OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	30
Mathematical Argumentative Writing in K–12 Education: A Systematic Literature Review	29
Correction to: The Influence of Iterative Online Course Designs on Student Learning Outcomes in Large Undergraduate Biology Courses and Labs	28
Improving the Perceived Utility Value of Teamwork and Collaboration among STEM Undergraduates	28
Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA): A New Approach for Measuring Scientific Creativity in Secondary School Students	26
Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program	24
Predicting Math and Science Literacy from School Digital Device Policies and Students’ Sense of School Belonging	24
Current Trends in Math Anxiety Research: a Bibliometric Approach	22
Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course	21
Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Problem-Solving Ability and Their Curricular Noticing Ability Through Pedagogical Sequencing Activities	21
Examination of Taiwanese Mathematics Teacher Questioning	21
Development and Validation of Deep Procedural Knowledge Test on Angles and Polygons (Deep-ProKT-AngPoly)	21
What is the Inventory of Student Evolution Acceptance (I-SEA) Measuring? A Factor Analytic Comparison of Multiple Competing Hypotheses in Practicing Science Teachers and Undergraduate Science Non-Majo	20
Beyond Keywords: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Unpack the Language of Additive Word Problems	19
Insights into Pothole Damage: Exploring Culturally Responsive Mathematical Modeling	19
Correction to: Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectivesof Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	19
Learning of Mathematics: A Metacognitive Experiences Perspective	19
Opportunities for Deeper Learning and Adolescents’ Creative Thinking Competency in STEM: The Mediating Role of Situated Expectancy-Value Beliefs	18
Integrate Visual Programming into Early Algebra Learning: Analysis of Reconstruction of Algebraic Thinking	18
Enhancing Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Competencies in Distance Education: An Empirical Investigation Utilizing Micro-Teaching and Peer Assessment	18
STEM Teacher Professional Development Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Class with English Learners Context: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling from TALIS 2018	17
Not Just the Utility of Mathematics but Its Beauty in the Context of STEM PBL	17
Teacher Educators’ Use of Formative Feedback During Preservice Teachers’ Simulated Teaching Experiences in Mathematics and Science	17
Linear and Circular Format of Repeating Patterns – an Inclusive Approach to Patterning of 6-Year-Olds	17
A Comparison of Virtual Classroom Simulation and Traditional Role-Play in Two Mathematics Teaching Methods Courses	17

How Do School Climate and Professional Development in Multicultural Education Impact Job Satisfaction and Teaching Efficacy for STEM Teachers of English Learners? A Path-Analysis	17
Exploring Pre- and In-service Science Teachers’ Green Chemistry and Sustainability Awareness and Their Attitudes Towards Environmental Education in ISRAEL	16
Dynamically Linked Dot Arrays or Flexible Dots? Effects of Two Digital Environments on Fifth Graders’ Understanding of Multiplication	16
AI-TPACK Competencies in Mathematical Problem-Posing Teaching: Measurement Instrument Development and Latent Profile Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers	16
ChatGPT Bot–Mediated Modeling: Tracing Prospective Teachers’ Modeling Processes through an Instrumental Genesis Lens	16
Integration of Mathematics and Science in Chinese Primary Schools: Current Situation and Challenges	15
The Effect of a Cross-Curricular Course on Pre-Service Teachers’ Sustainable Development Attitudes and Mathematical Modeling Self-Efficacy Beliefs	15
Providing Support and Examples for Teaching Linear Equations in Secondary School: the Role of Knowledge of Mathematics Teaching	15
Exploring the Impact of An Augmented Reality-Integrated Mathematics Curriculum on Students’ Spatial Skills in Elementary School	15
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Primitive Notions When Reasoning About Variability	14
Metacognitive Awareness Framework for Expressions on Mathematical Work (MAFEM)	14
Examining the Impact of Modified P3 Task Taxonomy-Enriched Educational Robotics PD Program on Teachers’ STEM Content Knowledge	14
Exploration of the Truth Values of Conditionals Set Up in Everyday Context and in Open Sentences	14
Development of the Representation of the Nature of Science in Textbooks: the Case of High School Biology Textbooks in Mainland China	14
From Conception to Practice: Junior High School Science Teachers’ Changes in the Conceptual Change Professional Development	14
How do we Capture and Analyse Student Engineering Processes using Video Ethnography?	14
Teachers’ Questioning Practices in Chinese Secondary Biology Classrooms	14
Mathematical Metaphors in Locomotion for Angle Measurement Understanding	13
The Link Between Expertise, the Cognitive Demands of Teacher Noticing and, Experience in Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools	13
Examine the Impact of Contextual, Personal, and Behavioral Factors on High School Teachers’ Engagement in Teaching Science Using an Integrated STEM Approach	12
Introduction of Integrated STEM Education to Pre-service Teachers Through Collaborative Action Research Practices	12
What Matters in Transition to University? Exploring STEM-gifted Students University Adjustment	12
Unveiling Pre-service Teachers’ Competency and Challenges in Designing 5E Inquiry-based Integrated STEM Lessons: A Quantitative Ethnography Approach	12
Examining Opportunities to Learn Limit in Widely Used Calculus Textbooks	12
Pragmatic, Persistent, and Precarious: The Pathways of Three Minority Ethnic Women in STEM Higher Education	12
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions, Ratios, and Proportional Relationships: the Relationship Between Two Theoretically Connected Content Areas	12
Supporting STEM Teacher Program Development: The Benefit of a Multifaceted Set of Enablers	12
Characterizing the Ways in Which Young Students Recognise, Describe, Explain, and Employ Variation When Analysing Data in a STEM Context	11
How to Assess Mathematics Teachers’ TPACK? A Comparison Between Self-Reports and Knowledge Tests	11
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	11
Design Characteristics for Discovery Learning within Digital Mathematics Learning Environments from Students’ Perspectives	11
Problem Posing Via Scriptwriting: What Instructional Flows Do Mathematics Teachers Use in Implementing the Problem-Posing Task?	11
Developing a Model of Bacteria: A Journey Through the Understanding of Prospective Early Childhood Teachers	11
Science and Mathematics High School Students’ Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning	11
Indication of Scaffolding in Mathematical Modeling	11
Experienced and Inexperienced Teachers’ Orchestration of Dialogue of Nature of Science: Ordered Network Analysis	11
Designing Educative Curriculum Materials for Teacher Educators: Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching About Matter and Its Interactions	11
A Reliability Generalization Meta-Analysis of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II	10
Problem Posing as a Way of Promoting Individual Mathematical Thinking in STEM Contexts – The Case of Climate Change	10
Shifts of Caring and Mathematical Content in Contexts of Marginalization: Prospective Teachers’ Use of Photovoice in Connecting (and Disconnecting) Mathematics and Socio-Ecological Issues	10
Analyzing the Patterns of Questioning Chains and Their Intervention on Student Learning in Science Teacher Preparation	10
Applying Artificial Intelligence in a Comparative Study of Science Images from Vietnamese and Taiwanese Textbooks	10
Teachers’ Beliefs and Their Interplay with Practice on Mathematical Problem Solving within Project-based Learning: A Case Study	10
Overt and Covert Participation in an Argumentative whole-class Discussion: Spread of Ideas about Quadratic Functions	10
Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs	10
A Characterization of Van Hiele’s Level 5 of Geometric Reasoning Using the Delphi Methodology	10
Harnessing Asynchronous Digital Simulations of Problem-based Lessons to Support Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development: A Design-based Approach	10
The Evolution from “I think it plus three” Towards “I think it is always plus three.” Transition from Arithmetic Generalization to Algebraic Generalization	10
Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Diagrams	10
Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Process: How Young Students Solve Engineering Problems	9

Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	9
Improving Seventh-grade Students’ Scientific Vocabulary and Communicative Interactions: a Case of the “Cell and Divisions” Subject	9
What do In-Service Teachers Notice in Teaching–Learning Situations that Seek to Foster Modelling?	9
Development and Validation of a Construct Map and Assessment Instrument for Abstraction in STEM	9
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	9
A Novel AI-Empowered, Student-Centered Teaching Strategy for Large Classes in Higher Education	9
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Digital Mathematics Interventions for K-12 Students with Mathematical Learning Disabilities	9
Preliminary Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Mathematics in the Distance Education Environment	9
Estimating the Competence of Preservice Primary Teachers to Use Inquiry and Their Willingness to Apply It in the Classroom	8
Onto-semiotic Analysis of Diagrammatic Reasoning	8
Improving the Professional Awareness of Mathematics Teachers and Teacher Instructors Using Video-Based Curiosity-Driven Discourse—a Case Study	8
The Concept of Visuospatial Responsivity in 3D Enumeration Tasks	8
Mis-Out and Mis-In Examples: The Case of Rational Numbers	8
STEM Integration in Primary Schools: Theory, Implementation and Impact	8
Experiences of Autonomy and Competence and Their Reciprocal Relationship: The Roles of Prior Performance and Open Modelling Problems in Mathematics Teaching	8
Institutional Relativity of Reduction within Arithmetical Fractions: An Analysis of Japanese, Indonesian, and Malaysian School Textbooks	8
The Effect of Students’ Perceived Cognitive Activation on Mathematics Performance Depends on the Grade, Performance Level, and Activation Intensity	8
Secondary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Affordances and Limitations of Peer Teaching and Reflection	8
Exploring the Development of the Quality of Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Planning: the Case of Grade 8 Natural Sciences Teachers	7
What Role Might the Textbook Play in Integrating Reading into Mathematics Instruction?	7
Learning Strategies in Mathematics for Related Study Programs Focusing on Cooperative Education in Germany – Viewed from the Perspectives of the Academic Disciplines, Economics and Engineering, as wel	7
A Conceptual Framework for Fostering Gender Equity in Early Years STEM Education	7
“It’s Not Like I Go Oh That’s Really Exciting” – A Qualitative Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Identity Negotiations in Physics	7
The Effects of Equiprobability Bias and Representativeness Heuristics on the Performance in Probability Comparison and Calculation Tasks Among Middle School Students in China	7
Critical Mentorship in Undergraduate Research Experience BUILDs Science Identity and Self-Efficacy	7
The Role of STEM Awareness and 21st Century Skills Competence Perceptions on Pre-Service Primary School Teachers' Teacher Self-Efficacy for STEM Practices	7
Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectives of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	7
Challenging Greek Primary Students’ Knowledge of Ocean Acidification Using the Carbon Cycle Context	7
Challenging to Read, Easy to Comprehend? Effects of Linguistic Demands on Secondary Students’ Text Comprehension in Physics	7
Assessing Scientific Inquiry: A Systematic Literature Review of Tasks, Tools and Techniques	7
Correction to: Students Do Not Always Mean What We Think They Mean: A Questioning Strategy to Elicit the Reasoning Behind Unexpected Causal Patterns in Student System Models	7
Exploring Teachers’ Conceptions and Implementations of STEM Integration at the Junior Secondary Level in Taiwan: an Interview Study	7
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explain How Community-Based Learning Fosters Student Interest and Identity in Integrated STEM Education	7
Relating Pictorial and Verbal Forms of Assessments of the Particle Model of Matter in Two Communities of Students	7
Examining Pre-service Mathematics Teachers’ Statistical Investigations: Challenges and Instructional Support	7
The Role of Scientific Language Use and Achievement Level in Student Sensemaking	7
Identifying and Fostering Giftedness in Students with Disabilities – Potential Barriers in Identification and Support from a Mathematics Educational Perspective	7
Development and Evaluation of Collaboration Scripts for Long-distance VR Team Collaboration and Co-creation in Elementary STEM Learning	7
Using Graphical Representations to Develop Students’ Correspondence Relationships and Covariational Thinking in Pattern Generalizations in Primary School	7