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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Translanguaging as Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in English-Medium Instruction Science and Mathematics Classrooms for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students	51
Multimodal Interaction Analysis: a Powerful Tool for Examining Plurilingual Students’ Engagement in Science Practices	29
Science and Religious Education Teachers’ Views of Argumentation and Its Teaching	22
Assessing Argumentation Using Machine Learning and Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling	21
The Multi-timescale, Multi-modal and Multi-perspectival Aspects of Classroom Discourse Analysis in Science Education	19
Comparing Student Responses to Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Nature of Science Questions	19
Increasing Girls’ STEM Engagement in Early Childhood: Conditions Created by the Conceptual PlayWorld Model	16
Theorising Learning in Science Through Integrating Multimodal Representations	16
Exploring Student Reasoning and Representation Construction in School Science Through the Lenses of Social Semiotics and Interaction Analysis	16
Science Concept Formation During Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood: Developing a Scientific Motive Over Time	14
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge	13
Physics Identity of Chinese Students Before and After Gaokao: the Effect of High-Stake Testing	12
A Qualitative Examination of Science Teachers’ Emotions, Emotion Regulation Goals and Strategies	12
Testing Creativity and Personality to Explore Creative Potentials in the Science Classroom	11
Investigating Relationships Between Learning Environment Perceptions, Motivation and Self-Regulation for Female Science Students in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	11
Multimodal Creative Inquiry: Theorising a New Approach for Children’s Science Meaning-Making in Early Childhood Education	11
Teacher-Directed Learning Approaches and Science Achievement: Investigating the Importance of Instructional Explanations in Australian Schools	11
Analysis of Students’ Diagrams Explaining Scientific Phenomena	11
The Impact of Collaboration Between Science and Religious Education Teachers on Their Understanding and Views of Argumentation	10
Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Scientific Reasoning Competencies: Analysing the Impact of Contributing Factors	9
Implementing a Project-Based Learning Module in Urban and Indigenous Areas to Promote Young Children’s Scientific Practices	9
Scientific Research Identity Development Need Not Wait Until College: Examining the Motivational Impact of a Pre-college Authentic Research Experience	9
Negotiation of Epistemological Understandings and Teaching Practices Between Primary Teachers and Scientists about Artificial Intelligence in Professional Development	9
Primary Science Education in Australian Universities: An Overview of Context and Practice	9
Understanding Early Childhood Science Education: Comparative Analysis of Australian and Finnish Curricula	8

Analysing Multimodal Texts in Science—a Social Semiotic Perspective	8
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	8
Teachers' perceptions of Brandon's Matrix as a framework for the teaching and assessment of scientific methods in school science	8
Teacher Orchestration of Language and Gesture in Explaining Science Concepts in Images	8
A Model-Based Inquiry Sequence as a Heuristic to Evaluate Students’ Emotional, Behavioural, and Cognitive Engagement	7
Quantitatively Investigating Inservice Elementary Teachers’ Nature of Science Views	7
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	7
Knowledge of Student Learning Difficulties as a Plausible Conceptual Change Pathway Between Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge	7
How Do We Prepare to Teach? Exploring Science Lecturers’ Authentic Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education	7
Distribution of Visual Representations Across Scientific Genres in Secondary Science Textbooks: Analysing Multimodal Genre Pattern of Verbal-Visual Texts	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Science	7
Teaching for Emergent Disciplinary Drawing in Science? Comparing Teachers’ and Children’s Ways of Representing Science Content in Early Childhood Classrooms	7
Effects of Teacher Professional Development and Science Classroom Learning Environment on Students’ Science Achievement	6
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	6
The Long Road to Shared PCK: a Science Teacher’s Personal Journey	6
Expertise as Sensorimotor Tuning: Perceptual Navigation Patterns Mark Representational Competence in Science	6
Preferences for Professional Development in Science Among Pre- and In-service Primary Teachers: a Best–Worst Scaling Approach	6
Psychological Allostatic Load: the Cost of Persistence in STEM Disciplines	6
Multimodal Genre of Science Classroom Discourse: Mutual Contextualization Between Genre and Representation Construction	6
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	6
Students’ Forms of Dialogue When Engaged with Contemporary Biological Research: Insights from University and High School Students’ Group Discussions	5
Theory, Methods, and Expressive Potential of Discourse Studies in Science Education	5
Assessment of Context-Based Chemistry Problem-Solving Skills: Test Design and Results from Ninth-Grade Students	5
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	5
‘I don’t Study Physics Anymore’: a Cross-Institutional Australian Study on Factors Impacting the Persistence of Undergraduate Science Students	5
Investigating the Knowledge Domains Science Teachers Use When Considering a Socioscientific Issue	5
Science Cafés: Exploring Adults’ Motivation to Learn Science in a Community Space	5
Inquiry Process Skills in Primary Science Textbooks: Authors and Publishers’ Intentions	5
Teaching About Electricity in Primary School Multimodality and Variation Theory as Analytical Lenses	5
Meaning Making with Multiple Representations: a Case Study of a Preservice Teacher Creating a Digital Explanation	5
Relative Effects of Classroom Utility Value Intervention on the Science Motivation of Girls and Boys	5
Learning Analytics for Assessing Hands-on Laboratory Skills in Science Classrooms Using Bayesian Network Analysis	5
Re-validating a Learning Progression of Buoyancy for Middle School Students: A Longitudinal Study	5
Creating Values: the Entrepreneurial-Science Education Nexus	5
Developing an Instrument to Assess Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Evolution	4
An Assessment Using Rubrics and the Rasch Model of 14/15-Year-Old Students’ Difficulties in Arguing About Bottled Water Consumption	4
A Cultural-historical Critique of How Engineering Knowledge is Constructed Through Research in Play-based Settings: What Counts as Evidence and What is Invisible?	4
The Semiotic Function of a Bridging Representation to Support Students’ Meaning-Making in Solution Chemistry	4
A Peircean Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Science Students’ Creative Reasoning as/Through Digital Simulations	4
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	4
How Do Direct and Indirect Hands-on Instructions Strengthened by the Self-Explanation Effect Promote Learning? Evidence from Motion Content	4
Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Competencies in Asking and Conducting Researchable Science Questions Using Fair Testing	4
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Informal Science Educators: Development of the ISE-PCK Framework	4
Understanding the Nature of Questioning and Teacher Talk Moves in Interactive Classrooms: a Case of Three South African Teachers	4
Preservice Physics Teachers’ Development of Physics Identities: the Role of Multiple Representations	4
Progression in Self-Efficacy, Interest, Identity, Sense of Belonging, Perceived Recognition and Effectiveness of Peer Interaction of Physics Majors and Comparison with Non-Majors and Ph.D. Students	4
The Influences of Socioscientific Issues on General Science Teaching Self-Efficacy	4
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Trajectories for Appropriating Engineering Design–Based Science Teaching	4
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	4
Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning of Science: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research	4

Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Situational Interest in a Science Period: a Study in Three Cultural/Linguistic Contexts	4
Capturing and Developing Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Sustainable Development Using Content Representation and Video-Based Reflection	4
How is “Knowledge” Constructed During Science Activities? Detaching Instructional Effects of “Playing” and “Telling” to Optimize Integration of Scientific Investigations	4
Reading Behavior in Science Comics and Its Relations with Comprehension Performance and Reading Attitudes: an Eye-tracker Study	4
Producing Scientific Explanations in Physics—a Multimodal Account	4
Uncovering Student Strategies for Solving Scientific Inquiry Tasks: Insights from Student Process Data in PISA	3
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	3
Cognitive Demands of the Reformed Queensland Physics, Chemistry and Biology Syllabus: An Analysis Framed by the New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives	3
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	3
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	3
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	3
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	3
The Thinking Frames Approach: Improving High School Students’ Written Explanations of Phenomena in Science	3
Motivation and Feelings of Competence Among University Students in Introductory Physics	3
Development and Validation of a Four-Tier Test for the Assessment of Secondary School Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Amino Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes	3
The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Parents and their Adolescent Children in Relation to Science Learning	3
Reproduction Rather than Comprehension? Analysis of Gains in Students’ Science Text Comprehension	3
Learning with Friction—Students’ Gestures and Enactment in Relation to a GeoGebra Simulation	3
Teacher-Student Interaction Patterns Change During an Early Science Teaching Intervention	3
Assessing Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Scientists, Their Activities, and Locations: the VoSAL Instrument	3
The Impact of Problem-Based Learning on Students’ Achievement in Mechanical Waves in Secondary Schools	3
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	3
Pre-setting Stances for Students During Collaborative Argumentation: Parallel Thinking Versus Adversarial Thinking	3
Measuring STEM Career Awareness and Interest in Middle Childhood STEM Learners: Validation of the STEM Future-Career Interest Survey (STEM Future-CIS)	3
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	2
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	2
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	2
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	2
Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	2
When Science Is Taught This Way, Students Become Critical Friends: Setting the Stage for Student Teachers	2
Explicating Epistemic Process in Elementary Students’ Language Use by Practical Epistemology and Discourse Register Analyses	2
Foregrounding Intersectionality in Considerations of Diversity: Confronting Discrimination in Science Teacher Education	2
Kindergarten Directors’ Perceptions and Implementation of STEM Education	2
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	2
Dimensions of the Structure-Agency Dialectic Embedded in Black Students’ Ethnodance of Their Science Identity Construction	2
The Hourglass Approach: Analysing Science Classroom Discursive Interactions Through Intercontextual Lens	2
Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Images of Scientific Practices: a Social, Epistemic, Conceptual, and Material Dimension Perspective	2
Developing an Integrated STEM Classroom Observation Protocol Using the Productive Disciplinary Engagement Framework	2
The Relationship Between Students’ Awareness of Environmental Issues and Attitudes Toward Science and Epistemological Beliefs—Moderating Effect of Informal Science Activities	2
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	2
Appraising Instructional Materials from TeachersPayTeachers for Features of NGSS Design and Nature of Science Representations	2
Creating an Instrument to Measure Social and Cultural Self-efficacy Indicators for Persistence of HBCU Undergraduates in STEM	1
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	1
Students’ Holistic Reading of Socio-Scientific Texts on Climate Change in a ChatGPT Scenario	1
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	1
Whose recognition is meaningful in developing a STEM identity? A preliminary exploration with Thai secondary school students	1
Teacher Agency in Social-Justice Aspirations and Inquiry-Based Science Instruction	1
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	1
Developing a Framework of STEM Literacy for Kindergarten Children	1
Enhancing Students’ Concept Understanding Through Collaborative-Metacognitive Use of Science Literature	1
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	1
Family Science Experiences’ Influence on Youths’ Achievement Value, Perceived Family Value, and Future Value of Science	1
The Implications of STEM College Graduates’ Course-Taking Patterns for the Graduate School Pipeline	1
Reflections on the Social Content of Science Education Materials	1
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	1
Are We Really Falling Behind? Comparing Key Indicators Across International and Local Standardised Tests for Australian High School Science	1
Knowledge for Whom? Inviting Students to Establish an Audience for Knowledge and to Shape Knowledge Construction Activities in a Biology Course	1
Teachers’ Considerations for a Digitalised Learning Context of Preschool Science	1
Utilization of Remote Access Electron Microscopes to Enhance Technology Education and Foster STEM Interest in Preteen Students	1
Science Education in Early Childhood Education—Are We Approaching a Cure for the State of Chronic Illness?	1
Exploring the Potential of Teacher-Learner Interactions Through Feedback in Online Formative Assessment: Demonstration Cases of Pre-service Physics Teachers	1
Integration of Engineering Practices into Secondary Science Education: Teacher Experiences, Emotions, and Appraisals	1
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	1
Becoming a Science Teacher: Is It Merely a Process of Trial and Error?	1
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	1
Teachers’ and Their Pupils’ Performance on Plant Nutrition: a Comparative Case	1
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	1
Effects of Parental Science Expectations on the Science Interests of Yi Junior High School Students in China: The Chain Mediating Role of Science Experience and Science Self-Efficacy	1
Transformation of School Science Practices to Promote Functional Scientific Literacy	1
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations	1
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	1
Visualization Type and Frequency in Final Year High School Science Examinations	1
Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	1
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	1
Seventh-Grade Students’ Relational Conceptual Change and Science Achievement: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Duo	1