OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Examination of Taiwanese Mathematics Teacher Questioning	105
Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program	42
Improving the Perceived Utility Value of Teamwork and Collaboration among STEM Undergraduates	31
Correction to: The Influence of Iterative Online Course Designs on Student Learning Outcomes in Large Undergraduate Biology Courses and Labs	25
Current Trends in Math Anxiety Research: a Bibliometric Approach	22
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	20
Representation of Science and Engineering Practices and Design Skills in Engineering Design-Integrated Science Units Developed by Pre-service Teachers	20
Mathematical Argumentative Writing in K–12 Education: A Systematic Literature Review	20
Correction to: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	18
Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA): A New Approach for Measuring Scientific Creativity in Secondary School Students	16
Development and Validation of Deep Procedural Knowledge Test on Angles and Polygons (Deep-ProKT-AngPoly)	16
What is the Inventory of Student Evolution Acceptance (I-SEA) Measuring? A Factor Analytic Comparison of Multiple Competing Hypotheses in Practicing Science Teachers and Undergraduate Science Non-Majo	15
Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Problem-Solving Ability and Their Curricular Noticing Ability Through Pedagogical Sequencing Activities	15
A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	15
Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course	15
Beyond Keywords: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Unpack the Language of Additive Word Problems	15
Opportunities for Deeper Learning and Adolescents’ Creative Thinking Competency in STEM: The Mediating Role of Situated Expectancy-Value Beliefs	15
Correction to: Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectivesof Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	14
Learning of Mathematics: A Metacognitive Experiences Perspective	14
Insights into Pothole Damage: Exploring Culturally Responsive Mathematical Modeling	14
Integrate Visual Programming into Early Algebra Learning: Analysis of Reconstruction of Algebraic Thinking	13
A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning	13
Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs: the Role Played by Mathematics Attainment, Educational Level, Preparedness to Teach, and Gender	13
Enhancing Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Competencies in Distance Education: An Empirical Investigation Utilizing Micro-Teaching and Peer Assessment	13
A Comparison of Virtual Classroom Simulation and Traditional Role-Play in Two Mathematics Teaching Methods Courses	13

STEM Teacher Professional Development Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Class with English Learners Context: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling from TALIS 2018	13
Determination of Science Teacher Candidates’ Misconceptions on Liquid Pressure with Four-Tier Diagnostic Test	13
How Do School Climate and Professional Development in Multicultural Education Impact Job Satisfaction and Teaching Efficacy for STEM Teachers of English Learners? A Path-Analysis	12
Science Fiction as an Instructional Strategy: Foundations, Procedures, and Results for Pre-service Teachers	12
Exploring Pre- and In-service Science Teachers’ Green Chemistry and Sustainability Awareness and Their Attitudes Towards Environmental Education in ISRAEL	12
The Effect of a Cross-Curricular Course on Pre-Service Teachers’ Sustainable Development Attitudes and Mathematical Modeling Self-Efficacy Beliefs	12
Misconceptions in Physics Explainer Videos and the Illusion of Understanding: an Experimental Study	11
How do we Capture and Analyse Student Engineering Processes using Video Ethnography?	11
Teachers’ Questioning Practices in Chinese Secondary Biology Classrooms	11
Integration of Mathematics and Science in Chinese Primary Schools: Current Situation and Challenges	11
Teacher Educators’ Use of Formative Feedback During Preservice Teachers’ Simulated Teaching Experiences in Mathematics and Science	11
From Conception to Practice: Junior High School Science Teachers’ Changes in the Conceptual Change Professional Development	11
Providing Support and Examples for Teaching Linear Equations in Secondary School: the Role of Knowledge of Mathematics Teaching	11
Mathematical Assemblages Around Dynamic Aspects of Angle in Digital and Physical Space	11
Examining the Impact of Modified P3 Task Taxonomy-Enriched Educational Robotics PD Program on Teachers’ STEM Content Knowledge	11
Exploration of the Truth Values of Conditionals Set Up in Everyday Context and in Open Sentences	11
The Link Between Expertise, the Cognitive Demands of Teacher Noticing and, Experience in Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools	11
Exploring the Impact of An Augmented Reality-Integrated Mathematics Curriculum on Students’ Spatial Skills in Elementary School	11
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Primitive Notions When Reasoning About Variability	11
Introduction of Integrated STEM Education to Pre-service Teachers Through Collaborative Action Research Practices	10
Unveiling Pre-service Teachers’ Competency and Challenges in Designing 5E Inquiry-based Integrated STEM Lessons: A Quantitative Ethnography Approach	10
Examine the Impact of Contextual, Personal, and Behavioral Factors on High School Teachers’ Engagement in Teaching Science Using an Integrated STEM Approach	10
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions, Ratios, and Proportional Relationships: the Relationship Between Two Theoretically Connected Content Areas	10
Development of the Representation of the Nature of Science in Textbooks: the Case of High School Biology Textbooks in Mainland China	10
Problem Posing Via Scriptwriting: What Instructional Flows Do Mathematics Teachers Use in Implementing the Problem-Posing Task?	10
How to Assess Mathematics Teachers’ TPACK? A Comparison Between Self-Reports and Knowledge Tests	10
Supporting STEM Teacher Program Development: The Benefit of a Multifaceted Set of Enablers	10
Indication of Scaffolding in Mathematical Modeling	10
Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Views of Social Responsibility of Scientists and Engineers (VSRoSE)	10
Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Tasks in Nepali Middle School Mathematics Textbooks	10
What Matters in Transition to University? Exploring STEM-gifted Students University Adjustment	10
Examining Opportunities to Learn Limit in Widely Used Calculus Textbooks	10
Problem Posing as a Way of Promoting Individual Mathematical Thinking in STEM Contexts – The Case of Climate Change	9
Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Diagrams	9
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	9
Harnessing Asynchronous Digital Simulations of Problem-based Lessons to Support Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development: A Design-based Approach	9
Analyzing the Patterns of Questioning Chains and Their Intervention on Student Learning in Science Teacher Preparation	9
Characterizing the Ways in Which Young Students Recognise, Describe, Explain, and Employ Variation When Analysing Data in a STEM Context	9
Mathematics Assessment Practices of Primary School Teachers in France	9
Science and Mathematics High School Students’ Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning	9
Overt and Covert Participation in an Argumentative whole-class Discussion: Spread of Ideas about Quadratic Functions	9
Preservice Subject Teachers’ Lack of Interest in Their Minor Subject: Is It a Problem?	9
Pragmatic, Persistent, and Precarious: The Pathways of Three Minority Ethnic Women in STEM Higher Education	9
The Evolution from “I think it plus three” Towards “I think it is always plus three.” Transition from Arithmetic Generalization to Algebraic Generalization	9
Designing Educative Curriculum Materials for Teacher Educators: Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching About Matter and Its Interactions	9
Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	9
Noticing student thinking under pressure in primary mathematics and science lessons	9
Development and Application of a Three-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding on Work-Power and Energy Concepts	8
What do In-Service Teachers Notice in Teaching–Learning Situations that Seek to Foster Modelling?	8
Preliminary Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Mathematics in the Distance Education Environment	8

A Characterization of Van Hiele’s Level 5 of Geometric Reasoning Using the Delphi Methodology	8
Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Process: How Young Students Solve Engineering Problems	8
Secondary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Affordances and Limitations of Peer Teaching and Reflection	8
Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs	8
A Novel AI-Empowered, Student-Centered Teaching Strategy for Large Classes in Higher Education	8
Exploring In-The-Moment Teaching Moves that Support Sociomathematical and General Social Norms in Dialogic Instruction	8
Estimating the Competence of Preservice Primary Teachers to Use Inquiry and Their Willingness to Apply It in the Classroom	7
The Effect of Students’ Perceived Cognitive Activation on Mathematics Performance Depends on the Grade, Performance Level, and Activation Intensity	7
Institutional Relativity of Reduction within Arithmetical Fractions: An Analysis of Japanese, Indonesian, and Malaysian School Textbooks	7
Improving the Professional Awareness of Mathematics Teachers and Teacher Instructors Using Video-Based Curiosity-Driven Discourse—a Case Study	7
Mis-Out and Mis-In Examples: The Case of Rational Numbers	7
Exploring the Development of the Quality of Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Planning: the Case of Grade 8 Natural Sciences Teachers	7
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	7
What Role Might the Textbook Play in Integrating Reading into Mathematics Instruction?	7
Challenging Greek Primary Students’ Knowledge of Ocean Acidification Using the Carbon Cycle Context	7
The Role of STEM Awareness and 21st Century Skills Competence Perceptions on Pre-Service Primary School Teachers' Teacher Self-Efficacy for STEM Practices	7
Improving Seventh-grade Students’ Scientific Vocabulary and Communicative Interactions: a Case of the “Cell and Divisions” Subject	7
STEM Integration in Primary Schools: Theory, Implementation and Impact	7
Challenging to Read, Easy to Comprehend? Effects of Linguistic Demands on Secondary Students’ Text Comprehension in Physics	6
Features of Digital Tools Utilized in Mathematical Modeling Process	6
Secondary Mathematics Pre-service Teachers’ Patterns of Acceptance and Resistance to Math Modeling and Its Pedagogy	6
Relating Pictorial and Verbal Forms of Assessments of the Particle Model of Matter in Two Communities of Students	6
Development and Evaluation of Collaboration Scripts for Long-distance VR Team Collaboration and Co-creation in Elementary STEM Learning	6
Onto-semiotic Analysis of Diagrammatic Reasoning	6
Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectives of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	6
A Conceptual Framework for Fostering Gender Equity in Early Years STEM Education	6
Correction to: Exploring Computational Thinking in the Context of Mathematics Learning in Secondary Schools: Dispositions, Engagement and Learning Performance	6
Investigating the Effects of Design-Based STEM Learning on Primary Students’ STEM Creativity and Epistemic Beliefs	6
Learning Strategies in Mathematics for Related Study Programs Focusing on Cooperative Education in Germany – Viewed from the Perspectives of the Academic Disciplines, Economics and Engineering, as wel	6
The Role of Scientific Language Use and Achievement Level in Student Sensemaking	6
“It’s Not Like I Go Oh That’s Really Exciting” – A Qualitative Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Identity Negotiations in Physics	6
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explain How Community-Based Learning Fosters Student Interest and Identity in Integrated STEM Education	6
A Case Study of Using Test-Enhanced Learning as a Formative Assessment in High School Mathematics	6
Identifying and Fostering Giftedness in Students with Disabilities – Potential Barriers in Identification and Support from a Mathematics Educational Perspective	6
Correction to: Students Do Not Always Mean What We Think They Mean: A Questioning Strategy to Elicit the Reasoning Behind Unexpected Causal Patterns in Student System Models	6
Applying Structural Equation Modeling to Assess Factors of Primary School Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge of Students’ Misconceptions	6
Using Graphical Representations to Develop Students’ Correspondence Relationships and Covariational Thinking in Pattern Generalizations in Primary School	6
Critical Mentorship in Undergraduate Research Experience BUILDs Science Identity and Self-Efficacy	6
Exploring Teachers’ Conceptions and Implementations of STEM Integration at the Junior Secondary Level in Taiwan: an Interview Study	6
Assessing Scientific Inquiry: A Systematic Literature Review of Tasks, Tools and Techniques	6