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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of intercoder reliability in qualitative interview data analysis in science education	27
Investigating the effectiveness of STEAM education on students’ conceptual understanding of force and energy topics	26
Enhancing student communication competencies in STEM using virtual global collaboration project based learning	24
Pre-service early childhood teachers’ views on STEM education and their STEM teaching practices	24
Augmented reality technology in science education for students with specific learning difficulties: its effect on students’ learning and views	22
Examining Taiwanese students’ views on climate change and the teaching of climate change in the context of higher education	17
Effectiveness of flipped classroom practices in teaching of science: a mixed research synthesis	15
Video-worked examples to support the development of elementary students’ science process skills: a case study in an inquiry activity on electrical circuits	13
Designing teaching and reflection experiences to develop candidates’ science teaching self-efficacy	12
The challenge and opportunities of quantum literacy for future education and transdisciplinary problem-solving	12
Integration of engineering into K-12 education: a systematic review of teacher professional development programs	12
Investigating teachers’ and students’ experiences of quantum physics lessons: opportunities and challenges	11
Relevant or interesting according to upper secondary students? Affective aspects of context-based chemistry problems	10
Are preservice science teachers (PSTs) prepared for teaching argumentation? Evidence from a university teacher preparation program in China	10
Achieving educational goals in microscopy education by adopting virtual reality labs on top of face-to-face tutorials	10
Designing practical science assessments in England: students’ engagement and perceptions	10
Gender differences in classroom emotional climate and attitudes among students undertaking integrated STEM projects: a Rasch analysis	9
Students’ integration of textbook representations into their understanding of photomicrographs: epistemic network analysis	9
Can the culturo-techno-contextual approach (CTCA) promote students’ meaningful learning of concepts in variation and evolution?	9
Gender difference in students’ performance in chemistry – can computer simulation bridge the gap?	9
Science teachers’ continuing professional development: online vs face-to-face	8
Draw-A-Science-Comic: exploring children’s conceptions by drawing a comic about science	8
Mobile and printed dichotomous keys in constructivist learning of biology in primary school	8
Meaning making in collaborative practical work: a case study of multimodal challenges in a Year 10 chemistry classroom	8
Nanoscale science and technology education: primary school students’ preconceptions of the lotus effect and the concept of size	8

Facilitating the self-determination of undergraduate women in physics: the role of external validation	8
Authentic science experiences with STEM datasets: post-secondary results and potential gender influences	8
The innovative use of smartphone for sound STEM practical kit: a pilot implementation for secondary classroom	7
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	7
Perceptions of students and teachers participating in a science festival regarding science and scientists	7
Scientist of the week: evaluating effects of a teacher-led STEM intervention to reduce stereotypical views of scientists in young children	7
Analysing teacher behaviour in synthesizing hands-on and minds-on during practical work	7
Responsible research and innovation in science education: insights from evaluating the impact of using digital media and arts-based methods on RRI values	7
How do science camps affect middle grade students’ image of scientists?	7
Effect of environmental factors on students’ interest in STEM careers: The mediating role of self-efficacy	6
Testing a methodology for the development of socioscientific issues to enhance middle school students’ argumentation and reasoning	6
Relationship between students’ hands-on making self-efficacy, perceived value, cooperative attitude and competition preparedness in joining an iSTEAM contest	6
Supporting informal science learning with metacognitive scaffolding and augmented reality: effects on science knowledge, intrinsic motivation, and cognitive load	6
A material for education process and the Teacher: the use of digital storytelling in preschool science education	6
School administrators’ awareness of parental STEM knowledge, strategies to promote STEM knowledge, and student STEM preparation	6
iSTEAM contest on enhancing self-confidence in making miniature models: correlate to mastery orientation, engagement and interest	6
Implementers, designers, and disseminators of integrated STEM activities: self-efficacy and commitment	6
Action research on pre-service elementary teachers’ understandings of the scientific method and the use of evidence in a science and technology teaching course	6
From ICT availability to student science achievement: mediation effects of ICT psychological need satisfactions and interest across genders	5
Enhancing preservice science teachers’ perceptions of engineer and engineering through STEM education: a focus on drawings as evidence	5
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	5
Middle grades teachers’ content knowledge for renewable energy instruction design	5
Exploring core ideas of procedural understanding in scientific inquiry using educational data mining	5
The scientific thinking and reasoning framework and its applicability to manufacturing and services firms in natural sciences	5
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	5
Children’s practices with electronic sensors to understand and mitigate sound pollution in primary school	4
A method and framework for video-based pedagogy analysis	4
Are attitudes towards science and technology related to critical areas in science education?	4
The effects of enhanced hands-on experimentation on correcting student misconceptions about work and energy in engineering mechanics	4
The representation of laboratory activities in Indonesian physics textbooks: a content analysis	4
Using classroom video-based instruments to characterise pre-service science teachers’ incoming usable knowledge for teaching science	4
Integrated STEM in high school science courses: an analysis of 23 science textbooks in China	4
Understanding linkage between teacher talk moves, discourse contexts and students’ talk productivity	4
Does computation technology matter in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects?	4
Nature of science in science textbooks for vocational training in Norway	4
Development of self-regulated learning: a longitudinal study on academic performance in undergraduate science	4
Drawing a scientist: using the Emo-DAST to explore emotional aspects of children’s images of scientists	3
Engineering students’ needs for listening scaffolding strategies and their perceptions of instructors’ performance in an academic listening course	3
Teachers’ self-efficacy and role when teaching STEM in high-tech informal learning environments	3
Preparation of preschool teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an online professional development program in STEM education	3
Students’ argumentation in the contexts of science, religious education, and interdisciplinary science-religious education scenarios	3
Insects GO: a gaming activity for entomology teaching in middle school	3
Understanding and explaining pedagogical problem solving: a video-based grounded theory study of classroom pedagogy	3
Perspectives of teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown: a comparison of teaching in university bioscience programmes from around the world	3
Exploring STEM integration: assessing the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary informal program in fostering students’ performance and inspiration	3
Assessment of the ability of game-based science learning to enhance genetic understanding	3
Digital laboratory report writing, assessment and feedback in the 21st century for an extended curriculum programme for physics	3
Students’ and teachers’ critical thinking in science education: are they related to each other and with physics achievement?	3
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools	3
Attitudes of secondary school students towards geology in Spain	3

Making open educational resource videos on sustainable development: students’ attitudes, rationales, and approaches	3
Science teachers’ views of creating and teaching Big Ideas of science education: experiences from Chile	3
From PCK to TPACK - Supporting student teachers’ reflections and use of digital technologies in science teaching	3
Recognizing aesthetics in nature with STEM and STEAM education	3
Examination of prospective teachers’ knowledge about capacitors and electric field lines	3
Pedagogy Analysis Framework: a video-based tool for combining teacher, pupil & researcher perspectives	3
Teaching aspects of the interrelationship between science and technology: explicit or implicit approach?	2
Correction	2
Profiling preservice science teachers’ early experiences, beliefs about teaching, and teaching practices	2
The relationship between epistemic cognition and dialogic feedback in elementary and middle school science classrooms	2
The effect of the Self-explain–Discuss–Re-explain (SDR) learning strategy on high- and low-achieving fifth-grade students’ achievement in science	2
Public opinions and knowledge about microorganisms	2
The nature of technology and engineering (NOTE) as perceived by science and technology teachers in Korea	2
An effective intervention using STEM instruction for improving preservice science teachers’ self-efficacy	2
Towards competencies and methods to support Responsible Research and Innovation within STEAM secondary education – the case of Spain	2
Individual and contextual effects on science identity among American ninth-grade students (HSLS:09): hierarchical linear modeling	2
Effects of withholding answers coupled with physical manipulation on students’ learning of magnetism-related science content	2
Argumentation and intellectual humility: a theoretical synthesis and an empirical study about students’ warrants	2
Saudi Arabian secondary school students’ views of the nature of science and epistemological beliefs: gendered differences	2
Elaboration of science teachers’ technology-based lesson practices in terms of contextual factors influencing TPACK	2
Students creating videos for learning by teaching from their scientific curiosity	2
Influence and behavioral pattern of university students’ participation in decision-making on socio-scientific issues	2
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	2
Preservice teachers’ beliefs in a mathematics/science course	2
Supporting pre-service teachers’ integration of engineering into STEM lessons throughout engineering-infused training	2
Characteristics of classroom discourse in physics lessons	2
STEM in Early Childhood Education: A Bibliometric Analysis	2
Investigating in-service teachers’ STEM literacy: the role of subject background and gender	2
Correlation between concept comprehension and mental semantic networks for scientific terms	2
Pre-service elementary teachers’ conceptual understanding of average speed: the systematicity and persistence of related and unrelated concepts	2
Linear or quadratic effects of ICT use on science and mathematics achievements moderated by SES: conditioned ecological techno-process	2
Development of a university-industry collaboration model towards work-ready engineering graduates	2