OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science Education is 5. 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
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 pri	46
Correction	38
Students’ situational interest and perceived relevance during designed coherent physics learning modules	36
Textbook and popular science text reading: boys’ and girls’ comprehension and assimilation of academic language	31
Making it in undergraduate STEM education: the role of a maker course in fostering STEM identities	29
Junior high school students’ views of nature of science: evidence from a private school in Davao Region, Philippines	27
Assembly required: a microgenetic multiple case study of four students’ assemblages when learning about force	26
Longitudinal study examining immersing students with IEPs in argument-based inquiry to improve the learning of science	25
Space for all: a multinational study on the status of astronomy education	24
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula	24
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 classmates	23
Science and engineering for what? A large-scale analysis of theme selection in K-12 science and engineering fair projects	22
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development	21
Correction	21
Predictors of students’ intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics	21
Why female students leave science classes for social science classes in Cambodia: A two-level hierarchical linear model	20
Pathways to early science literacy: investigating the different role of language and reading skills in science literacy among early primary school children	20
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists	19
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface: reporting on the efficacy of an educational programme designed for Muslim high school students	19
Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles	17
Development of scientific reasoning test measuring control of variables strategy in physics for high school students: evidence of validity and latent predictors of item difficulty	16
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes	16
Understanding high school students’ errors in solving genetic problems	16
‘I don’t find it hard!’ They defied the gendered norm in science!	16
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines	15

Trajectories of students’ momentary interest in evolution during a museum guided tour	15
The mediating role of science intrinsic motivation: effects of homework on science achievement in Western and Asian regions	14
Determining factors influencing students’ future intentions to enroll in chemistry-related courses: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior	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
Gender, stereotypes and grade level in the draw-a-scientist test in Italian schoolchildren	14
Flexible, creative, constructive, and collaborative: the makings of an authentic science inquiry task	14
The complexities of moving topics between disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy	13
Science teachers’ implementation of science and engineering practices in different instructional settings	13
Using drawings to examine undergraduate students’ mental models of the greenhouse effect: a factor analysis approach	13
Student preschool teachers’ and work teams’ planning sessions of thematic teaching including science during degree projects – curriculum emphases in science teaching	12
Investigation of undergraduate and master students’ understanding of gene structure and function	12
Promoting First Nations science capital: reimagining a more inclusive curriculum	12
Facilitating students’ design thinking skills in science class: an exploratory study	12
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’ resilience	11
Adapting scientific reasoning instruction to children’s needs: effects on learning processes and learning outcomes	11
A cross-specialization study of pre-service teachers’ perception of STEM education	11
Emergent themes and pragmatic research methods for meaningful cultural representation of Blacks in multimedia products for the science classroom	11
Does process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) improve students’ science academic performance and process skills?	11
Teachers’ professional vision in teaching physics – a validation study	11
Measuring and evaluating the attitudes of secondary school students towards skill-based science questions	11
Retrieval-based learning versus discussion; which review practice will better enhance primary school students’ knowledge of scientific content?	11
Developing geo-sequential reasoning about tectonic processes using computational simulations	11
Using machine learning to predict student science achievement based on science curriculum type in TIMSS 2019	11
Multiple pathways to science enjoyment: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis in TIMSS 2019	11
Citizen science and its potential for science education	11
Investigating early childhood education students’ ideas about microorganisms	11
Aesthetics and STEAM education: the case of Korean STEAM curricula at the art high school	10
Learning democratic participation? Meaning-making in discussion of socioscientific issues in science education	10
Designing and teaching socio-scientific issues online: digital curation in the science classroom	10
The teacher as street-level bureaucrat: science teacher’s discretionary decision-making in a time of reform	10
Developing an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum to engage students in planning investigations and argumentation	10
The influence of COVID-19 science views, risk perceptions, and group membership on socioscientific decisions	10
Leveraging the epistemic emotion of awe as a pedagogical tool to teach science	10
Attitude of junior high school students towards the study of science in Ghanaian schools: the case of first-year students in the Cape Coast metropolis	10
Nature of science and domain-specificity: investigating the coverage of nature of science in physics, chemistry and biology curricula across grade levels	10
An exploratory study of the goals science teachers’ satisfy by integrating engineering core ideas and practices into the science curriculum	10
Students’ science learning experiences and career expectations: mediating effects of science-related attitudes and beliefs	9
Novice elementary teachers’ knowledge of, beliefs about, and planning for the science practices: a longitudinal study	9
Studying the quality of inquiry-based teaching in science classrooms. A systematic video study of inquiry-based science teaching in primary and lower-secondary schools	9
Combining real and virtual activities about electrostatic interactions in primary school	9
DAST or VoSAL? Adaptation of the VoSAL to Turkish and a comparison between the instruments	9
Biological evolution learning and computational thinking: Enhancing understanding through integration of disciplinary core knowledge and scientific practice	9
Ways of questioning, ways of gesturing: how teachers elicit different ways of students’ thinking in elementary science classrooms	9
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 thermodynamics	8
Use of knowledge pieces and context features during the transfer process in physics tasks	8
Exploring science relevancy by gender and SES in The Bahamas: secondary Bahamian students' interests in science and attractive attributes of future careers	8
Supporting the implementation of a nanotechnology teaching-learning sequence through post-induction science teacher mentoring	8
Elementary teachers’ knowledge of using language as an epistemic tool in science classrooms: a case study	8

Fit to teach evolution? Pre- and in-service teachers’ knowledge and acceptance of evolution	8
The power of knowledge: examining teachers’ perceptions regarding the contribution of scientific newsletters to their professional development and to their students	8
Promoting questioning in early childhood science education	8
Preparing to teach in informal settings: preservice science teachers’ experiences in a natural history museum	8
From vision to enactment: reflections on the practical impact of the Beyond 2000 report	8
Power and positionality shape identity work during a science research apprenticeship for girls	7
Automatic feedback on physics tasks using open-source generative artificial intelligence	7
Measuring high school student engagement in science learning: an adaptation and validation study	7
The spatial requirements of the left-hand rule: a novel instrument for assessing the coordination of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference	7
Development, validity, and reliability of chemistry scientific creativity test for pre-university students	7
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries	7
Promoting preservice teachers’ global citizenship and contextualised NOS views through role-play activities integrated into place-based SSI instruction on climate issues	7
Which factors influence the success in pedigree analysis?	7
Aesthetic experience and imagination in early elementary school science – a growth of ‘Science–Art–Language–Game’	7
Identity texts in science for multilingual students: discovering resources with social semiotics	7
Transformative and equitable science teaching in the culturally diverse classroom: application of formative assessment system	7
Using simulations to meld didactic and constructivist teaching methods in complex second year STEM courses	7
Studies on visualisation in science classrooms: a systematic literature review	7
Becoming a science teacher in the Anthropocene: scientific knowledge as ‘matters of concern’	7
Diverse paths, stable differences – role of prior knowledge in learning biology over undergraduate years	7
What are the effects of formative assessment on students’ science learning motivational beliefs and behaviours? Comparison between Western and East Asian learners	7
Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers	7
Students’ perceptions of learning environment: associations with personal mastery goal orientations, regulations, and academic performance in biology	7
Status and trends of socioscientific issues in educational literature: insights and extensions from a co-word analysis	7
Attitude matters more: the impact of perceived competence and attitudes toward science on science engagement among university students	6
Fostering scientific reasoning competencies: investigating impacts of cross- and within-content area experimentation using the competency triad	6
Motivational shifts when moving from face-to-face to distance learning	6
An exploration of multilevel effects of student- and school-factors on elementary students’ attitudes towards science	6
Career entry motivations and teaching perceptions of science preservice teachers: a comparison of trends between Finland and South Korea	6
The trade-off between STEM knowledge acquisition and language learning in short-term CLIL implementations	6
Science fiction and science education: 1984 in classroom	6
Translanguaging in elementary science	6
Impact of inquiry-based learning in a molecular biology class on the dimensions of students’ situational interest	6
Middle school students’ motivational dispositions and interest in STEM careers	6
‘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 unit	6
Examining the efficacy change of preservice science teachers: does an inquiry-based laboratory instruction make a difference? A mixed method study	6
Science literacy in the twenty-first century: informed trust and the competent outsider	6
Correction	6
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 schools	6
REAL possibilities: innovative and responsive curriculum enactment enabling impactful inquiry in primary science	6
Gender parity in STEM higher education in India: a trend analysis	6
What improves students’ participation in a school-based citizen science project? Through the lens of practitioners	6
Evaluating students’ computation skills in learning amount of substance based on SOLO taxonomy in secondary schools	6
Listening to children in nature: emergent curriculum in science teaching and learning in bush kinders	6
A systematic review of studies investigating science teaching and learning: over two decades of TIMSS and PISA	6
Teaching socio-scientific issues through integrated STEM education: an effective practical averment from Indonesian science lessons	6
A quasi-experimental study of the impact of college-run science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career days on American students’ STEM career aspirations	6
Using the socioscientific issue approach to foster secondary students’ argumentation skills, science self-efficacy beliefs and science interest	6
Translanguaging in scientific practices: a study of high school teachers in English Medium Instruction inquiry-based science classrooms	5
Teaching immunology in the 21st century: a scoping review of emerging challenges and strategies	5
An online laboratory applications course for the development of scientific practices and scientific method	5
Associations among science study attitudes, habits and science academic performance of elementary school students: a latent profile approach	5
Supporting student learning from diagnosing erroneous examples when contrasting them with worked examples in the physics classroom	5
Reviewing the role of the physics curriculum and its assessment in post-16 gender disparities	5
Three practices of experimenting in the physics classroom – impact on students’ content knowledge acquisition	5
Study on the progression of pre-service primary school teachers’ models regarding the phenomenon of tides	5
Science and engineering degree attainment of aspiring-scientists in the United States	5
Development and validation of an instrument to assess Chinese upper-level elementary students’ attitudes towards science	5
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 institutions	5
Grade 8 Lebanese students’ reasoning and decision-making about scientific versus socio-scientific issues	5
From broad principles to content-specific decisions: pre-service physics teachers’ views on the usefulness of practical work	5
Depicting science teachers’ concerns regarding the Tanzanian inquiry-based science curriculum	5
Design and validation of the scales of a Spanish-adapted questionnaire to measure pre-service teachers’ perceptions about inquiry-based science education	5
Climate education in secondary science: comparison of model-based and non-model-based investigations of Earth’s climate	5
How do rural Australian students’ ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?	5
Intertextuality in science textbooks: implications for diverse students’ learning	5
Predictors of science identity in primary school: epistemological beliefs, competency beliefs, and science learning experiences	5
Visual representations of women in a Jamaican science textbook: perpetuating an outdated, sexist ideology	5
Students’ conceptions about animal ethics: the benefit of moral metaphors for fostering decision-making competence	5
Investigating the effectiveness of explicit and implicit inquiry-oriented instruction on primary students’ views about the non-linear nature of inquiry	5
The effects of perceived relevance of participation in science-oriented out-of-school time activities on university students’ performance and persistence	5
Secondary teachers’ instructional practices on argumentation in the context of science and religious education	5
Exploring the effects of physics explainer videos and written explanations on declarative knowledge and the illusion of understanding	5