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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	156
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	33
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education	24
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	24
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	22
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	21
Plant Knowledge in an Era of Limited Plant Awareness: A Consideration for Meaningful Change	20
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	20
The Effects of Inquiry-based Learning on Stem-related Career Aspirations of Grade 9 Natural Sciences Students	17
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	17
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	17
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	17
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	16
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial	15
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	15
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	15
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	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
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	13
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	13
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	12
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	12
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	12
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	11

Transactivity Despite Complexity: Promoting Group Discussions in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	11
Informal Reasoning and Nature of Science in Proximal and Distal Socio-scientific Issues	11
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	11
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	11
Using Science Communication Strategies to Close the Resource Gap in Under-Resourced Schools: a Design-Based Study Focusing on Rural Schools in South Africa	11
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	11
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	11
How much do Different Factors of Elementarization Matter? Comparing Two Dynamical Approaches to Newton’s Second Law	10
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	10
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	10
Facilitating Conditions and Perceived Usefulness Drive Bhutanese Teachers` Intention to Use PhET Simulations	10
Epistemic Design Features of Virtual Reality-Based Scientific Inquiry Across Different Types of Reasoning: A Multimodal Perspective	10
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	10
Correction: The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game To Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy	10
Reimagining Scientific Literacy: A Textbook Framework for Future-Focused Science Education	9
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	9
Preferences and Reasoning of 14-15 year-old Students in Relation to Natural or Synthetic Products in Different Contexts: Influence of an Instructional Module	9
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	9
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	9
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	8
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	8
How Scientists’ Narratives on AI Signal a New Era for Science Education	8
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	8
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	8
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	8
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	8
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	8
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	7
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	7
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	7
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	7
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	7
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	6
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	6
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	6
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	6
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	6
The Conceptual Connection between Science and Engineering: Analysis of Middle School Science Teachers’ Integration of Engineering Design Process into Science Units	6
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	6
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	6
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	6
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge	6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	6
Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching Nature of Science through Book Talks in Early Childhood Education	6
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	6
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	6