OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in Science Education is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students	34
Preservice Science Teachers’ Strategies in Scientific Reasoning: the Case of Modeling	22
Multimodal Interaction Analysis: a Powerful Tool for Examining Plurilingual Students’ Engagement in Science Practices	22
Attitudes Towards Science, Teaching Practices, and Science Performance in PISA 2015: Multilevel Analysis of the Chinese and Western Top Performers	22
Interrelationship Between Inquiry-Based Learning and Instructional Quality in Predicting Science Literacy	20
The Relevance of Childhood Science Talk as a Proxy for College Students’ STEM Identity at a Hispanic Serving Institution	17
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigate Preschool children’s Implicit Inferential Reasoning in Scientific Activities	17
Assessing Argumentation Using Machine Learning and Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling	16
A Practice-Based Approach to Learning Nature of Science through Socioscientific Issues	16
Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure High School Students’ Science Identity in Science Learning	16
The Gateway Science: a Review of Astronomy in the OECD School Curricula, Including China and South Africa	16
Science and Religious Education Teachers’ Views of Argumentation and Its Teaching	16
A Comprehensive Review of Instruments Measuring Attitudes Toward Science	16
STEM in the Making? Investigating STEM Learning in Junior School Makerspaces	14
Teaching Electromagnetism for the First Time: a Case Study of Pre-service Science Teachers’ Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge	13
The Multi-timescale, Multi-modal and Multi-perspectival Aspects of Classroom Discourse Analysis in Science Education	13
Comparing Student Responses to Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Nature of Science Questions	12
Increasing Girls’ STEM Engagement in Early Childhood: Conditions Created by the Conceptual PlayWorld Model	12
Exploring Student Reasoning and Representation Construction in School Science Through the Lenses of Social Semiotics and Interaction Analysis	11
Design-Based Science with Communication Scaffolding Results in Productive Conversations and Improved Learning for Secondary Students	11
Students’ Conceptual Sense-making of Animations and Static Visualizations of Protein Synthesis: a Sociocultural Hypothesis Explaining why Animations May Be Beneficial for Student Learning	11
Design and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Students’ Interactions and Satisfaction in Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Classes	10
Teacher-Directed Learning Approaches and Science Achievement: Investigating the Importance of Instructional Explanations in Australian Schools	10
Testing Creativity and Personality to Explore Creative Potentials in the Science Classroom	10
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge	10

Analysis of Students’ Diagrams Explaining Scientific Phenomena	10
Developing and Validating a Scale of STEM Project-Based Learning Experience	10
Engineering PlayWorld—a Model of Practice to Support Children to Collectively Design, Imagine and Think Using Engineering Concepts	9
Physics Identity of Chinese Students Before and After Gaokao: the Effect of High-Stake Testing	9
Theorising Learning in Science Through Integrating Multimodal Representations	9
Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Responses to First-Hand Anomalous Data During Modelling Processes	8
A Qualitative Examination of Science Teachers’ Emotions, Emotion Regulation Goals and Strategies	8
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	8
Scaffolding Children’s Production of Representations Along the Three Years of ECE: a Longitudinal Study	7
Scientific Research Identity Development Need Not Wait Until College: Examining the Motivational Impact of a Pre-college Authentic Research Experience	7
Discourse Analysis in Integrated STEM Activities: Methods for Examining Power and Positioning in Small Group Interactions	7
The Use of Different Translation Devices to Analyze Knowledge-Building in a University Chemistry Classroom	7
Dealing with Socio-Scientific Issues in Science Exhibition: a Literature Review	7
The Impact of Collaboration Between Science and Religious Education Teachers on Their Understanding and Views of Argumentation	7
Perceived Difficulty of School Science and Cost Appraisals: a Valuable Relationship for the STEM Pipeline?	7
Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Scientific Reasoning Competencies: Analysing the Impact of Contributing Factors	7
Understanding Early Childhood Science Education: Comparative Analysis of Australian and Finnish Curricula	7
Investigating Relationships Between Learning Environment Perceptions, Motivation and Self-Regulation for Female Science Students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	7
Research in Science Education (RISE): A Review (and Story) of Research in RISE Articles (1994–2018)	6
Primary Science Education in Australian Universities: An Overview of Context and Practice	6
Ocean Data Visualization on a Touchtable Demonstrates Group Content Learning, Science Practices Use, and Potential Embodied Cognition	6
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	6
Teachers' perceptions of Brandon's Matrix as a framework for the teaching and assessment of scientific methods in school science	6
How Do We Prepare to Teach? Exploring Science Lecturers’ Authentic Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education	6
Quantitatively Investigating Inservice Elementary Teachers’ Nature of Science Views	6
A Comparison of Short and Long Einsteinian Physics Intervention Programmes in Middle School	5
Science Education Success in a Rural Australian School: Practices and Arrangements Contributing to High Senior Science Enrolments and Achievement in an Isolated Rural School	5
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images	5
Comparing the Reading Behaviours of Students with High- and Low-Level Comprehension of Scientific Terms by Eye Movement Analysis	5
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey	5
Inquiry Process Skills in Primary Science Textbooks: Authors and Publishers’ Intentions	5
Knowledge of Student Learning Difficulties as a Plausible Conceptual Change Pathway Between Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge	5
Expanding the Languages of Science and How They Are Learnt	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	5
Psychological Allostatic Load: the Cost of Persistence in STEM Disciplines	5
Expertise as Sensorimotor Tuning: Perceptual Navigation Patterns Mark Representational Competence in Science	5
A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional, Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement	5
Implementing a Project-Based Learning Module in Urban and Indigenous Areas to Promote Young Children’s Scientific Practices	5
A Tool for Visualizing and Inquiring into Whole-Class Sensemaking Discussions	5
Understanding the Nature of Questioning and Teacher Talk Moves in Interactive Classrooms: a Case of Three South African Teachers	4
The Role of Parental Socializing Behaviors in Two Domains of Student STEM Career Interest	4
Discourse Analysis and Multimodal Meaning Making in a Science Classroom: Meta-Methodological Insights from Three Theoretical Perspectives	4
Learning Analytics for Assessing Hands-on Laboratory Skills in Science Classrooms Using Bayesian Network Analysis	4
The Influences of Socioscientific Issues on General Science Teaching Self-Efficacy	4
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	4
Teaching for Emergent Disciplinary Drawing in Science? Comparing Teachers’ and Children’s Ways of Representing Science Content in Early Childhood Classrooms	4
Relative Effects of Classroom Utility Value Intervention on the Science Motivation of Girls and Boys	4
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education	4
Effects of Teacher Professional Development and Science Classroom Learning Environment on Students’ Science Achievement	4
How is “Knowledge” Constructed During Science Activities? Detaching Instructional Effects of “Playing” and “Telling” to Optimize Integration of Scientific Investigations	4

Negotiation of Epistemological Understandings and Teaching Practices Between Primary Teachers and Scientists about Artificial Intelligence in Professional Development	4
A New Way to Explore the Nature of Science: Meta-categories Rather Than Lists	4
Students’ Forms of Dialogue When Engaged with Contemporary Biological Research: Insights from University and High School Students’ Group Discussions	4
Group-Level Assessment (GLA) as a Methodological Tool to Facilitate Science Education	4
Distribution of Visual Representations Across Scientific Genres in Secondary Science Textbooks: Analysing Multimodal Genre Pattern of Verbal-Visual Texts	4
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	4
Multimodal Genre of Science Classroom Discourse: Mutual Contextualization Between Genre and Representation Construction	4
‘I don’t Study Physics Anymore’: a Cross-Institutional Australian Study on Factors Impacting the Persistence of Undergraduate Science Students	4
An Assessment Using Rubrics and the Rasch Model of 14/15-Year-Old Students’ Difficulties in Arguing About Bottled Water Consumption	3
A Cultural-historical Critique of How Engineering Knowledge is Constructed Through Research in Play-based Settings: What Counts as Evidence and What is Invisible?	3
Teacher-Student Interaction Patterns Change During an Early Science Teaching Intervention	3
The Semiotic Function of a Bridging Representation to Support Students’ Meaning-Making in Solution Chemistry	3
Characterizing Science Classroom Discourse Across Scales	3
Cognitive Demands of the Reformed Queensland Physics, Chemistry and Biology Syllabus: An Analysis Framed by the New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives	3
How Complex or Abstract Are Science Learning Outcomes? A Novel Coding Scheme Based on Semantic Density and Gravity	3
Effects of Feedback Types and Opportunities to Change Answers on Achievement and Ability to Solve Physics Problems	3
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Trajectories for Appropriating Engineering Design–Based Science Teaching	3
Analysing Multimodal Texts in Science—a Social Semiotic Perspective	3
Science Cafés: Exploring Adults’ Motivation to Learn Science in a Community Space	3
Assessing Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Scientists, Their Activities, and Locations: the VoSAL Instrument	3
Leveraging Integrated Science and Disciplinary Literacy Instruction to Teach First Graders to Write Like Scientists and to Explore Their Perceptions of Scientists	3
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Informal Science Educators: Development of the ISE-PCK Framework	3
Preferences for Professional Development in Science Among Pre- and In-service Primary Teachers: a Best–Worst Scaling Approach	3
Learning with Friction—Students’ Gestures and Enactment in Relation to a GeoGebra Simulation	3
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	3
Do Not Just Do Science Inquiry, Understand It! The Views of Scientific Inquiry of Israeli Middle School Students Enrolled in a Scientific Reserve Course	3
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	3
Theory, Methods, and Expressive Potential of Discourse Studies in Science Education	3
Motivation and Feelings of Competence Among University Students in Introductory Physics	3
Drama-Based Activities for STEM Education: Encouraging Scientific Aspirations and Debunking Stereotypes in Secondary School Students in Spain and the UK	3
Intellectual Work Required of Students in Science Classrooms: Students’ Opportunities to Learn Science	3
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations	3
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	3
Assessment of Context-Based Chemistry Problem-Solving Skills: Test Design and Results from Ninth-Grade Students	2
Re-validating a Learning Progression of Buoyancy for Middle School Students: A Longitudinal Study	2
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	2
Developing an Instrument to Assess Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Evolution	2
Meaning Making with Multiple Representations: a Case Study of a Preservice Teacher Creating a Digital Explanation	2
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	2
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	2
Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Images of Scientific Practices: a Social, Epistemic, Conceptual, and Material Dimension Perspective	2
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking	2
Reading Behavior in Science Comics and Its Relations with Comprehension Performance and Reading Attitudes: an Eye-tracker Study	2
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	2
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	2
Reproduction Rather than Comprehension? Analysis of Gains in Students’ Science Text Comprehension	2
Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Situational Interest in a Science Period: a Study in Three Cultural/Linguistic Contexts	2
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	2
Foregrounding Intersectionality in Considerations of Diversity: Confronting Discrimination in Science Teacher Education	2
Exploring the Form and the Function: a Review of Science Discourse Frameworks in the Service of Research and Practice	2
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	2
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	2
Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Competencies in Asking and Conducting Researchable Science Questions Using Fair Testing	2
Interdisciplinary Science Assessment of Carbon Cycling: Construct Validity Evidence Based on Internal Structure	2
The Hourglass Approach: Analysing Science Classroom Discursive Interactions Through Intercontextual Lens	2
Explicating Epistemic Process in Elementary Students’ Language Use by Practical Epistemology and Discourse Register Analyses	2
Preservice Physics Teachers’ Development of Physics Identities: the Role of Multiple Representations	2