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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program	111
Improving the Perceived Utility Value of Teamwork and Collaboration among STEM Undergraduates	43
Correction to: The Influence of Iterative Online Course Designs on Student Learning Outcomes in Large Undergraduate Biology Courses and Labs	32
Mathematical Argumentative Writing in K–12 Education: A Systematic Literature Review	27
Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA): A New Approach for Measuring Scientific Creativity in Secondary School Students	22
Correction to: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	21
Examination of Taiwanese Mathematics Teacher Questioning	20
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	20
Representation of Science and Engineering Practices and Design Skills in Engineering Design-Integrated Science Units Developed by Pre-service Teachers	18
Current Trends in Math Anxiety Research: a Bibliometric Approach	17
Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course	17
Beyond Keywords: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Unpack the Language of Additive Word Problems	17
Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Problem-Solving Ability and Their Curricular Noticing Ability Through Pedagogical Sequencing Activities	17
A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	16
Correction to: Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectivesof Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	16
Insights into Pothole Damage: Exploring Culturally Responsive Mathematical Modeling	15
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	15
Learning of Mathematics: A Metacognitive Experiences Perspective	15
Opportunities for Deeper Learning and Adolescents’ Creative Thinking Competency in STEM: The Mediating Role of Situated Expectancy-Value Beliefs	15
Integrate Visual Programming into Early Algebra Learning: Analysis of Reconstruction of Algebraic Thinking	14
Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs: the Role Played by Mathematics Attainment, Educational Level, Preparedness to Teach, and Gender	14
Development and Validation of Deep Procedural Knowledge Test on Angles and Polygons (Deep-ProKT-AngPoly)	14
Misconceptions in Physics Explainer Videos and the Illusion of Understanding: an Experimental Study	13
A Comparison of Virtual Classroom Simulation and Traditional Role-Play in Two Mathematics Teaching Methods Courses	13
Teacher Educators’ Use of Formative Feedback During Preservice Teachers’ Simulated Teaching Experiences in Mathematics and Science	13

A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning	13
Science Fiction as an Instructional Strategy: Foundations, Procedures, and Results for Pre-service Teachers	13
Exploring Pre- and In-service Science Teachers’ Green Chemistry and Sustainability Awareness and Their Attitudes Towards Environmental Education in ISRAEL	13
STEM Teacher Professional Development Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Class with English Learners Context: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling from TALIS 2018	13
Enhancing Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Competencies in Distance Education: An Empirical Investigation Utilizing Micro-Teaching and Peer Assessment	13
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	12
The Effect of a Cross-Curricular Course on Pre-Service Teachers’ Sustainable Development Attitudes and Mathematical Modeling Self-Efficacy Beliefs	12
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Primitive Notions When Reasoning About Variability	12
From Conception to Practice: Junior High School Science Teachers’ Changes in the Conceptual Change Professional Development	12
Integration of Mathematics and Science in Chinese Primary Schools: Current Situation and Challenges	12
Providing Support and Examples for Teaching Linear Equations in Secondary School: the Role of Knowledge of Mathematics Teaching	12
Teachers’ Questioning Practices in Chinese Secondary Biology Classrooms	12
Exploration of the Truth Values of Conditionals Set Up in Everyday Context and in Open Sentences	11
Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Views of Social Responsibility of Scientists and Engineers (VSRoSE)	11
How to Assess Mathematics Teachers’ TPACK? A Comparison Between Self-Reports and Knowledge Tests	11
Unveiling Pre-service Teachers’ Competency and Challenges in Designing 5E Inquiry-based Integrated STEM Lessons: A Quantitative Ethnography Approach	11
The Link Between Expertise, the Cognitive Demands of Teacher Noticing and, Experience in Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools	11
Examining the Impact of Modified P3 Task Taxonomy-Enriched Educational Robotics PD Program on Teachers’ STEM Content Knowledge	11
Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Tasks in Nepali Middle School Mathematics Textbooks	11
What Matters in Transition to University? Exploring STEM-gifted Students University Adjustment	11
Development of the Representation of the Nature of Science in Textbooks: the Case of High School Biology Textbooks in Mainland China	11
How do we Capture and Analyse Student Engineering Processes using Video Ethnography?	11
Supporting STEM Teacher Program Development: The Benefit of a Multifaceted Set of Enablers	11
Exploring the Impact of An Augmented Reality-Integrated Mathematics Curriculum on Students’ Spatial Skills in Elementary School	11
Characterizing the Ways in Which Young Students Recognise, Describe, Explain, and Employ Variation When Analysing Data in a STEM Context	10
Indication of Scaffolding in Mathematical Modeling	10
Examining Opportunities to Learn Limit in Widely Used Calculus Textbooks	10
Pragmatic, Persistent, and Precarious: The Pathways of Three Minority Ethnic Women in STEM Higher Education	10
Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Diagrams	10
Examine the Impact of Contextual, Personal, and Behavioral Factors on High School Teachers’ Engagement in Teaching Science Using an Integrated STEM Approach	10
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions, Ratios, and Proportional Relationships: the Relationship Between Two Theoretically Connected Content Areas	10
Problem Posing Via Scriptwriting: What Instructional Flows Do Mathematics Teachers Use in Implementing the Problem-Posing Task?	10
Science and Mathematics High School Students’ Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning	10
Introduction of Integrated STEM Education to Pre-service Teachers Through Collaborative Action Research Practices	10
The Evolution from “I think it plus three” Towards “I think it is always plus three.” Transition from Arithmetic Generalization to Algebraic Generalization	9
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	9
Overt and Covert Participation in an Argumentative whole-class Discussion: Spread of Ideas about Quadratic Functions	9
Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs	9
Development and Application of a Three-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding on Work-Power and Energy Concepts	9
Problem Posing as a Way of Promoting Individual Mathematical Thinking in STEM Contexts – The Case of Climate Change	9
Design Characteristics for Discovery Learning within Digital Mathematics Learning Environments from Students’ Perspectives	9
Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	9
Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Process: How Young Students Solve Engineering Problems	9
Noticing student thinking under pressure in primary mathematics and science lessons	9
Harnessing Asynchronous Digital Simulations of Problem-based Lessons to Support Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development: A Design-based Approach	9
Designing Educative Curriculum Materials for Teacher Educators: Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching About Matter and Its Interactions	9
Preservice Subject Teachers’ Lack of Interest in Their Minor Subject: Is It a Problem?	9
Exploring In-The-Moment Teaching Moves that Support Sociomathematical and General Social Norms in Dialogic Instruction	9
A Novel AI-Empowered, Student-Centered Teaching Strategy for Large Classes in Higher Education	8
Improving the Professional Awareness of Mathematics Teachers and Teacher Instructors Using Video-Based Curiosity-Driven Discourse—a Case Study	8

Secondary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Affordances and Limitations of Peer Teaching and Reflection	8
A Characterization of Van Hiele’s Level 5 of Geometric Reasoning Using the Delphi Methodology	8
What do In-Service Teachers Notice in Teaching–Learning Situations that Seek to Foster Modelling?	8
Improving Seventh-grade Students’ Scientific Vocabulary and Communicative Interactions: a Case of the “Cell and Divisions” Subject	8
Institutional Relativity of Reduction within Arithmetical Fractions: An Analysis of Japanese, Indonesian, and Malaysian School Textbooks	8
Analyzing the Patterns of Questioning Chains and Their Intervention on Student Learning in Science Teacher Preparation	8
Preliminary Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Mathematics in the Distance Education Environment	8
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	8
“It’s Not Like I Go Oh That’s Really Exciting” – A Qualitative Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Identity Negotiations in Physics	7
Onto-semiotic Analysis of Diagrammatic Reasoning	7
Mis-Out and Mis-In Examples: The Case of Rational Numbers	7
Estimating the Competence of Preservice Primary Teachers to Use Inquiry and Their Willingness to Apply It in the Classroom	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
Development and Evaluation of Collaboration Scripts for Long-distance VR Team Collaboration and Co-creation in Elementary STEM Learning	7
STEM Integration in Primary Schools: Theory, Implementation and Impact	7
Challenging Greek Primary Students’ Knowledge of Ocean Acidification Using the Carbon Cycle Context	7
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explain How Community-Based Learning Fosters Student Interest and Identity in Integrated STEM Education	7
Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectives of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	7
The Effect of Students’ Perceived Cognitive Activation on Mathematics Performance Depends on the Grade, Performance Level, and Activation Intensity	7
A Case Study of Using Test-Enhanced Learning as a Formative Assessment in High School Mathematics	7
What Role Might the Textbook Play in Integrating Reading into Mathematics Instruction?	7
Exploring Teachers’ Conceptions and Implementations of STEM Integration at the Junior Secondary Level in Taiwan: an Interview Study	7
Critical Mentorship in Undergraduate Research Experience BUILDs Science Identity and Self-Efficacy	7
Exploring the Development of the Quality of Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Planning: the Case of Grade 8 Natural Sciences Teachers	7