach you: Science edition”: Black women science teachers as anti‐racist teachers1
Eliciting and working with student thinking: Preservice science teachers' enactment of core practices when orchestrating collaborative group work1
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