Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Research in Science Teaching is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Young children's translanguaging as emergent in and through open‐ended science pedagogies45
Bilingual, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color teacher candidates' translanguaging selves: Working with their multilingual assets and identities as future elementary science teachers41
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Toward pedagogías entrenzadas: Braiding critical and asset‐based pedagogies of sciences, languages, and cultural responsiveness33
How do thinking styles and STEM attitudes have effects on computational thinking? A structural equation modeling analysis28
Qualitatively recognizing the dimensions of student environmental identity development within the classroom context28
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“So, we kind of started from scratch, no pun intended”: What can students learn from designing games?26
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A proficiency model for pre‐service physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)—What constitutes high‐level PCK?25
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Guiding student transduction in elementary school astronomy24
Engaging the racist science of human intelligence: Towards a more just science education future23
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High school students' out‐of‐school science participation: A latent class analysis and unique associations with science aspirations and achievement21
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Preparing students for the modern information landscape and navigating science–technology–society issues19
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Justice‐centered STEM education with multilingual learners to address societal challenges: A conceptual framework18
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Toward decolonizingSTEM: Centering place and sense of place forcommunity‐based problem‐solving17
Unpacking the connections between 8th graders' climate literacy and epistemic cognition17
“I see myself as a STEM person”: Exploring high school students' self‐identification with STEM17
Equity analysis of an augmented reality‐mediated group activity in a college biochemistry classroom16
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The culturally responsive science teaching practices of undergraduate biology teaching assistants16
Using automated analysis to assess middle school students' competence with scientific argumentation15
Effectiveness of inquiry‐based science laboratories for improving teamwork and problem‐solving skills and attitudes15
To know about science is to love it? Unraveling cause–effect relationships between knowledge and attitudes toward science in citizen science on urban wildlife ecology15
Effectiveness of conceptual change strategies in science education: A meta‐analysis15
What affects the continued learning about energy? Evidence from a 4‐year longitudinal study15
“It is what it is”: Using Storied‐Identity and intersectionality lenses to understand the trajectory of a young Black woman's science and math identities14
Characterizing conceptual understanding during design‐based learning: Analyzing students' design talk and drawings using the chemical thinking framework13
Science education for and as resiliency through indoor agriculture13
Validity aspects in measuring evolution acceptance: Evidence from surveys of preservice biology teachers and creationists13
Open for whom? The need to define open science for science education13
Reasons for not/choosing chemistry: Why advanced level chemistry students in England do/not pursue chemistry undergraduate degrees13
Secondary science teachers' conceptualizations and modifications to support equitable participation in a co‐designed computational thinking lesson12
A review of literature that uses the lens of the next generation science crosscutting concepts: 2012–201912
“Well that's how the kids feel!”—Epistemic empathy as a driver of responsive teaching12
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 setting12
Instructor recommendations for student learning strategies and metacognition: An analysis of undergraduate biology syllabi12
Designing a framework for teachers' integration of computational thinking into elementary science12
Rebuilding relations and countering erasure through community‐driven and owned science: A key tool to Inuit self‐determination and social transformations11
A structural model of student experiences in a career‐forward chemistry laboratory curriculum11
Asset and deficit discourses of student ideas in science formative assessment co‐design11
The interplay between students' motivational profiles and science learning11
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How stereotypes and relationships influence women and underrepresented minority students' fit in engineering11
Investigating the dimensions of modeling competence among preservice science teachers: Meta‐modeling knowledge, modeling practice, and modeling product11
Middle school students' use of the energy concept to engage in new learning: What ideas matter?11
Effect of design‐based learning on achievement in K‐12 education: A meta‐analysis10
Examining key capitals contributing to students' science‐related career expectations and their relationship patterns: A machine learning approach10
Promoting teachers' advocacy and agency for equity in STEM education through research and reflection10
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AI and formative assessment: The train has left the station10
Exploring new depths: Applying machine learning for the analysis of student argumentation in chemistry10
STEM Teacher Characteristics and Mobility: Longitudinal Evidence From the American Midwest, 2010 Through 202310
Preservice teachers' framing and noticing of elementary students' ways of communicating scientific ideas10
Students' situational engagement profiles in formal and informal science learning environments10
“Getting along” and “using evidence”: Elementary engineering as contentious practice10
Translanguaging in US K–12 science and engineering education: A review of the literature through the lens of equity10
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Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies9
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Understandings entrenzados: A commentary9
Including teachers in the social justice equation of project‐based learning: A response to Lee & Grapin9
Examining the interdependence in the growth of students' language and argument competencies in replicative and generative learning environments9
Declining interest in science in lower secondary school classes: Quasi‐experimental and longitudinal evidence on the role of teaching and teaching quality8
Multilingual learners' epistemologies in practice in the context of computational modeling in an elementary science classroom8
“We are sorry to inform you…”—The effects of early elimination on science competition participants’ career aspirations8
Science teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning related to content and procedural goals8
Artificial intelligence and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching8
Portraying secondary science teacher retention with the person‐position framework: An analysis of a state cohort of first‐year science teachers8
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Prioritizing emotion objects in making sense of student learning of socioscientific issues8
African American Language in science education: A translanguaging perspective7
Preservice elementary teachers' perceptions of their science laboratory instructors in a phenomena‐based laboratory and how it impacts their conceptual development7
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Presenting domain information or self‐exploration to foster hypothesis generation in simulation‐based inquiry learning7
Syrian refugee youths' science learning in a “dialogic” third space: Pushing boundaries in the Lebanese educational system through translanguaging7
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Infrastructural injustices in community‐driven afterschoolSTEAM7
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Breaking down the STEM pathway: Utilizing neighborhood resources to improve Mexican‐origin adolescents' life chances7
TRANSforming language use in science education through trans and queer studies7
Finding the variables that react: Relationships between ability beliefs and student achievement in an inquiry‐based introductory chemistry laboratory course7
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The impact of Geospatial Inquiry lessons on student interest in science and technology careers7
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Making an impression: What do students who attended an informal evolution enrichment program in the sixth‐grade recall from the experience 3 years later?6
A (TRANS)formative approach to gender‐inclusive science education6
The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and “goodness” of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists6
Savviness of sixth graders: Student perspectives about translanguaging during science formative assessment6
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“Why am I here?”: A phenomenological exploration of first‐generation college student experiences in STEM majors within a predominantly white institution6
Going beyond #RetireELL: A call for anti‐colonial approaches to languages in STEM education6
The sense that we're invisible: A longitudinal analysis of diverse women's experiences with structural violence in biomedical doctoral programs6
Exposing the hazards of teaching 19th century genetic science6
Belonging in science classrooms: Investigating its relation to students' contributions and influence in knowledge building6
Students' awareness and conceptions of science‐related communication mechanisms on social media6
#Resilience is not enough for Black women in STEM: Counterstories of two young Black women becoming a STEM person5
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Distributing epistemic functions and tasks—A framework for augmenting human analytic power with machine learning in science education research5
Patterns of belief and trust in climate change information5
From feeling forces to understanding forces: The impact of bodily engagement on learning in science5
Understanding science career aspirations: Factors predicting future science task value5
Assessing concept mapping competence using item expansion‐based diagnostic classification analysis5
People who have more science education rely less on misinformation—Even if they do not necessarily follow the health recommendations5
Predicting academic and career choice: The role of transformative experience, connection to instructor, and gender accounting for interest/identity and contextual factors5
Connected learning: An approach for teaching nature of science aspects and argumentation components5
Crossing boundaries between research and practitioner communities: The role of research use and cross‐community journal authorship5
Supporting Black women's pursuits in STEM5
Learning with multiple external representations in physics: Concreteness fading versus simultaneous presentation5
Correction to “Genomics literacy matters: Supporting the development of genomics literacy through genetics education could reduce the prevalence of genetic essentialism”4
Examining models constructed by kindergarten children4
Can we disrupt the momentum of the AI colonization of science education?4
The impact of high school science pedagogies on students' STEM career interest and on their ratings of teacher quality4
Factors Influencing Science Teachers' Professional Development: A Cultural‐Historical Activity Theory Perspective4
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Disability and postsecondary fieldwork experiences in the natural sciences: A systematic review4
Djaji Mahsheye,Moghrabeye, andLabaneh: Making science relevant4
Asset‐orientedframing of science and language learning with multilingual learners4
A self‐reported instrument to measure and foster students' science connection to life with the CAREKNOWDO model and open schooling for sustainability4
Navigating socio‐emotional risk through comfort‐building in physics teacher professional development: A case study4
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Examining the relationship between disciplinary counterspaces for undergraduate women and sense of belonging: A physics exemplar4
Identifying aspects of complex and technological systems in the mental models of students who constructed computational models of electric circuits3
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Community‐driven science and science education: Living in and navigating the edges of equity, justice, and science learning3
The role of phenomena and problems in science andSTEMeducation: Traditional, contemporary, and future approaches3
High school biology teachers’ integration of computational thinking into data practices to support student investigations3
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Isolation, resilience, and faith: Experiences of Black Christian students in biology graduate programs3
Influence of self‐assessment and conditional metaconceptual knowledge on students' self‐regulation of intuitive and scientific conceptions of evolution3
Setting empirically informed content knowledge policy benchmarks for physical science teaching3
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Jamming power: Youth agency and community‐driven science in a critical technology learning program3
Fostering expansive and connective sensemaking with preservice secondary science teachers3
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The influence of relational, political, discursive, and structural dimensions of power on increasing equitable access to undergraduate research experiences3
A grounded theory model of the dynamics of undergraduate engineering students' researcher identity and epistemic thinking3
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Bias, bias everywhere: A response to Li et al. and Zhai and Nehm3
Black Lives Matter and other signs of solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM graduate students2
Correlates of peer classroom connectedness among undergraduate women in STEM2
Early elementary (K‐4) teachers' perceptions of the developmental appropriateness, importance, and potential for classroom inclusion of key nature of science aspects2
“Things your history teacher won't teach you: Science edition”: Black women science teachers as anti‐racist teachers2
Sensemaking as a goal of science education, abduction as a process of scientific sensemaking2
Instructional practices in secondary science: How teachers achieve local and standards‐based success2
Exploring the predictiveness of curiosity and interest in science learning in and after class2
Graduate teaching assistants impact student motivation and engagement in course‐based undergraduate research experiences2
Factors predicting teachers' implementation of inquiry‐based teaching practices: Analysis of South African TIMSS 2019 data from an ecological perspective2
Call for papers: Special issue: Learning and teaching in times of science denial and disinformation2
Epistemic orientation toward teaching science for knowledge generation: Conceptualization and validation of the construct2
Does role play manipulate students? Persuasive effects of role play on students' attitude and behavior regarding a socioscientific issue2
Investigation of the relationships among science teachers' epistemic orientations, epistemic understanding, and implementation of Next Generation Science Standards science practices2
Teaching health justice and reimagining narratives of place through community‐driven science practices2
Good intentions are not enough: A case study uncovering perpetuation of internalized and interpersonal oppression in middle schoolSTEMclassrooms2
The role of equitable classroom cultures for supporting interest in science2
Deciphering the role of epistemic injustice in school‐based citizen science: Sources, implications, and possible ways for mitigation2
Eliciting and working with student thinking: Preservice science teachers' enactment of core practices when orchestrating collaborative group work2
I'm not giving up on you: Exploring the roles of politicized trust and critical agency in the Scratch coding trajectory of two Black boys2
Connected by emotion: Teacher agency in an online science education course during COVID‐192
Using technology‐mediated inquiry to help young learners reimagine the visible world through simple particle models2
Toward asset‐oriented and definitionally clear terminology: A comment on González‐Howard and Suárez (2021)2
Characterizing variations in the figured worlds of teachers and students in science class2
Learning to think spatially through curricula that embed spatial training2
Can we and should we use artificial intelligence for formative assessment in science?2
“There is no room for me, for a Hawaiian, in science”: Rightful presence in community science2
Identities in/out of physics and the politics of recognition2
Chilean physics teacher educators' hybrid identities and border crossings as opportunities for agency within school and university2
Developing and using a scalable assessment to measure preservice elementary teachers' content knowledge for teaching about matter1
White shame and white ambivalence in learning to be a well‐started White anti‐racist science teacher1
Embracing equity and excellence while constructing science teacher identities in urban schools: Voices of new Teachers of Color1
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“We need to step it up—We are basically the future”: Latinx young women co‐construct science storylines in high school chemistry1
Generating construct maps from a systematic review of atomic models1
“There are other ways to help besides using the stuff”: Using activity theory to understand dynamic student participation in small group science, technology, engineering, and mathematics activities1
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Toward a justice‐centered ambitious teaching framework: Shaping ambitious science teaching to be culturally sustaining and productive in a rural context1
Elementary teachers' verbal supports of science and engineering practices in anNGSS‐alignedscience, engineering, and computational thinking unit1
Color‐blind or racially conscious? How college science faculty make sense of racial/ethnic underrepresentation in STEM1
Translingual negotiation in mixed‐gender communication: An analysis of the interactions in research group meetings in engineering1
What are they bringing with them? Understanding past science experiences of preservice elementary teachers and what they mean for the science methods course1
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“Anybody can do science if they're brave enough”: Understanding the role of science capital in science majors' identity trajectories into and through postsecondary science1
Changes in teachers' beliefs: A longitudinal study of science teachers engaging in storyline curriculum‐based professional development1
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Elementary preservice teachers' pedagogical decisions about socioscientific issues instruction1
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Bienvenidos a la conversación: Examinations of translanguaging across science and engineering education research1
Supporting elementary preservice teachers' content knowledge for teaching about matter and its interactions1
High school students' evolving alternative conception related to the volume of gas: A Lakatosian perspective1
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Assessing high‐school students' modeling performance on Newtonian mechanics1
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Re‐designing infrastructure as a strategy for crafting coherence across three networks focused on the implementation of the next generation science standards1
“Science theatre makes you good at science”: Affordances of embodied performances in urban elementary science classrooms1
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Developing and validating an Next Generation Science Standards‐aligned construct map for chemical bonding from the energy and force perspective1
Material inquiry and transformation as prerequisite processes of scientific argumentation: Toward a social‐material theory of argumentation1
Experiences of marginalized women pursuing doctoral degrees in chemistry: The critical role of recognition1
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