OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in Science Education 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	76
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	46
Teacher Agency in Social-Justice Aspirations and Inquiry-Based Science Instruction	27
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Trajectories for Appropriating Engineering Design–Based Science Teaching	22
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	21
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	18
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	18
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	17
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	16
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	16
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	15
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	13
Re-validating a Learning Progression of Buoyancy for Middle School Students: A Longitudinal Study	12
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking	12
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	11
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge	11
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	11
Using Science Communication Strategies to Close the Resource Gap in Under-Resourced Schools: a Design-Based Study Focusing on Rural Schools in South Africa	10
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	10
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	10
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	10
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	9
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	9
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	9
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	9

Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	9
A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional, Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement	9
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	9
A Mixed Methods Comparison of Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Conceptualization of Teaching Engineering	8
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	8
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	8
Development and Application of a Five-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Misconceptions on Respiration and Photosynthesis among Senior High School Students in Mainland China	8
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	8
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	8
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	8
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Enhancing students’ Resourcefulness and Problem-solving Skills	8
Preferences and Reasoning of 14-15 year-old Students in Relation to Natural or Synthetic Products in Different Contexts: Influence of an Instructional Module	7
Understanding the Nature of Questioning and Teacher Talk Moves in Interactive Classrooms: a Case of Three South African Teachers	7
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	7
In Search of a More Inclusive and Relevant School Science Curriculum	7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	7
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	7
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students	7
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	6
Creating an Instrument to Measure Social and Cultural Self-efficacy Indicators for Persistence of HBCU Undergraduates in STEM	6
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	6
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	6
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	6
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	5
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	5
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	5
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	5
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	5
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	5
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	5
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	5
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	5
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	4
The Semiotic Function of a Bridging Representation to Support Students’ Meaning-Making in Solution Chemistry	4
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	4
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations	4
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	4
When Is an Interview an Inter View? The Historical and Recent Development of Methodologies Used to Investigate Children’s Astronomy Knowledge	4
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	4
Primary Science Education in Australian Universities: An Overview of Context and Practice	4
Analysing the Quality of Risk-Focused Socio-Scientific Arguments on Nuclear Power Using a Risk-Benefit Oriented Model	4
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	4
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	4
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	4
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	4
Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students	4
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	4
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	3
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	3
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy	3

Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	3
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline	3
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	3
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	3
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions	3
Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula	3
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	3
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	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
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	3
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	3
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	3
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	3
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	3
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	3
Multimodal Genre of Science Classroom Discourse: Mutual Contextualization Between Genre and Representation Construction	3
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	3
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	3
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	3
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom	3
A Perspective for Structure–Property Reasoning to Explicate and Scaffold Thinking like a Chemist	2
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	2
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	2
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families	2
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	2
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	2
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish	2
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	2
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences	2
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	2
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	2
Correction: The Relationship Between Students’ Awareness of Environmental Issues and Attitudes Toward Science and Epistemological Beliefs—Moderating Effect of Informal Science Activities	1
Family Science Experiences’ Influence on Youths’ Achievement Value, Perceived Family Value, and Future Value of Science	1
Metaphors on Protein Synthesis in Swedish Upper Secondary Chemistry and Biology Textbooks – A Double-Edged Sword	1
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	1
Does Topic Matter? Investigating Students’ Interest, Emotions and Learning when Writing Stories About Socioscientific Issues	1
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	1
Introducing Iranian Primary Children to Atoms and Molecules	1
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	1
Flipped Classroom As a Model for Improving Students’ Cognitive Performance and Reducing Misconceptions	1
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School	1
Comparing Student Responses to Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Nature of Science Questions	1
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education	1
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	1
Exploring the effect of directive and reflective feedback on elementary school students’ scientific conceptual understanding, epistemological beliefs, and inquiry performance in online inquiry activit	1
Risk Response Competencies in Science Education: A Delphi Study of Experts	1
Correction: Comparing the Reading Behaviours of Students with High- and Low-Level Comprehension of Scientific Terms by Eye Movement Analysis	1
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations	1
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students	1
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images	1
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey	1
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	1
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	1
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	1
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	1
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	1
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study	1
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	1
South African Science Teachers’ Experiences of Inquiry-Based Teaching at Disadvantaged Schools	1
Fostering Epistemic Space for Collaborative Solutions in Primary Science Through a Socratic Seminar Inquiry Approach	1
Cognitive Demands of the Reformed Queensland Physics, Chemistry and Biology Syllabus: An Analysis Framed by the New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives	1
Learning Analytics for Assessing Hands-on Laboratory Skills in Science Classrooms Using Bayesian Network Analysis	1
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	1
Science-Based Educational Escape Games: A Game Design Methodology	1
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	1
Who do I Look like More, Mom or Dad? An Exploratory Survey about Primary Students’ Ideas about Heredity	1
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	1
Entrepreneurial STEM Education: Making it Happen	1
Correction to: The Hourglass Approach: Analysing Science Classroom Discursive Interactions Through Intercontextual Lens	1
Enhancing Students’ Concept Understanding Through Collaborative-Metacognitive Use of Science Literature	1
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	1
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	1