Science Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Science Education 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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“On Mars, we will speak Arabic”: Negotiating identity in upper secondary physics in Denmark47
Why are some students “not into” computational thinking activities embedded within high school science units? Key takeaways from a microethnographic discourse analysis study39
“We actually made something and solved a problem”: Exploring relationships between middle school engineering culture and girls' engineering experiences39
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The Importance of Science Education, Scientific Knowledge, and Evaluation Strategies for the Successful Detection of COVID‐19 Misinformation31
Developing Science Classroom Expectations That Encourage Risk‐Taking for Learning Science Together29
Transformative Climate and Environmental Education for a Just Future26
School Science: An Approach to Rethinking What Students Learn and How They Might be Better Engaged24
Engaging the Complexities of Energy Transitions: Sociotechnical and Dualistic Insights From Crossdisciplinary Undergraduates23
Troubleshooting as an Inquiry Activity: Recognizing and Supporting the Mangle in the Classroom22
Cultivating Inner Witnesses Attuned to the Emotional Experiences of Students of Color in Science21
A Study of Teacher Sensemaking About Productive Student Talk in Science Classrooms21
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Students’ Experiences of Teachers’ Ways of Unpacking Visual Representations in the Context of Intermolecular Forces20
Centering Care in Transformative Climate Change Education: A Theoretical Framework for Communal Learning Ecosystems20
Why most definitions of modeling competence in science education fall short: Analyzing the relevance of volition for modeling20
Diversifying computer science: An examination of the potential influences of women‐in‐computing groups19
The Uses of Hopelessness: A Response to Røkenes and Jornet18
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The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM Learning: Reinscriptions and Contestations of Coloniality16
The characteristics of diagrams in scientific explanations: Multimodal integration of written and visual modes of representation in junior high school textbooks16
Student reasonings and cognitive biases in climate change predictions16
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vAIR—An epistemic model of socioscientific reasoning emerging from citizens engaged in a locally situated SSI15
Embracing a Terra Plena Ethos in Urban Science Education15
A comparison of elementary teachers' verbal supports for students in inclusive and general classroom contexts during an NGSS‐aligned science, engineering, and computer science unit15
Teacher positioning within the figured world(s) of urban school science14
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Using the Lenses of Organizational Culture and Climate for Research on Science Teacher Professional Learning14
Young children co‐constructing science: The importance of their families and cultural communities14
Navigating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Teacher Identities in Science Classrooms: A Comparative Case Study14
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Commentary—misconceiving merit: Paradoxes of excellence and devotion in academic science and engineering13
Virtuality, Solidarity and Possibility: A Response to Paré13
Leveraging purposes and values to motivate and negotiate reform13
Teacher professional development programs integrating science and language with multilingual learners: A conceptual framework12
Advancing a Comprehensive Equity Centered Theory of STEM Doctoral Persistence: A Small‐Scale Qualitative Exploration of Critical Capital Theory12
Science for All? A Systematic Literature Review on Effective Teaching Approaches in Inclusive and Separate Settings12
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Secondary school students' responses to epistemic uncertainty during an ecological citizen science inquiry12
Teacher strategies to support student navigation of uncertainty: Considering the dynamic nature of scientific uncertainty throughout phases of sensemaking12
“Moving Beyond Research to Abolish and Replace Harmful Systems: A Response to Zhang and Kuo”12
Making in‐the‐moment learning visible: A framework to identify and compare various ways of learning through continuity and discourse change11
Organizational sensemaking during curriculum implementation: The dilemma of agency, role of collaboration, and importance of discipline‐specific leadership11
Physics curriculum in upper secondary schools: What leading physicists want11
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A Review of Research on Engineering in K‐12 Science Education10
Navigating the complexities of student understanding: Exploring the coherency of students' conceptions about the greenhouse effect10
Epistemic Objects and Tools on the School Grounds: Addressing Plant Blindness and Knowledge Construction10
“That's Just Gonna Make Them Upset”: Youth Authoring Emerging Epistemic Ideals Through Rightful Presence10
From Inquiry‐Based Science Teaching to Science Career Aspirations: Unequal Motivational Pathways in Western China10
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Cultivating Confidence: The Potential of Science Museum Visits in Boosting Science Self‐Efficacy and Expanding Perceptions of Science in Emerging Adult Learners10
The Quality of Interactions in the Home Science Environment and Associations With Children's Science Learning10
Incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in science: Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar10
Equity‐centered science education: The origin story of this special issue10
What is the Point of Empathy? A Call for Critical Empathy in Noticing Emotions for Equity in Response to Patterson Williams and Sheth9
The Relationship Between Black Girls' Perceptions of Their STEM Teachers and Their STEM Identity9
Right but wrong: How students' mechanistic reasoning and conceptual understandings shift when designing agent‐based models using data9
Attending to Hyperrationality as Unraveling Coloniality in Science Education: A Response to Davis and Philip9
Humanistic school science: Research, policy, politics and classrooms8
Spilling T(ruths) as Queer Resistance: A Counterstorytelling of a Secondary Science Teacher8
Learning by doing: A multi‐level analysis of the impact of citizen science education8
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Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media8
Elements of Social Capital and Counterspace Processes Contribute to Undergraduate STEM Student Development of a Sense of Belonging8
What drives the public's use of data? The mediating role of trust in science and data literacy in functional scientific reasoning concerning COVID‐198
Spatiotemporal relationships in science lessons: Building learning opportunities over time8
Exploring how museums can support science teacher leaders as boundary spanners8
“It's Just a Hot Mess”: Supporting Teacher Praxis to Challenge Barriers for Multilingual Learners8
“It Looks as if They Threw the Entire Periodic Table Into the River”: A Decolonial Perspective for Chemistry Education in the Context of Environmental Injustices8
Meaningful participation of schools in scientific research through contributory citizen science projects8
Establishing a Model for Serious Science Game Design for Elementary Learners: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Study of Serious Game Design Mechanics That Facilitate Science Learning8
Inviting Conversations in Discipline‐Based Science Education7
Welcome Home: Positive Affective Cultural Experiences and the Proleptic Promise of Belonging in Informal STEM With Black Boys7
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Rolling balls or trapping ions? How students relate models to real‐world phenomena in the physics laboratory7
Science education with multilingual learners: Equity as access and equity as transformation7
“Everyone's Struggling:” Coping With Institutionalized Hierarchies of Competence Through Emotional Resonance7
A Call to Reimagine Science Formative Assessment Systems Through Translanguaging7
Children's exposure to STEM instruction in preschool and how they respond to it7
Review of the double bind in physics education7
Learning to Attune and Revise: A Response to Silvis, Clarke‐Midura, Lee, and Shumway7
Positive or negative? The effects of scientific inquiry on science achievement via attitudes toward science7
Middle School Students' Application of Science Learning From Physical Versus Virtual Labs to New Contexts6
A critical race theory analysis of STEM schools in an urban school district6
The Landscape of Research on Contextualized Science Learning: A Bibliometric Network Review6
Recontextualization in Multilingual Science Teacher Professional Learning6
Broadening Queering: Centering Queer and Trans Cultural Praxis in Science Education Research6
Reorienting Toward LGBTQ+ Belonging in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Feeling and Thinking With a Queer and Nonbinary Person in Virtual Reality6
Students' Emotional Responses to Mistakes: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study in University Chemistry Laboratory6
Development of an Observation Protocol for Teachers' Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Science Instruction6
Reconceptualizing Out‐of‐Field Teachers' Professional Development and Classroom Implementation: A Boundary Crossing Approach6
Uncovering Emotion in Youth Digital Civic Participation Around Climate Change: Entanglements of Fear, Despair, and Anger in Civic Practice6
A review of Mark Windschitl's Teaching Climate Change6
Affective Politics of Belonging to STEM: Some Conceptual and Methodological Considerations6
Adaptive, but Equitable? Exploring the Impact of Machine Learning‐Based Adaptive Support on Educational Debts in Undergraduate Chemistry5
Affective Contradictions and Narratives of Change: A Critical, Cultural‐Historical Approach to Hope and Action in Education for Sustainability5
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Welcome to the Jungle: An Examination of the Making of Science Standards5
“That's Our Question!”: College Students' Epistemic Agency in Model‐Based Investigations5
Social participation in science museums: A concept under construction5
Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching5
Critical Imagination for Transformative Agency: Pedagogies for Science Teacher Education5
Threshold Concepts and Concept Networks in Evolution Education: An Experimental Intervention Study5
“Students Really Benefited From That Hybridization”: Facilitated Sensemaking in a No‐Excuses Charter Network5
Expanding Possibilities for the Use of Writing Genres in Early Elementary Science: Investigating First‐Graders’ Multimodal Sequential Explanations5
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What Happens When Early Childhood Science Teachers Value Student Authorship?5
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Elder Black Women Science Teachers (Re)member: An Examination of Science Identity Formation for Curious Young Black Girls5
Contesting the boundaries of physics teaching: What it takes to transform physics education toward justice‐centered ends5
The Transformational STEM Consciousness Scale: A QuantCrit Measure of a Liberatory STEM Outcome5
Feeling a Goodness of Fit: Children Establishing Corporeal Comfort in STEM Learning4
Family conversations about species change as support for children's developing understandings of evolution4
“Trotula” is not an example of the Matilda effect: On correcting scholarly myths and engaging with professional history: A response to Malecki et al. 20244
Middle‐ and secondary‐school students' STEM career interest and its relationship to gender, grades, and family size in Kazakhstan4
Development of a questionnaire on teachers' beliefs, preparedness, and instructional practices for teaching NGSS science with multilingual learners4
Justice‐centered community–university partnering: Core tenets of partnering for justice epistemology4
Exam Preview Methods Are Associated With Improvements for the Experiences and Learning of College Science Students4
Sense‐Making Phenomena‐Based Planning: Development of Professional Vision on Ambitious Science Teaching4
A Realist Approach to Science Education: Based on Michael Polanyi's Scientific Realism4
Embracing Pedagogies of Joy With Joy: A Response to Scipio, Greenberg, Keifert, and Lee4
Sentipensar [ Feel‐Thinking ] Cultivates Collective Scientific Sensemaking and Worldbuilding Within and Beyond Ecological Despair4
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Praxis crisis and the trouble with science teacher education for emergent bilingual learners4
Why do teachers vary in their instructional change during science PD? The role of noticing students in an iterative change process4
Science Teachers' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Enactment of Practices Through Professional Development for Gender and Sexual Diversity‐Inclusive Science Teaching4
The student hat in professional development: Building epistemic empathy to support teacher learning4
Science Teachers' Management of Conflicting Institutional Logics: Placing Emotions Front and Center4
Charged Bodies in Science Education: A Posthumanist Theorizing of the Affective Dimensions of Science Learning and Disciplinary Spaces4
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Revisiting the Teacher‐Curriculum Relationship: Planning and Enacting Storyline Science Curriculum to be Coherent From the Student Perspective4
“Adapting for a Local Space Can be Tricky”: Designing Units for Teachers to Localize Through Phenomenon Adaptation4
Theorizing science‐civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of scientific numeracies within digital civic media4
Learning Trajectories for Constructing Mechanistic Explanations and the Role Played by Epistemic Knowledge4
On Epistemic Injustices: A Call to Overcome the Dominance of English in International Science Education Research4
Measuring epistemic knowledge development related to scientific experimentation practice: A construct modeling approach4
Representations of science content in a primary classroom: Combining long and short timescales for multimodal analysis4
Teachers' Customizations of Storyline Science Curriculum: Adapting for Their Students and Instructional Contexts3
Teacher‐perceived science inquiry‐based instructional practice on student achievement and motivational beliefs in classroom contexts3
“Taking Off the Rose‐Colored Glasses”: How Justice‐Centered Science Curricula Engages Prehealth Undergraduates' in Critical Consciousness3
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Multilingual learners’ exposure to science and language inputs in elementary school: ¿Qué sabemos?3
Trusting the social value of diverse scientific enterprises: Matching a patchwork of challenges to a mosaic of responses3
Opportunity Gap at the Intersection of Language, Disability, and Science3
Viewing science teacher learning and curriculum enactment through the lens of theory of practice architectures3
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Using Latent Profile Analysis to Unpack the Relationship Between Science Identity and STEM Career Intention Among High School Students3
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Learning to Support Students to Reason Through Talk: How Pedagogically (Dis)Content Teaching Assistants Use a Curriculum Guide Integrated With Professional Development3
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How science teachers deal with STEM education: An explorative study from the lens of curriculum ideology3
“We Don't Come Here to Learn; We Come to Pass.” Promoting Deliberative Peer Dialogue in an Underserved and Diverse Science Class3
Racially diverse educational pathways and STEM college outcomes: A quantitative analysis of students in North Carolina3
A review of John Rudolph's Why We Teach Science (And Why We Should)  By John L. Rudolph, UK: Oxford University Press.2023. 224 pages. (Hardcover). ISBN: 978‐01928671933
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A review of science teaching approaches for equity focusing on race, class, and religion from the perspectives of Freire's and Arendt's theories of education3
Fostering Scientist Identity Development and Compatibility in an Undergraduate Research Experience Program3
Developing an instrument to examine students' analogical modeling competence: An example of electricity3
Elementary preservice teachers' responsiveness while eliciting students' initial arguments and encouraging critique in online simulated argumentation discussions3
Integrating Sustainability Through Socio‐Scientific Issues in Chile: Towards a Decolonial Chemistry Education3
The reification of identity narratives in teacher–student discourse during an inquiry project3
The impact of home resources, students' attitudes toward learning, and instructional strategies on science achievement3
A Longitudinal Phenomenological Case Study of Undergraduate Science Majors' Motivation to Mentor Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research3
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The reverse Matilda effect: Gender bias and the impact of highlighting the contributions of women to a STEM field on its perceived attractiveness2
Connected epistemic practices in laboratory‐based engineering design projects for large‐course instruction2
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Emotional Configurations of White Shame and White Ambivalence for White Interns in a Secondary Science Teaching Program2
Inclusive Dialog With Local Communities: Practices Among Professionals and the Battle for Equity and Public Engagement in Science Museums and Science Centers2
Pedagogies of Joy;) A Leap to Joy‐Centered Critical Design2
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Embodied, Enacted, and Multimodal: Exploring Science Teachers’ Metaphors in Authentic Classroom Contexts2
Examining preservice science teachers' implementation of language‐ and literacy‐integrated science through a cultural historical activity theory lens2
Exploring middle school students' interests in computationally intensive science careers: The CISCI instrument validation and intervention2
Bridging Student Funds of Knowledge With Science Discourse: An Examination of the Organizational Context That Shaped Teachers' Sense of Agency for Instructional Change2
Beginning with the end in mind: Meaningful and intentional endings to equitable partnerships in science education2
Science Educators and Researchers Must Uphold the Human Rights of Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex Persons2
Course‐Based Teacher Professional Communities (With District and Union Support) at the Center of Three‐Dimensional Science Teaching2
District Science Coordinators' Conceptions of and Levers for Advancing Equity Agendas at the Elementary Level2
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From the Politics of Affect to the Politics of Being Affected By/With Others: A Commentary on the Special Issue2
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Learning and Distributed Expertise in Community‐Based Science2
Elevating Configurations of Data and Emotion: Dynamics of Coproduction, Collaboration and Competition2
Under pressure: How do science teachers use capital to achieve agency during turbulent times?2
Science and Heritage Language Integrated Learning (SHLIL): Evidence of the effectiveness of an innovative science outreach program for migrant students2
“I think of it that way and it helps me understand”: Anthropomorphism in elementary students' mechanistic stories2
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Impact of Teachers With Research Experiences: Student Gains in STEM Career Awareness, Perception of Value of STEM Learning, and Persistence in STEM Course Tasks2
Understanding Climate Change Education Practices in Kalimantan Through Exploratory Field Research With Local Voices2
Inquiry‐Based Science Instruction for Students With Disabilities: A Systematic and Meta‐Analytic Review2
Dreaming of disability‐as‐possibility as a humanistic STEM education futurity2
A Critical Examination of Tensions During Collaborations in STEM Inquiry2
Cultivating culturally sustaining integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms: A narrative inquiry case study of a science teacher2
Science education in an age of misinformation2
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