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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 pri46
Correction38
Students’ situational interest and perceived relevance during designed coherent physics learning modules36
Textbook and popular science text reading: boys’ and girls’ comprehension and assimilation of academic language31
Making it in undergraduate STEM education: the role of a maker course in fostering STEM identities29
Junior high school students’ views of nature of science: evidence from a private school in Davao Region, Philippines27
Assembly required: a microgenetic multiple case study of four students’ assemblages when learning about force26
Longitudinal study examining immersing students with IEPs in argument-based inquiry to improve the learning of science25
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula24
Space for all: a multinational study on the status of astronomy education24
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 classmates23
Science and engineering for what? A large-scale analysis of theme selection in K-12 science and engineering fair projects22
Predictors of students’ intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics21
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development21
Correction21
Pathways to early science literacy: investigating the different role of language and reading skills in science literacy among early primary school children20
Why female students leave science classes for social science classes in Cambodia: A two-level hierarchical linear model20
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface: reporting on the efficacy of an educational programme designed for Muslim high school students19
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists19
Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles17
Understanding high school students’ errors in solving genetic problems16
‘I don’t find it hard!’ They defied the gendered norm in science!16
Development of scientific reasoning test measuring control of variables strategy in physics for high school students: evidence of validity and latent predictors of item difficulty16
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes16
Trajectories of students’ momentary interest in evolution during a museum guided tour15
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines15
Gender, stereotypes and grade level in the draw-a-scientist test in Italian schoolchildren14
Flexible, creative, constructive, and collaborative: the makings of an authentic science inquiry task14
The mediating role of science intrinsic motivation: effects of homework on science achievement in Western and Asian regions14
Determining factors influencing students’ future intentions to enroll in chemistry-related courses: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior14
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
Using drawings to examine undergraduate students’ mental models of the greenhouse effect: a factor analysis approach13
The complexities of moving topics between disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy13
Science teachers’ implementation of science and engineering practices in different instructional settings13
Facilitating students’ design thinking skills in science class: an exploratory study12
Student preschool teachers’ and work teams’ planning sessions of thematic teaching including science during degree projects – curriculum emphases in science teaching12
Investigation of undergraduate and master students’ understanding of gene structure and function12
Promoting First Nations science capital: reimagining a more inclusive curriculum12
Developing geo-sequential reasoning about tectonic processes using computational simulations11
Using machine learning to predict student science achievement based on science curriculum type in TIMSS 201911
Multiple pathways to science enjoyment: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis in TIMSS 201911
Citizen science and its potential for science education11
Investigating early childhood education students’ ideas about microorganisms11
Testing assumptions of the Draw-a-Scientist-Test (DAST): do stereotyped views affect career aspirations?11
The role of science attitudes, parental support, and teacher support in fostering students’ resilience11
Adapting scientific reasoning instruction to children’s needs: effects on learning processes and learning outcomes11
A cross-specialization study of pre-service teachers’ perception of STEM education11
Emergent themes and pragmatic research methods for meaningful cultural representation of Blacks in multimedia products for the science classroom11
Does process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) improve students’ science academic performance and process skills?11
Teachers’ professional vision in teaching physics – a validation study11
Measuring and evaluating the attitudes of secondary school students towards skill-based science questions11
Retrieval-based learning versus discussion; which review practice will better enhance primary school students’ knowledge of scientific content?11
The influence of COVID-19 science views, risk perceptions, and group membership on socioscientific decisions10
Leveraging the epistemic emotion of awe as a pedagogical tool to teach science10
Attitude of junior high school students towards the study of science in Ghanaian schools: the case of first-year students in the Cape Coast metropolis10
Nature of science and domain-specificity: investigating the coverage of nature of science in physics, chemistry and biology curricula across grade levels10
An exploratory study of the goals science teachers’ satisfy by integrating engineering core ideas and practices into the science curriculum10
Aesthetics and STEAM education: the case of Korean STEAM curricula at the art high school10
Learning democratic participation? Meaning-making in discussion of socioscientific issues in science education10
Designing and teaching socio-scientific issues online: digital curation in the science classroom10
The teacher as street-level bureaucrat: science teacher’s discretionary decision-making in a time of reform10
Developing an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum to engage students in planning investigations and argumentation10
Biological evolution learning and computational thinking: Enhancing understanding through integration of disciplinary core knowledge and scientific practice9
Ways of questioning, ways of gesturing: how teachers elicit different ways of students’ thinking in elementary science classrooms9
Students’ science learning experiences and career expectations: mediating effects of science-related attitudes and beliefs9
Novice elementary teachers’ knowledge of, beliefs about, and planning for the science practices: a longitudinal study9
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
Combining real and virtual activities about electrostatic interactions in primary school9
DAST or VoSAL? Adaptation of the VoSAL to Turkish and a comparison between the instruments9
The power of knowledge: examining teachers’ perceptions regarding the contribution of scientific newsletters to their professional development and to their students8
Promoting questioning in early childhood science education8
Preparing to teach in informal settings: preservice science teachers’ experiences in a natural history museum8
From vision to enactment: reflections on the practical impact of the Beyond 2000 report8
How making mistakes shapes students’ situational engagement in chemistry laboratory?8
Exploring the impact of disciplinary context on students’ dynamic transfer of learning when addressing problems that apply the first law of thermodynamics8
Use of knowledge pieces and context features during the transfer process in physics tasks8
Exploring science relevancy by gender and SES in The Bahamas: secondary Bahamian students' interests in science and attractive attributes of future careers8
Supporting the implementation of a nanotechnology teaching-learning sequence through post-induction science teacher mentoring8
Elementary teachers’ knowledge of using language as an epistemic tool in science classrooms: a case study8
Fit to teach evolution? Pre- and in-service teachers’ knowledge and acceptance of evolution8
What are the effects of formative assessment on students’ science learning motivational beliefs and behaviours? Comparison between Western and East Asian learners7
Studies on visualisation in science classrooms: a systematic literature review7
Diverse paths, stable differences – role of prior knowledge in learning biology over undergraduate years7
Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers7
Status and trends of socioscientific issues in educational literature: insights and extensions from a co-word analysis7
Automatic feedback on physics tasks using open-source generative artificial intelligence7
The spatial requirements of the left-hand rule: a novel instrument for assessing the coordination of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference7
Students’ perceptions of learning environment: associations with personal mastery goal orientations, regulations, and academic performance in biology7
Power and positionality shape identity work during a science research apprenticeship for girls7
Measuring high school student engagement in science learning: an adaptation and validation study7
Development, validity, and reliability of chemistry scientific creativity test for pre-university students7
Promoting preservice teachers’ global citizenship and contextualised NOS views through role-play activities integrated into place-based SSI instruction on climate issues7
Aesthetic experience and imagination in early elementary school science – a growth of ‘Science–Art–Language–Game’7
Transformative and equitable science teaching in the culturally diverse classroom: application of formative assessment system7
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries7
Which factors influence the success in pedigree analysis?7
Identity texts in science for multilingual students: discovering resources with social semiotics7
Using simulations to meld didactic and constructivist teaching methods in complex second year STEM courses7
Becoming a science teacher in the Anthropocene: scientific knowledge as ‘matters of concern’7
Gender parity in STEM higher education in India: a trend analysis6
What improves students’ participation in a school-based citizen science project? Through the lens of practitioners6
Evaluating students’ computation skills in learning amount of substance based on SOLO taxonomy in secondary schools6
Listening to children in nature: emergent curriculum in science teaching and learning in bush kinders6
A systematic review of studies investigating science teaching and learning: over two decades of TIMSS and PISA6
Teaching socio-scientific issues through integrated STEM education: an effective practical averment from Indonesian science lessons6
A quasi-experimental study of the impact of college-run science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career days on American students’ STEM career aspirations6
Using the socioscientific issue approach to foster secondary students’ argumentation skills, science self-efficacy beliefs and science interest6
Attitude matters more: the impact of perceived competence and attitudes toward science on science engagement among university students6
Fostering scientific reasoning competencies: investigating impacts of cross- and within-content area experimentation using the competency triad6
Motivational shifts when moving from face-to-face to distance learning6
An exploration of multilevel effects of student- and school-factors on elementary students’ attitudes towards science6
Career entry motivations and teaching perceptions of science preservice teachers: a comparison of trends between Finland and South Korea6
The trade-off between STEM knowledge acquisition and language learning in short-term CLIL implementations6
Science fiction and science education: 1984 in classroom6
Translanguaging in elementary science6
Impact of inquiry-based learning in a molecular biology class on the dimensions of students’ situational interest6
Middle school students’ motivational dispositions and interest in STEM careers6
‘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 unit6
Examining the efficacy change of preservice science teachers: does an inquiry-based laboratory instruction make a difference? A mixed method study6
Science literacy in the twenty-first century: informed trust and the competent outsider6
Correction6
Developing undergraduate practical skills and independence with ‘at home practical kits’6
Measurement of student attitudes to science and association with inquiry-based learning in regional schools6
REAL possibilities: innovative and responsive curriculum enactment enabling impactful inquiry in primary science6
Intertextuality in science textbooks: implications for diverse students’ learning5
Predictors of science identity in primary school: epistemological beliefs, competency beliefs, and science learning experiences5
Visual representations of women in a Jamaican science textbook: perpetuating an outdated, sexist ideology5
Students’ conceptions about animal ethics: the benefit of moral metaphors for fostering decision-making competence5
Investigating the effectiveness of explicit and implicit inquiry-oriented instruction on primary students’ views about the non-linear nature of inquiry5
The effects of perceived relevance of participation in science-oriented out-of-school time activities on university students’ performance and persistence5
Secondary teachers’ instructional practices on argumentation in the context of science and religious education5
Exploring the effects of physics explainer videos and written explanations on declarative knowledge and the illusion of understanding5
Translanguaging in scientific practices: a study of high school teachers in English Medium Instruction inquiry-based science classrooms5
Teaching immunology in the 21st century: a scoping review of emerging challenges and strategies5
An online laboratory applications course for the development of scientific practices and scientific method5
Associations among science study attitudes, habits and science academic performance of elementary school students: a latent profile approach5
Supporting student learning from diagnosing erroneous examples when contrasting them with worked examples in the physics classroom5
Reviewing the role of the physics curriculum and its assessment in post-16 gender disparities5
Three practices of experimenting in the physics classroom – impact on students’ content knowledge acquisition5
Study on the progression of pre-service primary school teachers’ models regarding the phenomenon of tides5
Science and engineering degree attainment of aspiring-scientists in the United States5
Development and validation of an instrument to assess Chinese upper-level elementary students’ attitudes towards science5
Students’ socially shared regulation of learning during a collaborative inquiry task: do groups’ diverse preconceptions matter?5
Students’ gender differences and scientific inquiry competencies in technical education and training institutions5
Grade 8 Lebanese students’ reasoning and decision-making about scientific versus socio-scientific issues5
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
Design and validation of the scales of a Spanish-adapted questionnaire to measure pre-service teachers’ perceptions about inquiry-based science education5
Climate education in secondary science: comparison of model-based and non-model-based investigations of Earth’s climate5
How do rural Australian students’ ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?5
Assessing science teachers’ understanding about the nature of scientific inquiry and its reflection in students’ responses using the VASI questionnaire4
Enhancing science achievement through inquiry activities: the critical role of perceived teacher support4
Development and validation of a module for nanoscience and nanotechnology education: a case of pre-service chemistry teachers4
How well does self-concept predict science achievement across cultures? The mediating effect of autonomous motivation4
A review of postcolonial and decolonial science teaching approaches for secondary school from a European perspective4
Teenagers performing research on climate change education in a fully integrated design-based research setting4
The relations between students' belongingness, self-efficacy, and response to active learning in science, math, and engineering classes4
Obstacles and challenges identified by practitioners of non-formal science learning activities in Europe4
The impact of scientists’ STEM educational activities in primary and secondary schools on students’ STEM career aspirations4
What students’ diagrams reveal about their sense-making of plate tectonics in lower secondary science4
The underrepresentation of women in STEM disciplines in India: a secondary analysis4
Contemporary science practice in the classroom: a phenomenological exploration into how online curriculum resources can facilitate learning4
Developing preservice elementary teachers’ self-efficacy toward teaching science4
Demonstrating representational competence through the utilisation of potential disciplinary meanings during scientific explanation construction4
Interestingness is in the eye of the beholder – the impact of formative assessment on students’ situational interest in chemistry classrooms4
‘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 student4
Student judges’ criteria for evaluating classmate pre-service chemistry teachers’ arguments developed in a remote simulated jury activity4
Model-based analysis of the impact of a teaching-learning sequence about carbonated drinks on students’ understanding of the dissolution of gases in liquids4
Instrumentation of students’ experience through the active content of science: from epistemic contact to idealizations and back again in school classrooms4
Students’ epistemic emotions in a science classroom: their variations and interactions with practices in structured inquiry4
Podcasting as a powerful tool for the promotion of bilingual scientific argumentation in a formative assessment environment4
Science curriculum-making for the Anthropocene: perspectives and possibilities4
Why and how teachers make use of drawing activities in early childhood science education4
Who wants to be a computer scientist? The computing aspirations of students in English secondary schools4
Exploring the association between non-specialised science teacher rates and student science literacy: an analysis of PISA data across 18 nations4
Approaching middle-school student science learning and sustainability dilemmas through co-creation processes with science professionals4
The role of consensus messaging in teaching evolution4
Contextual and individual determinants of engagement in physics from the perspective of elementary school physics teachers4
Station-rotation blended learning model in science education a case study for rural classrooms4
Representation of the views of nature and human-nature relationships in chemistry textbooks: a comparative analysis4
Towards a model of plant awareness in education: a literature review and framework proposal4
A positive presentation of wolves affects the explicit and implicit attitudes of schoolchildren towards them4
Stories about gender inequalities and influence factors: a science club case study4
Recalibrating the evolution versus creationism debate for student learning: towards students’ evaluation of evidence in an argumentation task4
Using artificial intelligence to predict students’ STEM attitudes: an adaptive neural-network-based fuzzy logic model4
Teaching nanotechnology concepts in early-primary education: an experimental study using digital games4
Investigating science identity classifications of rural high school students: a person-centered approach4
Developmental trajectories for novice teachers: teaching efficacy, instructional beliefs, and domain knowledge3
Motivation in Reading Primary Scientific Literature: a questionnaire to assess student purpose and efficacy in reading disciplinary literature3
Using a diagrammatic approach to reveal variations in students’ instructional representations about the five kingdoms in biology between two cultural groups3
Exploring opportunities to incorporate systems thinking into secondary and tertiary chemistry education through practitioner perspectives3
Nature of science conceptions and argumentation skills in different socioscientific contexts3
Improvement of students’ inquiry skills and self-assessment in biology through directed inquiry activities3
The efficacy of the Dimensions of Attitudes toward Science (DAS) for explaining primary preservice teachers’ intention to teach science3
Educational practices with gender perspective in science education: perceptions of teacher educators and pre-service teachers3
Profess-sirs and Profess-hers: gender and ethnicity stereotypes that students associate with scientists3
Critical thinking in electricity and magnetism: assessing and stimulating secondary school students3
Exploring the tensions science teachers navigate as they enact their visions for science teaching: what their feedback can tell us3
Moderating effects of teacher feedback on the associations among inquiry-based science practices and students’ science-related attitudes and beliefs3
Exploring Korean scientists’ perceptions of scientific creativity and education for scientific creativity3
Preschool teachers’ discussions of attempted play-responsive science teaching3
Relationships among perception of teacher autonomy support, achievement motivations, intellectual risk-taking, and science academic performance: a serial mediation model3
Embodying science: the role of the body in supporting young children’s meaning making3
Competent and cold: a directed content analysis of warmth and competence dimensions to identify and categorise stereotypes of scientists portrayed in meme-based GIFs3
Students’ interest in particle physics: conceptualisation, instrument development, and evaluation using Rasch theory and analysis3
The influence of representations on task difficulty in organic chemistry: an exploration using a novel paired-items test instrument3
Teaching infectious diseases during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic – middle school teachers’ choice of content and instructional approaches3
An intervention study on students’ decision-making towards consensus building on socio-scientific issues3
Board game design: an educational tool for understanding environmental issues3
Teaching science & technology: components of scientific literacy and insight into the steps of research3
“It’s a lesson with no correct answer”: design issues in preservice teachers’ use of history of science for lesson planning3
A construct modelling approach to characterize chemistry students’ understanding of the nature of light 3
Mapping out the structural relationship of middle school students’ use of talk and gestures and group outcomes’ quality in collaborative science problem-solving activities3
A teaching learning sequence on nanoscience and nanotechnology content at primary school level: evaluation of students’ learning3
Would you dare to jump?’ Fostering a scientific approach to secondary physics inquiry3
Key aspects of successful science fair projects3
Supporting secondary school students’ understanding of time dilation through simulation-based inquiry learning3
Examining the educative nature of selected physical sciences textbooks about electrostatics using pedagogical content knowledge3
Analysis of experimental design errors in elementary school: how do students identify, interpret, and justify controlled and confounded experiments?3
Student and school-level factors to predict science literacy for two top-performing countries in PISA 2015: Finland and Singapore3
A model conceptualising trans-disciplinarity within school science education based on a systematic literature review3
Epistemic knowledge – a vital part of scientific literacy?3
Typologies of secondary school student academic resilience in science with classroom and school context predictors3
Professional development of science teachers in Latin America: a systematic review3
The impact of inquiry-based learning in a botanical garden on conceptual change in biology3
The assessment of science classroom creativity: scale development3
How scientific literacy is conceptualized in tasks from junior secondary physics textbooks3
The impact of epistemic framing of teaching videos and summative assessments on students’ learning of scientific methods3
Mapping the astronomy content knowledge of Chilean in-service teachers3
Correction3
High school science teachers’ assessment literacy for inquiry-based science instruction3
Early childhood science practices observation tool (EC-SPOT): assessing science practices across multiple classroom contexts3
Improving pre-service biology teachers’ lesson-planning skills, with a focus on academic and science language in biology on the basis of the refined consensus model of PCK3
The potency of culture, technology, and context in a biology classroom: Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach in action3
Australian Secondary science teachers’ perceptions about their classroom practices and student engagement – an analysis based on Science Capital Teaching Approach3
Silence is not an option: pre-service teachers embedding First Nation knowledge and practices in primary/middle mathematics and science3
Harnessing the power of promising technologies to transform science education: prospects and challenges to promote adaptive epistemic beliefs in science learning3
Analyzing visual attention during TAP learning and the effect of epistemic beliefs on the understanding of argument components3
Exploring science teachers’ epistemic beliefs about scientific inquiry and influencing factors2
Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts2
Worldwide predictors of science literacy in lower-secondary students: a TIMSS 2019 analysis2
Student approaches to creative processes when participating in an open-ended project in science2
An interdisciplinary approach to primary school mathematics and science learning2
Cultivating a higher level of student agency in collective discussion: teacher strategies to navigate student scientific uncertainty to develop a trajectory of sensemaking2
Using video-elicitation focus group interviews to explore pre-service science teachers’ views and reasoning on artificial intelligence2
Self-positioning in relation to science: the stories of nine adolescents2
Urban high school students’ perceptions of race, gender, and benefits from participating in a STEMM pipeline programme: a sociocultural case study2
Improving middle school students’ collaborative problem-solving competence in project-based learning through instant feedback in science curriculum2
The synergy of peer collaboration and mind mapping in cultivating primary students’ science understanding: an integrative pedagogy to enhance science concept acquisition2
Spatial ability and science achievement more closely associated in eighth-graders than in fourth-graders: a large-scale study2
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