OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Science Education is 5. 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
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
Preservice Science Teachers’ Strategies in Scientific Reasoning: the Case of Modeling	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
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
Assessing Argumentation Using Machine Learning and Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling	16
A Practice-Based Approach to Learning Nature of Science through Socioscientific Issues	16
STEM in the Making? Investigating STEM Learning in Junior School Makerspaces	14
The Multi-timescale, Multi-modal and Multi-perspectival Aspects of Classroom Discourse Analysis in Science Education	13
Teaching Electromagnetism for the First Time: a Case Study of Pre-service Science Teachers’ Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge	13
Increasing Girls’ STEM Engagement in Early Childhood: Conditions Created by the Conceptual PlayWorld Model	12
Comparing Student Responses to Convergent, Divergent, and Evaluative Nature of Science Questions	12
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
Exploring Student Reasoning and Representation Construction in School Science Through the Lenses of Social Semiotics and Interaction Analysis	11
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

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
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
Engineering PlayWorld—a Model of Practice to Support Children to Collectively Design, Imagine and Think Using Engineering Concepts	9
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
Pre-service Biology Teachers’ Responses to First-Hand Anomalous Data During Modelling Processes	8
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
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
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
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
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
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