OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Examination of Taiwanese Mathematics Teacher Questioning	100
Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program	54
Improving the Perceived Utility Value of Teamwork and Collaboration among STEM Undergraduates	41
Correction to: The Influence of Iterative Online Course Designs on Student Learning Outcomes in Large Undergraduate Biology Courses and Labs	31
Representation of Science and Engineering Practices and Design Skills in Engineering Design-Integrated Science Units Developed by Pre-service Teachers	21
Correction to: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	21
Mathematical Argumentative Writing in K–12 Education: A Systematic Literature Review	21
Current Trends in Math Anxiety Research: a Bibliometric Approach	20
Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA): A New Approach for Measuring Scientific Creativity in Secondary School Students	19
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	19
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	18
Beyond Keywords: Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Unpack the Language of Additive Word Problems	16
Development and Validation of Deep Procedural Knowledge Test on Angles and Polygons (Deep-ProKT-AngPoly)	15
Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course	15
Insights into Pothole Damage: Exploring Culturally Responsive Mathematical Modeling	15
Correction to: Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectivesof Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	15
Opportunities for Deeper Learning and Adolescents’ Creative Thinking Competency in STEM: The Mediating Role of Situated Expectancy-Value Beliefs	15
Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Problem-Solving Ability and Their Curricular Noticing Ability Through Pedagogical Sequencing Activities	14
STEM Teacher Professional Development Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Class with English Learners Context: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling from TALIS 2018	14
A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	14
Enhancing Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Competencies in Distance Education: An Empirical Investigation Utilizing Micro-Teaching and Peer Assessment	14
Learning of Mathematics: A Metacognitive Experiences Perspective	14
Teacher Educators’ Use of Formative Feedback During Preservice Teachers’ Simulated Teaching Experiences in Mathematics and Science	14
A Comparison of Virtual Classroom Simulation and Traditional Role-Play in Two Mathematics Teaching Methods Courses	13
A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning	13

The Effect of a Cross-Curricular Course on Pre-Service Teachers’ Sustainable Development Attitudes and Mathematical Modeling Self-Efficacy Beliefs	13
Determination of Science Teacher Candidates’ Misconceptions on Liquid Pressure with Four-Tier Diagnostic Test	12
Mathematical Assemblages Around Dynamic Aspects of Angle in Digital and Physical Space	12
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
Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs: the Role Played by Mathematics Attainment, Educational Level, Preparedness to Teach, and Gender	12
Exploring Pre- and In-service Science Teachers’ Green Chemistry and Sustainability Awareness and Their Attitudes Towards Environmental Education in ISRAEL	12
Providing Support and Examples for Teaching Linear Equations in Secondary School: the Role of Knowledge of Mathematics Teaching	12
Science Fiction as an Instructional Strategy: Foundations, Procedures, and Results for Pre-service Teachers	12
Misconceptions in Physics Explainer Videos and the Illusion of Understanding: an Experimental Study	12
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Primitive Notions When Reasoning About Variability	12
How do we Capture and Analyse Student Engineering Processes using Video Ethnography?	11
Exploration of the Truth Values of Conditionals Set Up in Everyday Context and in Open Sentences	11
From Conception to Practice: Junior High School Science Teachers’ Changes in the Conceptual Change Professional Development	11
Exploring the Impact of An Augmented Reality-Integrated Mathematics Curriculum on Students’ Spatial Skills in Elementary School	11
Teachers’ Questioning Practices in Chinese Secondary Biology Classrooms	11
Integration of Mathematics and Science in Chinese Primary Schools: Current Situation and Challenges	11
Characterizing the Ways in Which Young Students Recognise, Describe, Explain, and Employ Variation When Analysing Data in a STEM Context	10
Unveiling Pre-service Teachers’ Competency and Challenges in Designing 5E Inquiry-based Integrated STEM Lessons: A Quantitative Ethnography Approach	10
Development of the Representation of the Nature of Science in Textbooks: the Case of High School Biology Textbooks in Mainland China	10
Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Tasks in Nepali Middle School Mathematics Textbooks	10
Examining Opportunities to Learn Limit in Widely Used Calculus Textbooks	10
The Link Between Expertise, the Cognitive Demands of Teacher Noticing and, Experience in Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools	10
Professional Growth of Physics Teacher-Leaders in a Professional Learning Communities Program: the Context of Inquiry-Based Laboratories	10
Problem Posing Via Scriptwriting: What Instructional Flows Do Mathematics Teachers Use in Implementing the Problem-Posing Task?	10
How to Assess Mathematics Teachers’ TPACK? A Comparison Between Self-Reports and Knowledge Tests	10
Examining the Impact of Modified P3 Task Taxonomy-Enriched Educational Robotics PD Program on Teachers’ STEM Content Knowledge	10
Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Views of Social Responsibility of Scientists and Engineers (VSRoSE)	10
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions, Ratios, and Proportional Relationships: the Relationship Between Two Theoretically Connected Content Areas	9
Indication of Scaffolding in Mathematical Modeling	9
Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Diagrams	9
The Evolution from “I think it plus three” Towards “I think it is always plus three.” Transition from Arithmetic Generalization to Algebraic Generalization	9
Science and Mathematics High School Students’ Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning	9
Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	9
Problem Posing as a Way of Promoting Individual Mathematical Thinking in STEM Contexts – The Case of Climate Change	9
Examine the Impact of Contextual, Personal, and Behavioral Factors on High School Teachers’ Engagement in Teaching Science Using an Integrated STEM Approach	9
Supporting STEM Teacher Program Development: The Benefit of a Multifaceted Set of Enablers	9
Mathematics Assessment Practices of Primary School Teachers in France	9
Designing Educative Curriculum Materials for Teacher Educators: Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching About Matter and Its Interactions	9
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	9
Analyzing the Patterns of Questioning Chains and Their Intervention on Student Learning in Science Teacher Preparation	9
Introduction of Integrated STEM Education to Pre-service Teachers Through Collaborative Action Research Practices	9
Pragmatic, Persistent, and Precarious: The Pathways of Three Minority Ethnic Women in STEM Higher Education	9
What Matters in Transition to University? Exploring STEM-gifted Students University Adjustment	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
Overt and Covert Participation in an Argumentative whole-class Discussion: Spread of Ideas about Quadratic Functions	9
Development and Application of a Three-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding on Work-Power and Energy Concepts	9
Secondary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Affordances and Limitations of Peer Teaching and Reflection	8
Improving Seventh-grade Students’ Scientific Vocabulary and Communicative Interactions: a Case of the “Cell and Divisions” Subject	8
Preservice Subject Teachers’ Lack of Interest in Their Minor Subject: Is It a Problem?	8

Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Process: How Young Students Solve Engineering Problems	8
Improving the Professional Awareness of Mathematics Teachers and Teacher Instructors Using Video-Based Curiosity-Driven Discourse—a Case Study	8
Preliminary Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Mathematics in the Distance Education Environment	8
A Novel AI-Empowered, Student-Centered Teaching Strategy for Large Classes in Higher Education	8
What do In-Service Teachers Notice in Teaching–Learning Situations that Seek to Foster Modelling?	8
Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs	8
Institutional Relativity of Reduction within Arithmetical Fractions: An Analysis of Japanese, Indonesian, and Malaysian School Textbooks	8
A Characterization of Van Hiele’s Level 5 of Geometric Reasoning Using the Delphi Methodology	8
Exploring In-The-Moment Teaching Moves that Support Sociomathematical and General Social Norms in Dialogic Instruction	8
STEM Integration in Primary Schools: Theory, Implementation and Impact	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
Mis-Out and Mis-In Examples: The Case of Rational Numbers	7
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	7
Challenging Greek Primary Students’ Knowledge of Ocean Acidification Using the Carbon Cycle Context	7
What Role Might the Textbook Play in Integrating Reading into Mathematics Instruction?	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	6
The Influence of a University-School Partnership on Pre-service Teachers’ Perceived Preparedness and Views on Teaching and Learning S.T.E.M	6
Applying Structural Equation Modeling to Assess Factors of Primary School Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge of Students’ Misconceptions	6
“It’s Not Like I Go Oh That’s Really Exciting” – A Qualitative Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Identity Negotiations in Physics	6
Development and Evaluation of Collaboration Scripts for Long-distance VR Team Collaboration and Co-creation in Elementary STEM Learning	6
Onto-semiotic Analysis of Diagrammatic Reasoning	6
Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectives of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	6
Challenging to Read, Easy to Comprehend? Effects of Linguistic Demands on Secondary Students’ Text Comprehension in Physics	6
Spanish Preservice Primary School Teachers’ Understanding of the Tides Phenomenon	6
Correction to: Exploring Computational Thinking in the Context of Mathematics Learning in Secondary Schools: Dispositions, Engagement and Learning Performance	6
Features of Digital Tools Utilized in Mathematical Modeling Process	6
Exploring the Development of the Quality of Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Planning: the Case of Grade 8 Natural Sciences Teachers	6
South African Primary Mathematics Teachers’ Experiences and Perspectives About Lesson Study	6
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explain How Community-Based Learning Fosters Student Interest and Identity in Integrated STEM Education	6
Exploring Teachers’ Conceptions and Implementations of STEM Integration at the Junior Secondary Level in Taiwan: an Interview Study	6
The Role of Scientific Language Use and Achievement Level in Student Sensemaking	6
Assessing Scientific Inquiry: A Systematic Literature Review of Tasks, Tools and Techniques	6
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	6
Problem Solving Strategies as Gendered: Views from Mathematics Teachers	6
A Conceptual Framework for Fostering Gender Equity in Early Years STEM Education	6
Identifying and Fostering Giftedness in Students with Disabilities – Potential Barriers in Identification and Support from a Mathematics Educational Perspective	6
Using Graphical Representations to Develop Students’ Correspondence Relationships and Covariational Thinking in Pattern Generalizations in Primary School	6
Critical Mentorship in Undergraduate Research Experience BUILDs Science Identity and Self-Efficacy	6
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	6
Relating Pictorial and Verbal Forms of Assessments of the Particle Model of Matter in Two Communities of Students	6