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 2021-04-01 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
Dimensions of the Structure-Agency Dialectic Embedded in Black Students’ Ethnodance of Their Science Identity Construction	11
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
Appraising Instructional Materials from TeachersPayTeachers for Features of NGSS Design and Nature of Science Representations	9
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

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
What’s the Matter with Sound? - How Primary School Students Perceive the Nature of Sound	6
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
Mediational Affordances at a Science Centre Gallery: An Exploratory and Small Study Using Eye Tracking and Interviews	5
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
“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