Research in Science Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Research in 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks82
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education81
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education30
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource23
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content22
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs20
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)19
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers19
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering18
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting17
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course16
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Trajectories for Appropriating Engineering Design–Based Science Teaching15
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items14
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial14
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future13
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index13
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research12
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge12
Re-validating a Learning Progression of Buoyancy for Middle School Students: A Longitudinal Study12
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy12
Using Science Communication Strategies to Close the Resource Gap in Under-Resourced Schools: a Design-Based Study Focusing on Rural Schools in South Africa11
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms11
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking11
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning11
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene10
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms10
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham10
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness10
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”10
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme10
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study10
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility9
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China9
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills9
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry9
Understanding the Nature of Questioning and Teacher Talk Moves in Interactive Classrooms: a Case of Three South African Teachers9
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development9
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students9
Preferences and Reasoning of 14-15 year-old Students in Relation to Natural or Synthetic Products in Different Contexts: Influence of an Instructional Module8
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum8
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?8
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique8
Reimagining Scientific Literacy: A Textbook Framework for Future-Focused Science Education8
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram8
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective7
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan7
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics7
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers7
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions7
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning7
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?7
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing7
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit7
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics7
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement6
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS6
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example6
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham6
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education6
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT5
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science5
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports5
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time5
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis5
Primary Science Education in Australian Universities: An Overview of Context and Practice5
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial5
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods5
The Semiotic Function of a Bridging Representation to Support Students’ Meaning-Making in Solution Chemistry5
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization5
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations4
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle4
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment4
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue4
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks4
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom4
Analysing the Quality of Risk-Focused Socio-Scientific Arguments on Nuclear Power Using a Risk-Benefit Oriented Model4
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences4
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues4
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions4
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions4
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy4
Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula4
Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students4
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching4
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model4
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions4
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers3
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:3
Measuring Size and Scale: The Development and Validation of the Assessment of Size and Scale Cognition (ASSC)3
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline3
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory3
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences3
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past3
Conceptions of Curved Spacetime: Relating Students’ Mental Representations and Understanding of General Relativity3
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum3
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM3
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account3
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science3
Co-drawing to Learn in Science3
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish3
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life3
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective3
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents3
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School3
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network2
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist2
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment2
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey2
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM2
Using a scoping review to inform a planetary-conscious pedagogical approach to primary science education2
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education2
EcoHealth as a Curriculum Aim in Science Education2
Examining the Characteristics of Investigation Questions Asked by Preservice Teachers: Influences of Scenario, Prior Course Experience, and Inclusion of a Crosscutting Concept2
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?2
Correction to: The Hourglass Approach: Analysing Science Classroom Discursive Interactions Through Intercontextual Lens2
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education2
A Study on the Social Interaction Characteristics of College Student Peers in Science Museums and Their Impact on Learning Outcomes: Based on an Analysis of the Conversation2
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality2
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students2
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families2
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School2
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study2
Enhancing Students’ Concept Understanding Through Collaborative-Metacognitive Use of Science Literature2
From Experience to Inquiry to Generalization: Understanding the STEM-PBL Learning Process and Developing a Formative Assessment Model2
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games2
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus2
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy2
Pre-service Early Years Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science2
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses1
Does Topic Matter? Investigating Students’ Interest, Emotions and Learning when Writing Stories About Socioscientific Issues1
Peter Fensham—Remarkable Colleague and Friend for 49 Years1
Enhancing Learners’ Conceptual Understanding of Reaction Kinetics Using Computer Simulations – A Case Study Approach1
Learning with Friction—Students’ Gestures and Enactment in Relation to a GeoGebra Simulation1
Teachers' perceptions of Brandon's Matrix as a framework for the teaching and assessment of scientific methods in school science1
Learning Analytics for Assessing Hands-on Laboratory Skills in Science Classrooms Using Bayesian Network Analysis1
Middle School Students' Experiences with Place-Based STEM Outreach1
Expanding the Scope of Science Education to Engage with Anthropocene Challenges1
On the Interest-Promoting Effect of Outreach Science Labs: A Comparison of Students’ Interest during Experimentation at an Outreach Science Lab and at School1
Science-Based Educational Escape Games: A Game Design Methodology1
South African Science Teachers’ Experiences of Inquiry-Based Teaching at Disadvantaged Schools1
Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity1
Transformational Learning for Complex Socioscientific Issues1
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico1
Risk Response Competencies in Science Education: A Delphi Study of Experts1
Knowledge for Whom? Inviting Students to Establish an Audience for Knowledge and to Shape Knowledge Construction Activities in a Biology Course1
Professional Growth of STEM Teachers: Viewing from Entrepreneurial Frame1
Teachers’ Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Designing Science Lessons in Support of Environmental Science Agency1
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations1
Characteristics of Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers' Mechanistic Reasoning In Organic Chemistry Tasks: An Eye-Tracking Study1
Metaphors on Protein Synthesis in Swedish Upper Secondary Chemistry and Biology Textbooks – A Double-Edged Sword1
Scientific Toys in Early Childhood Settings: Teaching and Learning About Light and Shadows1
Family Science Experiences’ Influence on Youths’ Achievement Value, Perceived Family Value, and Future Value of Science1
Teachers’ implementation of self-designed Interdisciplinary Curriculum Units in Education for Sustainable Development1
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Making it Happen1
Exploring the Potential of Teacher-Learner Interactions Through Feedback in Online Formative Assessment: Demonstration Cases of Pre-service Physics Teachers1
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators1
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment1
Fostering Epistemic Space for Collaborative Solutions in Primary Science Through a Socratic Seminar Inquiry Approach1
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process1
Transformation of School Science Practices to Promote Functional Scientific Literacy1
On Peter Fensham1
Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Scientific Reasoning Competencies: Analysing the Impact of Contributing Factors1
Correction: Comparing the Reading Behaviours of Students with High- and Low-Level Comprehension of Scientific Terms by Eye Movement Analysis1
Correction: The Relationship Between Students’ Awareness of Environmental Issues and Attitudes Toward Science and Epistemological Beliefs—Moderating Effect of Informal Science Activities1
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum1
Effects of Parental Science Expectations on the Science Interests of Yi Junior High School Students in China: The Chain Mediating Role of Science Experience and Science Self-Efficacy1
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images1
Capturing and Developing Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Sustainable Development Using Content Representation and Video-Based Reflection1
Flipped Classroom As a Model for Improving Students’ Cognitive Performance and Reducing Misconceptions1
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Situational Interest in a Science Period: a Study in Three Cultural/Linguistic Contexts1
Exploring the effect of directive and reflective feedback on elementary school students’ scientific conceptual understanding, epistemological beliefs, and inquiry performance in online inquiry activit1
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