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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Forests After Florence: an informal community-engaged STEM research project promotes STEM identity in disaster-impacted students	77
The internationalization of scientist stereotypes through new media: Thai students’ perceptions of scientists from graphic interchange formats (GIFs)	24
Tangible versus graphical user interfaces in teaching microcontrollers’ circuits to engineering students	23
Effects of the use of ICT in schools on students’ science higher-order thinking skills: comparative study of China and Finland	22
Using inquiry-based learning to develop Earth science pedagogical content knowledge: impact of a long-term professional development program	22
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	20
Converging objects-to-think-with : exploring microwave ovens through inquiry-based learning with ChatGPT	18
Development of self-regulated learning: a longitudinal study on academic performance in undergraduate science	18
Gender differences in classroom emotional climate and attitudes among students undertaking integrated STEM projects: a Rasch analysis	17
Teaching and environmentalism: a deduction from values, beliefs and norms in teaching disaster risk reduction in science	15
Individual and contextual effects on science identity among American ninth-grade students (HSLS:09): hierarchical linear modeling	14
Students’ and teachers’ critical thinking in science education: are they related to each other and with physics achievement?	14
Students’ perceptions of authenticity in an upper secondary technology education innovation project	13
Factors affecting the formation of views of nature of science: A mixed-methods study	13
Pre service teachers’ engagement with stem-based hands-on activities in online chemistry laboratory courses	13
The relationship between teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge and student learning in fundamental concepts of electrostatics	12
Development and use of an instrument to measure pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics: the PSEUDO-QM scale	12
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	11
High school students’ epistemic knowledge profiles and their multifaceted learning engagement in science	11
Elementary science teachers’ engineering integration after long-term in-service training program with and without curriculum material support	10
Public opinions and knowledge about microorganisms	10
The development of an analytical model for science classroom creativity in China	10
Virtual experiments in physics education: a systematic literature review	9
Implementers, designers, and disseminators of integrated STEM activities: self-efficacy and commitment	9
Developing an instrument for metavisualization and investigating relationships among dimensions of metavisualization	8

Drawing together international perspectives on material and embodied aspects of science education: Introduction to the special issue	8
Argumentation and intellectual humility: a theoretical synthesis and an empirical study about students’ warrants	8
The effect of interactive videos enhanced with pop-up questions on teacher candidates’ learning performance in science	8
Upper secondary school students’ gendered interests in electronics and electrical engineering	7
Using facial emotion recognition to research emotional phases in an inquiry-based science activity	7
Teachers’ interventions in science education at primary school. The role of semiotic resources during argumentative interactions in classroom	7
Supporting student teachers to integrate theory, research, and practice: developing the Adaptive Subject Pedagogy Model	7
Validating an assessment of scientific modeling competence and mapping junior high school students’ development status	7
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools	7
Exploring the relationship between mental representations and conceptual understanding of Special Relativity by high school students	7
The implementation of engineering design-based STEM learning and its impact on primary students’ scientific creativity	7
Science Identity of Turkish Students: Adaptation of the Science Identity Questionnaire and Analysis in Terms of Demographic Variables	6
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	6
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	6
Examining the mediating effect of nature of science perceptions on the relationship between metacognition and science self-efficacy	6
Integrated STEM in high school science courses: an analysis of 23 science textbooks in China	6
Arguments of Turkish undergraduate preservice elementary teachers when testing hypotheses in science	6
Development and preliminary validation of the middle school students’ attitudes toward STEM learning scale	6
FACE-TO-FACE VS. ONLINE LEARNING in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING COURSES DURING COVID-19 EPOCH	6
Investigating students’ perceptions of STEM education in private elementary schools in Abu Dhabi	6
Values of mathematics as a pivot of the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers in iSTEM education	6
Reflexive, relevant and interactive: a STEM student-centred pedagogical approach for responsible research and innovation (RRI) training in higher education	6
Transdisciplinary STEAM learning in improving students’ conceptual understanding of heat and temperature	5
Embodiment and asynchronous storytelling in science classrooms	5
A PBL strategy for incorporating 3D cell culture into the classrooms of undergraduate biotechnology engineering students	5
A conceptual framework for assessing transdisciplinary STEM practices	5
Effectiveness of treatments teaching the topic ‘cell division’ in improving students’ academic performance: a meta-analysis study	5
Understanding linkage between teacher talk moves, discourse contexts and students’ talk productivity	5
Stakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England	5
Navigating the AI-Enhanced STEM education landscape: a decade of insights, trends, and opportunities	5
The innovative use of smartphone for sound STEM practical kit: a pilot implementation for secondary classroom	5
Exploring STEM integration: assessing the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary informal program in fostering students’ performance and inspiration	5
Exploring the materiality of science learning: analytical frameworks for examining interactions with material objects in science meaning-making	4
Development and validation of a STEM stereotype scale in Turkish and English	4
Drawing a scientist: using the Emo-DAST to explore emotional aspects of children’s images of scientists	4
The effect of 3D modeling performed using Tinkercad or concrete materials in the context of the flipped classroom on pre-service teachers’ spatial abilities	4
Scientist of the week: evaluating effects of a teacher-led STEM intervention to reduce stereotypical views of scientists in young children	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of a virtual laboratory for inorganic chemistry education	4
Supporting pre-service teachers’ integration of engineering into STEM lessons throughout engineering-infused training	4
Undergraduates’ understanding of selected aspects of linear and circular motion	4
Recurrent gestures in organic chemistry in tertiary education: creating emblems through material and embodied actions	4
Engaging with materials and the body: young plurilingual children’s resource-rich interactions in science investigations	4
STEAM in practice and research in primary schools: a systematic literature review	4
The effects of enhanced hands-on experimentation on correcting student misconceptions about work and energy in engineering mechanics	4
The effect of guided inquiry-based virtual and physical laboratories on science learning outcomes	4
Socio-(im)material-making activities in Minecraft: retracing digital literacy applied to ESD	4
A systematic review of the application of eye-tracking technology in reading in science studies	3
Elaboration of science teachers’ technology-based lesson practices in terms of contextual factors influencing TPACK	3
Teachers’ self-efficacy and role when teaching STEM in high-tech informal learning environments	3
Scientific literacy in biology and attitudes towards science in the Chilean education system	3

Prospective science teachers are good at which of? Algorithmic, conceptual and graphical questions	3
Analysing teacher behaviour in synthesizing hands-on and minds-on during practical work	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
Ocean wave energy learning project (OWELP): a program to communicate alternative energy technology	3
Thinking-back-and-forth in practical work experienced by students: identifying evidence-informed characteristics of good practices in secondary education	3
Are attitudes towards science and technology related to critical areas in science education?	3
Use of data obtained in the field and its contribution to the process of construction of the geological change model by preservice elementary teachers	3
The mediating effects of basic psychological needs on the associations between teacher support and Chinese adolescents’ science and math self-efficacy	3
A systematic review of assessments for young children’s scientific and engineering practices	3
Supporting the development of undergraduate research skills in the biomedical sciences at an international branch campus	3
Exploring the factors influencing undergraduate students’ decision to pursue physics at the University of Education, Winneba	3
Turkish adaptation of the science-P reasoning inventory: examining the relationships between epistemological beliefs, gender, and residential area	3
Embodied, dramatizing performances in science class: multimodal spaces and places of knowledge and identity construction	3
Investigating in-service teachers’ STEM literacy: the role of subject background and gender	3
A beautiful garment from old fabrics: the analogy of culturo-techno-contextual approach for meaningful learning in science	3
Perspectives of teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown: a comparison of teaching in university bioscience programmes from around the world	2
Students’ science achievement in cognitive domains: effects of practical work and clarity of instruction	2
What contents from the history of chemistry are estimated as useful for chemistry lessons – attitudes of chemistry teachers	2
Insights into a Community of Inquiry that emerged during academics’ emergency remote university teaching of chemistry in response to concern for students	2
Pedagogy Analysis Framework: a video-based tool for combining teacher, pupil & researcher perspectives	2
Quality of 8th-grade science books: a systematic analysis of end-of-chapters-tasks in 8th-grade science books using Revised Bloom Taxonomy	2
Effects of different interventions to treat errors during STEM learning on improving young children’s psychological resilience	2
Identifying the roles of technology: a systematic review of STEM education in primary and secondary schools from 2015 to 2023	2
Exploring the structural relationships between high school students’ perceptions of science learning environment, their motivation and self-regulation: evidence from Iran	2
Improving NGSS focused model-based learning curriculum through the examination of students’ experiences and iterated models	2
Digital immersion technologies transform agricultural learning: a study of interactive educational platforms among rural Colombian university students	2
Exploring multidisciplinary teamwork of applied physics and engineering students in a challenge-based learning course	2
Saudi Arabian secondary school students’ views of the nature of science and epistemological beliefs: gendered differences	2
Effect of environmental factors on students’ interest in STEM careers: The mediating role of self-efficacy	2
Understanding and explaining pedagogical problem solving: a video-based grounded theory study of classroom pedagogy	2
“The strawberry in the pot that became something” – entanglements of bodies, materials, and affect in science activities supported by a community organization	2
Exploring k5 students’ learning pathways regarding water’s electrical conductivity	2
Force and motion misconceptions in Moroccan high school science majors: insights from video game activity	2