OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Science & Technological 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The internationalization of scientist stereotypes through new media: Thai students’ perceptions of scientists from graphic interchange formats (GIFs)	87
Effects of the use of ICT in schools on students’ science higher-order thinking skills: comparative study of China and Finland	24
Tangible versus graphical user interfaces in teaching microcontrollers’ circuits to engineering students	24
Using inquiry-based learning to develop Earth science pedagogical content knowledge: impact of a long-term professional development program	24
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	22
Development of self-regulated learning: a longitudinal study on academic performance in undergraduate science	20
Converging objects-to-think-with : exploring microwave ovens through inquiry-based learning with ChatGPT	19
Gender differences in classroom emotional climate and attitudes among students undertaking integrated STEM projects: a Rasch analysis	19
Teaching and environmentalism: a deduction from values, beliefs and norms in teaching disaster risk reduction in science	17
Pre service teachers’ engagement with stem-based hands-on activities in online chemistry laboratory courses	15
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
Individual and contextual effects on science identity among American ninth-grade students (HSLS:09): hierarchical linear modeling	13
The relationship between teachers’ enacted pedagogical content knowledge and student learning in fundamental concepts of electrostatics	13
Students’ perceptions of authenticity in an upper secondary technology education innovation project	12
High school students’ epistemic knowledge profiles and their multifaceted learning engagement in science	12
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	12
The development of an analytical model for science classroom creativity in China	11
From experiment to model design: teaching scientific and engineering practices in laboratory applications course	11
Elementary science teachers’ engineering integration after long-term in-service training program with and without curriculum material support	10
Drawing together international perspectives on material and embodied aspects of science education: Introduction to the special issue	9
Implementers, designers, and disseminators of integrated STEM activities: self-efficacy and commitment	9
Fostering student climate agency and future literacy: a case study of scenario-based teaching	9
Virtual experiments in physics education: a systematic literature review	9
Teachers’ interventions in science education at primary school. The role of semiotic resources during argumentative interactions in classroom	8

Argumentation and intellectual humility: a theoretical synthesis and an empirical study about students’ warrants	8
Using facial emotion recognition to research emotional phases in an inquiry-based science activity	8
Exploring the relationship between mental representations and conceptual understanding of Special Relativity by high school students	7
Supporting student teachers to integrate theory, research, and practice: developing the Adaptive Subject Pedagogy Model	7
Validating an assessment of scientific modeling competence and mapping junior high school students’ development status	7
Science Identity of Turkish Students: Adaptation of the Science Identity Questionnaire and Analysis in Terms of Demographic Variables	7
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools	7
Developing an instrument for metavisualization and investigating relationships among dimensions of metavisualization	7
Values of mathematics as a pivot of the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers in iSTEM education	7
Upper secondary school students’ gendered interests in electronics and electrical engineering	7
The effect of interactive videos enhanced with pop-up questions on teacher candidates’ learning performance in science	7
The implementation of engineering design-based STEM learning and its impact on primary students’ scientific creativity	7
A conceptual framework for assessing transdisciplinary STEM practices	6
Investigating students’ perceptions of STEM education in private elementary schools in Abu Dhabi	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
Integrated STEM in high school science courses: an analysis of 23 science textbooks in China	6
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	6
Examining the mediating effect of nature of science perceptions on the relationship between metacognition and science self-efficacy	6
Arguments of Turkish undergraduate preservice elementary teachers when testing hypotheses in science	6
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	6
Transdisciplinary STEAM learning in improving students’ conceptual understanding of heat and temperature	5
Navigating the AI-Enhanced STEM education landscape: a decade of insights, trends, and opportunities	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of a virtual laboratory for inorganic chemistry education	5
Drawing a scientist: using the Emo-DAST to explore emotional aspects of children’s images of scientists	5
Effectiveness of treatments teaching the topic ‘cell division’ in improving students’ academic performance: a meta-analysis study	5
Understanding linkage between teacher talk moves, discourse contexts and students’ talk productivity	5
STEAM in practice and research in primary schools: a systematic literature review	5
Undergraduates’ understanding of selected aspects of linear and circular motion	5
A PBL strategy for incorporating 3D cell culture into the classrooms of undergraduate biotechnology engineering students	5
Stakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England	5
The innovative use of smartphone for sound STEM practical kit: a pilot implementation for secondary classroom	5
Development and validation of a STEM stereotype scale in Turkish and English	5
Embodiment and asynchronous storytelling in science classrooms	5