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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An Investigation into Saudi Teachers’ Views of Argumentation in Science and Religious Education	211
Raising Awareness on the Complexity of Decision-making through Climate Change Education	37
Exploring Correlations Between Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Systems Thinking Skills and Environmental Awareness	30
Conceptualizing Phases of Sensemaking as a Trajectory for Grasping Better Understanding: Coordinating Student Scientific Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource	30
Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks	25
A Comparative Case Study Investigating Indigenous and Rural Elementary Students’ Conceptions of Community Engineering	24
Modelling Competence in Teacher Education: Comparing Meta-modelling Knowledge, Modelling Practices and Modelling Products Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	22
A Co-design Based Research Study: Developing Formative Assessment Practices with Preservice Science Teachers in a Chemistry Laboratory Setting	19
Science-related professional aspirations and students’ social background: Developing and validating the Taste for Science Test (TaSTe)	19
Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understandings of Models and Modelling in a STEM Methods Course	18
Science Education: Fit for the Future - Editorial	18
Developing a Conceptual Framework: Women STEM Faculty's Participation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs	18
The Effects of Inquiry-based Learning on Stem-related Career Aspirations of Grade 9 Natural Sciences Students	17
Exploring Science Concepts in Everyday Interactions with Infant-toddlers at Home: Caregivers’ Raised Science Consciousness Through Fleer’s Conceptual PlayWorld	16
The Contributions of Peter Fensham to ASERA, Research in Science Education, and the Advancement of Science Education and Research	15
Plant Knowledge in an Era of Limited Plant Awareness: A Consideration for Meaningful Change	15
Adolescents’ Intentions to Study Science: the Role of Classroom-based Social Support, Task Values, and Self-efficacy	15
Considering Multiple Sources of Validity Evidence Can Help to Address Challenges in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) Multiple-Choice Items	14
Science Education in a Risk Society: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in an Uncertain Future	14
Fostering Secondary School Science Students’ Intrinsic Motivation by Inquiry-based Learning	13
A Structural Model of Future-Oriented Climate Change Optimism in Science Education: PISA Evidence from Countries with Top Environmental Protection Index	13
Future-Oriented Science Learning and its Effects on Students’ Emotions, Futures Literacy and Agency in the Anthropocene	13
Teaching Experiences Connected To The Implementation Of Inquiry-Based Practical Work In Primary Science Classrooms	13
Re-envisioning Biology Curricula to Include Ideological Awareness	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

Informal Reasoning and Nature of Science in Proximal and Distal Socio-scientific Issues	12
An Elementary School Science Teacher’s Two Contrasting Epistemological Messages for Scientific Explanations That Are Influenced by the Achievement Emotion of “Joy” and “Irritation”	12
Correction: Developing an Evaluation Rubric for Planning and Assessing SSI-Based STEAM Programs in Science Classrooms	12
Transactivity Despite Complexity: Promoting Group Discussions in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	11
Introduction to This Special Issue: Tribute to the Memory of the Late Professor Peter Fensham	11
Understanding STEM Outcomes for Autistic Middle Schoolers in an Interest-Based, Afterschool Program: A Qualitative Study	11
Self-Rated Content Knowledge for Interdisciplinary Science Teaching: An Instrument and Perceptions of Disciplinarily Educated Pre-Service Science Teachers	10
Exploring the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of STEM Students within the Context of an Informal STEM Education Programme	10
Differentiating Elementary Science Education: Dutch Teachers’ Perceived Practices	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
Peter Fensham: a Man of Humility	9
Formation and Influence of Epistemic Norms in Integrated STEM Problem- Solving: a Study of Singapore Secondary Students’ STEM Inquiry	9
Correction: The Solar System Traveler: A Model-Based Board Game To Advance Primary Student Interest, Knowledge and Learning in Astronomy	9
Tracing Pedagogical Shifts: A Physics Professor’s Development Through Faculty Partnership	9
Exploring Features That Play a Role in Adolescents’ Science Identity Development	9
Epistemic Design Features of Virtual Reality-Based Scientific Inquiry Across Different Types of Reasoning: A Multimodal Perspective	9
The Future Curriculum for School Science: What Can Be Learnt from the Past?	9
How much do Different Factors of Elementarization Matter? Comparing Two Dynamical Approaches to Newton’s Second Law	9
Facilitating Conditions and Perceived Usefulness Drive Bhutanese Teachers` Intention to Use PhET Simulations	8
How Scientists’ Narratives on AI Signal a New Era for Science Education	8
Validation of the Measure of Peer Argumentive Discourse Style (PADS) in a Science Context: Evidence for the Construct Validity and Reliability	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
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	8
Interplay among Language and Home Variables in Lebanese Students’ Science TIMSS Performance: A Linguistic and Economic Capital Perspective	7
Health Science Students’ Conceptual Understanding of Electricity: Misconception or Lack of Knowledge?	7
College Students' Plausibility Perceptions about Global Climate Change: Implementation of Model Evidence Link Diagram	7
Science Teachers’ Approaches to Artificial Intelligence Integrated Science Teaching	7
Looking Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Revealing Students’ Interdisciplinary Understanding by Applying the Topic Modeling Technique	7
The Development and Validation of a Teaching Self-Efficacy Assessment for Informal Science Educators	7
Quantitative Measurement of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competency of Questioning in Scaffolding Students’ Science Learning	7
Students’ Drawings, Conceptual Models, and Chemistry Understanding in the Air-Quality Learning Unit	7
Exploring the Impact of STEM Experiences, Parental Education, Family Support, and Stereotypes on Students’ STEM Identity: A Comparative Study by Gender and EAL Status	7
Innovations, Challenges and Future Directions in Nature of Science Research: Reflections from Early Career Academics	7
Development of Systems and Futures Thinking Skills by Primary Pre-service Teachers for Addressing Epidemics	7
Epistemic Goals and Practices in Biology Curriculum—the Philippines and Japan	6
Peter Fensham: a Personal Memorial	6
Using the History of Research on DNA to Teach NOS	6
Suggestions for the Analysis of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge Components and Their Interactions	6
Makerspaces: Building Confidence in STEM for Primary Preservice Teachers	6
Disciplinary Learning Motivation and Its External Influencing Factors: Taking Physics in a “Selection Crisis” as an example	6
The Impact of Digital and Analog Approaches on a Multidimensional Preschool Science Education	6
Explicit Versus Implicit Instruction: Effects of Epistemological Enhancement on Ninth Graders’ Physics-Related Personal Epistemology and Physics Achievement	6
Memorial Tribute for Professor Peter Fensham	6
A Personal Reflection from a Former QUT Academic who knew Peter when she was a Doctoral Student at QUT	6
Tracing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science Through Their Drawings and Writing	6
Digital Research Skills: Application in Secondary Science Reports	5
Phases of Progression: Students’ meaning-making of Epigenetic Visual Representations within and between Levels of Organization	5
“Black Boxes, full of them”: Biology Teachers’ Perception of the Role of Explanatory Black Boxes in Their Classroom	5

Legitimation Code Theory as an Analytical Framework for Integrated STEM Curriculum and Its Enactment	5
Potential of Group-Based Negotiation to Promote Learner-Based Reasoning and Weighting of Arguments on Socioscientific Issues	5
Validation of a French Version of the Situational Interest Survey for Physics	5
Preschool Teachers’ Experiences of Teaching Nature of Science through Book Talks in Early Childhood Education	5
The Conceptual Connection between Science and Engineering: Analysis of Middle School Science Teachers’ Integration of Engineering Design Process into Science Units	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
Preservice Science Teachers’ Epistemic Cognition during Online Searching	5
Gender-Specific Cognitive Skills and Moderating Role of Reading Comprehension in Shaping Science Literacy	5
Designing an Analytical Framework to Investigate Students’ Multimodal Representations of Scientific Practices and Methods	5
Relating Metaknowledge and Modeling Practices in Connection to Content Knowledge about the Phenomenon	5
Implementing Grand Challenges: A Case Study of Implementing Innovative Curricula	5
Guiding Science and Mathematics Learning when Students Construct Representations	5
Correction: Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	5
Exploring the Effect of Mathematics Skills on Student Performance in Physics Problem-Solving: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis	5
What Matters To Students in the Teaching and Learning of Science: Perspectives of Junior High School Students from Ghana	4
Preservice Primary Teachers’ Attitudes Towards STEM Education: a Study Developed Through an Integrated STEM Training Programme Using Inquiry- Based Approaches and Engineering Design Practices	4
Effects of 6E-Based Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement, Higher-Order Thinking Skills, and Attitudes Towards STEM	4
The Variables that Predict Science Undergraduates’ Timely Degree Completion: a Conceptual Model	4
Creativity as Key Trigger to Cognitive Achievement: Effects of Digital and Analog Learning Interventions	4
Physics, Talmud and Argumentation Skills Meet in Whole-Class Dialogic Discussions	4
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Peter Fensham—the Great Synthesizer and Facilitator: a Few Thoughts from a Personal Perspective	4
Measuring Size and Scale: The Development and Validation of the Assessment of Size and Scale Cognition (ASSC)	4
Students’ Perceptions of a “Feminised” Physics Curriculum	4
Assessing the Load: Effects of Visual Representation and Task Features on Exam Performance in Undergraduate Molecular Life Sciences	4
Conceptual PlayWorld for Infant-Toddlers: The Unique Nature of Becoming a Science Learner in the Early Years of Life	4
A Content Analysis of how Biology Textbook Tasks Address System Thinking Skills in the Context of the Carbon Cycle	4
The Changing Landscape of Science Education Research in Australia and New Zealand	4
Using the Lens of Essential Questions-Perspectives to Investigate the Representations of Chemical Thinking in Chinese Secondary Chemistry Textbooks	4
Representation of Learning Outcomes Stipulated by the Intended Curriculum in Four Series of Chemistry Textbooks: Based on Legitimation Code Theory	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
Strengthening Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Physical Science Content Knowledge: a 3-Year Study	3
Pre-service Early Years Teachers’ Understanding of Nature of Science	3
Exploring the Impact of Social, Cultural, and Science Factors on Students’ STEM Career Preferences	3
An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Ideas of Force in Autistic Adolescents	3
Conceptions of Curved Spacetime: Relating Students’ Mental Representations and Understanding of General Relativity	3
Exploring the Scientific Reasoning of Elementary School Students: Adaptation of the SPR-I (7) into Turkish	3
Correction: “Be Better Than You Need to Be”: A-level Physics Students’ Rants, Resilience and Peer Pedagogy on TikTok	3
Progression in School Science Curriculum: a Rational Prospect or a Chimera?	3
Sensemaking and Collective Sensemaking Within an Elementary Principal Science Network	3
Assessment of Conceptual Understanding in Student Learning About Liquefaction	3
Co-drawing to Learn in Science	3
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	3
Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Argumentation to Year 7 Science Students in a low Socioeconomic Rural Australian School	3
Research on Students’ Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation Abilities in socio-scientific Issues Context: Integrated Constructive and Critical Perspectives	3
The Role of Teachers’ Self-efficacy Beliefs and Habits in Differentiating Types of K–12 Science Teachers	3
EcoHealth as a Curriculum Aim in Science Education	3
Examining the Characteristics of Investigation Questions Asked by Preservice Teachers: Influences of Scenario, Prior Course Experience, and Inclusion of a Crosscutting Concept	3
Queensland’s Science Curriculum: Still Learning from the Past	3
Integrating Entrepreneurial Education into STEM Education:	3
Using a scoping review to inform a planetary-conscious pedagogical approach to primary science education	2
From Experience to Inquiry to Generalization: Understanding the STEM-PBL Learning Process and Developing a Formative Assessment Model	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
Transformational Learning for Complex Socioscientific Issues	2
Complexities and Contradictions in a Teacher’s Activation of Epistemological Resources and their Consequences for Student Framing	2
Fostering Knowledge and Awareness about Healthy Nutrition through Science-based Educational Escape Games	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
“Be Better Than You Need to Be”: A-level Physics Students’ Rants, Resilience and Peer Pedagogy on TikTok	2
Children and Parents’ Perceptions of Access to Science Tools at Home and Their Role in Science Self-efficacy	2
An Ontological Perspective on Mechanical Energy Conservation problem-solving in high School Students	2
Understanding the Process of Scientific Literacy Development among Children in the Early Years Through Play and Intentionality	2
Uncovering Patterns in Process Data to Analyze Interactions and Learning Outcomes Within a Computer-Based Learning Environment	2
Exploring Primary School Students’ Self-Regulated Learning Profiles in a Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment	2
The Effect of Argumentation about Socio-Scientific Issues on Secondary Students’ Reasoning Pattern and Quality	2
Flipped Classroom As a Model for Improving Students’ Cognitive Performance and Reducing Misconceptions	2
Expanding the Scope of Science Education to Engage with Anthropocene Challenges	2
Emerging Science Identities: A Study of Secondary School Students’ Positioning in Relation to Science	2
Supporting the Development of Science Pre-service Teachers’ Creativity and Critical Thinking in Secondary Science Initial Teacher Education	2
The Affordances of Metaphors in Meaning-Making of Nutrient Uptake in Upper Primary School	2
Promoting Inclusive Visits to a Natural History Museum with a Pre-Visit VR Tour for Autistic Families	2
Young Peoples’ Online Science Practices as a Gateway to Higher Education STEM	2
Unveiling Stereotypes: A Study on Science Perceptions Among Children in Northwest Mexico	2
Participatory Research with Museum Practitioners: A reflection on the process	2
Examining the Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Educational Divide: Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs and Teaching Practices of Australian Primary Science Educators	2
Cross-disciplinary Challenges: Navigating Power Dynamics in Advocating an Entrepreneurial STEM Curriculum	2