OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Science & Technological Education is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Forests After Florence: an informal community-engaged STEM research project promotes STEM identity in disaster-impacted students	73
The internationalization of scientist stereotypes through new media: Thai students’ perceptions of scientists from graphic interchange formats (GIFs)	25
Tangible versus graphical user interfaces in teaching microcontrollers’ circuits to engineering students	22
Effects of the use of ICT in schools on students’ science higher-order thinking skills: comparative study of China and Finland	22
Exploring achievement motivation, student engagement, and learning outcomes for STEM college students in Taiwan through the lenses of gender differences and multiple pathways	21
The challenge and opportunities of quantum literacy for future education and transdisciplinary problem-solving	20
Using inquiry-based learning to develop Earth science pedagogical content knowledge: impact of a long-term professional development program	20
Development of self-regulated learning: a longitudinal study on academic performance in undergraduate science	18
Gender differences in classroom emotional climate and attitudes among students undertaking integrated STEM projects: a Rasch analysis	16
Converging objects-to-think-with : exploring microwave ovens through inquiry-based learning with ChatGPT	16
Teaching and environmentalism: a deduction from values, beliefs and norms in teaching disaster risk reduction in science	15
Students’ and teachers’ critical thinking in science education: are they related to each other and with physics achievement?	14
Pre service teachers’ engagement with stem-based hands-on activities in online chemistry laboratory courses	13
Development and use of an instrument to measure pseudoscientific beliefs in quantum mechanics: the PSEUDO-QM scale	13
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	12
Teacher and student engagement when using learning materials based on the context of cutting-edge chemistry research	12
Students’ perceptions of authenticity in an upper secondary technology education innovation project	12
Factors affecting the formation of views of nature of science: A mixed-methods study	12
The development of an analytical model for science classroom creativity in China	11
Implementers, designers, and disseminators of integrated STEM activities: self-efficacy and commitment	10
Elementary science teachers’ engineering integration after long-term in-service training program with and without curriculum material support	10
Virtual experiments in physics education: a systematic literature review	10
High school students’ epistemic knowledge profiles and their multifaceted learning engagement in science	9
Public opinions and knowledge about microorganisms	9

Argumentation and intellectual humility: a theoretical synthesis and an empirical study about students’ warrants	8
Teachers’ interventions in science education at primary school. The role of semiotic resources during argumentative interactions in classroom	8
Drawing together international perspectives on material and embodied aspects of science education: Introduction to the special issue	8
Developing an instrument for metavisualization and investigating relationships among dimensions of metavisualization	8
The representation of laboratory activities in Indonesian physics textbooks: a content analysis	8
The effect of interactive videos enhanced with pop-up questions on teacher candidates’ learning performance in science	7
Supporting student teachers to integrate theory, research, and practice: developing the Adaptive Subject Pedagogy Model	7
The implementation of engineering design-based STEM learning and its impact on primary students’ scientific creativity	7
Science Identity of Turkish Students: Adaptation of the Science Identity Questionnaire and Analysis in Terms of Demographic Variables	7
Using facial emotion recognition to research emotional phases in an inquiry-based science activity	7
Exploring the relationship between mental representations and conceptual understanding of Special Relativity by high school students	7
Investigating students’ perceptions of STEM education in private elementary schools in Abu Dhabi	6
Typology of teachers’ stages of concern for STEM education	6
Affordances and obstacles when integrating digital tools into science teaching in preschools	6
Values of mathematics as a pivot of the perceptions of secondary mathematics teachers in iSTEM education	6
Upper secondary school students’ gendered interests in electronics and electrical engineering	6
Examining the mediating effect of nature of science perceptions on the relationship between metacognition and science self-efficacy	5
Reflexive, relevant and interactive: a STEM student-centred pedagogical approach for responsible research and innovation (RRI) training in higher education	5
Integrated STEM in high school science courses: an analysis of 23 science textbooks in China	5
Improving early childhood pre-service teachers’ computational thinking teaching self-efficacy beliefs in a STEM course	5
A conceptual framework for assessing transdisciplinary STEM practices	5
Development and preliminary validation of the middle school students’ attitudes toward STEM learning scale	5
FACE-TO-FACE VS. ONLINE LEARNING in SCIENCE and ENGINEERING COURSES DURING COVID-19 EPOCH	5
Stakeholder perceptions of primary school education about food sustainability and farm animal welfare in England	5
Transdisciplinary STEAM learning in improving students’ conceptual understanding of heat and temperature	5
The nature of technology and engineering (NOTE) as perceived by science and technology teachers in Korea	5
Arguments of Turkish undergraduate preservice elementary teachers when testing hypotheses in science	5
Effectiveness of treatments teaching the topic ‘cell division’ in improving students’ academic performance: a meta-analysis study	4
Exploring STEM integration: assessing the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary informal program in fostering students’ performance and inspiration	4
The effects of enhanced hands-on experimentation on correcting student misconceptions about work and energy in engineering mechanics	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
Drawing a scientist: using the Emo-DAST to explore emotional aspects of children’s images of scientists	4
Students’ integration of textbook representations into their understanding of photomicrographs: epistemic network analysis	4
Navigating the AI-Enhanced STEM education landscape: a decade of insights, trends, and opportunities	4
Embodiment and asynchronous storytelling in science classrooms	4
The innovative use of smartphone for sound STEM practical kit: a pilot implementation for secondary classroom	4
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
STEAM in practice and research in primary schools: a systematic literature review	4
Undergraduates’ understanding of selected aspects of linear and circular motion	4
A PBL strategy for incorporating 3D cell culture into the classrooms of undergraduate biotechnology engineering students	4
Understanding linkage between teacher talk moves, discourse contexts and students’ talk productivity	4
Recurrent gestures in organic chemistry in tertiary education: creating emblems through material and embodied actions	4
Evaluating the effectiveness of a virtual laboratory for inorganic chemistry education	4
Exploring the materiality of science learning: analytical frameworks for examining interactions with material objects in science meaning-making	4