OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	78
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	55
Teacher Agency in Social-Justice Aspirations and Inquiry-Based Science Instruction	29
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	22
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Trajectories for Appropriating Engineering Design–Based Science Teaching	19
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	19
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	18
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	18
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	17
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	16
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	16
Re-validating a Learning Progression of Buoyancy for Middle School Students: A Longitudinal Study	12
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	12
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	12
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	12
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	12
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	12
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	10
Using Science Communication Strategies to Close the Resource Gap in Under-Resourced Schools: a Design-Based Study Focusing on Rural Schools in South Africa	10
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking	10
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge	10
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	10
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	10
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	9
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	9

Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	9
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	9
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	9
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	9
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	9
A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional, Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement	9
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	8
Understanding the Nature of Questioning and Teacher Talk Moves in Interactive Classrooms: a Case of Three South African Teachers	8
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	8
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	8
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	8
A Mixed Methods Comparison of Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Conceptualization of Teaching Engineering	8
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	8
Preferences and Reasoning of 14-15 year-old Students in Relation to Natural or Synthetic Products in Different Contexts: Influence of an Instructional Module	7
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	7
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	7
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	7
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students	7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	6
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	6
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	6
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	6
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	6
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	6
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	6
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	6
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	6
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	5
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	5
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	5
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	5
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge	5
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	5
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	5
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	5
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	4
Primary Science Education in Australian Universities: An Overview of Context and Practice	4
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	4
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	4
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom	4
Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students	4
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	4
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	4
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	4
Analysing the Quality of Risk-Focused Socio-Scientific Arguments on Nuclear Power Using a Risk-Benefit Oriented Model	4
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy	4
A Cultural-historical Critique of How Engineering Knowledge is Constructed Through Research in Play-based Settings: What Counts as Evidence and What is Invisible?	4
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	4
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	4

The Semiotic Function of a Bridging Representation to Support Students’ Meaning-Making in Solution Chemistry	4
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	4
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	4
Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula	4
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations	4
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	4
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	3
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	3
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	3
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions	3
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	3
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	3
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	3
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	3
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	3
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	3
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	3
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline	3
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	3
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	3
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist	2
Conceptions of Curved Spacetime: Relating Students’ Mental Representations and Understanding of General Relativity	2
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	2
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences	2
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	2
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	2
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	2
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish	2
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	2
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	2
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	2
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study	2
Science-Based Educational Escape Games: A Game Design Methodology	1
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	1
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	1
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 Conversation	1
Exploring the effect of directive and reflective feedback on elementary school students’ scientific conceptual understanding, epistemological beliefs, and inquiry performance in online inquiry activit	1
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	1
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	1
Correction to: The Hourglass Approach: Analysing Science Classroom Discursive Interactions Through Intercontextual Lens	1
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School	1
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	1
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	1
Fostering Epistemic Space for Collaborative Solutions in Primary Science Through a Socratic Seminar Inquiry Approach	1
Correction: Comparing the Reading Behaviours of Students with High- and Low-Level Comprehension of Scientific Terms by Eye Movement Analysis	1
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations	1
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images	1
Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity	1
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	1
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	1
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	1
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	1
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education	1
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	1
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	1
Metaphors on Protein Synthesis in Swedish Upper Secondary Chemistry and Biology Textbooks – A Double-Edged Sword	1
Risk Response Competencies in Science Education: A Delphi Study of Experts	1
Learning Analytics for Assessing Hands-on Laboratory Skills in Science Classrooms Using Bayesian Network Analysis	1
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Making it Happen	1
Introducing Iranian Primary Children to Atoms and Molecules	1
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey	1
Flipped Classroom As a Model for Improving Students’ Cognitive Performance and Reducing Misconceptions	1
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	1
Does Topic Matter? Investigating Students’ Interest, Emotions and Learning when Writing Stories About Socioscientific Issues	1
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students	1
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families	1
Pre-service Early Years Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science	1
Enhancing Students’ Concept Understanding Through Collaborative-Metacognitive Use of Science Literature	1
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	1
Correction: The Relationship Between Students’ Awareness of Environmental Issues and Attitudes Toward Science and Epistemological Beliefs—Moderating Effect of Informal Science Activities	1
Family Science Experiences’ Influence on Youths’ Achievement Value, Perceived Family Value, and Future Value of Science	1