OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Science Education is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	262
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	33
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	32
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education	27
Exploring Correlations Between Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Systems Thinking Skills and Environmental Awareness	26
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	21
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	20
Exploring Science Concepts in Everyday Interactions with Infant-toddlers at Home: Caregivers’ Raised Science Consciousness Through Fleer’s Conceptual PlayWorld	20
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	20
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	19
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	19
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	19
Plant Knowledge in an Era of Limited Plant Awareness: A Consideration for Meaningful Change	18
Preservice Physics Teachers’ Expression of TPACK in Lesson Planning – Using Geogebra Simulations in Physics Teaching	17
The Effects of Inquiry-based Learning on Stem-related Career Aspirations of Grade 9 Natural Sciences Students	17
Empowering Preservice Biology Teachers as Designers of Pedagogical AI Agents: Moving Beyond Data Feeding toward Pedagogical Design	17
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
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	14
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	14
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	14
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	14
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	13
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	13
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	13

Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	12
Informal Reasoning and Nature of Science in Proximal and Distal Socio-scientific Issues	12
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	12
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	12
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	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	12
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	12
Tracing Pedagogical Shifts: A Physics Professor’s Development Through Faculty Partnership	11
Using the Contextual Model of Learning to Examine Informal Teacher Professional Development Whilst Accompanying Science Centre Field Trips	11
Differentiating Elementary Science Education: Dutch Teachers’ Perceived Practices	11
Facilitating Conditions and Perceived Usefulness Drive Bhutanese Teachers` Intention to Use PhET Simulations	10
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	10
Transactivity Despite Complexity: Promoting Group Discussions in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	10
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	10
Correction: The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game To Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy	10
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	10
Self-Rated Content Knowledge for Interdisciplinary Science Teaching: An Instrument and Perceptions of Disciplinarily Educated Pre-Service Science Teachers	10
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	10
How much do Different Factors of Elementarization Matter? Comparing Two Dynamical Approaches to Newton’s Second Law	10
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	10
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	10
Epistemic Design Features of Virtual Reality-Based Scientific Inquiry Across Different Types of Reasoning: A Multimodal Perspective	9
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	9
Validation of the Measure of Peer Argumentive Discourse Style (PADS) in a Science Context: Evidence for the Construct Validity and Reliability	9
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	8
Reimagining Scientific Literacy: A Textbook Framework for Future-Focused Science Education	8
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	8
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	8
How Scientists’ Narratives on AI Signal a New Era for Science Education	8
The Development and Validation of a Teaching Self-Efficacy Assessment for Informal Science Educators	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
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
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	8
Exploring the Impact of STEM Experiences, Parental Education, Family Support, and Stereotypes on Students’ STEM Identity: A Comparative Study by Gender and EAL Status	8
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	7
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	7
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	7
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	7
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	7
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	7
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	7
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	7
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	7
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	7
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	7
‘We do STEM as well’: Exploring Pathways in Australia’s STEM Workforce	7
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	6
Validation of a French Version of the Situational Interest Survey for Physics	6

Relating Metaknowledge and Modeling Practices in Connection to Content Knowledge about the Phenomenon	6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	6
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	6
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	6
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	6
The Conceptual Connection between Science and Engineering: Analysis of Middle School Science Teachers’ Integration of Engineering Design Process into Science Units	6
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	6
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	6