OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Research in Science & Technological 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The internationalization of scientist stereotypes through new media: Thai students’ perceptions of scientists from graphic interchange formats (GIFs)	97
Tangible versus graphical user interfaces in teaching microcontrollers’ circuits to engineering students	27
Using inquiry-based learning to develop Earth science pedagogical content knowledge: impact of a long-term professional development program	24
Development of self-regulated learning: a longitudinal study on academic performance in undergraduate science	24
Effects of the use of ICT in schools on students’ science higher-order thinking skills: comparative study of China and Finland	23
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	21
Enhancing students’ achievement and scientific literacy through technology-enhanced learning in science education: a meta-analysis	20
Converging objects-to-think-with : exploring microwave ovens through inquiry-based learning with ChatGPT	19
Empirical investigation of critical factors influencing GhatGPT integration in contemporary technology education	19
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	18
Factors affecting the formation of views of nature of science: A mixed-methods study	15
Development and use of an instrument to measure pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics: the PSEUDO-QM scale	14
The relationship between teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge and student learning in fundamental concepts of electrostatics	14
Students’ perceptions of authenticity in an upper secondary technology education innovation project	13
Virtual experiments in physics education: a systematic literature review	13
Pre service teachers’ engagement with stem-based hands-on activities in online chemistry laboratory courses	13
From experiment to model design: teaching scientific and engineering practices in laboratory applications course	12
Implementers, designers, and disseminators of integrated STEM activities: self-efficacy and commitment	12
Fostering student climate agency and future literacy: a case study of scenario-based teaching	12
Elementary science teachers’ engineering integration after long-term in-service training program with and without curriculum material support	11
Drawing together international perspectives on material and embodied aspects of science education: Introduction to the special issue	10
The development of an analytical model for science classroom creativity in China	10
Teachers’ interventions in science education at primary school. The role of semiotic resources during argumentative interactions in classroom	9
Validating an assessment of scientific modeling competence and mapping junior high school students’ development status	9
Developing an instrument for metavisualization and investigating relationships among dimensions of metavisualization	9

The implementation of engineering design-based STEM learning and its impact on primary students’ scientific creativity	9
The effect of interactive videos enhanced with pop-up questions on teacher candidates’ learning performance in science	9
Using facial emotion recognition to research emotional phases in an inquiry-based science activity	8
Argumentation and intellectual humility: a theoretical synthesis and an empirical study about students’ warrants	8
Science Identity of Turkish Students: Adaptation of the Science Identity Questionnaire and Analysis in Terms of Demographic Variables	8
The impact of STEAM project design on higher-order thinking: a meta-analysis	8
Exploring the relationship between mental representations and conceptual understanding of Special Relativity by high school students	8
Upper secondary school students’ gendered interests in electronics and electrical engineering	8
Enhancing self-directed learning in science education: the Impact of puzzle-solving games and video-based materials on understanding the origin of electricity	8
Integrated STEM in high school science courses: an analysis of 23 science textbooks in China	7
Values of mathematics as a pivot of the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers in iSTEM education	7
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	7
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools	7
Arguments of Turkish undergraduate preservice elementary teachers when testing hypotheses in science	7
Investigating students’ perceptions of STEM education in private elementary schools in Abu Dhabi	7
Supporting student teachers to integrate theory, research, and practice: developing the Adaptive Subject Pedagogy Model	7
What emerges from pupils’ descriptions of technological systems	6
An application of propensity score analysis with structural equation modeling: effects of post-secondary students’ expectations about STEM careers on college success	6
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	6
Development and preliminary validation of the middle school students’ attitudes toward STEM learning scale	6
Reflexive, relevant and interactive: a STEM student-centred pedagogical approach for responsible research and innovation (RRI) training in higher education	6
FACE-TO-FACE VS. ONLINE LEARNING in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING COURSES DURING COVID-19 EPOCH	6
Examining the mediating effect of nature of science perceptions on the relationship between metacognition and science self-efficacy	6
Undergraduates’ understanding of selected aspects of linear and circular motion	5
Exploring stereotypical perceptions of scientists among Greek primary school students: insights from the Draw-A-Science-comic Test	5
The relationships among teacher support, peer support, students’ resilience and attainment value in a STEAM competition	5
Examining the diversity of scientific methods in the South African National Senior Certificate chemistry papers	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of a virtual laboratory for inorganic chemistry education	5
Navigating the AI-Enhanced STEM education landscape: a decade of insights, trends, and opportunities	5
A conceptual framework for assessing transdisciplinary STEM practices	5
A PBL strategy for incorporating 3D cell culture into the classrooms of undergraduate biotechnology engineering students	5
Embodiment and asynchronous storytelling in science classrooms	5
Development and validation of a STEM stereotype scale in Turkish and English	5
Effectiveness of treatments teaching the topic ‘cell division’ in improving students’ academic performance: a meta-analysis study	5
Transdisciplinary STEAM learning in improving students’ conceptual understanding of heat and temperature	5
Stakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England	5
Understanding linkage between teacher talk moves, discourse contexts and students’ talk productivity	5
The effect of guided inquiry-based virtual and physical laboratories on science learning outcomes	4
Supporting pre-service teachers’ integration of engineering into STEM lessons throughout engineering-infused training	4
Engaging with materials and the body: young plurilingual children’s resource-rich interactions in science investigations	4
Effectiveness of serious games on learning achievement of DC circuit concepts compared with educational simulations	4
Socio-(im)material-making activities in Minecraft: retracing digital literacy applied to ESD	4
The effect of 3D modeling performed using Tinkercad or concrete materials in the context of the flipped classroom on pre-service teachers’ spatial abilities	4
STEAM in practice and research in primary schools: a systematic literature review	4
Drawing a scientist: using the Emo-DAST to explore emotional aspects of children’s images of scientists	4
Exploring the materiality of science learning: analytical frameworks for examining interactions with material objects in science meaning-making	4
Virtual learning environment to improve scientific literacy: a systematic review	4
Nigerian biology teachers’ pedagogical orientations and practices in under-resourced laboratories in relation to students’ perceptions of the laboratory and attitude towards biology practical	4
Recurrent gestures in organic chemistry in tertiary education: creating emblems through material and embodied actions	4
Exploring the factors influencing undergraduate students’ decision to pursue physics at the University of Education, Winneba	4

The STEM curriculum integration through big ideas and learning progression Frameworks: attitudes and insights from teacher and student	4
Elaboration of science teachers’ technology-based lesson practices in terms of contextual factors influencing TPACK	4
Effect of environmental factors on students’ interest in STEM careers: The mediating role of self-efficacy	3
Use of data obtained in the field and its contribution to the process of construction of the geological change model by preservice elementary teachers	3
A systematic review of the application of eye-tracking technology in reading in science studies	3
Revitalizing STEM Education: integrating STEM into National curricula with active learning	3
A beautiful garment from old fabrics: the analogy of culturo-techno-contextual approach for meaningful learning in science	3
Scientific literacy in biology and attitudes towards science in the Chilean education system	3
Embodied, dramatizing performances in science class: multimodal spaces and places of knowledge and identity construction	3
The mediating effects of basic psychological needs on the associations between teacher support and Chinese adolescents’ science and math self-efficacy	3
Turkish adaptation of the science-P reasoning inventory: examining the relationships between epistemological beliefs, gender, and residential area	3
Ocean wave energy learning project (OWELP): a program to communicate alternative energy technology	3
The science-specific home learning environment of elementary school children – how are science experiences and science talk associated with the children’s science achievement?	3
Investigating in-service teachers’ STEM literacy: the role of subject background and gender	3
Teachers’ self-efficacy and role when teaching STEM in high-tech informal learning environments	3
A systematic review of assessments for young children’s scientific and engineering practices	3
Prospective science teachers are good at which of? Algorithmic, conceptual and graphical questions	3
Are attitudes towards science and technology related to critical areas in science education?	3
Thinking-back-and-forth in practical work experienced by students: identifying evidence-informed characteristics of good practices in secondary education	3
Navigating school science fairs in the artificial intelligence age: a local fair transformed	3
Supporting the development of undergraduate research skills in the biomedical sciences at an international branch campus	3
Analysing teacher behaviour in synthesizing hands-on and minds-on during practical work	3
Effects of different interventions to treat errors during STEM learning on improving young children’s psychological resilience	2
Exploring k5 students’ learning pathways regarding water’s electrical conductivity	2
‘Mixing and making’: attitudes to science and scientists among lower secondary school pupils	2
Insights into a Community of Inquiry that emerged during academics’ emergency remote university teaching of chemistry in response to concern for students	2
Perspectives of teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown: a comparison of teaching in university bioscience programmes from around the world	2
Understanding and explaining pedagogical problem solving: a video-based grounded theory study of classroom pedagogy	2
Identifying the roles of technology: a systematic review of STEM education in primary and secondary schools from 2015 to 2023	2
Quality of 8th-grade science books: a systematic analysis of end-of-chapters-tasks in 8th-grade science books using Revised Bloom Taxonomy	2
Exploring multidisciplinary teamwork of applied physics and engineering students in a challenge-based learning course	2
Exploring the structural relationships between high school students’ perceptions of science learning environment, their motivation and self-regulation: evidence from Iran	2
Students’ science achievement in cognitive domains: effects of practical work and clarity of instruction	2
“The strawberry in the pot that became something” – entanglements of bodies, materials, and affect in science activities supported by a community organization	2
Digital immersion technologies transform agricultural learning: a study of interactive educational platforms among rural Colombian university students	2
Material-dialogic space as a framework for understanding material and embodied interaction science education	2
What contents from the history of chemistry are estimated as useful for chemistry lessons – attitudes of chemistry teachers	2