International Journal of Science Education

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Science 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
To change or not to change: a comparison of first-year chemistry demonstrator teaching models79
Longitudinal study examining immersing students with IEPs in argument-based inquiry to improve the learning of science74
Acceptance and understanding of biological evolution in a country with low religiousness56
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula50
Correction47
Textbook and popular science text reading: boys’ and girls’ comprehension and assimilation of academic language37
Assembly required: a microgenetic multiple case study of four students’ assemblages when learning about force36
The relationships between the practice of different scientific activities and students’ scientific knowledge, inquiry skills, view of the nature of science and attitude towards science: a study in pri35
Students’ situational interest and perceived relevance during designed coherent physics learning modules32
Space for all: a multinational study on the status of astronomy education32
Junior high school students’ views of nature of science: evidence from a private school in Davao Region, Philippines30
Intellectual humility – an important content-transcendent goal for science education25
Making it in undergraduate STEM education: the role of a maker course in fostering STEM identities24
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface: reporting on the efficacy of an educational programme designed for Muslim high school students23
The impact of an instructional intervention on the science knowledge and academic language of middle-grade English as additional language (EAL) learners and their English proficient classmates20
Trajectories of students’ momentary interest in evolution during a museum guided tour19
Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles18
Science and engineering for what? A large-scale analysis of theme selection in K-12 science and engineering fair projects18
Effectiveness of a school scientific model to address buoyancy in the training of prospective early childhood teachers18
Empirically testing a shared assumption: the usefulness of science education to science-informed decision-making in the context of COVID-1917
Predictors of students’ intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics17
Examining a revised draw-a-scientist checklist: rater, scoring, and measurement considerations for 5th-grade drawings16
Understanding high school students’ errors in solving genetic problems16
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists16
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes16
Why female students leave science classes for social science classes in Cambodia: A two-level hierarchical linear model16
Comparing learners’ conceptions of natural and educational scientists: relations to study interest and self-image15
The mediating role of science intrinsic motivation: effects of homework on science achievement in Western and Asian regions15
Fostering scientific practices through structured peer critique: cross-age feedback in ninth-grade science writing15
Correction14
Flexible, creative, constructive, and collaborative: the makings of an authentic science inquiry task14
‘I don’t find it hard!’ They defied the gendered norm in science!14
Opening up STEMM pathways among Indigenous people in the U.S.: what is the role of cultural, spiritual, and ethical conflicts in Indigenous people's STEMM educational and career decisions?14
Pathways to early science literacy: investigating the different role of language and reading skills in science literacy among early primary school children14
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines13
The complexities of moving topics between disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy13
Promoting First Nations science capital: reimagining a more inclusive curriculum13
Science teachers’ implementation of science and engineering practices in different instructional settings13
Student preschool teachers’ and work teams’ planning sessions of thematic teaching including science during degree projects – curriculum emphases in science teaching13
The teacher lens: school-science club collaboration as a pathway to inclusion and equity13
Developing geo-sequential reasoning about tectonic processes using computational simulations13
Formulating a framework on social responsibility of science in primary science education: an approach based on grounded theory13
Nurturing science learning amidst adversity: a portraiture of science teaching with refugee students in refugee camps13
Investigation of undergraduate and master students’ understanding of gene structure and function13
Playing with the experiments and learning new things: science teacher identity through autobiographies13
Investigating early childhood education students’ ideas about microorganisms12
Facilitating students’ design thinking skills in science class: an exploratory study12
Exploring teachers’ learning through teaching experience: formal opportunities, teaching experience, and personal characteristics12
Teachers’ professional vision in teaching physics – a validation study12
Knowledge building and epistemic reflection: linking practical and formal epistemologies for epistemic growth12
Testing assumptions of the Draw-a-Scientist-Test (DAST): do stereotyped views affect career aspirations?12
High school students’ engagement in science learning: scale adaptation and relationship with epistemological beliefs12
Adolescents’ attitudes toward climate change urgency: the role of scientific literacy and socio-scientific engagement12
Using machine learning to predict student science achievement based on science curriculum type in TIMSS 201912
Does process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) improve students’ science academic performance and process skills?12
Adapting scientific reasoning instruction to children’s needs: effects on learning processes and learning outcomes11
The role of science attitudes, parental support, and teacher support in fostering students’ resilience11
Retrieval-based learning versus discussion; which review practice will better enhance primary school students’ knowledge of scientific content?11
Multiple pathways to science enjoyment: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis in TIMSS 201911
The influence of COVID-19 science views, risk perceptions, and group membership on socioscientific decisions11
Attitude of junior high school students towards the study of science in Ghanaian schools: the case of first-year students in the Cape Coast metropolis11
A cross-specialization study of pre-service teachers’ perception of STEM education11
Citizen science and its potential for science education11
Measuring and evaluating the attitudes of secondary school students towards skill-based science questions11
Leveraging the epistemic emotion of awe as a pedagogical tool to teach science10
Investigating evidence-oriented generation of synthetic text data with a generative large language model in science education10
Comparing e-learning courses pre and during the COVID-19 pandemic in physics: the effect of classroom and distance learning10
Thematic network analysis of student voice reactions to inquiry-based science education10
Combining video and virtual experiments to foster online scientific inquiry learning: insights from mediation and lag sequential analyses10
Ways of questioning, ways of gesturing: how teachers elicit different ways of students’ thinking in elementary science classrooms10
Nature of science and domain-specificity: investigating the coverage of nature of science in physics, chemistry and biology curricula across grade levels9
Studying the quality of inquiry-based teaching in science classrooms. A systematic video study of inquiry-based science teaching in primary and lower-secondary schools9
Promoting questioning in early childhood science education9
DAST or VoSAL? Adaptation of the VoSAL to Turkish and a comparison between the instruments9
Combining real and virtual activities about electrostatic interactions in primary school9
Biological evolution learning and computational thinking: Enhancing understanding through integration of disciplinary core knowledge and scientific practice9
Exploring the impact of disciplinary context on students’ dynamic transfer of learning when addressing problems that apply the first law of thermodynamics9
From vision to enactment: reflections on the practical impact of the Beyond 2000 report9
Students’ science learning experiences and career expectations: mediating effects of science-related attitudes and beliefs9
Developing an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum to engage students in planning investigations and argumentation9
Elementary teachers’ knowledge of using language as an epistemic tool in science classrooms: a case study9
Automatic feedback on physics tasks using open-source generative artificial intelligence9
Creating adaptive learning pathways for inquiry-based learning in school science using generative AI large language models9
Differentiated instruction for improved primary school learners’ outcomes in basic science: a mixed-methods study9
Designing and teaching socio-scientific issues online: digital curation in the science classroom9
Retraction8
Identity texts in science for multilingual students: discovering resources with social semiotics8
Becoming a science teacher in the Anthropocene: scientific knowledge as ‘matters of concern’8
Exploring physics teachers’ views on physics education research: a case of science scepticism?8
Which factors influence the success in pedigree analysis?8
Diverse paths, stable differences – role of prior knowledge in learning biology over undergraduate years8
Students’ perceptions of learning environment: associations with personal mastery goal orientations, regulations, and academic performance in biology8
Transformative and equitable science teaching in the culturally diverse classroom: application of formative assessment system8
Fit to teach evolution? Pre- and in-service teachers’ knowledge and acceptance of evolution8
Promoting preservice teachers’ global citizenship and contextualised NOS views through role-play activities integrated into place-based SSI instruction on climate issues8
The power of knowledge: examining teachers’ perceptions regarding the contribution of scientific newsletters to their professional development and to their students8
Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers8
Status and trends of socioscientific issues in educational literature: insights and extensions from a co-word analysis8
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries8
Using simulations to meld didactic and constructivist teaching methods in complex second year STEM courses8
The spatial requirements of the left-hand rule: a novel instrument for assessing the coordination of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference8
How making mistakes shapes students’ situational engagement in chemistry laboratory?8
Preparing to teach in informal settings: preservice science teachers’ experiences in a natural history museum8
What are the effects of formative assessment on students’ science learning motivational beliefs and behaviours? Comparison between Western and East Asian learners8
Developing and validating the motivation toward virtual reality scale: its associations with science anxiety, academic buoyancy, and grit8
Development, validity, and reliability of chemistry scientific creativity test for pre-university students8
Studies on visualisation in science classrooms: a systematic literature review8
The iceberg of science identity: structural inequalities in science-related practices and dispositions8
What can be learned from laypersons’ scientific practices in everyday life: a perspective on causal reasoning7
Effectiveness and use of optional scaffolds: an intervention study in biology lessons on phylogenetic trees7
‘So basically I have to speak less and give students some freedom’: how committing to a value influences a teacher’s enactment of an inquiry-based science unit7
Whether, what, and how should we discuss evolution and faith in biology classes? insights from semi-structured interviews and a Delphi study7
Measuring high school student engagement in science learning: an adaptation and validation study7
Development of a spatial ability test for pre-service science teachers7
Evaluating students’ computation skills in learning amount of substance based on SOLO taxonomy in secondary schools7
Middle school students’ motivational dispositions and interest in STEM careers7
What improves students’ participation in a school-based citizen science project? Through the lens of practitioners7
Science literacy in the twenty-first century: informed trust and the competent outsider7
Motivational shifts when moving from face-to-face to distance learning7
A snapshot of the challenges influencing science instruction in pre-k through 8th grade classrooms in Texas rural schools7
Listening to children in nature: emergent curriculum in science teaching and learning in bush kinders7
Grade 8 Lebanese students’ reasoning and decision-making about scientific versus socio-scientific issues6
Study on the progression of pre-service primary school teachers’ models regarding the phenomenon of tides6
Science and engineering degree attainment of aspiring-scientists in the United States6
Understanding the complex formation of female students’ STEM career aspirations: configurational pathways and predictive analysis of STEM beliefs and social support6
Using the socioscientific issue approach to foster secondary students’ argumentation skills, science self-efficacy beliefs and science interest6
A quasi-experimental study of the impact of college-run science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career days on American students’ STEM career aspirations6
An online laboratory applications course for the development of scientific practices and scientific method6
Students’ socially shared regulation of learning during a collaborative inquiry task: do groups’ diverse preconceptions matter?6
Translanguaging in elementary science6
Attitude matters more: the impact of perceived competence and attitudes toward science on science engagement among university students6
Third-hand evaluation of science-related information6
Fostering scientific reasoning competencies: investigating impacts of cross- and within-content area experimentation using the competency triad6
Developing undergraduate practical skills and independence with ‘at home practical kits’6
The trade-off between STEM knowledge acquisition and language learning in short-term CLIL implementations6
Measurement of student attitudes to science and association with inquiry-based learning in regional schools6
Associations among science study attitudes, habits and science academic performance of elementary school students: a latent profile approach6
‘Entertainment’ or ‘good for the self’: use and exchange-value cultural capital in White British working-class students’ constructions of science6
Bugbear or surefire success? Secondary school students’ conceptual learning about evolution with ChatGPT6
The effects of explicit science process skill instructions by using four-component instructional design model on pre-service science teachers scientific reasoning ability6
An exploration of multilevel effects of student- and school-factors on elementary students’ attitudes towards science6
A systematic review of studies investigating science teaching and learning: over two decades of TIMSS and PISA6
REAL possibilities: innovative and responsive curriculum enactment enabling impactful inquiry in primary science6
Lesson planning with ChatGPT for inquiry-based biology instruction – A(I) roll of the dice?6
Students’ gender differences and scientific inquiry competencies in technical education and training institutions6
Teaching immunology in the 21st century: a scoping review of emerging challenges and strategies6
Predictors of science identity in primary school: epistemological beliefs, competency beliefs, and science learning experiences6
The role of perceiving data as confirming or contradicting to expectations in data-based decisions6
Examining the efficacy change of preservice science teachers: does an inquiry-based laboratory instruction make a difference? A mixed method study6
Career entry motivations and teaching perceptions of science preservice teachers: a comparison of trends between Finland and South Korea6
Correction6
The effects of perceived relevance of participation in science-oriented out-of-school time activities on university students’ performance and persistence5
Transforming science teacher education in the era of generative artificial intelligence: global perspectives5
Assessing science teachers’ understanding about the nature of scientific inquiry and its reflection in students’ responses using the VASI questionnaire5
‘I would like a job that involves using science’: science-related job aspirations and the relevance of family circumstances, personal motivations, and working scientifically for primary school student5
Podcasting as a powerful tool for the promotion of bilingual scientific argumentation in a formative assessment environment5
Practicing encounters with environmental wicked problems in middle school: an empirical study on pupils’ competence performance and recognition5
Design and validation of the scales of a Spanish-adapted questionnaire to measure pre-service teachers’ perceptions about inquiry-based science education5
Secondary teachers’ instructional practices on argumentation in the context of science and religious education5
Representation of the views of nature and human-nature relationships in chemistry textbooks: a comparative analysis5
Interestingness is in the eye of the beholder – the impact of formative assessment on students’ situational interest in chemistry classrooms5
Approaching middle-school student science learning and sustainability dilemmas through co-creation processes with science professionals5
Exploring the effects of physics explainer videos and written explanations on declarative knowledge and the illusion of understanding5
Science curriculum-making for the Anthropocene: perspectives and possibilities5
Model-based analysis of the impact of a teaching-learning sequence about carbonated drinks on students’ understanding of the dissolution of gases in liquids5
A review of postcolonial and decolonial science teaching approaches for secondary school from a European perspective5
Station-rotation blended learning model in science education a case study for rural classrooms5
Contextual and individual determinants of engagement in physics from the perspective of elementary school physics teachers5
Wellbeing in science education: a qualitative exploration of students’ values5
Enhancing science achievement through inquiry activities: the critical role of perceived teacher support5
From broad principles to content-specific decisions: pre-service physics teachers’ views on the usefulness of practical work5
Depicting science teachers’ concerns regarding the Tanzanian inquiry-based science curriculum5
Translanguaging in scientific practices: a study of high school teachers in English Medium Instruction inquiry-based science classrooms5
The effect of e-argumentation supported instruction on middle school students’ academic achievement, argumentation skills and epistemic beliefs5
How well does self-concept predict science achievement across cultures? The mediating effect of autonomous motivation5
Using artificial intelligence to predict students’ STEM attitudes: an adaptive neural-network-based fuzzy logic model5
Towards a model of plant awareness in education: a literature review and framework proposal5
Teaching nanotechnology concepts in early-primary education: an experimental study using digital games5
Student judges’ criteria for evaluating classmate pre-service chemistry teachers’ arguments developed in a remote simulated jury activity5
Three practices of experimenting in the physics classroom – impact on students’ content knowledge acquisition5
Which science matters? The role of biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science in shaping students’ environmental attitudes and behaviours5
Cultural context and the development of students’ naïve and scientific knowledge: an example from volcanic processes5
Reviewing the role of the physics curriculum and its assessment in post-16 gender disparities5
Analysing pre-service elementary teachers’ scientific literacy through environmental issues: the case of plastic waste and waste management5
Development of preservice science teachers’ reflection skills: does reflecting on one’s own or other people’s instructional explanations lead to different developments?4
Indicators of high-quality PCK & implications for twenty-first-century science education: a systematic literature review4
The efficacy of the Dimensions of Attitudes toward Science (DAS) for explaining primary preservice teachers’ intention to teach science4
Developmental trajectories for novice teachers: teaching efficacy, instructional beliefs, and domain knowledge4
Correction4
Reflective prompt engineering: a new strategy for automated short answer scoring in biology4
Nature of science conceptions and argumentation skills in different socioscientific contexts4
Key aspects of successful science fair projects4
Mapping the astronomy content knowledge of Chilean in-service teachers4
Examining the educative nature of selected physical sciences textbooks about electrostatics using pedagogical content knowledge4
The potency of culture, technology, and context in a biology classroom: Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach in action4
Science inquiry instruction and direct instruction in authentic primary and secondary classroom contexts4
“It’s a lesson with no correct answer”: design issues in preservice teachers’ use of history of science for lesson planning4
Inquiry-based instruction and its influence on perceived authenticity and maintained situational interest—a cluster-randomised field experiment in a chemistry learning setting4
Development and validation of a module for nanoscience and nanotechnology education: a case of pre-service chemistry teachers4
High school science teachers’ assessment literacy for inquiry-based science instruction4
Freezing lizards, loving creatures, and flying pigs: tracing students’ meaning making about evolution through student-generated comics4
The relations between students' belongingness, self-efficacy, and response to active learning in science, math, and engineering classes4
Towards an inclusive science education: preparing twenty-first century preschool student teachers for inclusive science teaching and learning4
A model conceptualising trans-disciplinarity within school science education based on a systematic literature review4
Preschool teachers’ discussions of attempted play-responsive science teaching4
The impact of inquiry-based learning in a botanical garden on conceptual change in biology4
Relationships among perception of teacher autonomy support, achievement motivations, intellectual risk-taking, and science academic performance: a serial mediation model4
Mapping out the structural relationship of middle school students’ use of talk and gestures and group outcomes’ quality in collaborative science problem-solving activities4
Stories about gender inequalities and influence factors: a science club case study4
The impact of scientists’ STEM educational activities in primary and secondary schools on students’ STEM career aspirations4
A positive presentation of wolves affects the explicit and implicit attitudes of schoolchildren towards them4
Who wants to be a computer scientist? The computing aspirations of students in English secondary schools4
Demonstrating representational competence through the utilisation of potential disciplinary meanings during scientific explanation construction4
The underrepresentation of women in STEM disciplines in India: a secondary analysis4
Silence is not an option: pre-service teachers embedding First Nation knowledge and practices in primary/middle mathematics and science4
Knowledge types of pre- and in-service chemistry teachers – a self-regulated learning perspective4
Using a diagrammatic approach to reveal variations in students’ instructional representations about the five kingdoms in biology between two cultural groups4
The role of consensus messaging in teaching evolution4
Profess-sirs and Profess-hers: gender and ethnicity stereotypes that students associate with scientists4
Teenagers performing research on climate change education in a fully integrated design-based research setting4
Pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards vaccination before and after targeted teaching interventions4
Instrumentation of students’ experience through the active content of science: from epistemic contact to idealizations and back again in school classrooms4
Investigating science identity classifications of rural high school students: a person-centered approach4
Students’ epistemic emotions in a science classroom: their variations and interactions with practices in structured inquiry4
Embodying science: the role of the body in supporting young children’s meaning making4
Developing preservice elementary teachers’ self-efficacy toward teaching science4
Exploring the association between non-specialised science teacher rates and student science literacy: an analysis of PISA data across 18 nations4
Improving middle school students’ collaborative problem-solving competence in project-based learning through instant feedback in science curriculum3
Features of and representational strategies in instructional videos for primary science classes3
Exploring technology-related belief structures: domain-specific and domain-general beliefs of preservice science teachers3
Exploring secondary school biology teachers’ conceptions of scientific laws and methods3
Examining the impact of open schooling in science education: the case of educational seismology3
Self-positioning in relation to science: the stories of nine adolescents3
Student approaches to creative processes when participating in an open-ended project in science3
Learning science and the illusion of understanding: exploring the effects of integrating learning tasks after explainer videos3
Sociocultural ways of conceptualizing professional vision to support and study novice science teachers’ learning3
Evaluation of knowledge in science lessons: an analysis of epistemic practices in an 8th grade classroom3
Fostering systems thinking about socioscientific issues3
The elephant in the science staff room: an investigation into the mathematical skills and confidence of pre-service science teachers3
High school students’ understanding of molecular representations in a context-based multi-model chemistry learning approach3
Student-generated Open Educational Resources (OERs) to inspire the next generation of STEM students and teachers3
Motivating science learning when shifting from face-to-face instruction to distance learning: comparing teachers’ and students’ perspective3
Exploring the representation of the nature of science across disciplines: a content analysis of science curriculum standards in biology, chemistry, geography and physics3
Next-gen assessment for interdisciplinary learning: development and validation of the interdisciplinary science assessment of carbon cycling II3
Preservice science teachers’ self-regulation of teaching while planning and enacting classroom questions: a cross-case analysis3
Teachers’ support in developing year 7 students’ argumentation skills about water-based socioscientific issues3
Preschool-age children’s early steps towards evidence-based explanations and modelling practices3
Systematically reviewing the potential of scientific argumentation to promote multidimensional conceptual change in science education3
Pedagogical challenges and possibilities of critical thinking in the culturally diverse classroom: connecting secondary science teaching with STEAM approach3
‘You see yourself be there without any education’ – How imagined futures intertwine with social class for female upper secondary science and mathematics students3
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