OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in Science & Technological Education is 1. 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
Using inquiry-based learning to develop Earth science pedagogical content knowledge: impact of a long-term professional development program	31
Enhancing students’ achievement and scientific literacy through technology-enhanced learning in science education: a meta-analysis	24
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	21
Effects of the use of ICT in schools on students’ science higher-order thinking skills: comparative study of China and Finland	20
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	19
Converging objects-to-think-with : exploring microwave ovens through inquiry-based learning with ChatGPT	17
Empirical investigation of critical factors influencing ChatGPT integration in contemporary technology education	16
VR helmets in primary education and its impact on students critical thinking	15
Developing STEM activities integrated POED model to improve students’ learning by doing	15
Factors affecting the formation of views of nature of science: A mixed-methods study	14
Pre service teachers’ engagement with stem-based hands-on activities in online chemistry laboratory courses	14
Development and validation of the Data Science Education Attitude Scale (DSEAS)	13
The relationship between teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge and student learning in fundamental concepts of electrostatics	12
Students’ perceptions of authenticity in an upper secondary technology education innovation project	12
STEM for sustainability: a multi-faceted evaluation on pre-service preschool teachers’ sustainable designs	11
Elementary science teachers’ engineering integration after long-term in-service training program with and without curriculum material support	10
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	10
From experiment to model design: teaching scientific and engineering practices in laboratory applications course	10
Development and use of an instrument to measure pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics: the PSEUDO-QM scale	10
The development of an analytical model for science classroom creativity in China	9
Virtual experiments in physics education: a systematic literature review	9
Technology-enhanced “GipSci” approach in developing contexts performs well at interest and curiosity , yet	9
The effects of interactivity and game elements in science assessment	9
Fostering student climate agency and future literacy: a case study of scenario-based teaching	9

The impact of STEAM project design on higher-order thinking: a meta-analysis	8
Teachers’ interventions in science education at primary school. The role of semiotic resources during argumentative interactions in classroom	8
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
The implementation of engineering design-based STEM learning and its impact on primary students’ scientific creativity	8
The effect of interactive videos enhanced with pop-up questions on teacher candidates’ learning performance in science	8
Validating an assessment of scientific modeling competence and mapping junior high school students’ development status	8
Conceptual understanding of gravity: comparison of effects of active learning and traditional learning	8
Enhancing self-directed learning in science education: the Impact of puzzle-solving games and video-based materials on understanding the origin of electricity	7
Investigating students’ perceptions of STEM education in private elementary schools in Abu Dhabi	7
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	7
Using facial emotion recognition to research emotional phases in an inquiry-based science activity	7
Exploring the relationship between mental representations and conceptual understanding of Special Relativity by high school students	7
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools	7
Supporting student teachers to integrate theory, research, and practice: developing the Adaptive Subject Pedagogy Model	7
Science Identity of Turkish Students: Adaptation of the Science Identity Questionnaire and Analysis in Terms of Demographic Variables	7
Exploring high school students’ inquiry skills level and regional differences in STEM learning	7
Values of mathematics as a pivot of the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers in iSTEM education	7
FACE-TO-FACE VS. ONLINE LEARNING in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING COURSES DURING COVID-19 EPOCH	6
Green chemistry in secondary education: a systematic review of global trends, pedagogical approaches, and implementation challenges	6
Development and preliminary validation of the middle school students’ attitudes toward STEM learning scale	6
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	6
Arguments of Turkish undergraduate preservice elementary teachers when testing hypotheses in science	6
Technology-supported specialist co-teaching in primary STEM education: effects on Chinese students’ attitudes, learning engagement, and career aspirations	6
An application of propensity score analysis with structural equation modeling: effects of post-secondary students’ expectations about STEM careers on college success	6
Examining the mediating effect of nature of science perceptions on the relationship between metacognition and science self-efficacy	5
The relationships among teacher support, peer support, students’ resilience and attainment value in a STEAM competition	5
Transdisciplinary STEAM learning in improving students’ conceptual understanding of heat and temperature	5
The natural development of students’ understanding of the nature of science without purposeful intervention in everyday science teaching	5
Refining virtual laboratory on liquid–liquid extraction and thin-layer chromatography for building students’ laboratory skills	5
A conceptual framework for assessing transdisciplinary STEM practices	5
Does the mode of an investigative tool matter?: preservice teachers’ perceptions of the credibility of cell images using actual vs. virtual light microscopes	5
Exploring stereotypical perceptions of scientists among Greek primary school students: insights from the Draw-A-Science-comic Test	5
Effectiveness of treatments teaching the topic ‘cell division’ in improving students’ academic performance: a meta-analysis study	5
What emerges from pupils’ descriptions of technological systems	5
Reflexive, relevant and interactive: a STEM student-centred pedagogical approach for responsible research and innovation (RRI) training in higher education	5
Navigating the AI-Enhanced STEM education landscape: a decade of insights, trends, and opportunities	5
Stakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England	5
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
Supporting pre-service teachers’ integration of engineering into STEM lessons throughout engineering-infused training	4
Exploring the factors influencing undergraduate students’ decision to pursue physics at the University of Education, Winneba	4
STEAM in practice and research in primary schools: a systematic literature review	4
A PBL strategy for incorporating 3D cell culture into the classrooms of undergraduate biotechnology engineering students	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
Evaluating the effectiveness of a virtual laboratory for inorganic chemistry education	4
The STEM curriculum integration through big ideas and learning progression Frameworks: attitudes and insights from teacher and student	4
Examining the diversity of scientific methods in the South African National Senior Certificate chemistry papers	4
Nigerian biology teachers’ pedagogical orientations and practices in under-resourced laboratories in relation to students’ perceptions of the laboratory and attitude towards biology practical	4
Scaffolding practices for public health-related mathematical modelling instruction in STEM trails with immersive technology	4

The effect of guided inquiry-based virtual and physical laboratories on science learning outcomes	4
Effectiveness of serious games on learning achievement of DC circuit concepts compared with educational simulations	4
Embodiment and asynchronous storytelling in science classrooms	4
Development and validation of a STEM stereotype scale in Turkish and English	4
Virtual learning environment to improve scientific literacy: a systematic review	3
Exploring the materiality of science learning: analytical frameworks for examining interactions with material objects in science meaning-making	3
Elaboration of science teachers’ technology-based lesson practices in terms of contextual factors influencing TPACK	3
Ocean wave energy learning project (OWELP): a program to communicate alternative energy technology	3
Navigating school science fairs in the artificial intelligence age: a local fair transformed	3
Socio-(im)material-making activities in Minecraft: retracing digital literacy applied to ESD	3
Engaging with materials and the body: young plurilingual children’s resource-rich interactions in science investigations	3
Revitalizing STEM Education: integrating STEM into National curricula with active learning	3
The effect of instructional activities and collaborative tasks on interest and effort in a climate change education module	3
A systematic review of the application of eye-tracking technology in reading in science studies	3
The mediating role of cognitive, social and radical constructivism between hands-on making self-efficacy and motivation for continuous improvement in an iSTEM competition	3
The underrepresentation of Chemistry in the preferences of primary school teachers in Portugal: challenges and perspectives from a continuing professional development programme	3
Turkish adaptation of the science-P reasoning inventory: examining the relationships between epistemological beliefs, gender, and residential area	3
Supporting the development of undergraduate research skills in the biomedical sciences at an international branch campus	3
Prospective science teachers are good at which of? Algorithmic, conceptual and graphical questions	2
Embodied, dramatizing performances in science class: multimodal spaces and places of knowledge and identity construction	2
Scientific literacy in biology and attitudes towards science in the Chilean education system	2
Identifying the roles of technology: a systematic review of STEM education in primary and secondary schools from 2015 to 2023	2
Thinking-back-and-forth in practical work experienced by students: identifying evidence-informed characteristics of good practices in secondary education	2
A beautiful garment from old fabrics: the analogy of culturo-techno-contextual approach for meaningful learning in science	2
The mediating effects of basic psychological needs on the associations between teacher support and Chinese adolescents’ science and math self-efficacy	2
Investigating in-service teachers’ STEM literacy: the role of subject background and gender	2
Students’ science achievement in cognitive domains: effects of practical work and clarity of instruction	2
The science-specific home learning environment of elementary school children – how are science experiences and science talk associated with the children’s science achievement?	2
A systematic review of assessments for young children’s scientific and engineering practices	2
Analysing teacher behaviour in synthesizing hands-on and minds-on during practical work	2
Effects of different interventions to treat errors during STEM learning on improving young children’s psychological resilience	2
Correction	2
Teachers’ self-efficacy and role when teaching STEM in high-tech informal learning environments	2
A systematic review of engineering practice in K-12 STEM studies	1
Exploring multidisciplinary teamwork of applied physics and engineering students in a challenge-based learning course	1
The constructivist science classroom in a post-socialist context: a study of students’ perceptions in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
“The strawberry in the pot that became something” – entanglements of bodies, materials, and affect in science activities supported by a community organization	1
Isolation of yeasts from different fruits and students’ opinion about microorganisms: Inquiry-based Learning	1
Enhancing engineering design, scientific creativity, and decision-making skills in prospective science teachers through engineering design-based robotics coding applications	1
The relation between teaching self-efficacy and behavior of experimental design teaching in Chinese science teachers	1
The challenges encountered by preschool and primary educators in implementing educational robotics	1
Effectiveness of argument in science education: a meta-analysis based on the results of 17 experiments	1
An effective intervention using STEM instruction for improving preservice science teachers’ self-efficacy	1
Preservice elementary teachers’ explanations of properties of sound using a Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE)	1
Material-dialogic space as a framework for understanding material and embodied interaction science education	1
‘Mixing and making’: attitudes to science and scientists among lower secondary school pupils	1
Insights into a Community of Inquiry that emerged during academics’ emergency remote university teaching of chemistry in response to concern for students	1
Scientific reasoning in upper primary school students: development and validation of the ESRQ	1
Science teachers’ conceptual perspectives on scientific experiments: a metaphorical representation	1
Exploring predictors of STEM aspirations from a STEM capital perspective	1
Student and teacher experiences using cutting-edge research as learning context	1
A closer examination of the STEM characteristics of the STEM activities published in NSTA journals	1
From PCK to TPACK - Supporting student teachers’ reflections and use of digital technologies in science teaching	1
Exploring primary school teachers’ idea generation during the STEM instructional design process	1
Preparation of preschool teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online professional development program in STEM education	1
Building and programming a weather station: Teachers’ views on values and challenges in a comprehensive STEM project	1
Students creating videos for learning by teaching from their scientific curiosity	1
Force and motion misconceptions in Moroccan high school science majors: insights from video game activity	1
Quality of 8th-grade science books: a systematic analysis of end-of-chapters-tasks in 8th-grade science books using Revised Bloom Taxonomy	1
Exploring k5 students’ learning pathways regarding water’s electrical conductivity	1
Chinese preservice biology teachers’ evaluation of cell system models: insights from the frames and framing perspective	1
Digital immersion technologies transform agricultural learning: a study of interactive educational platforms among rural Colombian university students	1
Optimal learning moments in an undergraduate chemistry lab	1
The effect of cognitive flexibility on students’ spatial visualization abilities and computational thinking skills in a three-dimensional design and coding training	1
Science curiosity: an analysis examining gender and parental influences	1
Teaching thinking-back-and-forth in practical work: results of an educational design study in secondary education	1
Construct validation of the attitudes towards science scale: measurement invariance analyses on gender and grade level	1
From cookbook lab to PEODE-based lab: redesigning lab activities to foster conceptual understanding	1
The application of eye-tracking technology in chemistry education research: a systematic review	1