Science & Education

Article	Citations
Using the Predict–Observe–Explain (POE) Strategy in Enhancing Student’s Conceptual Understanding the Energy Conservation Law	61
From COVID-19 to Quartile 1: Editor’s Reflections and Farewell	37
The Contribution of a History of Science Perspective to Photosynthesis Lessons in University Textbooks	36
Does Interference Between Intuitive Conceptions and Scientific Concepts Produce Reliable Inter-individual Differences? A Psychometric Analysis	30
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights	30
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction	30
Enhancing Science Education Through Visual Art and Complex Storytelling Using the Book “The Case Study of Einstein, Eddington, and the Eclipse: Travel Impressions”	29
Sustainability as Living Architecture	26
Modeling the Epistemic Value of Classroom Practice in the Investigation of Effective Learning	26
Education for Sustainability Meets Confucianism in Science Education	26
Cultivating Environmental Consciousness	25
Exploring a New Geometric-mechanical Artefact for Calculus	25
A Science Teacher’s Autoethnographic Reflections on Teaching Nature of Science	25
The Role of Joking for Learning Science: An Exploration of Spontaneous Humour in Two Physics Education Settings	23
Assessing Chemistry Teachers’ Understanding of Electrochemistry	23
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 32, 2023	22
Digital Transition Framework for Higher Education in AI-Assisted Engineering Teaching	22
Quality Indicators of an Experienced Middle School Science Teacher’s Argument‑Based Inquiry Teaching	21
The Impact of Integrating Tribal Culture and Science Education Through Information and Communication Technology	20
An Explicit and Reflective Approach to Teaching Nature of Science in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience	20
Enhancing Argumentation and Decision-Making of Preservice Early Childhood Education Teachers Through Role-Playing on Animal Experimentation	20
Using Card Sort Epistemic Network Analysis to Explore Preservice Teachers’ Ideas About the Nature of Engineering	19
Modelling Authenticity in Science Education	19
Becoming ‘Wild Citizens’: Children’s Articulation of Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Biodiversity Loss	19
Too Philosophical, Therefore Useless for Science Education?	19

Traces of Bildung in Upper Secondary Science Education: A Critical Investigation of Chemistry Teachers’ Orientation Towards Promoting Bildung in Chemistry Education	18
Scientists’ Views About Nature of Science in the Context of Socioscientific Issues	18
The Observer Concept in Science as a Basis for Its Further Curricular Application Within the Discipline-Culture Paradigm	18
“Trust Me, I’m a Scientist”	17
Integration of Philosophy of Science in Biomedical Data Science Education to Foster Better Scientific Practice	17
A Trial Patch to Sustainable Development	17
Embracing Representational Plurality to Bypass Misconceptions in Science Education	16
A Review on the Use of Large Language Models as Virtual Tutors	15
Examining the Formation of High School Students’ Science Identity	15
Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science	15
HPS for All in Journal's Metrics	14
Impact of Argument-Driven Inquiry Activities on Pre-service Science Teachers’ Views of the Nature of Scientific Inquiry in the Context of Climate Change Education	14
Scientific Thinking and Critical Thinking in Science Education	14
Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Strengthening HPSS Scholarship in Science Education	14
Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study	14
Discussing Science Values and Norms from a Learning Situation Historically Contextualised in Mendel’s Laws and Guided by Scientific Practices	14
Science and Religion Integration in Indonesian Islamic Senior High Schools: Analyzing Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices	13
Trust in the Third Space of Science Education	13
Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks	12
The Development of Pre-service Primary Teachers’ Understanding and Skills of Argumentation through Argument Driven Inquiry	12
Analog Modelling of the Haploid Book for Teaching Genetics	12
Estimating Epistemic Practices Loads in Elementary and Middle School Science Curricula	12
The Heart is a Pump, a Dollhouse, a Car or a Ship: How Students Use Conventional and Spontaneously Generated Creative Metaphors to Understand Biology Concepts	12
Cultivating Transdisciplinary Orientations in Science Education Research and Practice: Reflexivity, Pragmatism, and Dialogue	11
A Systematic Review of Research on Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	11
Cobra Effect in Science Education?	11
Political Science as a Science	11
Learning Science in Context: Integrating a Holistic Approach to Nature of Science in the Lower Secondary Classroom	11
Science Teacher Perceptions of the State of Knowledge and Education at the Advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence Popularity	11
Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks	11
Scientists in the Textbook	10
Editorial Note: October 2025	10
The Practical Epistemologies of Design and Artificial Intelligence	10
The Ether Concept from Spanish Physics Textbooks (1840–1950)	9
Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks	9
Comparing Practical Items in High-Stake Exams in Different Science Subjects: in View of the Diversity of Scientific Methods	9
Unpacking Epistemic Insights of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science Education: A Systematic Review	9
How is Students’ Understanding of Nature of Science Related with Their Metacognitive Awareness?	9
The Influence of Extended Reality on Climate Change Education	9
Pre-service Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs, Nature of Science Views, and Beliefs in Pseudoscience	9
Vaccination Information Sources and Decision-Making Among Higher-Secondary Students in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Not Only Why but Also How to Trust Science: Reshaping Science Education Based on Science Studies for a Better Post-pandemic World	9
Presence and Absence of Social-Institutional Dimensions of Science in Secondary Education	9
The Meeting of Old Friends: Exploring the Art-Science Dynamic in the Context of Astronomy and Astronomy Education	8
Exploring the Perpetuation and Disruption of Gendered, Racial, and Working Style Stereotypes in U.S. Life Science Textbooks	8
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein	8
Stereotypical Attributes of Scientists and Engineers in Jokes	8
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making	8
The Problem of Trust Without Intimacy: Education for Handling Expert Knowledge in a Neoliberal Marketplace	8
Investigating Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Conceptions and Argumentation in a Science Methods Course	8

Rethinking the Dual Nature of Science	8
Science Teachers’ Challenging Questions for Encouraging Students to Think and Speak in Novel Ways	8
Towards Equitable, Social Justice Criticality: Re-Constructing the “Black” Box and Making it Transparent for the Future of Science and Technology in Science Education	7
The Socio-Scientific Issue Based on Local Potential in Integrated Learning Instruction to Improve Student Ecological Literacy	7
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making	7
Correlations Among High School Students' Beliefs about Conspiracy, Authoritarianism, and Scientific Literacy	7
The Effect of Textbook Analysis as a Teacher Professional Development Tool on Teacher Understanding of Nature of Science	7
Thomas Kuhn and Science Education	7
Investigating Equitable Representation in K-8 Science Textbook Portrayal of Scientists	7
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel?	7
Scientifically Together, Politically Apart?	7
Contextualizing a Natural Phenomenon: Lightning in Eighteenth-Century Natural Philosophy, Religion, and the Arts	7
Astronomy and Culture	7
The Method of Observation in Science Education: Characteristic Dimensions from an Educational Perspective	7
Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings	7
The Use of Anticipation Guides in Reading Activities to Support College Students in Developing Scientific Written Arguments	7
Exploring Gender Constructs: Colombian and Mexican Biology Teachers’ Perspectives	7
Investigating How Teachers’ (Existing) Sociopolitical Consciousness Serves as a Resource for Adapting Science Materials to Bring in Pursuits of Criticality and Identity	7
Dewey and Rousseau on Experience-Based Science Education	7
The Development of Nature of Science Understandings Questionnaire within Associated Approaches	7
Science Education Collaboration Network: the Case of the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory	6
The Historiography of Biology and Why It Matters	6
Paternity Test: Is Mendel the Father of Genetics, and Why Should Science Educators Care?	6
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War	6
Editorial Note: June 2025	6
Improving Teachers’ and Students’ Views on Nature of Science Through Active Instructional Approaches: a Review of the Literature	6
First-Year Teacher Education Students’ Epistemological Beliefs About Science and History: Domain-Specific Profiles and Relationships	6
Who Says Scientific Laws Are Not Explanatory?	6
Quantification in Empirical Activity	6
Summary Lecture as a Delay Organizer of Cultural Content Knowledge	6
Hot Topics and Frontier Evolution of Science Education Research: a Bibliometric Mapping from 2001 to 2020	6
Nature of Engineering	6
Exploring the Social Values in Mathematics Textbooks	6
‘Happy Stories’ of Swedish Exceptionalism	5
Investigation of Preservice Science Teachers’ Nature of Science Understanding and Decision Making on Socioscientific Issue through the Fractal Model	5
Indigenous Knowledge and Practices of the Tigray People: How Do Teachers and Students Perceive Its Integration in Science and Mathematics Education?	5
Developing Primary School Students’ Abilities to Evaluate the Evidence of Written Scientific Arguments	5
History of Pressure Implemented in a Nature of Science Professional Development Program for Science Teachers	5
‘Should We Be Doing It, Should We Not Be Doing It, Who Could Be Harmed?’	5
Scientific Values and the Value of Science	5
Intercultural Education as Dialogue Between Knowledge Systems: Elements of a Theoretical Framework	5
Did Darwin Work with Plants? Darwinism, Evolution and Education in a Botanical Garden	5
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science in Middle-School Science Textbooks from Brazil and South Korea Regarding Environmental Issues	5
Beauty, Pleasure, and Vital Fluids in the Eighteenth Century Sexuality Education-A Hermeneutic Reading of the Linnaean Lecture About the Way to Become Together	5
The Critical Role of Understanding Epistemic Practices in Science Teaching Using Wicked Problems	5
Rethinking Nature of STEM: Theoretical Insights and the Development of EPISTEMIK-Fire as an Assessment Tool	5
Epistemological and Didactic Reflections on Teacher Training in France	5
Heroes and Helpmeets	4
Evaluation of the Level of Selected Inquiry Skills Among Grammar School Students	4
Making Argumentation-Based Learning and Teaching Happen: Exploring the Development of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Argumentation Competencies	4
Making a Necessity of Virtue in Science Education	4
Investigating Scientists’ Views of the Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science in Science Education	4
STEM and Non-STEM Misconceptions About Evolution: Findings from 5 Years of Data	4
Technology‑Embedded Argument‑DrivenInquiry in Preservice Chemistry Teacher Education	4
Analysing the Nature of Science in the Brazilian Common Core Curriculum	4
Science Education in an Age of Unnatural Disasters: An Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Using the History of the Super-Organismic-Plant-Community Concept To Help Students Understand the Nature of Science	4
Exploring Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Scientific Inquiry and Scientific Practices Through a Laboratory Course	4
Preschool Teachers’ Argumentation on Socioscientific Issues Scenarios	4
Unmasking Gender Stereotypes	4
Teacher Talk Supporting Student Progressive Discourse in Science	4
Teachers' Conceptions About Science and Pseudoscience	4
Examining Bhutanese Science Teachers’ Epistemic Views of Scientific Inquiry	4
Investigating Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Views of Nature of Science in a Philippine Teacher Education Institution	4
Reconstructing the Past	4
Politicizing ‘Learning by Doing’: Shiono Naomichi and the Cultivation of the ‘Japanese Spirit’ in Primary and Secondary Science Education in Japan from 1931–1958	4
Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills Through Artificial Intelligence Education at a STEAM High School	3
The Influence of Real-Context Scientific Activities on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Thinking and Practice of Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry	3
A Justification of Legitimate Teleological Explanations in Physics Education	3
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Extended Cognition in Science Learning Contexts	3
Challenging Modeling for Ohm’s Law through Open-Ended In-depth Inquiry	3
Investigating the Nature of Science in Reformed Chinese Biology Curriculum Standards	3
Indonesian Prospective Teachers’ Scientific Habits of Mind:A Cross‑Grade Study in the Context of Local and Global Socio‑scientific Issues	3
The Disappearance of Natural History, Fieldwork, and Live Organism Study from American Biology Teacher Education	3
STEM Problem Solving: Inquiry, Concepts, and Reasoning	3
Trust in Science and Science Education—Part 2	3
Multivariate Analysis of Beliefs in Pseudoscience and Superstitions Among Pre-service Teachers in Spain	3
The Value of the Philosophy of Science in Senior High School Science Education from the Perspective of the Nature of Science	3
Self-Study and Discussion Promote Students’ Science Learning	3
A Mythical Exploration of Evolutions and Existence	3

Abduction as a Mode of Inference in Science Education	3
The Significance of Science Content Knowledge for Socioscientific Reasoning Competency: Evidence from SSI Instruction on Environmental Topics Based on the SIMBL Model	3
Whose Math Education Is It Anyway? The Case of Twentieth-Century Belgium	3
Is the Effect of Educational Attainments on Trust in Scientists Underestimated?	3
Nepali Cultural Worldview as Eclectic Space in Transformative Action Research for Post-Critical Scientific Literacy	3
Mozambican Preservice Chemistry Teachers’ Performance when Analysing Textbook Analogies About the Atom	3
Reframing Chemical Thinking Through the Lens of Disciplinary Essential Questions and Perspectives for Teaching and Learning Chemistry	3
The Power of Tentative Truth: The Impacts of Enhanced Science Instruction on Student Paranormal Beliefs	3
Natural History Museum Guides’ Conceptions on the Integration of the Nature of Science	3
Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Physics Curriculum Standards over the Past Two Decades	3
Bhutanese Primary Science Teachers’ Epistemic Beliefs of Science	3
Explicating a Satisfying Definition of the Scientist	3
Physics Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptual Understanding of Scientific Literacy	3
Portrayals of Scientists in Science Textbooks of Secondary Schools in Iran: A Qualitative Study in the History of Science	3
Students’ Proof Construction through Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: The Perspectives of Habermas’ Theory of Rationality and Duval’s Theory of Registers of Semiotic Representation	3
Exploring the Impact of a Task-specific Warning to Overcome Intuitive Interference: Humble Lesson on How to Teach in the Context of Representational Plurality	3
Elaborating Nature of Engineering Through Family Resemblance Approach	3
Effectiveness of Inquiry-Based Instructional Design for Developing the Scientific Competency and Interdisciplinary Knowledge of Preservice Elementary Teachers	3
Epistemic Practices Created by Discursive Interactions between Pre-service Chemistry Teachers	3
Representation of Changes about Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks	2
Of Mirrors, Tools and Trails	2
Genetics in Context	2
Teaching Mastery Through Visualization	2
Turning the Plurality of Chemistry into a Resource for Learning: A Core Competency of Chemistry Teachers	2
List of Reviewers Contributing to Volume 30, 2021	2
Eye Tracking in Science Education Research: Comprehensive Literature Review	2
Integration of Engineering Practices into Primary Science Classrooms	2
Modelling Roles of Mathematics in Physics	2
Curiosity Empowerment for Mathematics Learning	2
EI Search: How to Search for Knowledge in the Age of Generative AI	2
Exploring Nature of Science Understanding, Science Self-efficacy and Their Relationships Among Secondary School Pre-service Science Teachers in Ethiopia	2
Reasoning in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Socioscientific Reasoning During a Decision-Making Activity in the Context of COVID-19	2
“L’Avenir” and the Courage to Make the Future What We Need	2
Exploring the Nature of Science Conceptions of University Science Professors Using the Family Resemblance Framework	2
Exploring Middle School Science Teachers’ Error-Reaction Patterns by Classroom Discourse Analysis	2
A Study of Learning Progression During Open Inquiry in Year 9: Learning to Do and Learning About Scientific Inquiry	2
Trust in Science and Science Education — Part 1	2
How Scientists Themselves May be Responsible for Science Distrust	2
Impact of GPT on the Academic Ecosystem	2
Confronting Imminent Challenges in Humane Epistemic Agency in Science Education: An Interview with ChatGPT	2
Can Generative AI and ChatGPT Outperform Humans on Cognitive-Demanding Problem-Solving Tasks in Science?	2
The Public Discussion on Flat Earth Movement	2
The Concept of Weight as Reflecting the Epistemological Changes in Physics	2
Upper Secondary School Science Teachers' Values in Sweden:	2
My Grades Are not as Good as a Scientist	2
Pre-service Teachers' Progression in Incorporating Science in Social Context in the Classroom	2
A Didactic and Metatheoretical Characterization of Computational Simulations in Science Education	2
Let them research with	2
Teachers’ Use of Rational Questioning to Support Students’ Collective Argumentation Through 5E-Based Flipped Classroom Approach Using GeoGebra	2
Comparative Analysis of Engineering Elements in Five Chinese Junior High School Physics Textbooks	2
Why Teachers (Do Not) Integrate History of Science into Physics Courses	2
A Conceptual Framework on Imaginative Education-Based Engineering Curriculum	2
Embodiment Matters in Knowledge Building	2
Attacking a Straw Man? A theoretical alternative and an exploratory empirical approach on how to “inoculate” students against astrology	2