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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Integrating Computational Thinking in STEM Education: A Literature Review	39
Gender Differences in Mathematics Self-concept Across the World: an Exploration of Student and Parent Data of TIMSS 2015	37
Relationship Between Chinese Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge and Their Professional Noticing	31
Perceptions of Nature of Science Emerging in Group Discussions: a Comparative Account of Pre-service Teachers from Turkey and England	27
“That Wasn’t the Math I Wanted to do!”—Students’ Beliefs During the Transition from School to University Mathematics	25
Teachers’ Role in Students’ Learning at a Project-Based STEM High School: Implications for Teacher Education	25
A Systematic Review on Data Mining for Mathematics and Science Education	25
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline for Talented Women in STEM	24
Student Engagement in a Flipped Secondary Mathematics Classroom	20
Influence of Scaffolding on Information Literacy and Argumentation Skills in Virtual Field Trips and Problem-Based Learning for Scientific Problem Solving	17
Teachers’ Beliefs about Mathematics, Learning, Teaching, Students, and Teachers: Perspectives from Chinese High School In-Service Mathematics Teachers	16
Exploring the Challenges and Enablers of Implementing a STEM Project-Based Learning Programme in a Diverse Junior Secondary Context	16
A Framework for Implementing an Engineering-Focused STEM Curriculum	16
Replication Studies in Mathematics Education: What Kind of Questions Would Be Productive to Explore?	14
Curriculum Emphases, Mathematics and Teaching Practices: Swedish Upper-Secondary Physics Teachers’ Views	14
Professional Growth and Identity Development of STEM Teacher Educators in a Community of Practice	14
Shifting the Teaching Beliefs of Preservice Science Teachers About Socioscientific Issues in a Teacher Education Course	14
Methodological? Or Dialectical?: Reflections of Scientific Inquiry in Biology Textbooks	13
Towards Inquiry-Based Flipped Classroom Scenarios: a Design Heuristic and Principles for Lesson Planning	13
Promoting Active Citizenship in Mathematics and Science Teaching	13
Effects of Diverse STEM Role Model Videos in Promoting Adolescents’ Identification	12
Determination and Evaluation of the Science Teacher Candidates’ Misconceptions About Density by Using Four-Tier Diagnostic Test	12
Research Status of Mathematical Problem Posing in Mathematics Education Journals	12
Culture, Goal Orientations, and Mathematics Achievement among Chinese Students	12
Notions of Creativity in Mathematics Education Research: a Systematic Literature Review	12

Investigating Teacher Perceptions of Integrating Engineering into Science Education in Mainland China	12
Investigating Preservice Teachers’ Science Teaching Self-Efficacy: an Analysis of Reflective Practices	12
Science Self-Concept, Relatedness, and Teaching Quality: a Multilevel Approach to Examining Factors that Predict Science Achievement	11
K-8 Teachers’ Overall and Gender-Specific Beliefs About Mathematical Aptitude	11
Student, Teacher, and Scientist Views of the Scientific Enterprise: An Epistemic Network Re-analysis	11
The Role of Metalanguage in an Explicit Literacy Instruction on Scientific Explanation	11
Mathematics Specialists as the Hidden Players in Professional Development: Researchable Questions and Methodological Considerations	11
Learning to Lead: an Approach to Mathematics Teacher Leader Development	11
Prospective Early Childhood and Elementary School Mathematics Teachers’ Concept Images and Concept Definitions of Triangles	10
Preservice Mathematics Teachers’ Selective Attention and Professional Knowledge–Based Reasoning About Students’ Statistical Thinking	10
Functional Relationships Evidenced and Representations Used by Third Graders Within a Functional Approach to Early Algebra	10
Why do East Asian students do so well in mathematics? A machine learning study	10
Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Views of Social Responsibility of Scientists and Engineers (VSRoSE)	10
Science Faculty’s Support for Underrepresented Students: Building Science Capital	10
High School Students’ Environmental Education in Taiwan: Scientific Epistemic Views, Decision-Making Style, and Recycling Intention	10
Development and Validation of a STEM Competencies Assessment Framework	9
Facilitating Conceptual Growth of the Mainstreamed Students with Learning Disabilities via a Science Experimental Guidebook: a Case of Physical Events	9
Inquiry-Based Learning Practices in Lower-Secondary Mathematics Education Reported by Students from China and the Netherlands	9
Teacher Educators’ Activity Aiming to Support Inquiry Through Mathematics and Science Teacher Collaboration	8
Assessing the Epistemic Analysis Competence of Prospective Primary School Teachers on Proportionality Tasks	8
Excellence in Mathematics in Secondary School and Choosing and Excelling in STEM Professions over Significant Periods in Life	8
Comparison of the Quality of Written Scientific Arguments in Different Laboratory Environments	8
A Tool for Comparing Mathematics Tasks from Paper-Based and Digital Environments	8
Towards Scientific Inquiry in Secondary Earth Science Classrooms: Opportunities and Realities	8
Posing Researchable Questions in Mathematics and Science Education: Purposefully Questioning the Questions for Investigation	8
Relationships Between Teachers’ Interactions with Learner Errors and Learners’ Mathematical Identities	8
High School and Preservice Chemistry Teacher Education Students’ Understanding of Voltaic and Electrolytic Cell Concepts: Evidence of Consistent Learning Difficulties Across Years	7
The Role of Context for Characterising Students’ Strategies when Estimating Large Numbers of Elements on a Surface	7
Advanced Mathematics for Secondary School Teachers: Mathematicians’ Perspective	7
Using a Culturally Responsive Approach to Develop Early Algebraic Reasoning with Young Diverse Learners	7
The Use of a Length and Measurement HLT by Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers’ to Notice Children’s Mathematical Thinking	7
Teachers’ Knowledge of Fraction Magnitude	7
Lessons from Lockdown: Parent Perspectives on Home-learning Mathematics During COVID-19 Lockdown	7
Validation of the Science, Mathematics, and English Task Value Scales Based on Longitudinal Data	7
Geometrical Figure Apprehension, Construction of Auxiliary Lines, and Multiple Solutions in Problem Solving: Aspects of Mathematical Creativity in School Geometry	7
Engaging Students with Integrated STEM Education: a Happy Marriage or a Failed Engagement?	7
Challenging to Read, Easy to Comprehend? Effects of Linguistic Demands on Secondary Students’ Text Comprehension in Physics	7
The Properties of Powers: Didactic Contract and Gender Gap	7
The Differential Role of Socioeconomic Status in the Relationship between Curriculum-Based Mathematics and Mathematics Literacy: the Link Between TIMSS and PISA	7
Integration of Arab Female Students at a Technological University—Narratives of Identity in Figured Worlds	6
History of Science Reading Materials as Everyday Homework to Improve Middle School Students’ Epistemological Beliefs about Science	6
Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation of Modified Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale for Children in Serbia	6
Framing Oneself and One Another as Collaborative Contributors in Small Group Argumentation in a Science Classroom	6
Epistemic Emotions and Observations Are Intertwined in Scientific Sensemaking: A Study among Upper Secondary Physics Students	6
Supporting the Professional Development of Science Teacher Educators Through Shadowing	6
Beliefs About Mathematics, Its Teaching, and Learning: Contrast Between Pre-service and In-service Teachers	6
Facilitating Preservice Elementary Science Teachers’ Shift from Learner to Teacher of Engineering Design-Based Science Teaching	6
Professional Growth of Physics Teacher-Leaders in a Professional Learning Communities Program: the Context of Inquiry-Based Laboratories	6
Student Reasoning About the Lever Principle Through Multimodal Representations: a Socio-Semiotic Approach	6
Posing New Researchable Questions as a Dynamic Process in Educational Research	6

A Reading Group for Science Educators: an Approach for Developing Personal and Collective Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education	6
Which One Is the “Best”: a Cross-national Comparative Study of Students’ Strategy Evaluation in Equation Solving	6
Exploring Advocacy Self-efficacy Among K-12 STEM Teacher Leaders	6
Missing and Mis-in Concept Images of Parallelograms: the Case of Tal	6
Misconceptions in Physics Explainer Videos and the Illusion of Understanding: an Experimental Study	6
The Interrelationship Among High School Students’ Conceptions of Learning Science, Self-Regulated Learning Science, and Science Learning Self-Efficacy	6
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring Chinese Chemistry Teachers’ Perceived Self-Efficacy Towards Chemistry Core Competencies	6
From Learning Capacitance to Making Capacitors: the Missing Critical Sensemaking	6
Effect of Conceptual Change–Oriented Instruction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Attitudes Towards Simple Electricity	5
Primary School Students’ Knowledge of the Equal Sign—the Swedish Case	5
Finding Common Ground: A Synthesis of Science and Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Experiences with Professional Growth	5
A Self-Regulation Model of Mathematics Achievement for Eleventh-Grade Students	5
Citizen Science: Schoolteachers’ Motivation, Experiences, and Recommendations	5
Reality or Mirage: Enhancing 21st-Century Skills Through Problem-Based Learning While Teaching Particulate Nature of Matter	5
“I Think that Teachers Do Not Teach Evolution Because It Is Complicated”: Difficulties in Teaching and Learning Evolution in Israel	5
Prospective and In-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Attention to a Rich Mathematics Task While Planning its Implementation in the Classroom	5
Development and Validation of a Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment with Ordered Multiple-Choice Items for Addition of Time	5
Understanding Interactions in Multilingual Science Classrooms through Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): What Do Contradictions Tell Us?	5
Algebra Teachers’ Interpretation and Responses to Student Errors in Solving Quadratic Equations	5
Student Agency and Teacher Authority in Inquiry-Based Classrooms: Cases of Elementary Teachers’ Classroom Talk	5
Exploring Adolescents’ Critical Reading of Socioscientific Topics Using Multimodal Texts	5
Drama as a Powerful Tool to Enrich Socio-scientific Argumentation	5
“Science Writing in Higher Education: Effects of Teaching Self-Assessment of Scientific Poster Construction on Writing Quality and Academic Achievement”	5
Chinese Students’ Hierarchical Understanding of Part-whole and Measure Subconstructs	5
A Closer Look at Teachers’ Proportional Reasoning	5
Which Situations Trigger Emotions of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers?	5
The Representation of Global Issues in Taiwanese Elementary School Science Textbooks	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
The Influence of Interactive Learning Materials on Solving Tasks That Require Different Types of Mathematical Reasoning	5
A Pseudo-Longitudinal Approach for Investigating Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs During Their University Education	5
Research on Learners and Teachers of Mathematics and Science: Forerunners to a Focus on Teacher Educator Professional Growth	5
Spotlight on Area Models: Pre-service Teachers’ Ability to Link Fractions and Geometric Measurement	5
An Empirically Grounded Framework That Evaluates Argument Quality in Scientific and Social Contexts	5
The Intellectual Demands and Coherency of Topics of Reformed Primary Science Curricula from Three East-Asian Regions	5