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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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“On Mars, we will speak Arabic”: Negotiating identity in upper secondary physics in Denmark57
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The Importance of Science Education, Scientific Knowledge, and Evaluation Strategies for the Successful Detection of COVID‐19 Misinformation38
“We actually made something and solved a problem”: Exploring relationships between middle school engineering culture and girls' engineering experiences37
Why are some students “not into” computational thinking activities embedded within high school science units? Key takeaways from a microethnographic discourse analysis study37
Transformative Climate and Environmental Education for a Just Future35
Developing Science Classroom Expectations That Encourage Risk‐Taking for Learning Science Together32
Cultivating Inner Witnesses Attuned to the Emotional Experiences of Students of Color in Science28
Engaging the Complexities of Energy Transitions: Sociotechnical and Dualistic Insights From Crossdisciplinary Undergraduates28
Troubleshooting as an Inquiry Activity: Recognizing and Supporting the Mangle in the Classroom27
School Science: An Approach to Rethinking What Students Learn and How They Might be Better Engaged23
A Study of Teacher Sensemaking About Productive Student Talk in Science Classrooms22
Students’ Experiences of Teachers’ Ways of Unpacking Visual Representations in the Context of Intermolecular Forces20
Why most definitions of modeling competence in science education fall short: Analyzing the relevance of volition for modeling20
Centering Care in Transformative Climate Change Education: A Theoretical Framework for Communal Learning Ecosystems20
Diversifying computer science: An examination of the potential influences of women‐in‐computing groups19
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Student reasonings and cognitive biases in climate change predictions18
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The Uses of Hopelessness: A Response to Røkenes and Jornet18
The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM Learning: Reinscriptions and Contestations of Coloniality17
The characteristics of diagrams in scientific explanations: Multimodal integration of written and visual modes of representation in junior high school textbooks17
Teacher positioning within the figured world(s) of urban school science15
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Embracing a Terra Plena Ethos in Urban Science Education14
Science class as clinic: Why histories of segregated instruction matter for health equity reforms today14
A comparison of elementary teachers' verbal supports for students in inclusive and general classroom contexts during an NGSS‐aligned science, engineering, and computer science unit14
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vAIR—An epistemic model of socioscientific reasoning emerging from citizens engaged in a locally situated SSI14
Navigating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Teacher Identities in Science Classrooms: A Comparative Case Study13
Young children co‐constructing science: The importance of their families and cultural communities13
Commentary—misconceiving merit: Paradoxes of excellence and devotion in academic science and engineering13
Using the Lenses of Organizational Culture and Climate for Research on Science Teacher Professional Learning13
Teacher professional development programs integrating science and language with multilingual learners: A conceptual framework13
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Leveraging purposes and values to motivate and negotiate reform13
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
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A Review of Research on Engineering in K‐12 Science Education12
Making in‐the‐moment learning visible: A framework to identify and compare various ways of learning through continuity and discourse change12
Virtuality, Solidarity and Possibility: A Response to Paré12
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Organizational sensemaking during curriculum implementation: The dilemma of agency, role of collaboration, and importance of discipline‐specific leadership12
Nigerian teachers' self‐reported climate science literacy and expressed training needs on climate change concepts: Prospects of job‐embedded situative professional development12
“Moving Beyond Research to Abolish and Replace Harmful Systems: A Response to Zhang and Kuo”12
Advancing a Comprehensive Equity Centered Theory of STEM Doctoral Persistence: A Small‐Scale Qualitative Exploration of Critical Capital Theory12
Equity‐centered science education: The origin story of this special issue11
Physics curriculum in upper secondary schools: What leading physicists want11
Cultivating Confidence: The Potential of Science Museum Visits in Boosting Science Self‐Efficacy and Expanding Perceptions of Science in Emerging Adult Learners10
Navigating the complexities of student understanding: Exploring the coherency of students' conceptions about the greenhouse effect10
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
“That's Just Gonna Make Them Upset”: Youth Authoring Emerging Epistemic Ideals Through Rightful Presence10
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Epistemic Objects and Tools on the School Grounds: Addressing Plant Blindness and Knowledge Construction10
From Inquiry‐Based Science Teaching to Science Career Aspirations: Unequal Motivational Pathways in Western China10
Learning by doing: A multi‐level analysis of the impact of citizen science education10
Attending to Hyperrationality as Unraveling Coloniality in Science Education: A Response to Davis and Philip9
The Quality of Interactions in the Home Science Environment and Associations With Children's Science Learning9
What is the Point of Empathy? A Call for Critical Empathy in Noticing Emotions for Equity in Response to Patterson Williams and Sheth9
Spatiotemporal relationships in science lessons: Building learning opportunities over time9
Incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in science: Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar9
Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media8
Right but wrong: How students' mechanistic reasoning and conceptual understandings shift when designing agent‐based models using data8
“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
Humanistic school science: Research, policy, politics and classrooms8
The Relationship Between Black Girls' Perceptions of Their STEM Teachers and Their STEM Identity8
Spilling T(ruths) as Queer Resistance: A Counterstorytelling of a Secondary Science Teacher8
“It's Just a Hot Mess”: Supporting Teacher Praxis to Challenge Barriers for Multilingual Learners8
Meaningful participation of schools in scientific research through contributory citizen science projects8
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Elements of Social Capital and Counterspace Processes Contribute to Undergraduate STEM Student Development of a Sense of Belonging8
Establishing a Model for Serious Science Game Design for Elementary Learners: A Longitudinal, Mixed Methods Study of Serious Game Design Mechanics That Facilitate Science Learning7
Negotiating mentoring relationships and support for Black and Brown early‐career faculty7
Review of the double bind in physics education7
Welcome Home: Positive Affective Cultural Experiences and the Proleptic Promise of Belonging in Informal STEM With Black Boys7
Learning to Attune and Revise: A Response to Silvis, Clarke‐Midura, Lee, and Shumway7
Children's exposure to STEM instruction in preschool and how they respond to it7
Inviting Conversations in Discipline‐Based Science Education7
Within the walls of the classroom: How science teachers' instruction can develop students' sociopolitical consciousness7
Uncovering Emotion in Youth Digital Civic Participation Around Climate Change: Entanglements of Fear, Despair, and Anger in Civic Practice7
Rolling balls or trapping ions? How students relate models to real‐world phenomena in the physics laboratory7
Exploring how museums can support science teacher leaders as boundary spanners7
Science education with multilingual learners: Equity as access and equity as transformation7
A critical race theory analysis of STEM schools in an urban school district7
“Everyone's Struggling:” Coping With Institutionalized Hierarchies of Competence Through Emotional Resonance7
Reorienting Toward LGBTQ+ Belonging in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Feeling and Thinking With a Queer and Nonbinary Person in Virtual Reality6
Positive or negative? The effects of scientific inquiry on science achievement via attitudes toward science6
A review of Mark Windschitl's Teaching Climate Change6
Exploring factors that impact physical science doctoral student role identities through a multiple case study approach6
Advising in science education: Critiquing where we have been, moving toward an equitable and holistic advising approach6
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A Call to Reimagine Science Formative Assessment Systems Through Translanguaging6
Development of an Observation Protocol for Teachers' Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Science Instruction6
Middle School Students' Application of Science Learning From Physical Versus Virtual Labs to New Contexts6
Reconceptualizing Out‐of‐Field Teachers' Professional Development and Classroom Implementation: A Boundary Crossing Approach6
The Landscape of Research on Contextualized Science Learning: A Bibliometric Network Review6
Recontextualization in Multilingual Science Teacher Professional Learning6
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Middle‐ and secondary‐school students' STEM career interest and its relationship to gender, grades, and family size in Kazakhstan5
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Critical Imagination for Transformative Agency: Pedagogies for Science Teacher Education5
Affective Politics of Belonging to STEM: Some Conceptual and Methodological Considerations5
Expanding Possibilities for the Use of Writing Genres in Early Elementary Science: Investigating First‐Graders’ Multimodal Sequential Explanations5
“Students Really Benefited From That Hybridization”: Facilitated Sensemaking in a No‐Excuses Charter Network5
Contesting the boundaries of physics teaching: What it takes to transform physics education toward justice‐centered ends5
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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
Threshold Concepts and Concept Networks in Evolution Education: An Experimental Intervention Study5
Characteristics of book talks aboutNature of Science5
Social participation in science museums: A concept under construction5
Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching5
What Happens When Early Childhood Science Teachers Value Student Authorship?5
Elder Black Women Science Teachers (Re)member: An Examination of Science Identity Formation for Curious Young Black Girls5
Feeling a Goodness of Fit: Children Establishing Corporeal Comfort in STEM Learning4
A Realist Approach to Science Education: Based on Michael Polanyi's Scientific Realism4
Why do teachers vary in their instructional change during science PD? The role of noticing students in an iterative change process4
Trusting the social value of diverse scientific enterprises: Matching a patchwork of challenges to a mosaic of responses4
Scientific argumentation and responsive teaching: Using dialog to teach science in three middle‐school classrooms4
Charged Bodies in Science Education: A Posthumanist Theorizing of the Affective Dimensions of Science Learning and Disciplinary Spaces4
Structures of becoming: The who, what, and how of holistic science advising4
Family conversations about species change as support for children's developing understandings of evolution4
Justice‐centered community–university partnering: Core tenets of partnering for justice epistemology4
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Embracing Pedagogies of Joy With Joy: A Response to Scipio, Greenberg, Keifert, and Lee4
Revisiting the Teacher‐Curriculum Relationship: Planning and Enacting Storyline Science Curriculum to be Coherent From the Student Perspective4
Measuring epistemic knowledge development related to scientific experimentation practice: A construct modeling approach4
On Epistemic Injustices: A Call to Overcome the Dominance of English in International Science Education Research4
Sense‐Making Phenomena‐Based Planning: Development of Professional Vision on Ambitious Science Teaching4
Mentoring science educators for equity‐centered futures4
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
“Adapting for a Local Space Can be Tricky”: Designing Units for Teachers to Localize Through Phenomenon Adaptation4
“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
Representations of science content in a primary classroom: Combining long and short timescales for multimodal analysis4
Science Teachers' Management of Conflicting Institutional Logics: Placing Emotions Front and Center4
Science Teachers' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Enactment of Practices Through Professional Development for Gender and Sexual Diversity‐Inclusive Science Teaching4
Racially diverse educational pathways and STEM college outcomes: A quantitative analysis of students in North Carolina4
The reification of identity narratives in teacher–student discourse during an inquiry project4
The student hat in professional development: Building epistemic empathy to support teacher learning4
Development of a questionnaire on teachers' beliefs, preparedness, and instructional practices for teaching NGSS science with multilingual learners4
How preservice and in‐service elementary teachers engage student avatars in scientific argumentation within a simulated classroom environment4
Praxis crisis and the trouble with science teacher education for emergent bilingual learners4
How science teachers deal with STEM education: An explorative study from the lens of curriculum ideology3
Multilingual learners’ exposure to science and language inputs in elementary school: ¿Qué sabemos?3
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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
Inquiry‐Based Science Instruction for Students With Disabilities: A Systematic and Meta‐Analytic Review3
Teachers' Customizations of Storyline Science Curriculum: Adapting for Their Students and Instructional Contexts3
From the Politics of Affect to the Politics of Being Affected By/With Others: A Commentary on the Special Issue3
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
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
“Taking Off the Rose‐Colored Glasses”: How Justice‐Centered Science Curricula Engages Prehealth Undergraduates' in Critical Consciousness3
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Elementary preservice teachers' responsiveness while eliciting students' initial arguments and encouraging critique in online simulated argumentation discussions3
Viewing science teacher learning and curriculum enactment through the lens of theory of practice architectures3
Beginning with the end in mind: Meaningful and intentional endings to equitable partnerships in science education3
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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 Tasks3
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A Longitudinal Phenomenological Case Study of Undergraduate Science Majors' Motivation to Mentor Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research3
The impact of home resources, students' attitudes toward learning, and instructional strategies on science achievement3
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Developing an instrument to examine students' analogical modeling competence: An example of electricity3
Opportunity Gap at the Intersection of Language, Disability, and Science3
Fostering Scientist Identity Development and Compatibility in an Undergraduate Research Experience Program3
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Pedagogies of Joy;) A Leap to Joy‐Centered Critical Design3
Teacher‐perceived science inquiry‐based instructional practice on student achievement and motivational beliefs in classroom contexts3
Using Latent Profile Analysis to Unpack the Relationship Between Science Identity and STEM Career Intention Among High School Students3
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Science education in an age of misinformation2
Science Educators and Researchers Must Uphold the Human Rights of Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex Persons2
Emotional Configurations of White Shame and White Ambivalence for White Interns in a Secondary Science Teaching Program2
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Getting to a good place with science instruction: Rethinking an appropriate conception of teaching science2
Inclusive Dialog With Local Communities: Practices Among Professionals and the Battle for Equity and Public Engagement in Science Museums and Science Centers2
Bridging Student Funds of Knowledge With Science Discourse: An Examination of the Organizational Context That Shaped Teachers' Sense of Agency for Instructional Change2
Under pressure: How do science teachers use capital to achieve agency during turbulent times?2
District Science Coordinators' Conceptions of and Levers for Advancing Equity Agendas at the Elementary Level2
Learning and Distributed Expertise in Community‐Based Science2
Connected epistemic practices in laboratory‐based engineering design projects for large‐course instruction2
Theoretical perspectives for developing antiracist teaching dispositions and practices in preservice teacher education2
“I think of it that way and it helps me understand”: Anthropomorphism in elementary students' mechanistic stories2
Course‐Based Teacher Professional Communities (With District and Union Support) at the Center of Three‐Dimensional Science Teaching2
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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
Exploring middle school students' interests in computationally intensive science careers: The CISCI instrument validation and intervention2
Cultivating culturally sustaining integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms: A narrative inquiry case study of a science teacher2
Embodied, Enacted, and Multimodal: Exploring Science Teachers’ Metaphors in Authentic Classroom Contexts2
Understanding Climate Change Education Practices in Kalimantan Through Exploratory Field Research With Local Voices2
Elevating Configurations of Data and Emotion: Dynamics of Coproduction, Collaboration and Competition2
Examining preservice science teachers' implementation of language‐ and literacy‐integrated science through a cultural historical activity theory lens2
Dreaming of disability‐as‐possibility as a humanistic STEM education futurity2
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Science and Heritage Language Integrated Learning (SHLIL): Evidence of the effectiveness of an innovative science outreach program for migrant students2
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