OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education	130
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	91
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	30
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	23
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	22
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	20
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial	19
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	19
The Effects of Inquiry-based Learning on Stem-related Career Aspirations of Grade 9 Natural Sciences Students	19
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	16
Plant Knowledge in an Era of Limited Plant Awareness: A Consideration for Meaningful Change	16
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	15
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	15
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	15
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	14
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	14
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	13
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	13
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	13
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	12
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking	12
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	12
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	11
Using Science Communication Strategies to Close the Resource Gap in Under-Resourced Schools: a Design-Based Study Focusing on Rural Schools in South Africa	11
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	11

Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	11
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	11
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	11
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	11
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	11
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	10
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	10
Facilitating Conditions and Perceived Usefulness Drive Bhutanese Teachers` Intention to Use PhET Simulations	10
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	10
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students	9
Correction: The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game To Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy	9
How much do Different Factors of Elementarization Matter? Comparing Two Dynamical Approaches to Newton’s Second Law	9
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	8
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	8
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	8
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	8
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	8
Reimagining Scientific Literacy: A Textbook Framework for Future-Focused Science Education	8
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	8
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	8
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	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	8
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	8
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	7
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	7
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	7
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	7
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	7
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	6
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	6
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	6
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	6
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	6
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge	6
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	6
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	6
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	6
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	5
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	5
Analysing the Quality of Risk-Focused Socio-Scientific Arguments on Nuclear Power Using a Risk-Benefit Oriented Model	5
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	5
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	5
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	5
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom	5
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy	5
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	5
Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching Nature of Science through Book Talks in Early Childhood Education	5
Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula	5

Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students	5
What Matters To Students in the Teaching and Learning of Science: Perspectives of Junior High School Students from Ghana	4
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	4
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	4
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline	4
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	4
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	4
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	4
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	4
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	4
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	4
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	4
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	4
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions	4
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Measuring Size and Scale: The Development and Validation of the Assessment of Size and Scale Cognition (ASSC)	4
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	4
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations	4
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	4
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	3
Conceptions of Curved Spacetime: Relating Students’ Mental Representations and Understanding of General Relativity	3
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish	3
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	3
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist	3
Research on Students’ Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Abilities in socio-scientific Issues Context: Integrated Constructive and Critical Perspectives	3
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	3
A wikipedia-based Authentic Task About Biodiversity in Pre-service Primary Science Teacher Education: Evaluation, Re-design and Validation of a Multidimensional Rubric for K-12 Content	3
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	3
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences	3
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	3
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	3
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	3
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	3
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	3
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	2
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	2
Complexities and Contradictions in a Teacher’s Activation of Epistemological Resources and their Consequences for Student Framing	2
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	2
From Experience to Inquiry to Generalization: Understanding the STEM-PBL Learning Process and Developing a Formative Assessment Model	2
Understanding the Process of Scientific Literacy Development among Children in the Early Years Through Play and Intentionality	2
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education	2
Pre-service Early Years Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science	2
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	2
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	2
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	2
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students	2
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	2
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School	2
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families	2
Enhancing Students’ Concept Understanding Through Collaborative-Metacognitive Use of Science Literature	2
Correction to: The Hourglass Approach: Analysing Science Classroom Discursive Interactions Through Intercontextual Lens	2
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	2
Transformational Learning for Complex Socioscientific Issues	2
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	2
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	2
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	2
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	2
Examining the Characteristics of Investigation Questions Asked by Preservice Teachers: Influences of Scenario, Prior Course Experience, and Inclusion of a Crosscutting Concept	2
EcoHealth as a Curriculum Aim in Science Education	2
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	2
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study	2
Using a scoping review to inform a planetary-conscious pedagogical approach to primary science education	2