Research in Science Education

Article	Citations
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	262
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	33
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	32
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education	27
Exploring Correlations Between Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Systems Thinking Skills and Environmental Awareness	26
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	21
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	20
Exploring Science Concepts in Everyday Interactions with Infant-toddlers at Home: Caregivers’ Raised Science Consciousness Through Fleer’s Conceptual PlayWorld	20
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	20
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	19
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	19
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	19
Plant Knowledge in an Era of Limited Plant Awareness: A Consideration for Meaningful Change	18
Empowering Preservice Biology Teachers as Designers of Pedagogical AI Agents: Moving Beyond Data Feeding toward Pedagogical Design	17
Preservice Physics Teachers’ Expression of TPACK in Lesson Planning – Using Geogebra Simulations in Physics Teaching	17
The Effects of Inquiry-based Learning on Stem-related Career Aspirations of Grade 9 Natural Sciences Students	17
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	15
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial	15
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	14
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	14
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	14
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	14
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	13
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	13
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	13

Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	12
Informal Reasoning and Nature of Science in Proximal and Distal Socio-scientific Issues	12
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	12
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	12
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	12
Using Science Communication Strategies to Close the Resource Gap in Under-Resourced Schools: a Design-Based Study Focusing on Rural Schools in South Africa	12
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	12
Tracing Pedagogical Shifts: A Physics Professor’s Development Through Faculty Partnership	11
Using the Contextual Model of Learning to Examine Informal Teacher Professional Development Whilst Accompanying Science Centre Field Trips	11
Differentiating Elementary Science Education: Dutch Teachers’ Perceived Practices	11
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	10
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	10
Facilitating Conditions and Perceived Usefulness Drive Bhutanese Teachers` Intention to Use PhET Simulations	10
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	10
Transactivity Despite Complexity: Promoting Group Discussions in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	10
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	10
Correction: The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game To Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy	10
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	10
Self-Rated Content Knowledge for Interdisciplinary Science Teaching: An Instrument and Perceptions of Disciplinarily Educated Pre-Service Science Teachers	10
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	10
How much do Different Factors of Elementarization Matter? Comparing Two Dynamical Approaches to Newton’s Second Law	10
Validation of the Measure of Peer Argumentive Discourse Style (PADS) in a Science Context: Evidence for the Construct Validity and Reliability	9
Epistemic Design Features of Virtual Reality-Based Scientific Inquiry Across Different Types of Reasoning: A Multimodal Perspective	9
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	9
Preferences and Reasoning of 14-15 year-old Students in Relation to Natural or Synthetic Products in Different Contexts: Influence of an Instructional Module	8
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	8
Exploring the Impact of STEM Experiences, Parental Education, Family Support, and Stereotypes on Students’ STEM Identity: A Comparative Study by Gender and EAL Status	8
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	8
Reimagining Scientific Literacy: A Textbook Framework for Future-Focused Science Education	8
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	8
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	8
How Scientists’ Narratives on AI Signal a New Era for Science Education	8
The Development and Validation of a Teaching Self-Efficacy Assessment for Informal Science Educators	8
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	8
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	8
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	7
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	7
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	7
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	7
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	7
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	7
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	7
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	7
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	7
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	7
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	7
‘We do STEM as well’: Exploring Pathways in Australia’s STEM Workforce	7
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	6
The Conceptual Connection between Science and Engineering: Analysis of Middle School Science Teachers’ Integration of Engineering Design Process into Science Units	6

Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	6
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	6
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	6
Validation of a French Version of the Situational Interest Survey for Physics	6
Relating Metaknowledge and Modeling Practices in Connection to Content Knowledge about the Phenomenon	6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	6
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	6
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	6
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	5
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions	5
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	5
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom	5
Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula	5
Algorithmic Explanations as a Scaffold for Scientific Explanation: A Quasi-Experimental and Time-Series Study in High School Chemistry	5
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	5
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	5
What Matters To Students in the Teaching and Learning of Science: Perspectives of Junior High School Students from Ghana	5
Analysing the Quality of Risk-Focused Socio-Scientific Arguments on Nuclear Power Using a Risk-Benefit Oriented Model	5
Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students	5
Elementary School Students’ Ecosystem Scientific Argumentation Based on the Rule-Space Model: Pathways and Remediation	5
Preservice Primary Teachers’ Attitudes Towards STEM Education: a Study Developed Through an Integrated STEM Training Programme Using Inquiry- Based Approaches and Engineering Design Practices	5
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	5
Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching Nature of Science through Book Talks in Early Childhood Education	5
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy	5
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	4
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	4
Measuring Size and Scale: The Development and Validation of the Assessment of Size and Scale Cognition (ASSC)	4
A wikipedia-based Authentic Task About Biodiversity in Pre-service Primary Science Teacher Education: Evaluation, Re-design and Validation of a Multidimensional Rubric for K-12 Content	4
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	4
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	4
Investigating Mechanistic Reasoning Through Student-Generated Sequential Diagrams and Written Explanations: How Lower Secondary Students Explain Sugar Dissolving	4
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	4
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	4
Models of STEM Teaching: How Early Childhood Teachers Resource their Conceptual Knowledge in Play-based Settings in Greece and Australia	4
Research on Students’ Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Abilities in socio-scientific Issues Context: Integrated Constructive and Critical Perspectives	4
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	4
The Changing Landscape of Science Education Research in Australia and New Zealand	4
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	4
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	4
Conceptions of Curved Spacetime: Relating Students’ Mental Representations and Understanding of General Relativity	4
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	4
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	3
EcoHealth as a Curriculum Aim in Science Education	3
Understanding the Process of Scientific Literacy Development among Children in the Early Years Through Play and Intentionality	3
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish	3
Assessment of Conceptual Understanding in Student Learning About Liquefaction	3
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	3
Acquisition and Retention of Nature of Science Understandings: A Five-year Longitudinal Study With Elementary Students	3
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families	3
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study	3
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	3
A Practical Analytical Framework for Designing, Selecting and Examining Challenging Scientific Texts for Gifted Students	3
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist	3
Examining the Characteristics of Investigation Questions Asked by Preservice Teachers: Influences of Scenario, Prior Course Experience, and Inclusion of a Crosscutting Concept	3
Advancing Interdisciplinary Science Education: Validating the Interdisciplinary Science Assessment of Carbon Cycling II Through Internal Structure and External Factors	3
Pre-service Early Years Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science	3
Communication as an Entrepreneurial Capability in STEM Higher Education: Theory and Pedagogical Practice	3
Correction: “Be Better Than You Need to Be”: A-level Physics Students’ Rants, Resilience and Peer Pedagogy on TikTok	3
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences	3
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	2
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School	2
Complexities and Contradictions in a Teacher’s Activation of Epistemological Resources and their Consequences for Student Framing	2
Expanding the Scope of Science Education to Engage with Anthropocene Challenges	2
Integrate or Separate? A Survey of Non-Metropolitan Teachers’, Parents’ and STEM Professionals’ Beliefs about Integration in STEM Education	2
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	2
Enacted AI Literacy Towards Epistemic Visibility; Embedding Human-AI Design as Assessment-as-Learning in Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Lesson Redesign	2
Exploring the effect of directive and reflective feedback on elementary school students’ scientific conceptual understanding, epistemological beliefs, and inquiry performance in online inquiry activit	2
Differential Roles of Spatial Visualization and Spatial Orientation in Conceptual Understanding of Newtonian Mechanics	2
The Mediating Role of Risk Judgment Competency in the Relationship Between Understanding of the Nature of Science and Technology, Risk Perception, and Willingness to Respond to Risk in the Context of	2
From Experience to Inquiry to Generalization: Understanding the STEM-PBL Learning Process and Developing a Formative Assessment Model	2
Transformational Learning for Complex Socioscientific Issues	2
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	2
Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity	2
“Be Better Than You Need to Be”: A-level Physics Students’ Rants, Resilience and Peer Pedagogy on TikTok	2
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	2
Students’ Multimodal Meaning-Making of Epistemic Stances on GenAI in Science Classrooms	2
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	2
Using a scoping review to inform a planetary-conscious pedagogical approach to primary science education	2
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students	2

Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	2
A Study on the Social Interaction Characteristics of College Student Peers in Science Museums and Their Impact on Learning Outcomes: Based on an Analysis of the Conversation	2
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	2
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	2
Flipped Classroom As a Model for Improving Students’ Cognitive Performance and Reducing Misconceptions	2
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	2
Emerging Science Identities: A Study of Secondary School Students’ Positioning in Relation to Science	2
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	2
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	2