OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Science Education is 4. 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
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	18
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	18
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	17
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	16
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	16
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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