OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Science and Mathematics 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrating Computational Thinking in STEM Education: A Literature Review	51
Student Engagement in a Flipped Secondary Mathematics Classroom	32
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	29
Influence of Scaffolding on Information Literacy and Argumentation Skills in Virtual Field Trips and Problem-Based Learning for Scientific Problem Solving	25
Professional Growth and Identity Development of STEM Teacher Educators in a Community of Practice	22
Promoting Active Citizenship in Mathematics and Science Teaching	18
Culture, Goal Orientations, and Mathematics Achievement among Chinese Students	17
Why do East Asian students do so well in mathematics? A machine learning study	17
Effects of Diverse STEM Role Model Videos in Promoting Adolescents’ Identification	16
Shifting the Teaching Beliefs of Preservice Science Teachers About Socioscientific Issues in a Teacher Education Course	16
Towards Inquiry-Based Flipped Classroom Scenarios: a Design Heuristic and Principles for Lesson Planning	16
Learning to Lead: an Approach to Mathematics Teacher Leader Development	15
Science Self-Concept, Relatedness, and Teaching Quality: a Multilevel Approach to Examining Factors that Predict Science Achievement	14
Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Views of Social Responsibility of Scientists and Engineers (VSRoSE)	14
Student, Teacher, and Scientist Views of the Scientific Enterprise: An Epistemic Network Re-analysis	14
Notions of Creativity in Mathematics Education Research: a Systematic Literature Review	14
Lessons from Lockdown: Parent Perspectives on Home-learning Mathematics During COVID-19 Lockdown	13
Facilitating Preservice Elementary Science Teachers’ Shift from Learner to Teacher of Engineering Design-Based Science Teaching	12
Functional Relationships Evidenced and Representations Used by Third Graders Within a Functional Approach to Early Algebra	12
Exploring Advocacy Self-efficacy Among K-12 STEM Teacher Leaders	12
Assessing the Epistemic Analysis Competence of Prospective Primary School Teachers on Proportionality Tasks	11
High School Students’ Environmental Education in Taiwan: Scientific Epistemic Views, Decision-Making Style, and Recycling Intention	10
Research on Learners and Teachers of Mathematics and Science: Forerunners to a Focus on Teacher Educator Professional Growth	10
The Differential Role of Socioeconomic Status in the Relationship between Curriculum-Based Mathematics and Mathematics Literacy: the Link Between TIMSS and PISA	10
History of Science Reading Materials as Everyday Homework to Improve Middle School Students’ Epistemological Beliefs about Science	10

Engaging Students with Integrated STEM Education: a Happy Marriage or a Failed Engagement?	10
A Macro Tool to Characterize and Develop Key Competencies for the Mathematics Teacher’ Practice	10
Characterising a Representation Construction Pedagogy for Integrating Science and Mathematics in the Primary School	10
Comparison of the Quality of Written Scientific Arguments in Different Laboratory Environments	10
Co-operative Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics and Science Education: A Scoping Review	10
Epistemic Emotions and Observations Are Intertwined in Scientific Sensemaking: A Study among Upper Secondary Physics Students	9
Relationships Between Teachers’ Interactions with Learner Errors and Learners’ Mathematical Identities	9
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	9
Effect of Embedded Careers Education in Science Lessons on Students’ Interest, Awareness, and Aspirations	9
Missing and Mis-in Concept Images of Parallelograms: the Case of Tal	9
The Effect of Inquiry-Based Practices on Scientific Literacy: the Mediating Role of Science Attitudes	9
Using a Culturally Responsive Approach to Develop Early Algebraic Reasoning with Young Diverse Learners	9
Facilitating Conceptual Growth of the Mainstreamed Students with Learning Disabilities via a Science Experimental Guidebook: a Case of Physical Events	9
Teacher Educators’ Activity Aiming to Support Inquiry Through Mathematics and Science Teacher Collaboration	9
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring Chinese Chemistry Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy Towards Chemistry Core Competencies	9
Excellence in Mathematics in Secondary School and Choosing and Excelling in STEM Professions over Significant Periods in Life	9
Teaching Mathematics Integrating Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Investigating Prospective Teachers’ Concerns and TPACK	9
Pragmatic, Persistent, and Precarious: The Pathways of Three Minority Ethnic Women in STEM Higher Education	8
Incorrect Ways of Thinking About the Size of Fractions	8
Misconceptions in Physics Explainer Videos and the Illusion of Understanding: an Experimental Study	8
Teaching Approaches for STEM Integration in Pre- and Primary School: a Systematic Qualitative Literature Review	8
“I Think that Teachers Do Not Teach Evolution Because It Is Complicated”: Difficulties in Teaching and Learning Evolution in Israel	8
A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	8
Drama as a Powerful Tool to Enrich Socio-scientific Argumentation	8
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fraction Magnitude	8
Conceptualising the Cosmos: Development and Validation of the Cosmology Concept Inventory for High School	8
Multidisciplinary Modelling in a Sixth-Grade Tsunami Investigation	7
Professional Growth of Physics Teacher-Leaders in a Professional Learning Communities Program: the Context of Inquiry-Based Laboratories	7
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explain How Community-Based Learning Fosters Student Interest and Identity in Integrated STEM Education	7
Influence of the Argument-Driven Inquiry with Explicit-Reflective Nature of Scientific Inquiry Intervention on Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understandings About the Nature of Scientific Inquiry	7
Relationship Between Nature of Science and Argumentation: a Follow-Up Study	7
Student Agency and Teacher Authority in Inquiry-Based Classrooms: Cases of Elementary Teachers’ Classroom Talk	7
Exploring Energy Through the Lens of Equity: Funds of Knowledge Conveyed Through Video-Based Discussion	7
Reality or Mirage: Enhancing 21st-Century Skills Through Problem-Based Learning While Teaching Particulate Nature of Matter	7
Challenging to Read, Easy to Comprehend? Effects of Linguistic Demands on Secondary Students’ Text Comprehension in Physics	7
Exploring Teachers’ Conceptions and Implementations of STEM Integration at the Junior Secondary Level in Taiwan: an Interview Study	7
Supporting the Professional Development of Science Teacher Educators Through Shadowing	7
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	7
Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	7
The Use of a Length and Measurement HLT by Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers’ to Notice Children’s Mathematical Thinking	7
High School and Preservice Chemistry Teacher Education Students’ Understanding of Voltaic and Electrolytic Cell Concepts: Evidence of Consistent Learning Difficulties Across Years	7
A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning	7
The Interrelationship Among High School Students’ Conceptions of Learning Science, Self-Regulated Learning Science, and Science Learning Self-Efficacy	7
Advanced Mathematics for Secondary School Teachers: Mathematicians’ Perspective	7
Beliefs About Mathematics, Its Teaching, and Learning: Contrast Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	7
Geometrical Figure Apprehension, Construction of Auxiliary Lines, and Multiple Solutions in Problem Solving: Aspects of Mathematical Creativity in School Geometry	7
Exploring Adolescents’ Critical Reading of Socioscientific Topics Using Multimodal Texts	7
Role of Graphs in Blending Physical and Mathematical Meaning of Partial Derivatives in the Context of the Heat Equation	6
Implementation of the Model-Based Science Writing Heuristic Approach in Elementary School Science	6
Dispositions of 21st-Century Skills in STEM Programs and Their Changes over Time	6

Hidden Bias, Low Expectations, and Social Stereotypes: Understanding Female Students’ Retention in Math-Intensive STEM Fields	6
Exploring high school students’ disciplinary science identities and their differences	6
Which Situations Trigger Emotions of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers?	6
Algebra Teachers’ Interpretation and Responses to Student Errors in Solving Quadratic Equations	6
Development of Prospective Teachers’ Noticing Skills Within Initial Teacher Education	6
Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectives of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	6
Exploring Inductive Reasoning, Scientific Reasoning and Science Motivation, and Their Role in Predicting STEM Achievement Across Grade Levels	6
“Science Writing in Higher Education: Effects of Teaching Self-Assessment of Scientific Poster Construction on Writing Quality and Academic Achievement”	5
Development and Validation of a Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment with Ordered Multiple-Choice Items for Addition of Time	5
When You’re with Me, I’m Learning: a Duoethnography of Teacher Educators’ Identities in Relation to Observing Preservice Teachers’ Emergent Mathematics Instruction	5
Noticing student thinking under pressure in primary mathematics and science lessons	5
Characteristics of Good Mathematics Teaching in China: Findings from Classroom Observations	5
Using Community Artifacts to Support Novice Math Teacher Educators in Teaching Prospective Teachers	5
Elementary Students’ Engineering Design Process: How Young Students Solve Engineering Problems	5
Investigating the Effects of Design-Based STEM Learning on Primary Students’ STEM Creativity and Epistemic Beliefs	5
Attention Drifting Away While Test-Taking: Mind-Wandering in Students with Low- and High-Performance Levels in TIMSS-Like Science Tests	5
A Missing Piece of the Puzzle? Exploring Whether Science Capital and STEM Identity are Associated with STEM Study at University	5
Developing and Using Physical Dynamic Models On Socioscientific Issues to Present Nature Of Science Ideas	5
Quality of Teaching Practices for All Students: Multilevel Analysis of Language-Responsive Teaching for Robust Understanding	5
Exploring Pre- and In-service Science Teachers’ Green Chemistry and Sustainability Awareness and Their Attitudes Towards Environmental Education in ISRAEL	5
Comparing Reading Comprehension of Narrative and Expository Texts Based on the Direct and Inferential Mediation Model	5
An Analysis of Teachers’ Beliefs About the Integration of Children’s Literature into the Mathematics Education	5
Understanding Early Mathematical Modelling: First Steps in the Process of Translation Between Real-world Contexts and Mathematics	5
Teachers’ Attention to and Flexibility with Referent Units	5
Finding Common Ground: A Synthesis of Science and Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Experiences with Professional Growth	5
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	5
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	5
Teaching Early Mathematical Skills to 3- to 7-Year-Old Children — Differences Related to Mathematical Skill Category, Children’s Age Group and Teachers’ Characteristics	5
Foundations, Insights, and Future Considerations of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education	5
Reinventing Geometric Linear Transformations in a Dynamic Geometry Environment: Multimodal Analysis of Student Reasoning	5
Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs: the Role Played by Mathematics Attainment, Educational Level, Preparedness to Teach, and Gender	5
Introducing Statistical Inference: Design of a Theoretically and Empirically Based Learning Trajectory	5
Predicting Pre-service Mathematics Teachers’ Teaching and Learning Conceptions: The Role of Mathematical Beliefs, Mathematics Self-efficacy, and Mathematics Teaching Efficacy	5
Prospective Teachers’ Reflections on the Inclusion of Mathematical Modelling During the Transition Period Between the Face-to-Face and Virtual Teaching Contexts	5
Primary School Students’ Knowledge of the Equal Sign—the Swedish Case	5
A Study of Environmental Literacy, Scientific Performance, and Environmental Problem-Solving	5
Preservice Subject Teachers’ Lack of Interest in Their Minor Subject: Is It a Problem?	5
The Influence of Interactive Learning Materials on Solving Tasks That Require Different Types of Mathematical Reasoning	5
A Systematic Review of BSCS 5E Instructional Model Evidence	5
A Pseudo-Longitudinal Approach for Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs During Their University Education	5
Self and Professors’ Incremental Beliefs as Predictors of STEM Engagement Among Undergraduate Students	5