OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Science Education is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students	35
Attitudes Towards Science, Teaching Practices, and Science Performance in PISA 2015: Multilevel Analysis of the Chinese and Western Top Performers	23
Multimodal Interaction Analysis: a Powerful Tool for Examining Plurilingual Students’ Engagement in Science Practices	23
Preservice Science Teachers’ Strategies in Scientific Reasoning: the Case of Modeling	22
Interrelationship Between Inquiry-Based Learning and Instructional Quality in Predicting Science Literacy	21
Science and Religious Education Teachers’ Views of Argumentation and Its Teaching	20
A Practice-Based Approach to Learning Nature of Science through Socioscientific Issues	17
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure High School Students’ Science Identity in Science Learning	17
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigate Preschool children’s Implicit Inferential Reasoning in Scientific Activities	17
Assessing Argumentation Using Machine Learning and Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling	17
A Comprehensive Review of Instruments Measuring Attitudes Toward Science	16
STEM in the Making? Investigating STEM Learning in Junior School Makerspaces	15
Comparing Student Responses to Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Nature of Science Questions	13
The Multi-timescale, Multi-modal and Multi-perspectival Aspects of Classroom Discourse Analysis in Science Education	13
Teaching Electromagnetism for the First Time: a Case Study of Pre-service Science Teachers’ Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge	13
Exploring Student Reasoning and Representation Construction in School Science Through the Lenses of Social Semiotics and Interaction Analysis	12
Increasing Girls’ STEM Engagement in Early Childhood: Conditions Created by the Conceptual PlayWorld Model	12
Developing and Validating a Scale of STEM Project-Based Learning Experience	11
Students’ Conceptual Sense-making of Animations and Static Visualizations of Protein Synthesis: a Sociocultural Hypothesis Explaining why Animations May Be Beneficial for Student Learning	11
Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Students’ Interactions and Satisfaction in Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Classes	10
Testing Creativity and Personality to Explore Creative Potentials in the Science Classroom	10
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge	10
Analysis of Students’ Diagrams Explaining Scientific Phenomena	10
Teacher-Directed Learning Approaches and Science Achievement: Investigating the Importance of Instructional Explanations in Australian Schools	10
Physics Identity of Chinese Students Before and After Gaokao: the Effect of High-Stake Testing	9

Engineering PlayWorld—a Model of Practice to Support Children to Collectively Design, Imagine and Think Using Engineering Concepts	9
The Impact of Collaboration Between Science and Religious Education Teachers on Their Understanding and Views of Argumentation	9
Theorising Learning in Science Through Integrating Multimodal Representations	9
Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Scientific Reasoning Competencies: Analysing the Impact of Contributing Factors	8
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	8
A Qualitative Examination of Science Teachers’ Emotions, Emotion Regulation Goals and Strategies	8
Scientific Research Identity Development Need Not Wait Until College: Examining the Motivational Impact of a Pre-college Authentic Research Experience	8
Teachers' perceptions of Brandon's Matrix as a framework for the teaching and assessment of scientific methods in school science	7
Understanding Early Childhood Science Education: Comparative Analysis of Australian and Finnish Curricula	7
Perceived Difficulty of School Science and Cost Appraisals: a Valuable Relationship for the STEM Pipeline?	7
Dealing with Socio-Scientific Issues in Science Exhibition: a Literature Review	7
Discourse Analysis in Integrated STEM Activities: Methods for Examining Power and Positioning in Small Group Interactions	7
The Use of Different Translation Devices to Analyze Knowledge-Building in a University Chemistry Classroom	7
Scaffolding Children’s Production of Representations Along the Three Years of ECE: a Longitudinal Study	7
Ocean Data Visualization on a Touchtable Demonstrates Group Content Learning, Science Practices Use, and Potential Embodied Cognition	7
Investigating Relationships Between Learning Environment Perceptions, Motivation and Self-Regulation for Female Science Students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	7
Implementing a Project-Based Learning Module in Urban and Indigenous Areas to Promote Young Children’s Scientific Practices	6
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education	6
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	6
Quantitatively Investigating Inservice Elementary Teachers’ Nature of Science Views	6
Research in Science Education (RISE): A Review (and Story) of Research in RISE Articles (1994–2018)	6
Primary Science Education in Australian Universities: An Overview of Context and Practice	6
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	6
How Do We Prepare to Teach? Exploring Science Lecturers’ Authentic Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education	6
Knowledge of Student Learning Difficulties as a Plausible Conceptual Change Pathway Between Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge	6
Group-Level Assessment (GLA) as a Methodological Tool to Facilitate Science Education	5
Inquiry Process Skills in Primary Science Textbooks: Authors and Publishers’ Intentions	5
A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional, Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement	5
Comparing the Reading Behaviours of Students with High- and Low-Level Comprehension of Scientific Terms by Eye Movement Analysis	5
A Tool for Visualizing and Inquiring into Whole-Class Sensemaking Discussions	5
Psychological Allostatic Load: the Cost of Persistence in STEM Disciplines	5
Expertise as Sensorimotor Tuning: Perceptual Navigation Patterns Mark Representational Competence in Science	5
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images	5
Negotiation of Epistemological Understandings and Teaching Practices Between Primary Teachers and Scientists about Artificial Intelligence in Professional Development	5
A Comparison of Short and Long Einsteinian Physics Intervention Programmes in Middle School	5
Science Education Success in a Rural Australian School: Practices and Arrangements Contributing to High Senior Science Enrolments and Achievement in an Isolated Rural School	5
Expanding the Languages of Science and How They Are Learnt	5
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey	5