OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in Science & Technological Education is 2. 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
Telling tales: the use of narratives in informal STEM settings	69
Assessing the impact of multiple representations based instruction integrated with formative assessment practice on secondary school students’ problem-solving performance in Physics	32
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	24
BioCheM-ID: measuring undergraduate STEM identity across biology, chemistry, and mathematics and understanding the impacts of informal STEM experiences	22
STEAM in early childhood education: a scoping review	17
Gender differences in attitudes towards science: comparison of middle school students in England, Singapore and USA using complete TIMSS 2011 data	16
Can the culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) promote students’ meaningful learning of concepts in variation and evolution?	16
Values of mathematics as a pivot of the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers in iSTEM education	15
How are social context factors related to epistemological beliefs, motivations, and achievement in science? A serial mediation model	15
Incorporating indigenous knowledge perspectives in integrated STEM education: a systematic review	15
Insects GO: a gaming activity for entomology teaching in middle school	14
Scientist of the week: evaluating effects of a teacher-led STEM intervention to reduce stereotypical views of scientists in young children	13
Exploring k5 students’ learning pathways regarding water’s electrical conductivity	12
From the known to the unknown: the role of spontaneous and self-generated analogies in students’ predictions about novel situations	12
Grow to learn: a metacognitive approach to early childhood teachers’ science professional development	12
Investigating students’ perceptions of STEM education in private elementary schools in Abu Dhabi	10
“The strawberry in the pot that became something” – entanglements of bodies, materials, and affect in science activities supported by a community organization	10
Integrated STEM in high school science courses: an analysis of 23 science textbooks in China	10
Studying the affordances of a technology-based nanoscience module to promote student engagement in learning novel nanoscience and nanotechnology concepts at the middle school level	10
Forests After Florence: an informal community-engaged STEM research project promotes STEM identity in disaster-impacted students	9
The challenge and opportunities of quantum literacy for future education and transdisciplinary problem-solving	9
Exploring multidisciplinary teamwork of applied physics and engineering students in a challenge-based learning course	9
Socio-(im)material-making activities in Minecraft: retracing digital literacy applied to ESD	8
Influence and behavioral pattern of university students’ participation in decision-making on socio-scientific issues	8
Towards competencies and methods to support Responsible Research and Innovation within STEAM secondary education – the case of Spain	8

Insights into a Community of Inquiry that emerged during academics’ emergency remote university teaching of chemistry in response to concern for students	8
The scientific thinking and reasoning framework and its applicability to manufacturing and services firms in natural sciences	7
An exploration of the determinants of middle school students’ argument quality by classroom discourse analysis	7
Exploring the materiality of science learning: analytical frameworks for examining interactions with material objects in science meaning-making	7
Promoting secondary school students scientific argumentation skills through dialogic practical work	7
Engaging with materials and the body: young plurilingual children’s resource-rich interactions in science investigations	7
Exploring biosecurity education through photovoice: student teachers’ perspectives on pests and diseases	6
Development of self-regulated learning: a longitudinal study on academic performance in undergraduate science	6
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	6
Chemistry education board game based on cognitive mechanism: multi-dimensional evaluation of learners’ knowledge acquisition, flow and playing experience of board game materials	6
The internationalization of scientist stereotypes through new media: Thai students’ perceptions of scientists from graphic interchange formats (GIFs)	6
Using inquiry-based learning to develop Earth science pedagogical content knowledge: impact of a long-term professional development program	6
Effects of the use of ICT in schools on students’ science higher-order thinking skills: comparative study of China and Finland	6
Force and motion misconceptions in Moroccan high school science majors: insights from video game activity	5
Building and programming a weather station: Teachers’ views on values and challenges in a comprehensive STEM project	5
Scaling up a life sciences college career exploration course to foster STEM confidence and career self-efficacy	5
Arguments of Turkish undergraduate preservice elementary teachers when testing hypotheses in science	5
FACE-TO-FACE VS. ONLINE LEARNING in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING COURSES DURING COVID-19 EPOCH	5
Teachers’ views on the potential of school science clubs for enhancing their learning	5
Turkish adaptation of the science-P reasoning inventory: examining the relationships between epistemological beliefs, gender, and residential area	5
Are attitudes towards science and technology related to critical areas in science education?	4
Examining talk moves of science teacher’s through communicative approach	4
Development and preliminary validation of the middle school students’ attitudes toward STEM learning scale	4
Teaching and environmentalism: a deduction from values, beliefs and norms in teaching disaster risk reduction in science	4
Gender differences in classroom emotional climate and attitudes among students undertaking integrated STEM projects: a Rasch analysis	4
Students’ and teachers’ critical thinking in science education: are they related to each other and with physics achievement?	4
Recognizing aesthetics in nature with STEM and STEAM education	4
An experimental study exploring the effects of predict–observe–explain method supported with simulations	4
Socio-scientific reasoning of science, social studies and primary teachers	4
A systematic review of the application of eye-tracking technology in reading in science studies	4
Material-dialogic space as a framework for understanding material and embodied interaction science education	4
More than a cluster of sawflies: understanding young children’s application of science skills in nature-based learning	4
Factors affecting the application of scientific knowledge in a STEAM contest: the correlates between collective efficacy, cohesiveness, and prosociality	4
The nature of technology and engineering (NOTE) as perceived by science and technology teachers in Korea	4
Exploring core ideas of procedural understanding in scientific inquiry using educational data mining	4
Ocean wave energy learning project (OWELP): a program to communicate alternative energy technology	4
The application of eye-tracking technology in chemistry education research: a systematic review	4
Students’ argumentation in the contexts of science, religious education, and interdisciplinary science-religious education scenarios	4
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	4
Pre service teachers’ engagement with stem-based hands-on activities in online chemistry laboratory courses	3
Development and use of an instrument to measure pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics: the PSEUDO-QM scale	3
Exploring primary school teachers’ idea generation during the STEM instructional design process	3
Science teachers’ conceptual perspectives on scientific experiments: a metaphorical representation	3
Toward a holistic vision on the nature of science in science curricula: an investigation of primary and middle school curricula in Turkey	3
The impact of 4th grade students’ learning about magnetism through STEM activities on success, 21st century skills, and perspectives	3
Examining the mediating effect of nature of science perceptions on the relationship between metacognition and science self-efficacy	3
Development of a university-industry collaboration model towards work-ready engineering graduates	3
Factors affecting the formation of views of nature of science: A mixed-methods study	3
The science-specific home learning environment of elementary school children – how are science experiences and science talk associated with the children’s science achievement?	3
Reflexive, relevant and interactive: a STEM student-centred pedagogical approach for responsible research and innovation (RRI) training in higher education	3

Isolation of yeasts from different fruits and students’ opinion about microorganisms: Inquiry-based Learning	3
A scoping review of the effects of a technology-integrated, inquiry-based approach on primary pupils’ learning in science	3
Nature of science in science textbooks for vocational training in Norway	3
A conceptual framework for assessing transdisciplinary STEM practices	3
Students’ perceptions of authenticity in an upper secondary technology education innovation project	3
Comparing the effectiveness of the learning material and the learning method in students’ achievement in chemistry lesson on chemical changes	3
Research on performance assessment of students’ inquiry skills in China’s elementary schools: a video analysis of Beijing discovering science around us	3
Science curiosity: an analysis examining gender and parental influences	3
Individual and contextual effects on science identity among American ninth-grade students (HSLS:09): hierarchical linear modeling	3
Elaboration of science teachers’ technology-based lesson practices in terms of contextual factors influencing TPACK	3
The early bird gets the worm: age of entry to STEM-related academic education – gender and SES differences	3
From cookbook lab to PEODE-based lab: redesigning lab activities to foster conceptual understanding	2
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	2
Teaching aspects of the interrelationship between science and technology: explicit or implicit approach?	2
Translation and validation of a questionnaire for measuring teachers’ views on nature of science	2
Influencing factors and mechanisms of the primary and secondary school students’ science aspirations: evidence from 8501 students in China	2
The mediating effects of basic psychological needs on the associations between teacher support and Chinese adolescents’ science and math self-efficacy	2
Elementary science teachers’ engineering integration after long-term in-service training program with and without curriculum material support	2
A beautiful garment from old fabrics: the analogy of culturo-techno-contextual approach for meaningful learning in science	2
Development of preservice elementary teachers scientific reasoning skills through scientific inquiry	2
Thinking-back-and-forth in practical work experienced by students: identifying evidence-informed characteristics of good practices in secondary education	2
An effective intervention using STEM instruction for improving preservice science teachers’ self-efficacy	2
Prospective science teachers are good at which of? Algorithmic, conceptual and graphical questions	2
Investigating in-service teachers’ STEM literacy: the role of subject background and gender	2
Transdisciplinary STEAM learning in improving students’ conceptual understanding of heat and temperature	2
Supporting the development of undergraduate research skills in the biomedical sciences at an international branch campus	2
The relationship between teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge and student learning in fundamental concepts of electrostatics	2
Public opinions and knowledge about microorganisms	2
Assessment of the ability of game-based science learning to enhance genetic understanding	2
Virtual experiments in physics education: a systematic literature review	2
From PCK to TPACK - Supporting student teachers’ reflections and use of digital technologies in science teaching	2
Stakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England	2