Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Science Teaching is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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A review of literature that uses the lens of the next generation science crosscutting concepts: 2012–201958
Instructor recommendations for student learning strategies and metacognition: An analysis of undergraduate biology syllabi51
Equity analysis of an augmented reality‐mediated group activity in a college biochemistry classroom43
Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context42
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 setting37
“It is what it is”: Using Storied‐Identity and intersectionality lenses to understand the trajectory of a young Black woman's science and math identities36
Exploring new depths: Applying machine learning for the analysis of student argumentation in chemistry36
Rebuilding relations and countering erasure through community‐driven and owned science: A key tool to Inuit self‐determination and social transformations33
High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement31
Examining key capitals contributing to students' science‐related career expectations and their relationship patterns: A machine learning approach30
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Navigating socio‐emotional risk through comfort‐building in physics teacher professional development: A case study28
Including teachers in the social justice equation of project‐based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin28
Preservice elementary teachers' perceptions of their science laboratory instructors in a phenomena‐based laboratory and how it impacts their conceptual development28
Presenting domain information or self‐exploration to foster hypothesis generation in simulation‐based inquiry learning27
Infrastructural injustices in community‐driven afterschoolSTEAM27
Portraying secondary science teacher retention with the person‐position framework: An analysis of a state cohort of first‐year science teachers26
Going beyond #RetireELL: A call for anti‐colonial approaches to languages in STEM education26
Early elementary (K‐4) teachers' perceptions of the developmental appropriateness, importance, and potential for classroom inclusion of key nature of science aspects26
Factors predicting teachers' implementation of inquiry‐based teaching practices: Analysis of South African TIMSS 2019 data from an ecological perspective25
Influence of self‐assessment and conditional metaconceptual knowledge on students' self‐regulation of intuitive and scientific conceptions of evolution25
Call for papers: Special issue: Learning and teaching in times of science denial and disinformation25
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Experiences of marginalized women pursuing doctoral degrees in chemistry: The critical role of recognition22
The Effect of Seductive Details on Knowledge Retention in Physics Videos: A Mixed Methods Study22
Good intentions are not enough: A case study uncovering perpetuation of internalized and interpersonal oppression in middle schoolSTEMclassrooms22
Sensemaking as a goal of science education, abduction as a process of scientific sensemaking21
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Embracing equity and excellence while constructing science teacher identities in urban schools: Voices of new Teachers of Color20
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“Powered by emotions”: Exploring emotion induction in out‐of‐school authentic science learning20
A Multimodal Interactive Framework for Science Assessment in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence19
Toward a justice‐centered ambitious teaching framework: Shaping ambitious science teaching to be culturally sustaining and productive in a rural context19
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Building a computational model of food webs: Impacts on middle school students' computational and systems thinking skills19
How do digital textbook platforms promote active learning in undergraduate biology courses?19
Factors affecting students' learning from a design‐based implementation research project in diverse education systems19
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Do we have the capacity? The policy imperative for equity‐focused K‐12 computer science education17
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Being a physicist: Gendered identity negotiations on the pathways to becoming an elite female physicist in the United Kingdom16
Expanding opportunities to learn in secondary science classrooms using unconventional forms of classroom assessments16
A site of radical possibilities: Examining how a multigenerational counterspace promotedSTEMpersistence among undergraduate Women of Color16
Which ideas, when, and why? An experienced teacher's in‐the‐moment pedagogical reasoning about facilitating student sense‐making discussions15
The glue that makes it “hang together”: A framework for identifying how metadiscourse facilitates uncertainty navigation during knowledge building discussions15
Exploring science teaching in interaction at the instructional core15
Experimenting at an outreach science lab versus at school—Differences in students' basic need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and flow experience14
Teaching and learning floating and sinking: A meta‐analysis14
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Causal‐mechanical explanations in biology: Applying automated assessment for personalized learning in the science classroom13
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Science teachers in research labs: Expanding conceptions of social dialogic dimensions of scientific argumentation13
Teaching and learning about respiratory infectious diseases: A scoping review of interventions in K‐12 education12
Incorporating an engineering context into science learning: The effects of task context and response structuring on science understanding and investigation behaviors in a simulation12
Using computational essays to foster disciplinary epistemic agency in undergraduate science12
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A hypothetico‐deductive theory of science and learning12
Countering science as White property through linguistic justice12
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Teaching science to transgress: Portraits of feminist praxis11
Applying machine learning to automatically assess scientific models11
“I see myself as a STEM person”: Exploring high school students' self‐identification with STEM11
Science education for and as resiliency through indoor agriculture11
Responsive instructional design for students' epistemic agency: Documenting episodes of principled improvisation in storyline enactment11
Epistemological beliefs and values as predictors of preservice science teachers' environmental moral reasoning11
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Engaging the racist science of human intelligence: Towards a more just science education future11
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Justice‐centered STEM education with multilingual learners to address societal challenges: A conceptual framework11
A Longitudinal Study Examining the Role of Generative Laboratory Environments in the Utilization of Argument, Representation, and Reasoning10
TRANSforming language use in science education through trans and queer studies10
Toward pedagogías entrenzadas: Braiding critical and asset‐based pedagogies of sciences, languages, and cultural responsiveness10
How do thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking? A structural equation modeling analysis10
Breaking down the STEM pathway: Utilizing neighborhood resources to improve Mexican‐origin adolescents' life chances10
Assessing concept mapping competence using item expansion‐based diagnostic classification analysis10
Using automated analysis to assess middle school students' competence with scientific argumentation10
Examining models constructed by kindergarten children10
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Connected learning: An approach for teaching nature of science aspects and argumentation components10
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Students' situational engagement profiles in formal and informal science learning environments10
STEM Education With a Focus on Equity and Justice: Traditional Approaches, Contemporary Approaches, and Proposed Future Approach9
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High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations9
Distributing epistemic functions and tasks—A framework for augmenting human analytic power with machine learning in science education research9
Epistemic orientation toward teaching science for knowledge generation: Conceptualization and validation of the construct9
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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 boys9
Investigation of the relationships among science teachers' epistemic orientations, epistemic understanding, and implementation of Next Generation Science Standards science practices9
Spontaneous Scientific Argumentation and Socially Shared Metacognitive Regulation of High‐ and Low‐Performing Small Groups in Virtual Collaborative Science Learning8
High school students' evolving alternative conception related to the volume of gas: A Lakatosian perspective8
Gender differences in high school students' STEM career expectations: An analysis based on multi‐group structural equation model8
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A methodology to analyze students' intertwined speech and drawings—Aesthetic experiences in science education8
“I feel listened to and heard”: How social support fosters a sense of belonging for low‐income STEM majors8
The role of equitable classroom cultures for supporting interest in science8
“Science theatre makes you good at science”: Affordances of embodied performances in urban elementary science classrooms8
Color‐blind or racially conscious? How college science faculty make sense of racial/ethnic underrepresentation in STEM8
Exploring science teachers' efforts to frame phenomena in the community7
The role of achievement goals in productive collaborative argumentation7
Science at the center: Meaningful science learning in a preschool classroom7
Predicting undergraduate career goal change in aresearch‐intensivecommunity7
Call for papers: Journal of Research in Science Teaching—Special issue on “Examining translanguaging in science and engineering education research”7
Evidence of graphical literacy in students' oral presentations: An example from undergraduate chemistry education7
Examining science teachers' engagement in professional development: A multimodal situated perspective7
The role of inclusion, discrimination, and belonging for adolescent Science, Technology, Engineering and Math engagement in and out of school7
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The scientific rules, roles, and values that life sciences doctoral students want to see upheld by undergraduate researchers7
Defining epigenetic literacy: How to integrate epigenetics into the biology curriculum7
Constructing STEM identity: An expanded structural model for STEM identity research7
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The first 5 years of teaching science: The beliefs, knowledge, practices, and opportunities to learn of secondary science teachers6
The effectiveness of an integratedSTEMcurriculum unit on middle school students' life science learning6
A structural model of student experiences in a career‐forward chemistry laboratory curriculum6
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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?6
Influence of science text reading difficulty and hands‐on manipulation on science learning: An eye‐tracking study6
Transformative experience in an informal science learning program about climate change6
Understandings entrenzados: A commentary6
Open for whom? The need to define open science for science education6
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Preservice teachers' framing and noticing of elementary students' ways of communicating scientific ideas6
Toward a system of gesture–speech relations in elementary science teaching6
Characterizing relationships between collective enterprise and student epistemic agency in science: A comparative case study6
Masculinized discourses of STEM interest, performance, and competence that shape university STEM students' recognition of a “STEM person”6
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The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and “goodness” of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists6
Students' awareness and conceptions of science‐related communication mechanisms on social media5
Translanguaging practices in global K‐12 science education settings: A systematic literature review5
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Translingual negotiation in mixed‐gender communication: An analysis of the interactions in research group meetings in engineering5
Black Lives Matter and other signs of solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM graduate students5
Isolation, resilience, and faith: Experiences of Black Christian students in biology graduate programs5
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Competency Profiles of PCK Using Unsupervised Learning: What Implications for the Structures of pPCK Emerge From Non‐Hierarchical Analyses?5
Developing and validating an Next Generation Science Standards‐aligned construct map for chemical bonding from the energy and force perspective5
Instructional practices in secondary science: How teachers achieve local and standards‐based success5
Bias, bias everywhere: A response to Li et al. and Zhai and Nehm5
“Things your history teacher won't teach you: Science edition”: Black women science teachers as anti‐racist teachers5
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People who have more science education rely less on misinformation—Even if they do not necessarily follow the health recommendations5
Using technology‐mediated inquiry to help young learners reimagine the visible world through simple particle models5
Elementary teachers' verbal supports of science and engineering practices in anNGSS‐alignedscience, engineering, and computational thinking unit5
White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well‐started White anti‐racist science teacher5
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Exploring the predictiveness of curiosity and interest in science learning in and after class5
A self‐reported instrument to measure and foster students' science connection to life with the CAREKNOWDO model and open schooling for sustainability5
Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies5
Game‐based learning has good chemistry with chemistry education: A three‐level meta‐analysis4
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Combining debates and reflective activities to develop students' argumentation on socioscientific issues4
Students' engagement with Socioscientific issues: Use of sources of knowledge and attitudes4
Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators' sense‐making about the Next Generation Science Standards4
The effect of a student–teacher–scientist partnership program on high school students' science achievement and attitudes about scientists4
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Relationships between undergraduate instructors' conceptions of how students learn and their instructional practices4
Narrating science: Can it benefit science learning, and how? A theoretical review4
Teacher curricular sensemaking: Revealing salient moments of a science teacher's (un)certainty in relation to opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking4
Supporting the Emergence of Science Capital in Minoritized Youth Through Guided Experiences as Facilitators of Science Outreach4
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Paths into and out of STEM fields: A qualitative study of women and students of color at a predominately white institution4
Investigating science teacher educator identity through the politics of domestication and critical positional praxis4
Science students' social bonds and knowledge construction3
Epistemic uncertainty and the support of productive struggle during scientific modeling for knowledge co‐development3
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning: Analyzing students' design talk and drawings using the chemical thinking framework3
Effect of design‐based learning on achievement in K‐12 education: A meta‐analysis3
Black men doctoral scientists and engineers persisting: Peer support and racism in science and engineering3
Sources of gender differences in competency beliefs and retention in an introductorypremedicalscience course3
Motivational outcomes of the science outreach lab S'Cool LAB at CERN: A multilevel analysis3
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Beyond assessing knowledge about models and modeling: Moving toward expansive, meaningful, and equitable modeling practice3
AI and formative assessment: The train has left the station3
Student and advisor gender identity in STEM doctoral programs: Examining longitudinal and mediating effects with latent growth models3
Epistemic networks and the social nature of public engagement with science3
Elementary Students' Metacognitive Knowledge of Epistemic Criteria3
Computational Thinking for Science: Positioning coding as a tool for doing science3
Development of VAScoR: A rubric to qualify and score responses to the views of nature of science (VNOS) questionnaire3
“Well that's how the kids feel!”—Epistemic empathy as a driver of responsive teaching3
How stereotypes and relationships influence women and underrepresented minority students' fit in engineering3
Unveiling effectiveness: A meta‐analysis of professional development programs in science education3
Supporting Learning About Energy With Fields—Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study3
The decision is in the details: Justifying decisions about socioscientific issues3
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