OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science and Mathematics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Approaches to Supporting and Measuring Mathematical Problem Posing: A Systematic Review of Interventions in Mathematics Education	86
The Novelty Effect on Assessment Interventions: a Qualitative Replication Study of Oral Performance Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics	41
Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Process: How Young Students Solve Engineering Problems	38
Current Trends in Math Anxiety Research: a Bibliometric Approach	22
Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting U.S. Students’ Scientific Literacy: An Analysis of Key Factors Across Performance Levels and Socioeconomic Statuses	22
The Relationship Between Elementary Students’ Physics Performance and Metacognition Regarding Using Modified Know-Want-Learn Strategy	20
Analysis of Student Responses to Constructed Response Items in the Science Assessment of Educational Achievement in South Korea	19
What do In-Service Teachers Notice in Teaching–Learning Situations that Seek to Foster Modelling?	18
Examining Fragmenting Knowledge in First and Second Grade Students: Insights into Fragmenting Developmental Trajectory	18
Norwegian Mathematics Teacher Educators’ and Research Mathematicians’ Views on Different Aspects of Mathematical Definitions: a Comparative Judgement Study	17
Representation of Science and Engineering Practices and Design Skills in Engineering Design-Integrated Science Units Developed by Pre-service Teachers	16
Enhancing K-12 Students' STEM Learning Through the Integration of the Metaverse Into Online and Blended Environments: A Meta-Analysis	16
Affecting Task Values, Costs, and Effort in University Mathematics Courses: the Role of Profession-Related Tasks on Motivational and Behavioral States	15
The Effectiveness of Collaborative Mind Mapping in Hong Kong Primary Science Classrooms	15
Characteristics of Good Mathematics Teaching in China: Findings from Classroom Observations	14
Preservice Subject Teachers’ Lack of Interest in Their Minor Subject: Is It a Problem?	14
Examination of Taiwanese Mathematics Teacher Questioning	14
Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs	14
Fostering Preservice Teachers’ Diagnostic Competence in Identifying Students’ Misconceptions in Physics	14
Pre-service Mathematics Teachers’ Understanding of Rate of Change Throughout a Model Development Sequence	13
Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program	13
School-Level Science and Mathematics Predictors of Precollege Physics Enrollment and Performance	12
Shifting from Face-to-Face Instruction to Distance Learning of Science in China and Israel During COVID-19: Students’ Motivation and Teachers’ Motivational Practices	12
Exploring the Relationship Between Attitudes of Preservice Primary Science Teachers Toward Integrated STEM Teaching and Their Adaptive Expertise in Science Teaching	11
Scientist-School STEM Partnerships Through Outreach in the USA: A Systematic Review	11

Undergraduate Students’ Math Anxiety: the Role of Mindset, Achievement Goals, and Parents	11
Analyzing the Patterns of Questioning Chains and Their Intervention on Student Learning in Science Teacher Preparation	11
Pattern-Recognition Processes of First-Grade Students: An Explorative Eye-Tracking Study	11
The Effect of the Online Flipped Learning Model on Secondary School Students’ Academic Achievement, Attitudes Towards Their Mathematics Course, and Cognitive Load	11
Polygon Class Learning Opportunities: Interplay Between Teacher’s Moves, Children’s Geometrical Thinking, and Geometrical Task	11
A Characterization of Van Hiele’s Level 5 of Geometric Reasoning Using the Delphi Methodology	11
Mathematical Knowledge of Early Algebra Exhibited by Pre-Service Early Childhood Education Teachers	10
Direct and Indirect Opportunities to Learn Astronomy Within the Chilean Science Curriculum	10
Improving the Perceived Utility Value of Teamwork and Collaboration among STEM Undergraduates	10
Overt and Covert Participation in an Argumentative whole-class Discussion: Spread of Ideas about Quadratic Functions	10
Correction to: The Influence of Iterative Online Course Designs on Student Learning Outcomes in Large Undergraduate Biology Courses and Labs	10
Are Digital Tools More Often Implemented in High-Quality Lessons?—Profiles of Instructional Quality and the Use of Digital Tools in Biology and Mathematics Lessons	10
Nurturing Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Noticing Skills Through Pedagogies of Practice	10
Observing Mathematical Properties in the Virtual World: An Exploratory Study of Online Independent Learning of Locus Concepts	10
Supporting Young Learners in Learning Geometric Area Concepts Through Static Versus Dynamic Representation and Imagination Strategies	10
Multiple Documentational Genesis and Praxeologies: A Networked Approach to Investigate Mathematics Teachers’ Documentation Work	10
Does this Answer Make Sense? Primary School Students and Adults Judge the Reasonableness of Computational Results in Context-Based and Context-Free Mathematical Tasks	9
Finding Common Ground: A Synthesis of Science and Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Experiences with Professional Growth	9
Making Sense of Algorithms in Discrete Mathematics	9
Implementing Confidence Assessment in Low-Stakes, Formative Mathematics Assessments	9
Conceptualising the Cosmos: Development and Validation of the Cosmology Concept Inventory for High School	9
Insights into Students’ Geometric Reasoning Relating to Prisms	9
Mathematical Modeling in the Elementary Grades: Developing and Testing an Assessment	9
Development and Application of a Three-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding on Work-Power and Energy Concepts	9
Interest in Physics After Experimental Activities with a Mobile Application: Gender Differences	8
Correction to: Meanings Attributed to Letters in Functional Contexts by Primary School Students	8
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	8
Exploring In-The-Moment Teaching Moves that Support Sociomathematical and General Social Norms in Dialogic Instruction	8
Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	8
Correction to: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	8
A Framework to Examine the Ways Mathematics Teachers Participate in and Support Collective Argumentation	8
Student Agency and Teacher Authority in Inquiry-Based Classrooms: Cases of Elementary Teachers’ Classroom Talk	8
'I Have Seen STEM in Action and It's Quite Do-able!' The Impact of an Extended Professional Development Model on Teacher Efficacy in Primary STEM Education	8
Dispositions of 21st-Century Skills in STEM Programs and Their Changes over Time	8
The Integrated Approach and Gifted Students: A Historical Perspective	8
Who Is a Mathematics Teacher and What Does a Mathematics Teacher Do?	8
Generalization among 5-Year-Olds in a Functional Context with Programmable Robot	8
Visual Imagery as a Catalyst for Multiplication Fact Fluency and Multiplicative Understanding	8
Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA): A New Approach for Measuring Scientific Creativity in Secondary School Students	8
A Review of Analytic Frameworks for Noticing in Mathematics and Science: Comparing Noticing Frameworks Across Disciplines and over Time	8
Institutional Relativity of Reduction within Arithmetical Fractions: An Analysis of Japanese, Indonesian, and Malaysian School Textbooks	7
Preservice Teachers Learn to Engage in Argument from Evidence through the Science Writing Heuristic	7
Secondary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Affordances and Limitations of Peer Teaching and Reflection	7
How Teachers Envision Using Data Visualization Discussion Tasks in Classroom Instruction	7
A Systematic Literature Review of Research-based Interventions and Strategies for Students with Disabilities in STEM and STEAM Education	7
Exploring the Connection Between Sixth Grade Students’ Adaptive Number Knowledge and Proportional Rules in Balance Scale Problems	7
Innovative Uses of Technologies in Science, Mathematics and STEM Education in K-12 Contexts	7
Revisiting the Relationship of Arithmetical Thinking and Letter-Symbolic Algebra	7
Correction to: Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectivesof Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	7
How to Best Support Teachers’ Adaptive Task-Selection Practices by Formative Assessment Reports? An Experiment	7

Scientific Reasoning Among Teachers and Teacher Trainees: the Case in Ethiopian Schools and Teacher Training Colleges	7
Insights into Pothole Damage: Exploring Culturally Responsive Mathematical Modeling	7
Development of Science Attitude Scale for Middle School Students with Special Needs Studying in Inclusive Education Program	7
Development and Validation of Deep Procedural Knowledge Test on Angles and Polygons (Deep-ProKT-AngPoly)	7
How to Promote Scientific Practices in Early Childhood Education: The Teachers’ Role	6
Correction to: Teachers’ Scaffolding Behavior and Visual Perception During Cooperative Learning	6
The Effect of Interventions Teaching Chemical Kinetics on Students’ Academic Performance: A Meta-Analysis Study	6
Dealing with Student Errors in Whole-Class Discussions of Biology Lessons at German Secondary Schools	6
Tracing System Thinking Skills in Science Curricula: A Case Study from Turkey	6
Improving Seventh-grade Students’ Scientific Vocabulary and Communicative Interactions: a Case of the “Cell and Divisions” Subject	6
Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Primary Mathematics Education: Investigating Internal and External Influences on Teacher Adoption	6
Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Problem-Solving Ability and Their Curricular Noticing Ability Through Pedagogical Sequencing Activities	6
Gender and the Social Cure in Undergraduate Physics Students: Physics Identity, Self-efficacy, Belonging, and Wellbeing	6
Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course	6
Predicting Pre-service Mathematics Teachers’ Teaching and Learning Conceptions: The Role of Mathematical Beliefs, Mathematics Self-efficacy, and Mathematics Teaching Efficacy	6
Direct and Transfer Effects of an Interdisciplinary Model Integrating Science and Reading in Grades 1–3: Results and Policy Implications	5
Epistemic Actions and Mathematics Achievement	5
Mathematical Reading: Investigating the Reading Comprehension Strategies Implemented by Middle School Students	5
Scaffolding Close Reading of Mathematical Text in Pre-service Primary Teacher Education at the Tertiary Level: Design and Evaluation	5
Co-operative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics and Science Education: A Scoping Review	5
Exploring Inductive Reasoning, Scientific Reasoning and Science Motivation, and Their Role in Predicting STEM Achievement Across Grade Levels	5
Development and Validation of a Reading in Science Holistic Assessment (RISHA): a Rasch Measurement Study	5
Improving the Professional Awareness of Mathematics Teachers and Teacher Instructors Using Video-Based Curiosity-Driven Discourse—a Case Study	5
Understanding Early Mathematical Modelling: First Steps in the Process of Translation Between Real-world Contexts and Mathematics	5
Beyond Keywords: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Unpack the Language of Additive Word Problems	5
The Relevance of STEM: a Case Study of an Australian Secondary School as an Arena of STEM Curriculum Innovation and Enactment	5
Comparing Reading Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Texts Based on the Direct and Inferential Mediation Model	5
Undergraduate Students’ Profiles of Cognitive Load in Augmented Reality–Assisted Science Learning and Their Relation to Science Learning Self-efficacy and Behavior Patterns	5
STEM Integration in Primary Schools: Theory, Implementation and Impact	5
A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	5
Relations Between Elementary Mathematics Growth Trajectories and Middle School Mathematics Achievement: Moderating Effects of Student Perception of Teaching Styles	5
Whole Number Bias of Students in Fraction Number Line Tasks	5
Preliminary Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Mathematics in the Distance Education Environment	5
What is so Complicated in Developing Students’ Conception of the Equal Sign?	5
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	5
Learning of Mathematics: A Metacognitive Experiences Perspective	5