International Journal of Science Education

Article	Citations
Developing socioscientific perspective taking	36
Students’ perceptions of socio-scientific issue-based learning and their appropriation of epistemic tools for systems thinking	33
Doing science through translanguaging: a study of translanguaging practices in secondary English as a medium of instruction science laboratory sessions	32
STEM initiatives matter: results from a systematic review of secondary school interventions for girls	31
Bringing systems thinking into the classroom	31
Underrepresented minority students receive lower grades and have higher rates of attrition across STEM disciplines: A sign of inequity?	30
Translanguaging in a multilingual class: a study of the relation between students’ languages and epistemological access in science	27
Enhancing students’ interest in science and understandings of STEM careers: the role of career-based scenarios	27
Science teachers’ use of argumentation instructional model: linking PCK of argumentation, epistemological beliefs, and practice	24
Using students’ epistemic uncertainty as a pedagogical resource to develop knowledge in argumentation	24
Secondary school students’ views of nature of science in quantum physics	23
Mapping the nature of science in the Italian physics curriculum: from missing links to opportunities for reform	23
Fifth-grade students’ understanding of social-institutional aspects of science	23
Measurement of socio-scientific reasoning (SSR) and exploration of SSR as a progression of competencies	23
Factors affecting the decision of female students to enrol in undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors in Kazakhstan	22
What do they know? Investigating students’ ability to analyse experimental data in secondary physics education	20
Factual knowledge of students about plants is associated with attitudes and interest in botany	19
Secondary school science teachers’ attitudes towards STEM education in Liberia	19
Motivational factors that influence student science achievement: a systematic literature review of TIMSS studies	19
Vertebrate species knowledge: an important skill is threatened by extinction	19
Aesthetics, affect, and making meaning in science education: an introduction	18
Determining factors influencing students’ future intentions to enroll in chemistry-related courses: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior	17
International collaborative follow-up investigation of graduating high school students’ understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry: is progress Being made?	17
Multi-dimensional explorations into the relationships between high school students’ science learning self-efficacy and engagement	17
Learning democratic participation? Meaning-making in discussion of socioscientific issues in science education	17

Examining the effect of principal leadership on student science achievement	17
Effects of games on students’ emotions of learning science and achievement in chemistry	16
Teaching for conceptual change in preschool science: relations among teachers’ professional beliefs, knowledge, and instructional practice	16
Textbook tasks in the Norwegian school subject natural sciences: what views of science do they mediate?	16
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula	15
Humanising the nature of science: an analysis of the science curriculum in Norway	15
Book talks as an approach to nature of science teaching in early childhood education	15
Development and evaluation of the knowledge about evolution 2.0 instrument (KAEVO 2.0)	14
An interdisciplinary approach to primary school mathematics and science learning	14
Who wants to be a scientist in South Korea: assessing role model influences on Korean students’ perceptions of science and scientists	14
A practical approach to assessment for learning and differentiated instruction	14
Yes but: developing a critical stance toward evidence	14
Comparison of nature of science representations in five Chinese high school physics textbooks	14
A three-dimensional conceptualization of authentic inquiry-based practices: a reflective tool for science educators	14
French teachers’ informal formative assessment in the context of inquiry-based learning	14
The blame-game: pre-service teachers views on who is responsible and what needs to be done to mitigate climate change	13
Necessary or sufficient? The impacts of epistemic beliefs on STEM creativity and the mediation of intellectual risk-taking	13
The relationship between students’ motivation and their perceived amount of basic psychological need satisfaction – a differentiated investigation of students’ quality of motivation regarding biology	13
Citizen science and its potential for science education	13
Gender, stereotypes and grade level in the draw-a-scientist test in Italian schoolchildren	13
Maintaining secondary school students’ STEM career aspirations: the role of perceived parental expectations, self-efficacy, and cultural capital	13
Negotiating conflicting discourses. Female students’ experiences in STEM majors in an international university in Central Asia	13
Longitudinal impact of early childhood science instruction on 5th grade science achievement	13
The development of early scientific literacy gaps in kindergarten children	12
One context fits all? – analysing students’ context choice and their reasons for choosing a context-based task in chemistry education	12
Assessment of practical science in high stakes examinations: a qualitative analysis of high performing English-speaking countries	12
Modelling relationships among students’ inquiry-related learning activities, enjoyment of learning, and their intended choice of a future STEM career	12
The role of aesthetics in learning science in an art-science lesson	12
Scientific reasoning and views on the nature of scientific inquiry: testing a new framework to understand and model epistemic cognition in science	12
Assessing scientific reasoning competencies of pre-service science teachers: translating a German multiple-choice instrument into English and Spanish	12
Tracing bodies through liminal blends in a mixed reality learning environment	11
The influence of context: comparing high school students’ socioscientific reasoning by socioscientific topic	11
Exploring the relationship between perceived technology-assisted teacher support and technology-embedded scientific inquiry: the mediation effect of hardiness	11
The implications of the non-linguistic modes of meaning for language learners in science: a review	11
Preservice biology teachers’ decision-making and informal reasoning about culture-based socioscientific issues	11
Affordances of physical objects as a material mode of representation: A social semiotics perspective of hands-on meaning-making	11
Exploring primary students causal reasoning about ecosystems	11
The long-term effects of introducing the 5E model of instruction on students’ conceptual learning	11
Does integrating natural selection throughout upper secondary biology education result in a better understanding? A cross-national comparison between Flanders, Belgium and the Netherlands	11
Towards an assessment of students’ interdisciplinary competence in middle school science	11
Features and trends of teaching strategies for scientific practices from a review of 2008–2017 articles	11
Investigating the development of secondary students’ views about scientific inquiry	10
Using action research to design and evaluate sustained and inclusive engagement to improve children’s knowledge and perception of STEM careers	10
Validation of the thermal concept evaluation test for Greek university students’ misconceptions of thermal concepts	10
Investigating grade-12 students’ cognitive structures about the atomic structure: a content analysis of student concept maps	10
The status of and challenges facing secondary science teaching in Tanzania: a focus on inquiry-based science teaching and the nature of science	10
The effects of cooperative flipped learning on science achievement and motivation in high school students	10
Zeroing in on the best early-course metrics to identify at-risk students in general chemistry: an adaptive learning pre-assessment vs. traditional diagnostic exam	10
Staging science with young people: bringing science closer to students through stand-up comedy	10
A systematic review of studies investigating science teaching and learning: over two decades of TIMSS and PISA	10

Crossing cultural borders: results of an intervention on community college biology students’ understanding and acceptance of evolution	10
Fostering bilingual written scientific argumentation (BWSA) through collaborative learning (CL): evidence from a university bilingual science course	10
Students’ understanding of the emergent processes of natural selection: the need for ontological conceptual change	10
Gender parity in STEM higher education in India: a trend analysis	10
‘I wouldn’t want to be the animal in use nor the patient in need’ – the role of issue familiarity in students’ socioscientific argumentation	10
Exploring assessment in STEM inquiry learning classrooms	10
The intersection of gender and culture in argumentative writing	9
Development of scientific reasoning test measuring control of variables strategy in physics for high school students: evidence of validity and latent predictors of item difficulty	9
‘There's a much bigger world of science than just Australia': Australian students’ development of disciplinary knowledge, transferable skills and attributes through a New Colombo Plan short-term mobil	9
There is more to touch than meets the eye: haptic exploration in a science museum	9
Validating a partial-credit scoring approach for multiple-choice science items: an application of fundamental ideas in science	9
Assessing students’ approaches to modelling in undergraduate biology	9
Argumentative writing as a tool to develop conceptual and epistemic knowledge in a college chemistry course designed for non-science majors	9
Religiosity and students’ acceptance of evolution	9
Moderating effects of teacher feedback on the associations among inquiry-based science practices and students’ science-related attitudes and beliefs	9
An exploration of chemistry students’ conceptions of light and light-matter interactions in the context of the photoelectric effect	9
Analysis of science textbooks as cultural supportive tools: the case of arab countries	9
‘I’m probably just gonna skim’: an assessment of undergraduate students’ primary scientific literature reading approaches	9
Connecting explanations to representations: benefits of highlighting techniques in tutorial videos on students’ learning in organic chemistry	9
Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts	9
Challenges in designing and assessing student interdisciplinary learning of optics using a representation construction approach	9
A taxonomy of cognitive image functions for science curriculum materials: identifying and creating ‘performative’ visual displays	9
Gender and access to STEM education and occupations in a cross-national context with a focus on Poland	9
Emotional performance on physics and chemistry learning: the case of Spanish K-9 and K-10 students	9
The Science-P Reasoning Inventory (SPR-I): measuring emerging scientific-reasoning skills in primary school	9
Informal science educators and children in a low-income community describe how children relate to out-of-school science education	8
The epistemological bridge as a framework to guide teachers to design culturally inclusive practices	8
Children's perceptions of the factors that led to their enrolment in advanced, middle-school science programmes	8
Supporting Spanish 11th grade students to make scientific writing when learning chemistry in English: the case of logical connectives	8
The role of aesthetics in the teaching and learning of data modelling	8
‘Science is accessible for everyone’: preservice special education teachers’ nature of science perceptions and instructional practices	8
What do primary school students’ drawings tell us about their mental models on marine environments?	8
Examining science teachers' enactment of argument-driven inquiry (ADI) instructional model	8
The dimensions and functions of students’ achievement emotions in Chinese chemistry classrooms	8
‘You really see it’: environmental identity shifts through interacting with a climate change-impacted glacier landscape	8
Cultural-historical analysis of feedback from experts to novice science teachers on climate change lessons	8
Cross-national investigation of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in the U.S. and South Korea: what proxy measures of teacher quality are related to PCK?	8
Recalibrating the evolution versus creationism debate for student learning: towards students’ evaluation of evidence in an argumentation task	8
Science outside the classroom: exploring opportunities from interdisciplinarity and research–practice partnerships	8
How outdoor science education can help girls stay engaged with science	8
Young children’s questions about science topics when situated in a natural outdoor environment: a qualitative study from kindergarten and primary school	8
The role of affect in science literacy for all	7
A comparison study of alternative conceptions on impetus theory and projectile motion of adolescents with typical development and high functioning autism spectrum disorder	7
Examining the complexities of science education in multilingual contexts: highlighting international perspectives	7
Shifting barriers to the acceptance of evolution in an underrepresented student group	7
What do they really think? the repertory grid technique as an educational research tool for revealing tacit cognitive structures	7
Aesthetic experience and imagination in early elementary school science – a growth of ‘Science–Art–Language–Game’	7
The drama of chemistry – supporting student explorations of electronegativity and chemical bonding through creative drama in upper secondary school	7
The impact of epistemic framing of teaching videos and summative assessments on students’ learning of scientific methods	7
Epistemic operations performed by high school students in an argumentation and decision-making context: Setrocia’s alimentary emergency	7
‘Traveling nutrients’: how students use metaphorical language to describe digestion and nutritional uptake	7
Upper secondary students’ situational interest in physics learning in Finland and Chile	7
Ghanaian preservice science teachers’ knowledge of ozone depletion and climate change, and sources of their knowledge	7
‘95% of the time things have been okay’: the experience of undergraduate students in science disciplines with higher female representation	7
Engineering science education: the impact of a paired peer approach on subject knowledge confidence and self-efficacy levels of student teachers	7
Moving beyond the model as a copy problem: investigating the utility of teaching about structure-preserving transformations in the model-referent relationship	7
Investigating the effects of different levels of guidance in inquiry-based hands-on and virtual science laboratories	6
Why and how teachers make use of drawing activities in early childhood science education	6
Open-ended investigations in high school science: teacher learning intentions, approaches and perspectives	6
The role of the argumentation-based laboratory on the development of pre-service chemistry teachers’ argumentation skills	6
How do pre-service science teachers evaluate the persuasiveness of a socioscientific argument?	6
Alignment between biology curriculum standards and five textbook editions: a content analysis	6
The role of language in students’ justifications of chemical phenomena	6
Physics demonstrations: who are the students appreciating them?	6
Harnessing the power of promising technologies to transform science education: prospects and challenges to promote adaptive epistemic beliefs in science learning	6
Students’ perceptions of the nature of technology and its relationship with science following an integrated curriculum	6
The organization of informal pathways into STEM: designing towards equity	6
A study on the possibility of the relationship among group creativity, empathy, and scientific inquiry ability of elementary school students	6
Science self-efficacy in the relationship between gender & science identity	6
Analysis of Spanish pre-service teachers’ mental models of geologic time	6
Conceptual change in socioscientific issues: learning about obesity	6
A systematic review of 5E model in science education: proposing a skill-based STEM instructional model within the 21-st century skills	6
The teacher as street-level bureaucrat: science teacher’s discretionary decision-making in a time of reform	6
An intervention study on students’ decision-making towards consensus building on socio-scientific issues	6
Probing Greek secondary school students’ awareness of green chemistry principles infused in context-based projects related to socio-scientific issues	6
Science teaching in kindergartens: factors associated with teachers’ self-efficacy and outcome expectations for integrating science into teaching	6
How guest experts tell stories about environmental socio-scientific issues in an undergraduate class	6
Classroom orchestration of computer simulations for science and engineering learning: a multiple-case study approach	6
Misconceptions in chemistry among Finnish prospective primary school teachers – a long-term study	6
Tracing physics content knowledge gains using content complexity levels	6

Supporting elementary students’ scientific argumentation with argument-focused metacognitive scaffolds (AMS)	6
The effect of the visiting-scientist approach supported by conceptual change activities on the images of the scientist	6
Aesthetics and STEAM education: the case of Korean STEAM curricula at the art high school	6
Introducing preservice primary teachers to socioscientific activism through the analysis and discussion of videos	6
Analysis of preservice teachers’ lesson plans to determine the extent of transfer of argumentation	6
Beginning secondary science teachers’ implementation of process skills, inquiry, and problem-based learning during the induction years: a randomised controlled trial	6
Species identification skills in teacher education students: the role of attitude, context and experience	6
Factors explaining students’ attitudes towards learning genetics and belief in genetic determinism	5
Novice elementary teachers’ knowledge of, beliefs about, and planning for the science practices: a longitudinal study	5
Exploring coherence and authorship in pedagogical link-making in science	5
Exploring opportunities to incorporate systems thinking into secondary and tertiary chemistry education through practitioner perspectives	5
Analysis of student perceptions of scientific models: validation of a Spanish-adapted version of the Students’ Understanding of Models in Science instrument	5
A critical review of studies using the pedagogical content knowledge map approach	5
Students’ situational interest in cultivated plants: the importance of contextualisation and topic selection	5
‘Integration of scientific practices into daily living contexts: a framework for the design of teaching-learning sequences’	5
The mediating–moderating model of inquiry-based learning and science self-efficacy: evidence from PISA 2015	5
Reading matters more than mathematics in science learning: an analysis of the relationship between student achievement in reading, mathematics, and science	5
How sensorimotor interaction shapes and supports young children’s gestural communication around science	5
Gender and STEM background as predictors of college students’ competencies in forming research questions and designing experiments in inquiry activities	5
Elementary students’ explanation of variation of traits and teacher‘s feedback using an online embedded assessment tool	5
What do elementary students know about science, scientists and how they do their work?	5
Systematically reviewing the potential of scientific argumentation to promote multidimensional conceptual change in science education	5
Enhancing the pedagogical practice of South African Physical Sciences teachers in inquiry-based teaching through empowerment evaluation	5
Scientific attitudes: gender differences, impact on physics scores and choices to study physics at higher levels among pre-college STEM students	5
‘I loved exploring a new dimension of reality’ – a case study of middle-school girls encountering Einsteinian physics in the classroom	5
Implementing citizen science programmes in the context of university gardens to promote pre-service teachers' scientific literacy: a study case on soil	5
The portrayal of women in Indonesian national physics textbooks: a textual analysis	5
Scientific inquiry learning with a simulation: providing within-task guidance tailored to learners’ understanding and inquiry skill	5
Visual representations of women in a Jamaican science textbook: perpetuating an outdated, sexist ideology	5
Authentic insights into science: scientific videos used in out-of-school learning environments	5
The use of Cartography of Controversy within socioscientific issues-based education: students’ mapping of the badger-cattle controversy in England	5
Pre-university students’ conceptions regarding radiation and radioactivity in a medical context	5
Impact of inquiry-based learning in a molecular biology class on the dimensions of students’ situational interest	5
The interplay of students’ regulation learning and their collective decision-making performance in a SSI context	5
How do rural Australian students’ ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?	4
Climate education in secondary science: comparison of model-based and non-model-based investigations of Earth’s climate	4
Intertextuality in science textbooks: implications for diverse students’ learning	4
Emergent themes and pragmatic research methods for meaningful cultural representation of Blacks in multimedia products for the science classroom	4
Enhancing seventh-grade students’ academic achievement through epistemologically enriched argumentation instruction	4
Using an eye tracker to examine the effect of prior knowledge on reading processes while reading a printed scientific text with multiple representations	4
Exploring the impact of pre-service science teachers’ reflection skills on the development of professional knowledge during a field experience	4
Assessing quantitative modelling practices, metamodelling, and capability confidence of biology undergraduate students	4
Deciding on drawing: the topic matters when using drawing as a science learning strategy	4
Preschool-age children’s early steps towards evidence-based explanations and modelling practices	4
Making claims about learning: a microgenetic multiple case study of temporal patterns of conceptual change in learners’ activation of force conceptions	4
Defining knowledge domains for science teacher educators	4
Teaching science & technology: components of scientific literacy and insight into the steps of research	4
The what, when & how factors: reflections on classroom assessment in the service of inquiry	4
Why the covalent bond is such a complex concept: a conceptual profile proposal	4
Teaching socio-scientific issues through integrated STEM education: an effective practical averment from Indonesian science lessons	4
Student and school-level factors to predict science literacy for two top-performing countries in PISA 2015: Finland and Singapore	4
Roles of emotions induced by immediate feedback in a physics problem-solving activity	4
The features of norms formed in constructing student-generated drawings to explain physics phenomena	4
How do students become experts? An in-depth study on the development of domain-specific awareness in a materials chemistry course	4
Retention of acquired argumentation skills and nature of science conceptions	4
High school students’ understanding of molecular representations in a context-based multi-model chemistry learning approach	4
Disciplinary emphasis and coherence of integrated science textbooks: a case study from mainland China	4
Knowledge and perception of common local wild plant and animal species by children and their teachers – a case study from Switzerland	4
Explorations of an integrated STEM middle school classroom: understanding spatial and temporal possibilities for collective teaching	4
The use of self-determination theory to investigate career aspiration, choice of major and academic achievement of tertiary science students	4
Predictors of students’ interest in a citizen science programme	4
Profiles of student science attitudes and its associations with gender and science achievement	4
Secondary science teachers’ use of discourse moves to work with student ideas in classroom discussions	4
What students’ diagrams reveal about their sense-making of plate tectonics in lower secondary science	4
Children’s reading performances in illustrated science texts: comprehension, eye movements, and interpretation of arrow symbols	4
Enacting ambitious engineering curriculum in science classrooms: examining teachers’ implementation of Virtual Engineering Internships	4
Why do some students opt out of fieldwork? Using expectancy-value theory to explore the hidden voices of non-participants	4
‘Would you dare to jump?’ Fostering a scientific approach to secondary physics inquiry	3
Teaching changes interest and attitudes of students towards bedbugs	3
An accurate and practical method for assessing science and engineering problem-solving expertise	3
Power and positionality shape identity work during a science research apprenticeship for girls	3
Effectiveness of the blended design of a first-year biology course	3
Supporting aesthetic experience of science in everyday life	3
Assessment of scientific thinking and creativity in an electronic educational environment	3
Unravelling the holistic nature of ecosystems: biology teachers’ conceptions of ecosystem borders	3
Biological evolution learning and computational thinking: Enhancing understanding through integration of disciplinary core knowledge and scientific practice	3
Developing museum-school partnerships: art-based exploration of science issues in a third space	3
The (lack of) relationship between secondary science teachers’ self-efficacy for culturally responsive instruction and their observed practices	3
Board game design: an educational tool for understanding environmental issues	3
How the co-design, use, and refinement of an instructional model emphasizing argumentation relates to changes in teachers’ beliefs and practices	3
Systems Object Framework: a framework for describing students’ depiction of object organisation within systems	3
Analysis of experimental design errors in elementary school: how do students identify, interpret, and justify controlled and confounded experiments?	3
Examining relevance in pre-service science teachers’ lesson plans	3
Exploring students’ visualisation competence with photomicrographs of villi	3
Teaching Korean science for Indonesian middle school students: promoting Indonesian students’ attitude towards science through the global science exchange programme	3
Exploring the tensions science teachers navigate as they enact their visions for science teaching: what their feedback can tell us	3
Exploring Korean scientists’ perceptions of scientific creativity and education for scientific creativity	3
Teaching science in multilingual contexts: an exploratory study into the experiences and insights of Maltese science teachers as they learn about teaching in multilingual scenarios	3
Does process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) improve students’ science academic performance and process skills?	3
Using drawings to examine undergraduate students’ mental models of the greenhouse effect: a factor analysis approach	3
Primary science teachers’ narratives about significant colleagues in light of collective PCK	3
Perceptions of science teachers’ growth-mindset practices and U.S. high school students’ initial science identity and its development	3
Obstacles and challenges identified by practitioners of non-formal science learning activities in Europe	3
Teachers’ and pupils’ scientific dialogue in learning about invisible thermal phenomena	3
A construct modelling approach to characterize chemistry students’ understanding of the nature of light	3