Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Science Teaching 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement44
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Equity analysis of an augmented reality‐mediated group activity in a college biochemistry classroom40
Rebuilding relations and countering erasure through community‐driven and owned science: A key tool to Inuit self‐determination and social transformations39
Are there any “science people” in undergraduate health science courses? Assessing science identity among pre‐nursing and pre‐allied health students in a community college setting39
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Practice: A Case Study of a Teacher's Divergence From Large‐Scale Science Curriculum38
Examining key capitals contributing to students' science‐related career expectations and their relationship patterns: A machine learning approach36
Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context36
Exploring new depths: Applying machine learning for the analysis of student argumentation in chemistry35
Why Do Minoritized Students Deploy More Than One Language During a Physics Inquiry?35
Instructor recommendations for student learning strategies and metacognition: An analysis of undergraduate biology syllabi32
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Preservice elementary teachers' perceptions of their science laboratory instructors in a phenomena‐based laboratory and how it impacts their conceptual development30
Including teachers in the social justice equation of project‐based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin29
Navigating socio‐emotional risk through comfort‐building in physics teacher professional development: A case study29
Negotiating Science‐in‐the‐Wild27
Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Student Dispositions Toward Scientific Uncertainty Navigation25
Infrastructural injustices in community‐driven afterschoolSTEAM22
Presenting domain information or self‐exploration to foster hypothesis generation in simulation‐based inquiry learning22
Haptic Experiences Shift Students' Representational Gestures and Knowledge Resources22
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Factors predicting teachers' implementation of inquiry‐based teaching practices: Analysis of South African TIMSS 2019 data from an ecological perspective21
The Effect of Seductive Details on Knowledge Retention in Physics Videos: A Mixed Methods Study21
Call for papers: Special issue: Learning and teaching in times of science denial and disinformation21
Experiences of marginalized women pursuing doctoral degrees in chemistry: The critical role of recognition20
Critical Language Awareness and Educational Dignity in Science Teacher Preparation20
Good intentions are not enough: A case study uncovering perpetuation of internalized and interpersonal oppression in middle schoolSTEMclassrooms20
“There is a Place for Us Here”: Exploring Sex, Gender, Reproduction, Sexual Behavior, and Orientation Narratives Supporting Students With Queer Genders in Biology Courses20
Sensemaking as a goal of science education, abduction as a process of scientific sensemaking19
Influence of self‐assessment and conditional metaconceptual knowledge on students' self‐regulation of intuitive and scientific conceptions of evolution19
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Toward a justice‐centered ambitious teaching framework: Shaping ambitious science teaching to be culturally sustaining and productive in a rural context18
How do digital textbook platforms promote active learning in undergraduate biology courses?17
Embracing equity and excellence while constructing science teacher identities in urban schools: Voices of new Teachers of Color17
“Powered by emotions”: Exploring emotion induction in out‐of‐school authentic science learning17
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Do we have the capacity? The policy imperative for equity‐focused K‐12 computer science education16
A Multimodal Interactive Framework for Science Assessment in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence16
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Resistance or Existence as Protest: Humanizing Black Men in STEM Education15
Teaching and learning floating and sinking: A meta‐analysis15
A site of radical possibilities: Examining how a multigenerational counterspace promotedSTEMpersistence among undergraduate Women of Color15
The glue that makes it “hang together”: A framework for identifying how metadiscourse facilitates uncertainty navigation during knowledge building discussions15
Exploring science teaching in interaction at the instructional core15
The Impact of Computational Modeling on Students' Systems Thinking in Science Education: A Meta‐Analysis in K‐1615
Expanding opportunities to learn in secondary science classrooms using unconventional forms of classroom assessments15
Which ideas, when, and why? An experienced teacher's in‐the‐moment pedagogical reasoning about facilitating student sense‐making discussions15
Causal‐mechanical explanations in biology: Applying automated assessment for personalized learning in the science classroom15
Being a physicist: Gendered identity negotiations on the pathways to becoming an elite female physicist in the United Kingdom15
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Epistemological beliefs and values as predictors of preservice science teachers' environmental moral reasoning14
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Instructional Modules Integrated With a Mobile Learning Game to Improve Senior High School Students' Science Learning and Science Identity14
A hypothetico‐deductive theory of science and learning14
Experimenting at an outreach science lab versus at school—Differences in students' basic need satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and flow experience14
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Responsive instructional design for students' epistemic agency: Documenting episodes of principled improvisation in storyline enactment13
Countering science as White property through linguistic justice13
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A Longitudinal Study Examining the Role of Generative Laboratory Environments in the Utilization of Argument, Representation, and Reasoning13
Students' situational engagement profiles in formal and informal science learning environments13
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Incorporating an engineering context into science learning: The effects of task context and response structuring on science understanding and investigation behaviors in a simulation13
Using computational essays to foster disciplinary epistemic agency in undergraduate science13
Toward pedagogías entrenzadas: Braiding critical and asset‐based pedagogies of sciences, languages, and cultural responsiveness13
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Teaching and learning about respiratory infectious diseases: A scoping review of interventions in K‐12 education13
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Justice‐centered STEM education with multilingual learners to address societal challenges: A conceptual framework13
Using automated analysis to assess middle school students' competence with scientific argumentation13
TRANSforming language use in science education through trans and queer studies12
How do thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking? A structural equation modeling analysis12
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Engaging the racist science of human intelligence: Towards a more just science education future12
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STEM Education With a Focus on Equity and Justice: Traditional Approaches, Contemporary Approaches, and Proposed Future Approach11
Distributing epistemic functions and tasks—A framework for augmenting human analytic power with machine learning in science education research11
The role of equitable classroom cultures for supporting interest in science11
Breaking down the STEM pathway: Utilizing neighborhood resources to improve Mexican‐origin adolescents' life chances11
Connected learning: An approach for teaching nature of science aspects and argumentation components11
Assessing concept mapping competence using item expansion‐based diagnostic classification analysis11
Spontaneous Scientific Argumentation and Socially Shared Metacognitive Regulation of High‐ and Low‐Performing Small Groups in Virtual Collaborative Science Learning11
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Examining models constructed by kindergarten children11
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I'm not giving up on you: Exploring the roles of politicized trust and critical agency in the Scratch coding trajectory of two Black boys10
“I feel listened to and heard”: How social support fosters a sense of belonging for low‐income STEM majors10
The Space Between: Teacher Perspectives of an Interformal Elementary Science Education Program10
Call for papers: Journal of Research in Science Teaching—Special issue on “Examining translanguaging in science and engineering education research”10
High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations10
A methodology to analyze students' intertwined speech and drawings—Aesthetic experiences in science education10
Advancing Science Education Research Together (2020–2025): A Final JRST Editorial10
High school students' evolving alternative conception related to the volume of gas: A Lakatosian perspective10
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Rigor and Representation: Leading the Next Five Years of JRST10
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Defining epigenetic literacy: How to integrate epigenetics into the biology curriculum9
Exploring science teachers' efforts to frame phenomena in the community9
Predicting undergraduate career goal change in aresearch‐intensivecommunity9
Examining science teachers' engagement in professional development: A multimodal situated perspective9
The scientific rules, roles, and values that life sciences doctoral students want to see upheld by undergraduate researchers9
Evidence of graphical literacy in students' oral presentations: An example from undergraduate chemistry education9
Characterizing relationships between collective enterprise and student epistemic agency in science: A comparative case study9
The role of achievement goals in productive collaborative argumentation9
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Science at the center: Meaningful science learning in a preschool classroom9
A structural model of student experiences in a career‐forward chemistry laboratory curriculum8
Preservice teachers' framing and noticing of elementary students' ways of communicating scientific ideas8
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People who have more science education rely less on misinformation—Even if they do not necessarily follow the health recommendations8
Masculinized discourses of STEM interest, performance, and competence that shape university STEM students' recognition of a “STEM person”8
Understandings entrenzados: A commentary8
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Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies8
Toward a system of gesture–speech relations in elementary science teaching8
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A self‐reported instrument to measure and foster students' science connection to life with the CAREKNOWDO model and open schooling for sustainability8
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Using technology‐mediated inquiry to help young learners reimagine the visible world through simple particle models7
Competency Profiles of PCK Using Unsupervised Learning: What Implications for the Structures of pPCK Emerge From Non‐Hierarchical Analyses?7
Students' awareness and conceptions of science‐related communication mechanisms on social media7
Exploring the predictiveness of curiosity and interest in science learning in and after class7
“Things your history teacher won't teach you: Science edition”: Black women science teachers as anti‐racist teachers7
The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and “goodness” of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists7
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Black Lives Matter and other signs of solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM graduate students7
Isolation, resilience, and faith: Experiences of Black Christian students in biology graduate programs7
Developing and validating an Next Generation Science Standards‐aligned construct map for chemical bonding from the energy and force perspective6
Teacher curricular sensemaking: Revealing salient moments of a science teacher's (un)certainty in relation to opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking6
Supporting the Emergence of Science Capital in Minoritized Youth Through Guided Experiences as Facilitators of Science Outreach6
Bias, bias everywhere: A response to Li et al. and Zhai and Nehm6
Language as “Resource”? Why Science Education's Raciolinguistic Histories Matter Today6
Reinventing Science Standards to Better Support Meaningful Science Learning6
White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well‐started White anti‐racist science teacher6
Translanguaging practices in global K‐12 science education settings: A systematic literature review6
Instructional practices in secondary science: How teachers achieve local and standards‐based success6
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Translingual negotiation in mixed‐gender communication: An analysis of the interactions in research group meetings in engineering6
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Narrating science: Can it benefit science learning, and how? A theoretical review5
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Combining debates and reflective activities to develop students' argumentation on socioscientific issues5
Supporting Learning About Energy With Fields—Evidence From a Mixed‐Methods Study5
Investigating science teacher educator identity through the politics of domestication and critical positional praxis5
Relationships between undergraduate instructors' conceptions of how students learn and their instructional practices5
Epistemic networks and the social nature of public engagement with science5
Paths into and out of STEM fields: A qualitative study of women and students of color at a predominately white institution5
Elementary Students' Metacognitive Knowledge of Epistemic Criteria5
Students' engagement with Socioscientific issues: Use of sources of knowledge and attitudes5
The decision is in the details: Justifying decisions about socioscientific issues5
Computational Thinking for Science: Positioning coding as a tool for doing science4
Effect of design‐based learning on achievement in K‐12 education: A meta‐analysis4
AI and formative assessment: The train has left the station4
STEM Teacher Characteristics and Mobility: Longitudinal Evidence From the American Midwest, 2010 Through 20234
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Development of VAScoR: A rubric to qualify and score responses to the views of nature of science (VNOS) questionnaire4
Finding the variables that react: Relationships between ability beliefs and student achievement in an inquiry‐based introductory chemistry laboratory course4
Preservice Teachers' Professional Development for Implementing Differentiated Instruction in Science Education: An Embedded Case Study4
“So, we kind of started from scratch, no pun intended”: What can students learn from designing games?4
Preparing students for the modern information landscape and navigating science–technology–society issues4
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Disability and postsecondary fieldwork experiences in the natural sciences: A systematic review4
Black men doctoral scientists and engineers persisting: Peer support and racism in science and engineering4
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning: Analyzing students' design talk and drawings using the chemical thinking framework4
Examining the relationship between disciplinary counterspaces for undergraduate women and sense of belonging: A physics exemplar4
A proficiency model for pre‐service physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—What constitutes high‐level PCK?4
Translanguaging in US K–12 science and engineering education: A review of the literature through the lens of equity4
Djaji Mahsheye,Moghrabeye, andLabaneh: Making science relevant4
Unveiling effectiveness: A meta‐analysis of professional development programs in science education4
African American Language in science education: A translanguaging perspective4
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