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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Indigenous Student Perceptions on Cultural Relevance, Career Development, and Relationships in a Culturally Relevant Undergraduate STEM Program	33
Correction to: The Influence of Iterative Online Course Designs on Student Learning Outcomes in Large Undergraduate Biology Courses and Labs	28
Correction to: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	25
Examination of Taiwanese Mathematics Teacher Questioning	25
Improving the Perceived Utility Value of Teamwork and Collaboration among STEM Undergraduates	22
Current Trends in Math Anxiety Research: a Bibliometric Approach	22
Representation of Science and Engineering Practices and Design Skills in Engineering Design-Integrated Science Units Developed by Pre-service Teachers	21
Mathematical Argumentative Writing in K–12 Education: A Systematic Literature Review	20
Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA): A New Approach for Measuring Scientific Creativity in Secondary School Students	19
Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Problem-Solving Ability and Their Curricular Noticing Ability Through Pedagogical Sequencing Activities	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
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	17
Insights into Pothole Damage: Exploring Culturally Responsive Mathematical Modeling	16
Correction to: Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectivesof Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	16
Opportunities for Deeper Learning and Adolescents’ Creative Thinking Competency in STEM: The Mediating Role of Situated Expectancy-Value Beliefs	16
A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	16
Learning of Mathematics: A Metacognitive Experiences Perspective	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
Primary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Beliefs: the Role Played by Mathematics Attainment, Educational Level, Preparedness to Teach, and Gender	15
Development and Validation of Deep Procedural Knowledge Test on Angles and Polygons (Deep-ProKT-AngPoly)	15
STEM Teacher Professional Development Engagement and Self-Efficacy in Teaching Class with English Learners Context: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling from TALIS 2018	14
A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning	14
Science Fiction as an Instructional Strategy: Foundations, Procedures, and Results for Pre-service Teachers	14
Teacher Educators’ Use of Formative Feedback During Preservice Teachers’ Simulated Teaching Experiences in Mathematics and Science	14

Misconceptions in Physics Explainer Videos and the Illusion of Understanding: an Experimental Study	14
A Comparison of Virtual Classroom Simulation and Traditional Role-Play in Two Mathematics Teaching Methods Courses	14
The Effect of a Cross-Curricular Course on Pre-Service Teachers’ Sustainable Development Attitudes and Mathematical Modeling Self-Efficacy Beliefs	14
Integrate Visual Programming into Early Algebra Learning: Analysis of Reconstruction of Algebraic Thinking	13
Integration of Mathematics and Science in Chinese Primary Schools: Current Situation and Challenges	13
Enhancing Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Competencies in Distance Education: An Empirical Investigation Utilizing Micro-Teaching and Peer Assessment	13
Undergraduate Students’ Use of Primitive Notions When Reasoning About Variability	13
Exploring Pre- and In-service Science Teachers’ Green Chemistry and Sustainability Awareness and Their Attitudes Towards Environmental Education in ISRAEL	13
Providing Support and Examples for Teaching Linear Equations in Secondary School: the Role of Knowledge of Mathematics Teaching	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	13
Exploring the Impact of An Augmented Reality-Integrated Mathematics Curriculum on Students’ Spatial Skills in Elementary School	12
The Link Between Expertise, the Cognitive Demands of Teacher Noticing and, Experience in Teaching Mathematics in Secondary Schools	12
Development of the Representation of the Nature of Science in Textbooks: the Case of High School Biology Textbooks in Mainland China	12
Indication of Scaffolding in Mathematical Modeling	12
Exploration of the Truth Values of Conditionals Set Up in Everyday Context and in Open Sentences	12
From Conception to Practice: Junior High School Science Teachers’ Changes in the Conceptual Change Professional Development	12
How to Assess Mathematics Teachers’ TPACK? A Comparison Between Self-Reports and Knowledge Tests	12
Teachers’ Questioning Practices in Chinese Secondary Biology Classrooms	12
How do we Capture and Analyse Student Engineering Processes using Video Ethnography?	12
Examining the Impact of Modified P3 Task Taxonomy-Enriched Educational Robotics PD Program on Teachers’ STEM Content Knowledge	12
Problem Posing Via Scriptwriting: What Instructional Flows Do Mathematics Teachers Use in Implementing the Problem-Posing Task?	12
Characterizing the Ways in Which Young Students Recognise, Describe, Explain, and Employ Variation When Analysing Data in a STEM Context	11
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fractions, Ratios, and Proportional Relationships: the Relationship Between Two Theoretically Connected Content Areas	11
Introduction of Integrated STEM Education to Pre-service Teachers Through Collaborative Action Research Practices	11
Examining Opportunities to Learn Limit in Widely Used Calculus Textbooks	11
Pragmatic, Persistent, and Precarious: The Pathways of Three Minority Ethnic Women in STEM Higher Education	11
Supporting STEM Teacher Program Development: The Benefit of a Multifaceted Set of Enablers	11
Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Diagrams	11
Examine the Impact of Contextual, Personal, and Behavioral Factors on High School Teachers’ Engagement in Teaching Science Using an Integrated STEM Approach	11
What Matters in Transition to University? Exploring STEM-gifted Students University Adjustment	11
Unveiling Pre-service Teachers’ Competency and Challenges in Designing 5E Inquiry-based Integrated STEM Lessons: A Quantitative Ethnography Approach	11
Cognitive Demand of Mathematics Tasks in Nepali Middle School Mathematics Textbooks	11
Design Characteristics for Discovery Learning within Digital Mathematics Learning Environments from Students’ Perspectives	10
Development and Application of a Three-Tier Diagnostic Test to Assess Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding on Work-Power and Energy Concepts	10
Science and Mathematics High School Students’ Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning	10
Designing Educative Curriculum Materials for Teacher Educators: Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Content Knowledge for Teaching About Matter and Its Interactions	10
Experienced and Inexperienced Teachers’ Orchestration of Dialogue of Nature of Science: Ordered Network Analysis	10
Problem Posing as a Way of Promoting Individual Mathematical Thinking in STEM Contexts – The Case of Climate Change	10
Noticing student thinking under pressure in primary mathematics and science lessons	10
Harnessing Asynchronous Digital Simulations of Problem-based Lessons to Support Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development: A Design-based Approach	10
Overt and Covert Participation in an Argumentative whole-class Discussion: Spread of Ideas about Quadratic Functions	10
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	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
Preservice Subject Teachers’ Lack of Interest in Their Minor Subject: Is It a Problem?	9
A Novel AI-Empowered, Student-Centered Teaching Strategy for Large Classes in Higher Education	9
Analyzing the Patterns of Questioning Chains and Their Intervention on Student Learning in Science Teacher Preparation	9
Improving the Professional Awareness of Mathematics Teachers and Teacher Instructors Using Video-Based Curiosity-Driven Discourse—a Case Study	9
What do In-Service Teachers Notice in Teaching–Learning Situations that Seek to Foster Modelling?	9
A Characterization of Van Hiele’s Level 5 of Geometric Reasoning Using the Delphi Methodology	9
Preliminary Undergraduate Students’ Understanding of Mathematics in the Distance Education Environment	9

Effectiveness of Argument-Based Inquiry Approach on Grade 8 Students’ Science Content Achievement, Metacognition, and Epistemological Beliefs	9
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
STEM Integration in Primary Schools: Theory, Implementation and Impact	9
Secondary Preservice Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching: Affordances and Limitations of Peer Teaching and Reflection	8
Experiences of Autonomy and Competence and Their Reciprocal Relationship: The Roles of Prior Performance and Open Modelling Problems in Mathematics Teaching	8
Challenging Greek Primary Students’ Knowledge of Ocean Acidification Using the Carbon Cycle Context	8
Institutional Relativity of Reduction within Arithmetical Fractions: An Analysis of Japanese, Indonesian, and Malaysian School Textbooks	8
Mis-Out and Mis-In Examples: The Case of Rational Numbers	8
Young Students’ Arithmetic-Algebraic Structure Sense: an Empirical Model and Profiles of Students	8
Improving Seventh-grade Students’ Scientific Vocabulary and Communicative Interactions: a Case of the “Cell and Divisions” Subject	8
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Digital Mathematics Interventions for K-12 Students with Mathematical Learning Disabilities	8
Exploring Teachers’ Conceptions and Implementations of STEM Integration at the Junior Secondary Level in Taiwan: an Interview Study	8
Exploring the Development of the Quality of Topic Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Planning: the Case of Grade 8 Natural Sciences Teachers	7
Using Self-Determination Theory to Explain How Community-Based Learning Fosters Student Interest and Identity in Integrated STEM Education	7
Estimating the Competence of Preservice Primary Teachers to Use Inquiry and Their Willingness to Apply It in the Classroom	7
Mapping and Extending the Theoretical Perspectives of Reading in Science and Mathematics Education Research	7
Using Graphical Representations to Develop Students’ Correspondence Relationships and Covariational Thinking in Pattern Generalizations in Primary School	7
A Conceptual Framework for Fostering Gender Equity in Early Years STEM Education	7
The Role of Scientific Language Use and Achievement Level in Student Sensemaking	7
Critical Mentorship in Undergraduate Research Experience BUILDs Science Identity and Self-Efficacy	7
The Effect of Students’ Perceived Cognitive Activation on Mathematics Performance Depends on the Grade, Performance Level, and Activation Intensity	7
What Role Might the Textbook Play in Integrating Reading into Mathematics Instruction?	7
Relating Pictorial and Verbal Forms of Assessments of the Particle Model of Matter in Two Communities of Students	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
Assessing Scientific Inquiry: A Systematic Literature Review of Tasks, Tools and Techniques	7
Onto-semiotic Analysis of Diagrammatic Reasoning	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
“It’s Not Like I Go Oh That’s Really Exciting” – A Qualitative Study of Upper Secondary School Students’ Identity Negotiations in Physics	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
A Case Study of Using Test-Enhanced Learning as a Formative Assessment in High School Mathematics	7