International Journal of Science Education

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Science Education is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
What students’ diagrams reveal about their sense-making of plate tectonics in lower secondary science46
Revision as an essential step in modeling to support predicting, observing, and explaining cellular respiration system dynamics44
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula37
Longitudinal study examining immersing students with IEPs in argument-based inquiry to improve the learning of science33
Developing preservice elementary teachers’ self-efficacy toward teaching science29
Multi-level structural equation modelling for factors affecting science achievement of Korean middle school students before and after COVID-19: based on 2018–2020 national assessment of educational ac28
Teaching Korean science for Indonesian middle school students: promoting Indonesian students’ attitude towards science through the global science exchange programme27
Students’ perceptions of learning environment: associations with personal mastery goal orientations, regulations, and academic performance in biology24
Roles of emotions induced by immediate feedback in a physics problem-solving activity24
The underrepresentation of women in STEM disciplines in India: a secondary analysis22
The spatial requirements of the left-hand rule: a novel instrument for assessing the coordination of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference21
Transformative and equitable science teaching in the culturally diverse classroom: application of formative assessment system21
Fostering young children’s scientific practices in urban and Indigenous areas: an investigation of instructional strategies20
Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers20
A map of collective pedagogical content knowledge as a basis for studying the development of biology teachers’ personal PCK of evolution20
Junior high school students’ views of nature of science: evidence from a private school in Davao Region, Philippines19
Exploring the association between non-specialised science teacher rates and student science literacy: an analysis of PISA data across 18 nations19
Studies on visualisation in science classrooms: a systematic literature review19
Assembly required: a microgenetic multiple case study of four students’ assemblages when learning about force17
What are the effects of formative assessment on students’ science learning motivational beliefs and behaviours? Comparison between Western and East Asian learners17
Teenagers performing research on climate change education in a fully integrated design-based research setting16
Using artificial intelligence to predict students’ STEM attitudes: an adaptive neural-network-based fuzzy logic model16
Completing the progression establishing an international baseline of primary, middle and secondary students’ views of scientific inquiry16
Obstacles and challenges identified by practitioners of non-formal science learning activities in Europe15
Tracking patterns in secondary students’ intention to major in STEM15
Nature of science in students’ discussions on disagreement between scientists following a narrative about health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi accident15
Making it in undergraduate STEM education: the role of a maker course in fostering STEM identities15
How textbook images frame the gender roles of women in science and elsewhere: a content analysis of elementary school science textbooks14
From pre-service science teacher towards transformative intellectual: pre-service science teachers address food insecurity in South Africa14
Characterisation of knowledge of cancer, illness perceptions and their interaction among high-school students14
Instrumentation of students’ experience through the active content of science: from epistemic contact to idealizations and back again in school classrooms14
Development and validation of a module for nanoscience and nanotechnology education: a case of pre-service chemistry teachers13
Exploring coherence and authorship in pedagogical link-making in science13
In-service science teachers’ purposes for integrating the history of science: the role of their science teaching orientation13
Has the coronavirus pandemic changed students’ conceptions of microorganisms? Evidence from elementary school12
Intersectionality as personal: the science identity of two young immigrant Muslim women12
The synergy of peer collaboration and mind mapping in cultivating primary students’ science understanding: an integrative pedagogy to enhance science concept acquisition12
Exploring students’ visualisation competence with photomicrographs of villi12
Why and how teachers make use of drawing activities in early childhood science education12
Elementary students’ explanation of variation of traits and teacher‘s feedback using an online embedded assessment tool12
‘Me hizo sentir como científica’: the expressed science identities of multilingual learners in high school biology classrooms12
Shrinking gender gaps in STEM persistence: a ten-year comparison of the stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school by gender11
Classroom orchestration of computer simulations for science and engineering learning: a multiple-case study approach11
Comparing digital identification guides with traditional guidebooks in a bird field trip11
Development, validity, and reliability of chemistry scientific creativity test for pre-university students11
Status and trends of socioscientific issues in educational literature: insights and extensions from a co-word analysis11
Contradictions and roadblocks: a cultural-historical study of educators’ beliefs and practices in the teaching of science concepts to infants and toddlers11
Food in science, science in food – Interdisciplinarity in science/chemistry and home economics lower secondary curricula across three countries10
Science curriculum-making for the Anthropocene: perspectives and possibilities10
Estimating climate change numbers: mental computation strategies that can support science learning10
Assessment of scientific thinking and creativity in an electronic educational environment10
Learning norms of science through laughter: a study of humour in life science supervision10
Authentic insights into science: scientific videos used in out-of-school learning environments10
Learning the control-of-variables strategy during an informal science lesson on popping popcorn10
Comparison of nature of science representations in five Chinese high school physics textbooks10
Emotional performance on physics and chemistry learning: the case of Spanish K-9 and K-10 students10
Examining science teachers' enactment of argument-driven inquiry (ADI) instructional model10
The epistemological bridge as a framework to guide teachers to design culturally inclusive practices10
Optimising learning from interactive visualisations with drawing prompts10
The organization of informal pathways into STEM: designing towards equity10
Examining relevance in pre-service science teachers’ lesson plans9
The role of consensus messaging in teaching evolution9
The role of aesthetics in learning science in an art-science lesson9
The progression of students’ views about nature of scientific inquiry9
The science of science is fun: assessing the impact of interactive science demonstrations through everyday experiences and near-peer role modeling9
Perceptions of science teachers’ growth-mindset practices and U.S. high school students’ initial science identity and its development9
Addressing methodological challenges in research on aesthetic dimensions to classroom science inquiry9
Reflection on science competence-based curriculum implementation in Sub-Saharan African countries9
Model-based analysis of the impact of a teaching-learning sequence about carbonated drinks on students’ understanding of the dissolution of gases in liquids9
Space for all: a multinational study on the status of astronomy education9
Supporting aesthetic experience of science in everyday life9
Recalibrating the evolution versus creationism debate for student learning: towards students’ evaluation of evidence in an argumentation task9
Identity texts in science for multilingual students: discovering resources with social semiotics9
The relationships between the practice of different scientific activities and students’ scientific knowledge, inquiry skills, view of the nature of science and attitude towards science: a study in pri8
Demonstrating representational competence through the utilisation of potential disciplinary meanings during scientific explanation construction8
The impact of artificial intelligence on scientific practices: an emergent area of research for science education8
Exploring the impact of pre-service science teachers’ reflection skills on the development of professional knowledge during a field experience8
Who wants to be a computer scientist? The computing aspirations of students in English secondary schools8
Investigating students’ meaning-making of multiple visual representations of epigenetics at different levels of biological organisation8
The SEMinal impact of contemporary science: integrated authentic science design and students’ self-efficacy and career aspirations8
Revision and manipulation of physical models as tools for developing the aquifer model by Preservice Elementary Teachers7
Is knowledge of evolution useful? A mixed methods examination of college biology students’ views7
‘I enjoy it a bit, but I wouldn’t want to do it in the future’: pupil aspirations for STEM careers in lower secondary school7
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries7
Evaluation of the effect of in-class activity-based practices on scientific reasoning skills of pre-service science teachers7
Textbook and popular science text reading: boys’ and girls’ comprehension and assimilation of academic language7
Using simulations to meld didactic and constructivist teaching methods in complex second year STEM courses7
Assessing science teachers’ understanding about the nature of scientific inquiry and its reflection in students’ responses using the VASI questionnaire7
Assessing quantitative modelling practices, metamodelling, and capability confidence of biology undergraduate students7
Concept test on reflection and transmission in the range of visible and infrared optics7
Factual knowledge of students about plants is associated with attitudes and interest in botany7
Students’ epistemic emotions in a science classroom: their variations and interactions with practices in structured inquiry7
Beyond the shore: nurturing future marine biodiversity citizen scientists through Coastal Marine Science Fieldwork programme6
Evaluating students’ computation skills in learning amount of substance based on SOLO taxonomy in secondary schools6
How do cohesion features inform science instruction for English learners?: A comparison study of digital and printed science texts6
Would a career in science suit me? Students’ self-views in relation to science and STEM career aspirations6
Correction6
‘I don’t find it hard!’ They defied the gendered norm in science!6
Engaging science teachers virtually in dialogical collaborative action research to improve science teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Competent and cold: a directed content analysis of warmth and competence dimensions to identify and categorise stereotypes of scientists portrayed in meme-based GIFs6
Relationships among perception of teacher autonomy support, achievement motivations, intellectual risk-taking, and science academic performance: a serial mediation model6
Communities of secondary science teachers: a systematic review6
The Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in Promoting learning engagement in Organic Chemistry in Grade-12 Students in the Context of South Africa and Covid-196
A positive presentation of wolves affects the explicit and implicit attitudes of schoolchildren towards them6
Investigating science identity classifications of rural high school students: a person-centered approach6
Pathways to early science literacy: investigating the different role of language and reading skills in science literacy among early primary school children6
Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles6
Measuring high school student engagement in science learning: an adaptation and validation study6
Distance teaching, science teaching, and preschoolers’ reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic—A comparison of the first and third lockdowns6
Effect of explicit and reflective activity-based instruction on senior secondary physics students’ views towards Nature of Science6
Scaffolding pre-service biology teachers’ diagnostic competences in a video-based Learning environment: measuring the effect of different types of scaffolds6
Digital storytelling in online elementary science education: a case study on science and technology club activities6
Vertebrate species knowledge: an important skill is threatened by extinction5
Species identification skills in teacher education students: the role of attitude, context and experience5
Effectiveness of the blended design of a first-year biology course5
Systems Object Framework: a framework for describing students’ depiction of object organisation within systems5
Predictions and explanations about scientific situations in a high school context5
Analysis of experimental design errors in elementary school: how do students identify, interpret, and justify controlled and confounded experiments?5
Enhancing students’ reasoning skills by asking students to provide evidence-based explanations in science classrooms: findings from TIMSS 20195
Development of scientific reasoning test measuring control of variables strategy in physics for high school students: evidence of validity and latent predictors of item difficulty5
The effect of the cyclic curricular design of modelling-based instruction with virtual labs5
Examining the educative nature of selected physical sciences textbooks about electrostatics using pedagogical content knowledge5
Czech and Slovak intended curricula in science subjects and mathematics: a comparative study5
Understanding high school students’ errors in solving genetic problems5
The mediating role of science intrinsic motivation: effects of homework on science achievement in Western and Asian regions5
Do parents’ conceptions of learning science predict students’ approaches to learning science and their self-efficacy for learning science?5
Multi-dimensional explorations into the relationships between high school students’ science learning self-efficacy and engagement5
Scientific inquiry learning with a simulation: providing within-task guidance tailored to learners’ understanding and inquiry skill5
Stories about gender inequalities and influence factors: a science club case study5
The relations between students' belongingness, self-efficacy, and response to active learning in science, math, and engineering classes5
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists5
Life stories of graduate students in Chile and the United States: influences on becoming a scientist from childhood to adulthood5
Context-based learning in flipped middle school chemistry class5
Which factors influence the success in pedigree analysis?5
Developing a questionnaire to measure preservice elementary teachers’ emotions for teaching science and mathematics5
F2F, zoom, or asynchronous learning? Higher education students’ preferences and perceived benefits and pitfalls4
An examination of teacher’s goals for a school crystal growing competition: more than having fun4
Power and positionality shape identity work during a science research apprenticeship for girls4
Using an eye tracker to examine the effect of prior knowledge on reading processes while reading a printed scientific text with multiple representations4
Why female students leave science classes for social science classes in Cambodia: A two-level hierarchical linear model4
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines4
Instructional framing for guiding the construction of explanatory diagrams in a science classroom: a metafunction perspective4
How sensorimotor interaction shapes and supports young children’s gestural communication around science4
Silence is not an option: pre-service teachers embedding First Nation knowledge and practices in primary/middle mathematics and science4
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes4
What do they really think? the repertory grid technique as an educational research tool for revealing tacit cognitive structures4
Students’ perceptions of the nature of technology and its relationship with science following an integrated curriculum4
Addressing socio-scientific issues with interactive concept cartoons: design of a web-based educational instrument4
Understanding quantum numbers: students’ verbal descriptions and pictorial representations of the atomic structure4
Exploring assessment in STEM inquiry learning classrooms4
Development of the Quantitative Modelling Observation Protocol (QMOP) for undergraduate biology courses: validity evidence for score interpretation and uses4
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface: reporting on the efficacy of an educational programme designed for Muslim high school students4
Investigating middle school science teachers’ stock-flow, causal-loop, and dynamic thinking skills with scenario-based questions4
Reducing anxiety and promoting meaningful learning of biology concepts through a culturally sensitive and context-specific instructional method4
High school science teachers’ assessment literacy for inquiry-based science instruction4
From founding voices to future visions: languages and literacies in science education4
Semiosis and joint student–teacher action. Contract-milieu dialectics in a case study of two subsequent primary school earth science sessions4
Primary science teachers’ narratives about significant colleagues in light of collective PCK4
The productive interplay between student-student and teacher-student dialogic interactions and the affordances of student generated explanatory drawings to understand plate tectonics4
Assessing early primary students’ growth in a science unit using multiple modes of representation: investigating the promise of explicit drawing instruction4
Key aspects of successful science fair projects4
Opening up STEMM pathways among Indigenous people in the U.S.: what is the role of cultural, spiritual, and ethical conflicts in Indigenous people's STEMM educational and career decisions?4
Designing computational models as Emergent Systems Microworlds to support epistemically agentive learning of emergent biological phenomena4
Research trends in science education from 2018 to 2022: a systematic content analysis of publications in selected journals4
Profiles of student science attitudes and its associations with gender and science achievement4
An analysis of the nature of science represented in Chinese middle school chemistry textbooks4
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development4
Motivational shifts when moving from face-to-face to distance learning4
The impact of an instructional intervention on the science knowledge and academic language of middle-grade English as additional language (EAL) learners and their English proficient classmates4
Implementation and evaluation of the Model of the Use of Evolutionary Trees (MUET) curricular module in an introductory organismal biology course4
Measuring a cross-sectional sample of students’ intentions to engage with science and modelling associations according to two theoretical perspectives4
What improves students’ participation in a school-based citizen science project? Through the lens of practitioners3
Moderating effects of teacher feedback on the associations among inquiry-based science practices and students’ science-related attitudes and beliefs3
Diverse paths, stable differences – role of prior knowledge in learning biology over undergraduate years3
Does process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) improve students’ science academic performance and process skills?3
Learning contexts and visions for STEM in schools3
Children Challenging Industry: improving young pupils’ engagement with science through links with industry3
Trajectories of students’ momentary interest in evolution during a museum guided tour3
Harnessing the power of promising technologies to transform science education: prospects and challenges to promote adaptive epistemic beliefs in science learning3
Correction3
Effects of a STEM-oriented lesson series aimed at inclusive and diverse education on primary school children’s perceptions of and sense of belonging in space science3
Preschool teachers’ discussions of attempted play-responsive science teaching3
Predictors of students’ intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics3
Flexible, creative, constructive, and collaborative: the makings of an authentic science inquiry task3
Thanks, Welcome, and Farewell Note3
Examining the efficacy change of preservice science teachers: does an inquiry-based laboratory instruction make a difference? A mixed method study3
Enhancing scientific creativity through an inquiry-based teaching approach in secondary science classrooms3
Fostering scientific reasoning competencies: investigating impacts of cross- and within-content area experimentation using the competency triad3
Factors explaining students’ attitudes towards learning genetics and belief in genetic determinism3
Threshold practices as a key in supporting students’ epistemic agency in the science classroom3
Correction3
‘So basically I have to speak less and give students some freedom’: how committing to a value influences a teacher’s enactment of an inquiry-based science unit3
The potency of culture, technology, and context in a biology classroom: Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach in action3
Determining factors influencing students’ future intentions to enroll in chemistry-related courses: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior3
The effect of differentiated science module application on the scientific reasoning and scientific process skills of gifted students in a blended learning environment3
Design transparency of high-school chemistry teachers’ guides: a comparative study3
Correction3
‘I wouldn’t want to be the animal in use nor the patient in need’ – the role of issue familiarity in students’ socioscientific argumentation3
Investigating the effects of different levels of guidance in inquiry-based hands-on and virtual science laboratories3
Towards an assessment of students’ interdisciplinary competence in middle school science3
Developmental trajectories for novice teachers: teaching efficacy, instructional beliefs, and domain knowledge3
Comparison of teaching and learning concepts network for Mendelian inheritance3
Combining hands-on and minds-on learning with interactive diagrams in primary science education3
How scientific literacy is conceptualized in tasks from junior secondary physics textbooks3
Facilitating students’ design thinking skills in science class: an exploratory study3
From sight to insight – reflection processes in an eye-gaze-augmented retrospective3
One context fits all? – analysing students’ context choice and their reasons for choosing a context-based task in chemistry education3
Student preschool teachers’ and work teams’ planning sessions of thematic teaching including science during degree projects – curriculum emphases in science teaching3
Assessing determinants and trends in bird species identification skills among students: a comparative analysis with early 2000s data3
A gender perspective on the structure of adolescents’ interest in science3
Gender, stereotypes and grade level in the draw-a-scientist test in Italian schoolchildren3
Associations between Australian students’ literacy achievement in early secondary school and senior secondary participation in science: accessing cultural and science capital3
Embodying science: the role of the body in supporting young children’s meaning making3
“It’s a lesson with no correct answer”: design issues in preservice teachers’ use of history of science for lesson planning3
The impact of scientists’ STEM educational activities in primary and secondary schools on students’ STEM career aspirations3
Science literacy in the twenty-first century: informed trust and the competent outsider3
Crossing cultural borders: results of an intervention on community college biology students’ understanding and acceptance of evolution3
Validation of an instrument for assessing basic science process skills in initial elementary teacher education3
Student and school-level factors to predict science literacy for two top-performing countries in PISA 2015: Finland and Singapore3
Unearthing the coloniality of neoliberalised curricular discourses to promote a public orientation towards secondary science education3
The efficacy of the Dimensions of Attitudes toward Science (DAS) for explaining primary preservice teachers’ intention to teach science3
Using machine learning to predict student science achievement based on science curriculum type in TIMSS 20193
Professional learning in primary science: developing teacher confidence to improve the leadership of teaching and learning2
Testing assumptions of the Draw-a-Scientist-Test (DAST): do stereotyped views affect career aspirations?2
An extension of the Thermodynamics Conceptual Reasoning Inventory (TCRI): measuring undergraduate students’ understanding of introductory thermodynamics concepts2
Correction2
Beginning secondary science teachers’ implementation of process skills, inquiry, and problem-based learning during the induction years: a randomised controlled trial2
Board game design: an educational tool for understanding environmental issues2
Training for conducting conversations professionally across domains – comparing communication training in biology teacher and medical education2
An exploration of multilevel effects of student- and school-factors on elementary students’ attitudes towards science2
An accurate and practical method for assessing science and engineering problem-solving expertise2
Translanguaging in elementary science2
An Indian perspective on interdisciplinary storylines and science practices in a socio-cultural context2
Implementing citizen science programmes in the context of university gardens to promote pre-service teachers' scientific literacy: a study case on soil2
Teaching infectious diseases during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic – middle school teachers’ choice of content and instructional approaches2
Correction2
Science self-efficacy beliefs of upper primary students in Ireland2
'At first they felt barely relevant': teacher reflective sensemaking of justice-oriented science teaching2
Nature of science conceptions and argumentation skills in different socioscientific contexts2
Listening to children in nature: emergent curriculum in science teaching and learning in bush kinders2
Assessing and enhancing university students’ knowledge integration in learning electromagnetic induction2
Checkable nutrition: a scientific literacy experience for students2
Attitudinal decline toward school science: a focus group approach with Japanese undergraduate students2
Correction2
Science career expectation and science-related motivation: a latent profile analysis using PISA 2015 data2
Middle school students’ motivational dispositions and interest in STEM careers2
How the co-design, use, and refinement of an instructional model emphasizing argumentation relates to changes in teachers’ beliefs and practices2
Field trips in French schools: teacher practices and motivations2
Instructional quality in science teacher education: comparing evaluations by chemistry pre-service teachers and their advisors2
Scientific attitudes: gender differences, impact on physics scores and choices to study physics at higher levels among pre-college STEM students2
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