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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	156
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	33
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	24
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education	24
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)	21
Plant Knowledge in an Era of Limited Plant Awareness: A Consideration for Meaningful Change	20
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	20
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	17
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	17
The Effects of Inquiry-based Learning on Stem-related Career Aspirations of Grade 9 Natural Sciences Students	17
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	17
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	16
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	15
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial	15
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	15
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	14
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	14
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	13
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	13
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	13
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	12
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	12
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	12
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

Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	11
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	11
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	11
Transactivity Despite Complexity: Promoting Group Discussions in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	11
Informal Reasoning and Nature of Science in Proximal and Distal Socio-scientific Issues	11
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	11
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	11
Facilitating Conditions and Perceived Usefulness Drive Bhutanese Teachers` Intention to Use PhET Simulations	10
Epistemic Design Features of Virtual Reality-Based Scientific Inquiry Across Different Types of Reasoning: A Multimodal Perspective	10
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	10
Correction: The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game To Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy	10
How much do Different Factors of Elementarization Matter? Comparing Two Dynamical Approaches to Newton’s Second Law	10
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	10
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	10
Preferences and Reasoning of 14-15 year-old Students in Relation to Natural or Synthetic Products in Different Contexts: Influence of an Instructional Module	9
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	9
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	9
Reimagining Scientific Literacy: A Textbook Framework for Future-Focused Science Education	9
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	9
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	8
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	8
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	8
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	8
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	8
How Scientists’ Narratives on AI Signal a New Era for Science Education	8
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	8
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	8
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	7
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	7
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	7
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	7
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	7
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	6
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge	6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	6
Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching Nature of Science through Book Talks in Early Childhood Education	6
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	6
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	6
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	6
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	6
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	6
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	6
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	6
The Conceptual Connection between Science and Engineering: Analysis of Middle School Science Teachers’ Integration of Engineering Design Process into Science Units	6
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	6
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	6
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	5
Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students	5
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	5
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations	5

Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula	5
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	5
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	5
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy	5
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom	5
What Matters To Students in the Teaching and Learning of Science: Perspectives of Junior High School Students from Ghana	5
Validation of a French Version of the Situational Interest Survey for Physics	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
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	4
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	4
Measuring Size and Scale: The Development and Validation of the Assessment of Size and Scale Cognition (ASSC)	4
Conceptions of Curved Spacetime: Relating Students’ Mental Representations and Understanding of General Relativity	4
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	4
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	4
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	4
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	4
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	4
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	4
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	4
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	4
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	4
The Changing Landscape of Science Education Research in Australia and New Zealand	4
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions	4
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	4
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline	4
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences	3
Pre-service Early Years Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science	3
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School	3
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	3
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	3
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist	3
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	3
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	3
EcoHealth as a Curriculum Aim in Science Education	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
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	3
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish	3
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	3
Examining the Characteristics of Investigation Questions Asked by Preservice Teachers: Influences of Scenario, Prior Course Experience, and Inclusion of a Crosscutting Concept	3
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	3
Research on Students’ Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Abilities in socio-scientific Issues Context: Integrated Constructive and Critical Perspectives	3
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	3
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students	2
Enhancing Students’ Concept Understanding Through Collaborative-Metacognitive Use of Science Literature	2
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	2
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	2
Science-Based Educational Escape Games: A Game Design Methodology	2
Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity	2
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	2
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	2
Complexities and Contradictions in a Teacher’s Activation of Epistemological Resources and their Consequences for Student Framing	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
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families	2
Understanding the Process of Scientific Literacy Development among Children in the Early Years Through Play and Intentionality	2
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	2
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	2
Expanding the Scope of Science Education to Engage with Anthropocene Challenges	2
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	2
Flipped Classroom As a Model for Improving Students’ Cognitive Performance and Reducing Misconceptions	2
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	2
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	2
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	2
From Experience to Inquiry to Generalization: Understanding the STEM-PBL Learning Process and Developing a Formative Assessment Model	2
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study	2
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	2
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	2
Observation and Scientific Drawing as Practices for Learning Science Through Metacognition: Impact of an Intervention in Primary Teacher Education	2
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations	2
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	2
Exploring the effect of directive and reflective feedback on elementary school students’ scientific conceptual understanding, epistemological beliefs, and inquiry performance in online inquiry activit	2
Transformational Learning for Complex Socioscientific Issues	2
Using a scoping review to inform a planetary-conscious pedagogical approach to primary science education	2