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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	73
Students’ Holistic Reading of Socio-Scientific Texts on Climate Change in a ChatGPT Scenario	42
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	26
Transformation of School Science Practices to Promote Functional Scientific Literacy	20
Learning with Friction—Students’ Gestures and Enactment in Relation to a GeoGebra Simulation	20
Knowledge for Whom? Inviting Students to Establish an Audience for Knowledge and to Shape Knowledge Construction Activities in a Biology Course	18
Meaning Making with Multiple Representations: a Case Study of a Preservice Teacher Creating a Digital Explanation	18
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	17
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	16
Reproduction Rather than Comprehension? Analysis of Gains in Students’ Science Text Comprehension	16
Science Fiction Fan Conventions as Places to Communicate Science	15
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	15
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	13
Professional Growth of STEM Teachers: Viewing from Entrepreneurial Frame	12
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	12
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	11
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Informal Science Educators: Development of the ISE-PCK Framework	11
Dimensions of the Structure-Agency Dialectic Embedded in Black Students’ Ethnodance of Their Science Identity Construction	11
Are We Really Falling Behind? Comparing Key Indicators Across International and Local Standardised Tests for Australian High School Science	9
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	9
Teacher Agency in Social-Justice Aspirations and Inquiry-Based Science Instruction	9
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	9
‘I don’t Study Physics Anymore’: a Cross-Institutional Australian Study on Factors Impacting the Persistence of Undergraduate Science Students	9
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	9
Appraising Instructional Materials from TeachersPayTeachers for Features of NGSS Design and Nature of Science Representations	9

Enhancing Learners’ Conceptual Understanding of Reaction Kinetics Using Computer Simulations – A Case Study Approach	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
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	8
Teacher-Directed Learning Approaches and Science Achievement: Investigating the Importance of Instructional Explanations in Australian Schools	8
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey	8
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	8
Supporting Student Science Writing: Beyond Unreflective Macroscaffolds	8
Measuring STEM Career Awareness and Interest in Middle Childhood STEM Learners: Validation of the STEM Future-Career Interest Survey (STEM Future-CIS)	8
On Peter Fensham	8
Fostering Students’ Situational Interest in Physics: Results from a Classroom-Based Intervention Study	8
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	7
Negotiation of Epistemological Understandings and Teaching Practices Between Primary Teachers and Scientists about Artificial Intelligence in Professional Development	7
Investigating Relationships Between Learning Environment Perceptions, Motivation and Self-Regulation for Female Science Students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	7
Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning of Science: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research	7
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	7
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	7
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	7
Correction to: Roles of Teachers in Orchestrating Learning in Elementary Science Classrooms	7
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	6
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Trajectories for Appropriating Engineering Design–Based Science Teaching	6
Developing an Instrument to Assess Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Evolution	6
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	6
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	6
What’s the Matter with Sound? - How Primary School Students Perceive the Nature of Sound	6
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	5
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	5
Exploring the effect of directive and reflective feedback on elementary school students’ scientific conceptual understanding, epistemological beliefs, and inquiry performance in online inquiry activit	5
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	5
Online Science Instruction Can Promote Adolescents’ Autonomy Need Satisfaction: a Latent Growth Curve Analysis	5
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	5
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	5
The Relationship Between Students’ Awareness of Environmental Issues and Attitudes Toward Science and Epistemological Beliefs—Moderating Effect of Informal Science Activities	5
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	5
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	5
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	5
Pictures Speak a 1,000 Words – Unearthing Self-identified Entrepreneurial Perceptions, Challenges and Opportunities of Female Researchers in STEM	5
Mediational Affordances at a Science Centre Gallery: An Exploratory and Small Study Using Eye Tracking and Interviews	5
“Like They Are Everyday Substances, You Like See Them, Hold Them, Use Them Every Day”: Students’ Understanding of Big Ideas and Macro and Submicro Chemistry Phenomena in the Context of Computer-Based	4
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	4
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	4
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	4
Creating an Instrument to Measure Social and Cultural Self-efficacy Indicators for Persistence of HBCU Undergraduates in STEM	4
Fostering Teacher Pedagogical Growth through Entrepreneurial-STEM Literacy Development	4
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	4
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	4
Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Competencies in Asking and Conducting Researchable Science Questions Using Fair Testing	4
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	4
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	4
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	4
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	4

Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	4
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	4
Reflections on the Social Content of Science Education Materials	3
Unveiling Students’ Mental Models and Learning Demands: an Empirical Validation of Secondary Students’ Model Progression on Plant Nutrition	3
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	3
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	3
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	3
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	3
Introducing Iranian Primary Children to Atoms and Molecules	3
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Making it Happen	3
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	3
Deciding (not) to Become a STEM Teacher: Career Changers’ Perspectives on Student Behaviour, Teacher Roles, Teacher Education, and the Social Value of the Profession	3
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations	3
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge	3
Re-validating a Learning Progression of Buoyancy for Middle School Students: A Longitudinal Study	3
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	3
Science-Based Educational Escape Games: A Game Design Methodology	3
Implementing a Project-Based Learning Module in Urban and Indigenous Areas to Promote Young Children’s Scientific Practices	3
The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Parents and their Adolescent Children in Relation to Science Learning	3
Seventh-Grade Students’ Relational Conceptual Change and Science Achievement: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Duo	3
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	2
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	2
Progression in Self-Efficacy, Interest, Identity, Sense of Belonging, Perceived Recognition and Effectiveness of Peer Interaction of Physics Majors and Comparison with Non-Majors and Ph.D. Students	2
The Integrations of Elementary Science Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components during COVID-19: Teaching Electric Circuits and Circuit Diagrams	2
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images	2
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	2
(How) Do Pre-service Teachers Use YouTube Features in the Selection of Instructional Videos for Physics Teaching?	2
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	2
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	2
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline	2
Kindergarten Directors’ Perceptions and Implementation of STEM Education	2
Preferences for Professional Development in Science Among Pre- and In-service Primary Teachers: a Best–Worst Scaling Approach	2
STEM Journey Maps as Tools for Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Experiences with Science and Engineering Instruction	2
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	2
Becoming a Science Teacher: Is It Merely a Process of Trial and Error?	2
The Relationship Between Students’ Casual Interest in Science and Their Perceptions of the Undergraduate Laboratory Environment	2
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	1
Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity	1
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	1
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	1
Development and Validation of a Four-Tier Test for the Assessment of Secondary School Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Amino Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes	1
Cognitive Demands of the Reformed Queensland Physics, Chemistry and Biology Syllabus: An Analysis Framed by the New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives	1
A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional, Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement	1
Design Fiction in French Engineering Education: Imaging Futures for Waste Management	1
How Peer Feedback After Hands-On Scientific Inquiry Activities Affects Students’ Scientific Inquiry Competence?	1
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	1
Correction: Comparing the Reading Behaviours of Students with High- and Low-Level Comprehension of Scientific Terms by Eye Movement Analysis	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	1
Fostering Epistemic Space for Collaborative Solutions in Primary Science Through a Socratic Seminar Inquiry Approach	1
Does Topic Matter? Investigating Students’ Interest, Emotions and Learning when Writing Stories About Socioscientific Issues	1
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	1
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	1
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge	1
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist	1
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	1
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	1
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	1
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking	1
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	1
Developing an Integrated STEM Classroom Observation Protocol Using the Productive Disciplinary Engagement Framework	1
Assessment of Context-Based Chemistry Problem-Solving Skills: Test Design and Results from Ninth-Grade Students	1
Reading Behavior in Science Comics and Its Relations with Comprehension Performance and Reading Attitudes: an Eye-tracker Study	1
Leveraging a Community of Practice to Prepare Elementary Preservice Teachers for Instruction with Socioscientific Issues	1
Reflections Upon Student Elective Engagement in STEM Enterprise Education	1
Effects of Interventions on Science Vocabulary and Content Knowledge: A Meta-analysis	1
Foregrounding Intersectionality in Considerations of Diversity: Confronting Discrimination in Science Teacher Education	1
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	1
Learning Analytics for Assessing Hands-on Laboratory Skills in Science Classrooms Using Bayesian Network Analysis	1
The Development of Free-Response Questions to Assess Learning Assistants’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge	1
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	1
Professional Development for Socioscientific Issue Teaching: Exploring the Discourse of In-Service Teachers in Community Activities through Epistemic Network Analysis	1
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	1
Multimodal Genre of Science Classroom Discourse: Mutual Contextualization Between Genre and Representation Construction	1
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	1
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	1