International Journal of Science Education

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Science Education is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bridging the gender gap: a comprehensive study of gender parity trends in STEM fields in higher education institutions in Tanzania 2018–202454
Engagement in a dialogic activity after watching a video on climate change has an effect on students’ mitigation action beliefs46
Fostering young children’s scientific practices in urban and Indigenous areas: an investigation of instructional strategies35
Longitudinal study examining immersing students with IEPs in argument-based inquiry to improve the learning of science33
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries28
Assessing quantitative modelling practices, metamodelling, and capability confidence of biology undergraduate students27
Roles of emotions induced by immediate feedback in a physics problem-solving activity24
Developing preservice elementary teachers’ self-efficacy toward teaching science24
Multi-level structural equation modelling for factors affecting science achievement of Korean middle school students before and after COVID-19: based on 2018–2020 national assessment of educational ac24
A positive presentation of wolves affects the explicit and implicit attitudes of schoolchildren towards them24
Transformative and equitable science teaching in the culturally diverse classroom: application of formative assessment system22
Students’ perceptions of learning environment: associations with personal mastery goal orientations, regulations, and academic performance in biology22
The spatial requirements of the left-hand rule: a novel instrument for assessing the coordination of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference21
Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers21
A map of collective pedagogical content knowledge as a basis for studying the development of biology teachers’ personal PCK of evolution21
Reflection on science competence-based curriculum implementation in Sub-Saharan African countries20
Studies on visualisation in science classrooms: a systematic literature review19
The impact of artificial intelligence on scientific practices: an emergent area of research for science education19
Status and trends of socioscientific issues in educational literature: insights and extensions from a co-word analysis18
Development, validity, and reliability of chemistry scientific creativity test for pre-university students18
Exploring the association between non-specialised science teacher rates and student science literacy: an analysis of PISA data across 18 nations17
Junior high school students’ views of nature of science: evidence from a private school in Davao Region, Philippines17
What are the effects of formative assessment on students’ science learning motivational beliefs and behaviours? Comparison between Western and East Asian learners16
Using artificial intelligence to predict students’ STEM attitudes: an adaptive neural-network-based fuzzy logic model15
Assembly required: a microgenetic multiple case study of four students’ assemblages when learning about force15
Making it in undergraduate STEM education: the role of a maker course in fostering STEM identities14
Instrumentation of students’ experience through the active content of science: from epistemic contact to idealizations and back again in school classrooms14
Contradictions and roadblocks: a cultural-historical study of educators’ beliefs and practices in the teaching of science concepts to infants and toddlers14
How textbook images frame the gender roles of women in science and elsewhere: a content analysis of elementary school science textbooks14
Completing the progression establishing an international baseline of primary, middle and secondary students’ views of scientific inquiry14
In-service science teachers’ purposes for integrating the history of science: the role of their science teaching orientation13
Exploring coherence and authorship in pedagogical link-making in science13
Development and validation of a module for nanoscience and nanotechnology education: a case of pre-service chemistry teachers13
Textbook and popular science text reading: boys’ and girls’ comprehension and assimilation of academic language12
Elementary students’ explanation of variation of traits and teacher‘s feedback using an online embedded assessment tool12
Is knowledge of evolution useful? A mixed methods examination of college biology students’ views12
Exploring students’ visualisation competence with photomicrographs of villi12
Intersectionality as personal: the science identity of two young immigrant Muslim women12
Revision and manipulation of physical models as tools for developing the aquifer model by Preservice Elementary Teachers12
Has the coronavirus pandemic changed students’ conceptions of microorganisms? Evidence from elementary school12
Comparing digital identification guides with traditional guidebooks in a bird field trip11
Learning norms of science through laughter: a study of humour in life science supervision11
Science curriculum-making for the Anthropocene: perspectives and possibilities11
Food in science, science in food – Interdisciplinarity in science/chemistry and home economics lower secondary curricula across three countries11
Shrinking gender gaps in STEM persistence: a ten-year comparison of the stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school by gender11
Teaching Korean science for Indonesian middle school students: promoting Indonesian students’ attitude towards science through the global science exchange programme10
Space for all: a multinational study on the status of astronomy education10
Optimising learning from interactive visualisations with drawing prompts10
Teenagers performing research on climate change education in a fully integrated design-based research setting10
Examining relevance in pre-service science teachers’ lesson plans10
Estimating climate change numbers: mental computation strategies that can support science learning10
Learning the control-of-variables strategy during an informal science lesson on popping popcorn10
‘I enjoy it a bit, but I wouldn’t want to do it in the future’: pupil aspirations for STEM careers in lower secondary school10
Examining science teachers' enactment of argument-driven inquiry (ADI) instructional model10
‘Me hizo sentir como científica’: the expressed science identities of multilingual learners in high school biology classrooms9
Model-based analysis of the impact of a teaching-learning sequence about carbonated drinks on students’ understanding of the dissolution of gases in liquids9
The role of consensus messaging in teaching evolution9
Recalibrating the evolution versus creationism debate for student learning: towards students’ evaluation of evidence in an argumentation task9
Addressing methodological challenges in research on aesthetic dimensions to classroom science inquiry9
The role of aesthetics in learning science in an art-science lesson9
Nature of science in students’ discussions on disagreement between scientists following a narrative about health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi accident9
The synergy of peer collaboration and mind mapping in cultivating primary students’ science understanding: an integrative pedagogy to enhance science concept acquisition9
Investigating students’ meaning-making of multiple visual representations of epigenetics at different levels of biological organisation9
Characterisation of knowledge of cancer, illness perceptions and their interaction among high-school students9
Identity texts in science for multilingual students: discovering resources with social semiotics8
Assessment of scientific thinking and creativity in an electronic educational environment8
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 pri8
The SEMinal impact of contemporary science: integrated authentic science design and students’ self-efficacy and career aspirations8
From pre-service science teacher towards transformative intellectual: pre-service science teachers address food insecurity in South Africa8
The science of science is fun: assessing the impact of interactive science demonstrations through everyday experiences and near-peer role modeling8
Who wants to be a computer scientist? The computing aspirations of students in English secondary schools8
Factual knowledge of students about plants is associated with attitudes and interest in botany8
Exploring the impact of pre-service science teachers’ reflection skills on the development of professional knowledge during a field experience7
The progression of students’ views about nature of scientific inquiry7
Demonstrating representational competence through the utilisation of potential disciplinary meanings during scientific explanation construction7
The Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in Promoting learning engagement in Organic Chemistry in Grade-12 Students in the Context of South Africa and Covid-197
Perceptions of science teachers’ growth-mindset practices and U.S. high school students’ initial science identity and its development7
Teaching entropy to first-year undergraduates: what impact has a microscopic, statistical approach on alternative conceptions?7
Tracking patterns in secondary students’ intention to major in STEM7
Concept test on reflection and transmission in the range of visible and infrared optics7
Students’ epistemic emotions in a science classroom: their variations and interactions with practices in structured inquiry7
Obstacles and challenges identified by practitioners of non-formal science learning activities in Europe7
Comparison of nature of science representations in five Chinese high school physics textbooks7
Communities of secondary science teachers: a systematic review7
Effect of explicit and reflective activity-based instruction on senior secondary physics students’ views towards Nature of Science7
Classroom orchestration of computer simulations for science and engineering learning: a multiple-case study approach7
What students’ diagrams reveal about their sense-making of plate tectonics in lower secondary science7
Would a career in science suit me? Students’ self-views in relation to science and STEM career aspirations7
Evaluation of the effect of in-class activity-based practices on scientific reasoning skills of pre-service science teachers7
Using simulations to meld didactic and constructivist teaching methods in complex second year STEM courses7
Assessing science teachers’ understanding about the nature of scientific inquiry and its reflection in students’ responses using the VASI questionnaire7
Revision as an essential step in modeling to support predicting, observing, and explaining cellular respiration system dynamics7
Correction7
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula7
The underrepresentation of women in STEM disciplines in India: a secondary analysis7
How do cohesion features inform science instruction for English learners?: A comparison study of digital and printed science texts6
Semiosis and joint student–teacher action. Contract-milieu dialectics in a case study of two subsequent primary school earth science sessions6
Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles6
Investigating the effects of different levels of guidance in inquiry-based hands-on and virtual science laboratories6
Diverse paths, stable differences – role of prior knowledge in learning biology over undergraduate years6
Enhancing students’ reasoning skills by asking students to provide evidence-based explanations in science classrooms: findings from TIMSS 20196
Species identification skills in teacher education students: the role of attitude, context and experience6
Developing a questionnaire to measure preservice elementary teachers’ emotions for teaching science and mathematics6
The impact of scientists’ STEM educational activities in primary and secondary schools on students’ STEM career aspirations6
‘I don’t find it hard!’ They defied the gendered norm in science!6
Why and how teachers make use of drawing activities in early childhood science education6
Life stories of graduate students in Chile and the United States: influences on becoming a scientist from childhood to adulthood6
An analysis of the nature of science represented in Chinese middle school chemistry textbooks6
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 classmates6
Understanding high school students’ errors in solving genetic problems6
Instructional framing for guiding the construction of explanatory diagrams in a science classroom: a metafunction perspective6
Analysis of experimental design errors in elementary school: how do students identify, interpret, and justify controlled and confounded experiments?6
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists6
Engaging science teachers virtually in dialogical collaborative action research to improve science teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Pathways to early science literacy: investigating the different role of language and reading skills in science literacy among early primary school children6
Distance teaching, science teaching, and preschoolers’ reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic—A comparison of the first and third lockdowns6
Predictions and explanations about scientific situations in a high school context6
Research trends in science education from 2018 to 2022: a systematic content analysis of publications in selected journals6
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development5
Investigating science identity classifications of rural high school students: a person-centered approach5
How sensorimotor interaction shapes and supports young children’s gestural communication around science5
The relations between students' belongingness, self-efficacy, and response to active learning in science, math, and engineering classes5
Power and positionality shape identity work during a science research apprenticeship for girls5
Measuring a cross-sectional sample of students’ intentions to engage with science and modelling associations according to two theoretical perspectives5
High school science teachers’ assessment literacy for inquiry-based science instruction5
Flexible, creative, constructive, and collaborative: the makings of an authentic science inquiry task5
Scientific inquiry learning with a simulation: providing within-task guidance tailored to learners’ understanding and inquiry skill5
An examination of teacher’s goals for a school crystal growing competition: more than having fun5
Effectiveness of the blended design of a first-year biology course5
The productive interplay between student-student and teacher-student dialogic interactions and the affordances of student generated explanatory drawings to understand plate tectonics5
Stories about gender inequalities and influence factors: a science club case study5
Scaffolding pre-service biology teachers’ diagnostic competences in a video-based Learning environment: measuring the effect of different types of scaffolds5
Which factors influence the success in pedigree analysis?5
The effect of the cyclic curricular design of modelling-based instruction with virtual labs4
‘I wouldn’t want to be the animal in use nor the patient in need’ – the role of issue familiarity in students’ socioscientific argumentation4
Students’ perceptions of the nature of technology and its relationship with science following an integrated curriculum4
Context-based learning in flipped middle school chemistry class4
Student and school-level factors to predict science literacy for two top-performing countries in PISA 2015: Finland and Singapore4
Profiles of student science attitudes and its associations with gender and science achievement4
Implementation and evaluation of the Model of the Use of Evolutionary Trees (MUET) curricular module in an introductory organismal biology course4
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface: reporting on the efficacy of an educational programme designed for Muslim high school students4
Addressing socio-scientific issues with interactive concept cartoons: design of a web-based educational instrument4
F2F, zoom, or asynchronous learning? Higher education students’ preferences and perceived benefits and pitfalls4
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines4
Reducing anxiety and promoting meaningful learning of biology concepts through a culturally sensitive and context-specific instructional method4
Primary science teachers’ narratives about significant colleagues in light of collective PCK4
Understanding quantum numbers: students’ verbal descriptions and pictorial representations of the atomic structure4
Evaluating students’ computation skills in learning amount of substance based on SOLO taxonomy in secondary schools4
Why female students leave science classes for social science classes in Cambodia: A two-level hierarchical linear model4
Examining the educative nature of selected physical sciences textbooks about electrostatics using pedagogical content knowledge4
Digital storytelling in online elementary science education: a case study on science and technology club activities4
Key aspects of successful science fair projects4
Motivational shifts when moving from face-to-face to distance learning4
Preschool teachers’ discussions of attempted play-responsive science teaching4
Embodying science: the role of the body in supporting young children’s meaning making4
Czech and Slovak intended curricula in science subjects and mathematics: a comparative study4
Do parents’ conceptions of learning science predict students’ approaches to learning science and their self-efficacy for learning science?4
Measuring high school student engagement in science learning: an adaptation and validation study4
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes4
The effect of differentiated science module application on the scientific reasoning and scientific process skills of gifted students in a blended learning environment4
From founding voices to future visions: languages and literacies in science education4
Designing computational models as Emergent Systems Microworlds to support epistemically agentive learning of emergent biological phenomena4
Investigating middle school science teachers’ stock-flow, causal-loop, and dynamic thinking skills with scenario-based questions4
Development of the Quantitative Modelling Observation Protocol (QMOP) for undergraduate biology courses: validity evidence for score interpretation and uses4
Assessing early primary students’ growth in a science unit using multiple modes of representation: investigating the promise of explicit drawing instruction4
Moderating effects of teacher feedback on the associations among inquiry-based science practices and students’ science-related attitudes and beliefs4
Relationships among perception of teacher autonomy support, achievement motivations, intellectual risk-taking, and science academic performance: a serial mediation model4
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