OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Junior high school students’ views of nature of science: evidence from a private school in Davao Region, Philippines	45
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 pri	35
Correction	35
Making it in undergraduate STEM education: the role of a maker course in fostering STEM identities	30
Textbook and popular science text reading: boys’ and girls’ comprehension and assimilation of academic language	28
Students’ situational interest and perceived relevance during designed coherent physics learning modules	26
Assembly required: a microgenetic multiple case study of four students’ assemblages when learning about force	25
Longitudinal study examining immersing students with IEPs in argument-based inquiry to improve the learning of science	25
Space for all: a multinational study on the status of astronomy education	24
A cross-country comparison of climate change in middle school science and geography curricula	24
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 classmates	23
Tackling ‘Big’ questions at the bioscience-Islam interface: reporting on the efficacy of an educational programme designed for Muslim high school students	22
Understanding high school students’ errors in solving genetic problems	22
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	21
Flexible, creative, constructive, and collaborative: the makings of an authentic science inquiry task	21
Science and engineering for what? A large-scale analysis of theme selection in K-12 science and engineering fair projects	21
Predictors of students’ intrinsic motivation during practical work in physics	20
‘I don’t find it hard!’ They defied the gendered norm in science!	19
Correction	19
Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines	17
Why female students leave science classes for social science classes in Cambodia: A two-level hierarchical linear model	16
What do you think being a good scientist involves? School students’ views about science, scientific research, and being scientists	16
Pathways to early science literacy: investigating the different role of language and reading skills in science literacy among early primary school children	15
Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles	15
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?	14

Does process-oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) improve students’ science academic performance and process skills?	14
Teacher enactment of the Geospatial Inquiry cycle in classrooms following scaled up professional learning and development	14
The mediating role of science intrinsic motivation: effects of homework on science achievement in Western and Asian regions	14
Gender, stereotypes and grade level in the draw-a-scientist test in Italian schoolchildren	14
Use of a semiotic-cultural perspective for identifying patterns in students’ drawings about seasonal changes	14
Facilitating students’ design thinking skills in science class: an exploratory study	14
Trajectories of students’ momentary interest in evolution during a museum guided tour	14
Science teachers’ implementation of science and engineering practices in different instructional settings	13
The complexities of moving topics between disciplines: the case of buoyancy and isostasy	12
Testing assumptions of the Draw-a-Scientist-Test (DAST): do stereotyped views affect career aspirations?	12
Using drawings to examine undergraduate students’ mental models of the greenhouse effect: a factor analysis approach	12
Determining factors influencing students’ future intentions to enroll in chemistry-related courses: integrating self-determination theory and theory of planned behavior	12
Using machine learning to predict student science achievement based on science curriculum type in TIMSS 2019	12
Promoting First Nations science capital: reimagining a more inclusive curriculum	12
Investigation of undergraduate and master students’ understanding of gene structure and function	11
The influence of COVID-19 science views, risk perceptions, and group membership on socioscientific decisions	11
Teachers’ professional vision in teaching physics – a validation study	11
Student preschool teachers’ and work teams’ planning sessions of thematic teaching including science during degree projects – curriculum emphases in science teaching	11
Adapting scientific reasoning instruction to children’s needs: effects on learning processes and learning outcomes	11
The role of science attitudes, parental support, and teacher support in fostering students’ resilience	11
Retrieval-based learning versus discussion; which review practice will better enhance primary school students’ knowledge of scientific content?	11
Developing geo-sequential reasoning about tectonic processes using computational simulations	11
Multiple pathways to science enjoyment: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis in TIMSS 2019	11
Emergent themes and pragmatic research methods for meaningful cultural representation of Blacks in multimedia products for the science classroom	11
Investigating early childhood education students’ ideas about microorganisms	10
Citizen science and its potential for science education	10
Novice elementary teachers’ knowledge of, beliefs about, and planning for the science practices: a longitudinal study	10
Studying the quality of inquiry-based teaching in science classrooms. A systematic video study of inquiry-based science teaching in primary and lower-secondary schools	10
Measuring and evaluating the attitudes of secondary school students towards skill-based science questions	10
Combining real and virtual activities about electrostatic interactions in primary school	10
Developing an inquiry-based laboratory curriculum to engage students in planning investigations and argumentation	10
A cross-specialization study of pre-service teachers’ perception of STEM education	10
Learning democratic participation? Meaning-making in discussion of socioscientific issues in science education	10
Biological evolution learning and computational thinking: Enhancing understanding through integration of disciplinary core knowledge and scientific practice	10
Aesthetics and STEAM education: the case of Korean STEAM curricula at the art high school	9
Nature of science and domain-specificity: investigating the coverage of nature of science in physics, chemistry and biology curricula across grade levels	9
Attitude of junior high school students towards the study of science in Ghanaian schools: the case of first-year students in the Cape Coast metropolis	9
An exploratory study of the goals science teachers’ satisfy by integrating engineering core ideas and practices into the science curriculum	9
DAST or VoSAL? Adaptation of the VoSAL to Turkish and a comparison between the instruments	9
Ways of questioning, ways of gesturing: how teachers elicit different ways of students’ thinking in elementary science classrooms	9
The teacher as street-level bureaucrat: science teacher’s discretionary decision-making in a time of reform	9
Designing and teaching socio-scientific issues online: digital curation in the science classroom	9
Becoming a science teacher in the Anthropocene: scientific knowledge as ‘matters of concern’	8
How making mistakes shapes students’ situational engagement in chemistry laboratory?	8
From vision to enactment: reflections on the practical impact of the Beyond 2000 report	8
Use of knowledge pieces and context features during the transfer process in physics tasks	8
Leveraging the epistemic emotion of awe as a pedagogical tool to teach science	8
The power of knowledge: examining teachers’ perceptions regarding the contribution of scientific newsletters to their professional development and to their students	8
Supporting the implementation of a nanotechnology teaching-learning sequence through post-induction science teacher mentoring	8
Students’ science learning experiences and career expectations: mediating effects of science-related attitudes and beliefs	8

Exploring the impact of disciplinary context on students’ dynamic transfer of learning when addressing problems that apply the first law of thermodynamics	7
Preparing to teach in informal settings: preservice science teachers’ experiences in a natural history museum	7
Fit to teach evolution? Pre- and in-service teachers’ knowledge and acceptance of evolution	7
Climate change education implementation: the voices of policymakers, professional development providers, and teachers in five countries	7
Development, validity, and reliability of chemistry scientific creativity test for pre-university students	7
What are the effects of formative assessment on students’ science learning motivational beliefs and behaviours? Comparison between Western and East Asian learners	7
Status and trends of socioscientific issues in educational literature: insights and extensions from a co-word analysis	7
The spatial requirements of the left-hand rule: a novel instrument for assessing the coordination of egocentric and allocentric frames of reference	7
Elementary teachers’ knowledge of using language as an epistemic tool in science classrooms: a case study	7
Aesthetic experience and imagination in early elementary school science – a growth of ‘Science–Art–Language–Game’	7
Transformative and equitable science teaching in the culturally diverse classroom: application of formative assessment system	7
Identity texts in science for multilingual students: discovering resources with social semiotics	7
Development and evaluation of an online course on nanotechnology for the professional development of chemistry teachers	7
Students’ perceptions of learning environment: associations with personal mastery goal orientations, regulations, and academic performance in biology	7
Promoting preservice teachers’ global citizenship and contextualised NOS views through role-play activities integrated into place-based SSI instruction on climate issues	7
Exploring science relevancy by gender and SES in The Bahamas: secondary Bahamian students' interests in science and attractive attributes of future careers	7
Promoting questioning in early childhood science education	7
Using simulations to meld didactic and constructivist teaching methods in complex second year STEM courses	7
Studies on visualisation in science classrooms: a systematic literature review	7
Motivational shifts when moving from face-to-face to distance learning	7
Translanguaging in elementary science	6
‘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 unit	6
Evaluating students’ computation skills in learning amount of substance based on SOLO taxonomy in secondary schools	6
Which factors influence the success in pedigree analysis?	6
Gender parity in STEM higher education in India: a trend analysis	6
Teaching immunology in the 21st century: a scoping review of emerging challenges and strategies	6
REAL possibilities: innovative and responsive curriculum enactment enabling impactful inquiry in primary science	6
Fostering scientific reasoning competencies: investigating impacts of cross- and within-content area experimentation using the competency triad	6
An exploration of multilevel effects of student- and school-factors on elementary students’ attitudes towards science	6
Middle school students’ motivational dispositions and interest in STEM careers	6
Correction	6
Diverse paths, stable differences – role of prior knowledge in learning biology over undergraduate years	6
Measuring high school student engagement in science learning: an adaptation and validation study	6
Power and positionality shape identity work during a science research apprenticeship for girls	6
Validating a partial-credit scoring approach for multiple-choice science items: an application of fundamental ideas in science	6
Predictors of science identity in primary school: epistemological beliefs, competency beliefs, and science learning experiences	6
Attitude matters more: the impact of perceived competence and attitudes toward science on science engagement among university students	6
Examining the efficacy change of preservice science teachers: does an inquiry-based laboratory instruction make a difference? A mixed method study	6
Career entry motivations and teaching perceptions of science preservice teachers: a comparison of trends between Finland and South Korea	6
Impact of inquiry-based learning in a molecular biology class on the dimensions of students’ situational interest	6
Listening to children in nature: emergent curriculum in science teaching and learning in bush kinders	6
Science literacy in the twenty-first century: informed trust and the competent outsider	6
Teaching socio-scientific issues through integrated STEM education: an effective practical averment from Indonesian science lessons	6
The trade-off between STEM knowledge acquisition and language learning in short-term CLIL implementations	6
Intertextuality in science textbooks: implications for diverse students’ learning	6
What improves students’ participation in a school-based citizen science project? Through the lens of practitioners	6
A systematic review of studies investigating science teaching and learning: over two decades of TIMSS and PISA	6
Climate education in secondary science: comparison of model-based and non-model-based investigations of Earth’s climate	5
Developing undergraduate practical skills and independence with ‘at home practical kits’	5
Investigating the effectiveness of explicit and implicit inquiry-oriented instruction on primary students’ views about the non-linear nature of inquiry	5
Visual representations of women in a Jamaican science textbook: perpetuating an outdated, sexist ideology	5
Grade 8 Lebanese students’ reasoning and decision-making about scientific versus socio-scientific issues	5
Reviewing the role of the physics curriculum and its assessment in post-16 gender disparities	5
Science and engineering degree attainment of aspiring-scientists in the United States	5
Measurement of student attitudes to science and association with inquiry-based learning in regional schools	5
Using the socioscientific issue approach to foster secondary students’ argumentation skills, science self-efficacy beliefs and science interest	5
A quasi-experimental study of the impact of college-run science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career days on American students’ STEM career aspirations	5
Supporting student learning from diagnosing erroneous examples when contrasting them with worked examples in the physics classroom	5
Development and validation of an instrument to assess Chinese upper-level elementary students’ attitudes towards science	5
Science fiction and science education: 1984 in classroom	5
An online laboratory applications course for the development of scientific practices and scientific method	5
Students’ gender differences and scientific inquiry competencies in technical education and training institutions	5
Associations among science study attitudes, habits and science academic performance of elementary school students: a latent profile approach	5
From broad principles to content-specific decisions: pre-service physics teachers’ views on the usefulness of practical work	5