Science Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Science Education 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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Elements of Social Capital and Counterspace Processes Contribute to Undergraduate STEM Student Development of a Sense of Belonging65
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A Call to Explicitly Name and Account for Power in Epistemic Agency Research37
Getting to a good place with science instruction: Rethinking an appropriate conception of teaching science36
Learning by doing: A multi‐level analysis of the impact of citizen science education35
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Beginning with the end in mind: Meaningful and intentional endings to equitable partnerships in science education32
Bridging Student Funds of Knowledge With Science Discourse: An Examination of the Organizational Context That Shaped Teachers' Sense of Agency for Instructional Change28
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Dreaming of disability‐as‐possibility as a humanistic STEM education futurity24
Meaningful participation of schools in scientific research through contributory citizen science projects24
Incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in science: Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar23
Justice‐centered community–university partnering: Core tenets of partnering for justice epistemology22
Inclusive Dialog With Local Communities: Practices Among Professionals and the Battle for Equity and Public Engagement in Science Museums and Science Centers22
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Praxis crisis and the trouble with science teacher education for emergent bilingual learners22
Utilizing theory to elucidate the work of creating equity for transformation within the science classroom22
Critical climate awareness as a science education outcome21
Course‐Based Teacher Professional Communities (With District and Union Support) at the Center of Three‐Dimensional Science Teaching21
Studying the Implementation of Equity Projects in Science Education in Divisive Political Contexts19
Why are some students “not into” computational thinking activities embedded within high school science units? Key takeaways from a microethnographic discourse analysis study19
An investigation of elementary teachers' pedagogical content knowledge for socioscientific argumentation: The effect of a learning and teaching experience18
Development of a questionnaire on teachers' beliefs, preparedness, and instructional practices for teaching NGSS science with multilingual learners18
How preservice and in‐service elementary teachers engage student avatars in scientific argumentation within a simulated classroom environment17
Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media17
Characterizing adaptive teaching expertise: Teacher profiles based on epistemic orientation and knowledge of epistemic tools16
Family conversations about species change as support for children's developing understandings of evolution16
Spatiotemporal relationships in science lessons: Building learning opportunities over time15
Theorizing science‐civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of scientific numeracies within digital civic media14
“I think of it that way and it helps me understand”: Anthropomorphism in elementary students' mechanistic stories14
Presenting a socio‐scientific issue in a science and technology museum: Effects on interest, knowledge and argument repertoire14
“On Mars, we will speak Arabic”: Negotiating identity in upper secondary physics in Denmark13
The reverse Matilda effect: Gender bias and the impact of highlighting the contributions of women to a STEM field on its perceived attractiveness13
Inclusion for STEM, the institution, or minoritized youth? Exploring how educators navigate the discourses that shape social justice in informal science learning practices13
Science and Heritage Language Integrated Learning (SHLIL): Evidence of the effectiveness of an innovative science outreach program for migrant students13
Right but wrong: How students' mechanistic reasoning and conceptual understandings shift when designing agent‐based models using data12
“Trotula” is not an example of the Matilda effect: On correcting scholarly myths and engaging with professional history: A response to Malecki et al. 202412
Analysis of prospective early childhood education teachers' proposals of nature field trips: An educational experience to bring nature close during this stage11
Talking through the “messy middle” of partnerships in science education11
“Quite ironic that even I became a natural scientist”: Students' imagined identity trajectories in the Figured World of Higher Education Biology11
“Courageous self‐examination and radical STEM overhaul”: Fostering a racially just STEM education through Black, Brown, Bruised11
Teachers' ability to diagnose and deal with alternative student conceptions of evolution11
Characterizing pedagogical decision points in sense‐making conversations motivated by scientific uncertainty11
Embodied cognition through participatory simulation and mathematical description: Supporting mechanistic reasoning and explanation10
“We actually made something and solved a problem”: Exploring relationships between middle school engineering culture and girls' engineering experiences10
Humanistic school science: Research, policy, politics and classrooms10
Cross‐sectional study of students' molecular explanations of inheritance patterns10
What drives the public's use of data? The mediating role of trust in science and data literacy in functional scientific reasoning concerning COVID‐1910
Transformative Climate and Environmental Education for a Just Future9
Representations of science content in a primary classroom: Combining long and short timescales for multimodal analysis9
The Quality of Interactions in the Home Science Environment and Associations With Children's Science Learning9
Talk moves as pedagogical tools for eliciting and working with student ideas in an undergraduate general biology laboratory8
Motivation for science learning as an antecedent of emotions and engagement in preservice elementary teachers8
Family values, parent roles, and life challenges: Parent reflections on the factors shaping long‐term interest development for young children and their families participating in an early childhood eng8
Practical measures of science teacher learning: Conceptualizing organizational functions and affordances7
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Periodicity and change: Talking about time inside the planetarium dome7
Dialog‐constraining institutional logics and their interactional manifestation in the science classroom7
Modeling Student Negotiation of Assessment‐Related Epistemological Messages in a College Science Course7
Not the only novice in the room: Partnerships and belongingness in a research immersion program7
“It's Just a Hot Mess”: Supporting Teacher Praxis to Challenge Barriers for Multilingual Learners7
How has Science Education changed over the last 100 years? An analysis using natural language processing7
Theoretical perspectives for developing antiracist teaching dispositions and practices in preservice teacher education7
Science Education is civics education6
Mentoring science educators for equity‐centered futures6
Joining the campaign to center justice‐oriented theory and practice in science education6
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Emotional Configurations of White Shame and White Ambivalence for White Interns in a Secondary Science Teaching Program6
Cultivating Inner Witnesses Attuned to the Emotional Experiences of Students of Color in Science6
Exploring how museums can support science teacher leaders as boundary spanners6
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Professional Vision of Preservice and In‐Service Biology Teachers: Tacit Knowledge About Teaching and Learning in Relation to Student Conceptions in Evolution Lessons6
Complex pathways within nested systems: Exploring approaches to centering equity in peer review5
Scientific argumentation and responsive teaching: Using dialog to teach science in three middle‐school classrooms5
Children's exposure to STEM instruction in preschool and how they respond to it5
Why most definitions of modeling competence in science education fall short: Analyzing the relevance of volition for modeling5
Advancing multimedia learning for science: Comparing the effect of virtual versus physical models on student learning about stereochemistry5
Science education with multilingual learners: Equity as access and equity as transformation5
Structures of becoming: The who, what, and how of holistic science advising5
Measuring epistemic knowledge development related to scientific experimentation practice: A construct modeling approach5
Students' mechanistic reasoning in practice: Enabling functions of drawing, gestures and talk5
STEM‐related outcomes for adolescents with differing perceptions of school racial climate: A latent class analysis5
Learning to become ignorant: Improving the quality of epistemic knowledge in science education5
The reification of identity narratives in teacher–student discourse during an inquiry project5
Misfits or misrecognition? Exploring STEMM degree students' concerns about non‐completion5
Under pressure: How do science teachers use capital to achieve agency during turbulent times?4
“If We Don't Have Diversity, There's No Future to See”: High‐school students' perceptions of race and gender representation in STEM4
“You could like science and not be a science person”: Black girls' negotiation of space and identity in science4
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Examining preservice science teachers' implementation of language‐ and literacy‐integrated science through a cultural historical activity theory lens4
Cultivating culturally sustaining integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms: A narrative inquiry case study of a science teacher4
Rolling balls or trapping ions? How students relate models to real‐world phenomena in the physics laboratory4
How Motivation for Undergraduate Physics Interacts With Learning Activities in a System With Built‐In Autonomy4
School Science: An Approach to Rethinking What Students Learn and How They Might be Better Engaged4
Extending science instruction beyond the CER: Use of critical questions in the argumentation of middle school science students4
Systematizing Decisions in Design‐Based Research: From Theory to Design4
The role of embodied scaffolding in revealing “enactive potentialities” in intergenerational science exploration4
Elevating Configurations of Data and Emotion: Dynamics of Coproduction, Collaboration and Competition4
Why do teachers vary in their instructional change during science PD? The role of noticing students in an iterative change process4
Exploring middle school students' interests in computationally intensive science careers: The CISCI instrument validation and intervention4
The potential of “civic science education”: Theory, research, practice, and uncertainties4
Learning and Distributed Expertise in Community‐Based Science4
The student hat in professional development: Building epistemic empathy to support teacher learning4
Connected epistemic practices in laboratory‐based engineering design projects for large‐course instruction4
Sense‐Making Phenomena‐Based Planning: Development of Professional Vision on Ambitious Science Teaching3
Families' experiments and conversations at an open‐ended exhibit in a science museum: Individual characteristics and the influence of minimal guidance strategies3
Four years of collaboration in a professional learning community: Shifting toward supporting students' epistemic practices3
A case study of science teachers' goal conflicts arising when integrating engineering into science classes3
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Plan‐Draw‐Evaluate (PDE) pattern in students' collaborative drawing: Interaction between visual and verbal modes of representation3
Racially diverse educational pathways and STEM college outcomes: A quantitative analysis of students in North Carolina3
Embodied interactions in a science museum3
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Teacher enactment of the crosscutting concepts in next generation science classrooms3
The role of collective sensemaking and science curriculum development within a research–practice partnership3
“I Feel Like a Real Chemist Right Now”: Epistemic Affect as a Fundamental Driver of Inquiry in the Chemistry Laboratory3
Negotiating mentoring relationships and support for Black and Brown early‐career faculty3
Science education in an age of misinformation3
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Professional Learning in a Web‐Based Community of Practice Of, By, and For Chinese Primary Science Teachers: A Narrative Inquiry3
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Epistemological messages in a modeling‐based elementary science classroom compared with a traditional classroom2
Science teachers’ and students’ metavisualization in scientific modeling2
A holistic understanding of inclusion in STEM: Systemic challenges and support for women and LGBT+ academics and PhD students2
The ideal versus the real: Mismatches in reading instruction for emergent bilinguals in secondary science classrooms2
Elementary preservice teachers' responsiveness while eliciting students' initial arguments and encouraging critique in online simulated argumentation discussions2
Visual resources and interaction in Grade 4 science teaching—Moving in and out of discourse when exploring concepts of evolution and adaption2
A critical race theory analysis of STEM schools in an urban school district2
Student reasonings and cognitive biases in climate change predictions2
Interlocking models in classroom science2
Broadening a nature of science conceptualization: Using school biology textbooks to differentiate the family resemblance approach2
The cognitive and affective roles of learning assistants in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics college classrooms: An exploration of classroom experiences and students' metacognitive aw2
Assessing Professional Development on Experimentation as a Method of Inquiry‐Based Science Teaching Framework and Principal Results2
Reframing formative assessment for emergent bilinguals: Linguistically responsive assessing in science classrooms2
Assessing the quality of science teachers' lesson plans: Evaluation and application of a novel instrument2
Contextual resources supporting the co‐evolution of teachers' collective inquiry and classroom practice after the grant ended2
Humanistic science education: Updating our collective consciousness and offering fresh consideration2
Advising in science education: Critiquing where we have been, moving toward an equitable and holistic advising approach2
A longitudinal investigation of changing conceptions about teaching science and pedagogical implications of student diversity2
Multilingual learners’ exposure to science and language inputs in elementary school: ¿Qué sabemos?2
An Analysis of Students Who Represent Missed Opportunity for Diversifying STEM Fields2
The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM Learning: Reinscriptions and Contestations of Coloniality2
The relationship of sense of school belonging to physics attitude among high school students in advanced physics courses2
Collaborative Design Capacity for Enactment Framework: An Analytic Tool for Conceptualizing Pedagogical Design Capacity Within Social Context2
Recognizing and Fostering Moments of Liberatory Design Possibility in Youth Engineering Design Experiences2
Exploring factors that impact physical science doctoral student role identities through a multiple case study approach1
Facilitating marginalized youths' identification with STEM through everyday science talk: The critical role of parental caregivers1
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Trusting the social value of diverse scientific enterprises: Matching a patchwork of challenges to a mosaic of responses1
The characteristics of diagrams in scientific explanations: Multimodal integration of written and visual modes of representation in junior high school textbooks1
How the Affordances of Different Modeling Tools Impact Kindergartener‐Constructed Models and Modeling Reasoning1
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Review of the double bind in physics education1
Generating a framework for gender and sexual diversity‐inclusive STEM education1
Motivation to learn science, emotions in science classes, and engagement towards science studies in Chilean and Spanish compulsory secondary education students1
Developing an instrument to examine students' analogical modeling competence: An example of electricity1
Science practice‐readiness: Novice elementary teachers' developing knowledge of science practices1
Positive or negative? The effects of scientific inquiry on science achievement via attitudes toward science1
Empowering Elementary Preservice Science Teachers: Harnessing Diverse Language Resources in the Practice of Modeling1
“Everyone's Struggling:” Coping With Institutionalized Hierarchies of Competence Through Emotional Resonance1
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A Review of Antar A. Tichavakunda's, Black Campus Life: The world Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution SUNY Press1
Using youths’ personal DNA data in science camps: Fostering genetics learning and socio‐emotional attitudes toward science with design‐based research1
Teacher Guidance and On‐the‐Fly Scaffolding in Primary School Students' Inquiry Learning1
Disruptive moments as opportunities towards justice‐oriented pedagogical practice in Informal Science Learning1
How science teachers deal with STEM education: An explorative study from the lens of curriculum ideology1
About birds and bees, snails and trees: Children's ideas on animal and plant evolution1
Diversifying computer science: An examination of the potential influences of women‐in‐computing groups1
Passive elementary student's constructed epistemic emotions and patterns of participation during small group scientific modeling1
The impact of home resources, students' attitudes toward learning, and instructional strategies on science achievement1
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Students' Meaning‐Making of Nature of Science: Interaction Between Visual, Verbal, and Written Modes of Representation1
Science class as clinic: Why histories of segregated instruction matter for health equity reforms today1
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Toward socially just science teaching through professional development: The science teacher identity development and agency of two elementary Teachers of Color1
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Interaction With Exhibits: The Significance of Instrumentalization1
Development of the science teaching anxiety scale for preservice elementary teachers: A Rasch analysis1
Reorienting Toward LGBTQ+ Belonging in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Feeling and Thinking With a Queer and Nonbinary Person in Virtual Reality1
Within the walls of the classroom: How science teachers' instruction can develop students' sociopolitical consciousness1
“Talking Science” to “Discourse Strategies”: Perspective Shifting from “Knowing” to “Doing” the Language of ScienceTang, K. S. (2021). Discourse strategies for science teaching and learning: Research 1
vAIR—An epistemic model of socioscientific reasoning emerging from citizens engaged in a locally situated SSI1
Leveraging portfolios in professional development for middle school science teachers' assessment and data‐use practice1
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The Landscape of Research on Contextualized Science Learning: A Bibliometric Network Review1
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