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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Why are some students “not into” computational thinking activities embedded within high school science units? Key takeaways from a microethnographic discourse analysis study46
Cross‐sectional study of students' molecular explanations of inheritance patterns42
“On Mars, we will speak Arabic”: Negotiating identity in upper secondary physics in Denmark41
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Utilizing theory to elucidate the work of creating equity for transformation within the science classroom39
Teachers' ability to diagnose and deal with alternative student conceptions of evolution33
Transformative Climate and Environmental Education for a Just Future32
“We actually made something and solved a problem”: Exploring relationships between middle school engineering culture and girls' engineering experiences29
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Complex pathways within nested systems: Exploring approaches to centering equity in peer review28
School Science: An Approach to Rethinking What Students Learn and How They Might be Better Engaged27
A case study of science teachers' goal conflicts arising when integrating engineering into science classes27
Cultivating Inner Witnesses Attuned to the Emotional Experiences of Students of Color in Science27
Why most definitions of modeling competence in science education fall short: Analyzing the relevance of volition for modeling26
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Passive elementary student's constructed epistemic emotions and patterns of participation during small group scientific modeling24
Disruptive moments as opportunities towards justice‐oriented pedagogical practice in Informal Science Learning24
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Student reasonings and cognitive biases in climate change predictions20
The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM Learning: Reinscriptions and Contestations of Coloniality20
Humanistic science education: Updating our collective consciousness and offering fresh consideration20
Diversifying computer science: An examination of the potential influences of women‐in‐computing groups19
The characteristics of diagrams in scientific explanations: Multimodal integration of written and visual modes of representation in junior high school textbooks19
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Arguing about argument and evidence: Disagreements and ambiguities in science education research and practice18
Teacher positioning within the figured world(s) of urban school science18
vAIR—An epistemic model of socioscientific reasoning emerging from citizens engaged in a locally situated SSI16
A comparison of elementary teachers' verbal supports for students in inclusive and general classroom contexts during an NGSS‐aligned science, engineering, and computer science unit16
Using the Lenses of Organizational Culture and Climate for Research on Science Teacher Professional Learning16
Young children co‐constructing science: The importance of their families and cultural communities16
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Science class as clinic: Why histories of segregated instruction matter for health equity reforms today15
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Making in‐the‐moment learning visible: A framework to identify and compare various ways of learning through continuity and discourse change14
Using youths’ personal DNA data in science camps: Fostering genetics learning and socio‐emotional attitudes toward science with design‐based research14
Naturalizing the Nature of Science: A response to and acknowledgement of Klopfer & Aikenhead14
Advancing a Comprehensive Equity Centered Theory of STEM Doctoral Persistence: A Small‐Scale Qualitative Exploration of Critical Capital Theory13
Commentary—misconceiving merit: Paradoxes of excellence and devotion in academic science and engineering13
Leveraging purposes and values to motivate and negotiate reform13
Virtuality, Solidarity and Possibility: A Response to Paré12
Organizational sensemaking during curriculum implementation: The dilemma of agency, role of collaboration, and importance of discipline‐specific leadership12
Preservice science teachers' sociopolitical consciousness: Analyzing descriptions of culturally relevant science teaching and students12
Secondary school students' responses to epistemic uncertainty during an ecological citizen science inquiry11
Teacher strategies to support student navigation of uncertainty: Considering the dynamic nature of scientific uncertainty throughout phases of sensemaking11
Nigerian teachers' self‐reported climate science literacy and expressed training needs on climate change concepts: Prospects of job‐embedded situative professional development10
Examining the effect of early STEM experiences as a form of STEM capital and identity capital on STEM identity: A gender study10
Navigating the complexities of student understanding: Exploring the coherency of students' conceptions about the greenhouse effect9
Teacher professional development programs integrating science and language with multilingual learners: A conceptual framework9
Physics curriculum in upper secondary schools: What leading physicists want9
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A Review of Research on Engineering in K‐12 Science Education8
Cultivating Confidence: The Potential of Science Museum Visits in Boosting Science Self‐Efficacy and Expanding Perceptions of Science in Emerging Adult Learners8
Equity‐centered science education: The origin story of this special issue8
“That's Just Gonna Make Them Upset”: Youth Authoring Emerging Epistemic Ideals Through Rightful Presence8
Students' credibility criteria for evaluating scientific information: The case of climate change on social media8
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Right but wrong: How students' mechanistic reasoning and conceptual understandings shift when designing agent‐based models using data8
Spatiotemporal relationships in science lessons: Building learning opportunities over time7
Elements of Social Capital and Counterspace Processes Contribute to Undergraduate STEM Student Development of a Sense of Belonging7
The Quality of Interactions in the Home Science Environment and Associations With Children's Science Learning7
Analysis of prospective early childhood education teachers' proposals of nature field trips: An educational experience to bring nature close during this stage7
What drives the public's use of data? The mediating role of trust in science and data literacy in functional scientific reasoning concerning COVID‐197
Dialog‐constraining institutional logics and their interactional manifestation in the science classroom7
“It's Just a Hot Mess”: Supporting Teacher Praxis to Challenge Barriers for Multilingual Learners7
Incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion in science: Lessons learned from an undergraduate seminar7
“It Looks as if They Threw the Entire Periodic Table Into the River”: A Decolonial Perspective for Chemistry Education in the Context of Environmental Injustices7
Humanistic school science: Research, policy, politics and classrooms7
Motivation for science learning as an antecedent of emotions and engagement in preservice elementary teachers7
The Relationship Between Black Girls' Perceptions of Their STEM Teachers and Their STEM Identity7
What is the Point of Empathy? A Call for Critical Empathy in Noticing Emotions for Equity in Response to Patterson Williams and Sheth6
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Science education with multilingual learners: Equity as access and equity as transformation6
Learning by doing: A multi‐level analysis of the impact of citizen science education6
Children's exposure to STEM instruction in preschool and how they respond to it6
Negotiating mentoring relationships and support for Black and Brown early‐career faculty6
Rolling balls or trapping ions? How students relate models to real‐world phenomena in the physics laboratory6
Meaningful participation of schools in scientific research through contributory citizen science projects6
Exploring how museums can support science teacher leaders as boundary spanners6
The role of collective sensemaking and science curriculum development within a research–practice partnership6
The Landscape of Research on Contextualized Science Learning: A Bibliometric Network Review5
Periodicity and change: Talking about time inside the planetarium dome5
Uncovering Emotion in Youth Digital Civic Participation Around Climate Change: Entanglements of Fear, Despair, and Anger in Civic Practice5
Leveraging portfolios in professional development for middle school science teachers' assessment and data‐use practice5
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Positive or negative? The effects of scientific inquiry on science achievement via attitudes toward science5
“Everyone's Struggling:” Coping With Institutionalized Hierarchies of Competence Through Emotional Resonance5
A critical race theory analysis of STEM schools in an urban school district5
Reconceptualizing Out‐of‐Field Teachers' Professional Development and Classroom Implementation: A Boundary Crossing Approach5
Within the walls of the classroom: How science teachers' instruction can develop students' sociopolitical consciousness5
Review of the double bind in physics education5
Reorienting Toward LGBTQ+ Belonging in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics by Feeling and Thinking With a Queer and Nonbinary Person in Virtual Reality5
Critical Imagination for Transformative Agency: Pedagogies for Science Teacher Education5
Advising in science education: Critiquing where we have been, moving toward an equitable and holistic advising approach5
Threshold Concepts and Concept Networks in Evolution Education: An Experimental Intervention Study4
A review of Mark Windschitl's Teaching Climate Change4
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Can AI be racist? Color‐evasiveness in the application of machine learning to science assessments4
“Students Really Benefited From That Hybridization”: Facilitated Sensemaking in a No‐Excuses Charter Network4
Place‐based learning processes in a family science workshop: Discussion prompts supporting families sensemaking and rural science connections using a community water model4
Representations of science content in a primary classroom: Combining long and short timescales for multimodal analysis4
Recontextualization in Multilingual Science Teacher Professional Learning4
Middle School Students' Application of Science Learning From Physical Versus Virtual Labs to New Contexts4
Social participation in science museums: A concept under construction4
Contesting the boundaries of physics teaching: What it takes to transform physics education toward justice‐centered ends4
Middle‐ and secondary‐school students' STEM career interest and its relationship to gender, grades, and family size in Kazakhstan4
Characteristics of book talks aboutNature of Science4
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Affective Contradictions and Narratives of Change: A Critical, Cultural‐Historical Approach to Hope and Action in Education for Sustainability4
Affective Politics of Belonging to STEM: Some Conceptual and Methodological Considerations4
Exploring factors that impact physical science doctoral student role identities through a multiple case study approach4
Elder Black Women Science Teachers (Re)member: An Examination of Science Identity Formation for Curious Young Black Girls4
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“Adapting for a Local Space Can be Tricky”: Designing Units for Teachers to Localize Through Phenomenon Adaptation4
Feeling a Goodness of Fit: Children Establishing Corporeal Comfort in STEM Learning4
Why do teachers vary in their instructional change during science PD? The role of noticing students in an iterative change process3
Multilingual learners’ exposure to science and language inputs in elementary school: ¿Qué sabemos?3
Science teachers’ and students’ metavisualization in scientific modeling3
Racially diverse educational pathways and STEM college outcomes: A quantitative analysis of students in North Carolina3
Development of a questionnaire on teachers' beliefs, preparedness, and instructional practices for teaching NGSS science with multilingual learners3
Justice‐centered community–university partnering: Core tenets of partnering for justice epistemology3
Praxis crisis and the trouble with science teacher education for emergent bilingual learners3
Measuring epistemic knowledge development related to scientific experimentation practice: A construct modeling approach3
Structures of becoming: The who, what, and how of holistic science advising3
Embodied interactions in a science museum3
The reification of identity narratives in teacher–student discourse during an inquiry project3
Sense‐Making Phenomena‐Based Planning: Development of Professional Vision on Ambitious Science Teaching3
Mentoring science educators for equity‐centered futures3
“Trotula” is not an example of the Matilda effect: On correcting scholarly myths and engaging with professional history: A response to Malecki et al. 20243
Family conversations about species change as support for children's developing understandings of evolution3
How preservice and in‐service elementary teachers engage student avatars in scientific argumentation within a simulated classroom environment3
Scientific argumentation and responsive teaching: Using dialog to teach science in three middle‐school classrooms3
How science teachers deal with STEM education: An explorative study from the lens of curriculum ideology3
The student hat in professional development: Building epistemic empathy to support teacher learning3
Four years of collaboration in a professional learning community: Shifting toward supporting students' epistemic practices3
“Quite ironic that even I became a natural scientist”: Students' imagined identity trajectories in the Figured World of Higher Education Biology3
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Theorizing science‐civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of scientific numeracies within digital civic media3
Facilitating marginalized youths' identification with STEM through everyday science talk: The critical role of parental caregivers2
Ideology in the mirror: A loving (self) critique of our equity and social justice efforts in STEM education2
Learning to Support Students to Reason Through Talk: How Pedagogically (Dis)Content Teaching Assistants Use a Curriculum Guide Integrated With Professional Development2
Telling the energy story: Design and results of a new curriculum for energy in upper elementary school2
Humanistic science education: The history of science and other relevant contexts2
Viewing science teacher learning and curriculum enactment through the lens of theory of practice architectures2
Who's who: How “women of color” are (or are not) represented in STEM education research2
The impact of home resources, students' attitudes toward learning, and instructional strategies on science achievement2
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The relationship of sense of school belonging to physics attitude among high school students in advanced physics courses2
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
Mentoring across differences in science education: Applying a brokering framework2
An analytical instrument for coding and assessing argumentative dialogues in science teaching contexts2
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 education2
Teacher‐perceived science inquiry‐based instructional practice on student achievement and motivational beliefs in classroom contexts2
Identifying the psychological processes used by male and female students when learning about science technology engineering and mathematics: A linguistic inquiry2
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Trusting the social value of diverse scientific enterprises: Matching a patchwork of challenges to a mosaic of responses2
Elementary preservice teachers' responsiveness while eliciting students' initial arguments and encouraging critique in online simulated argumentation discussions2
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Learning progressions as a simplified model: Examining teachers' reported uses to inform classroom assessment practices2
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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: 978‐01928671932
Developing an instrument to examine students' analogical modeling competence: An example of electricity2
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Epistemological messages in a modeling‐based elementary science classroom compared with a traditional classroom1
Under pressure: How do science teachers use capital to achieve agency during turbulent times?1
Beginning with the end in mind: Meaningful and intentional endings to equitable partnerships in science education1
Bridging Student Funds of Knowledge With Science Discourse: An Examination of the Organizational Context That Shaped Teachers' Sense of Agency for Instructional Change1
Learning and Distributed Expertise in Community‐Based Science1
The reverse Matilda effect: Gender bias and the impact of highlighting the contributions of women to a STEM field on its perceived attractiveness1
Motivation to learn science, emotions in science classes, and engagement towards science studies in Chilean and Spanish compulsory secondary education students1
Impact of Teachers With Research Experiences: Student Gains in STEM Career Awareness, Perception of Value of STEM Learning, and Persistence in STEM Course Tasks1
“If We Don't Have Diversity, There's No Future to See”: High‐school students' perceptions of race and gender representation in STEM1
Course‐Based Teacher Professional Communities (With District and Union Support) at the Center of Three‐Dimensional Science Teaching1
A Review of Antar A. Tichavakunda's, Black Campus Life: The world Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution SUNY Press1
Cultivating culturally sustaining integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms: A narrative inquiry case study of a science teacher1
Broadening a nature of science conceptualization: Using school biology textbooks to differentiate the family resemblance approach1
Contextual resources supporting the co‐evolution of teachers' collective inquiry and classroom practice after the grant ended1
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Connected epistemic practices in laboratory‐based engineering design projects for large‐course instruction1
Getting to a good place with science instruction: Rethinking an appropriate conception of teaching science1
A Longitudinal Phenomenological Case Study of Undergraduate Science Majors' Motivation to Mentor Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Research1
Toward socially just science teaching through professional development: The science teacher identity development and agency of two elementary Teachers of Color1
Dreaming of disability‐as‐possibility as a humanistic STEM education futurity1
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Theoretical perspectives for developing antiracist teaching dispositions and practices in preservice teacher education1
Examining preservice science teachers' implementation of language‐ and literacy‐integrated science through a cultural historical activity theory lens1
Generating a framework for gender and sexual diversity‐inclusive STEM education1
A longitudinal investigation of changing conceptions about teaching science and pedagogical implications of student diversity1
Assessing Professional Development on Experimentation as a Method of Inquiry‐Based Science Teaching Framework and Principal Results1
“I think of it that way and it helps me understand”: Anthropomorphism in elementary students' mechanistic stories1
Exploring middle school students' interests in computationally intensive science careers: The CISCI instrument validation and intervention1
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Science and Heritage Language Integrated Learning (SHLIL): Evidence of the effectiveness of an innovative science outreach program for migrant students1
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Science education in an age of misinformation1
Elevating Configurations of Data and Emotion: Dynamics of Coproduction, Collaboration and Competition1
Emotional Configurations of White Shame and White Ambivalence for White Interns in a Secondary Science Teaching Program1
Inclusive Dialog With Local Communities: Practices Among Professionals and the Battle for Equity and Public Engagement in Science Museums and Science Centers1
The ideal versus the real: Mismatches in reading instruction for emergent bilinguals in secondary science classrooms1
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