OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Stem 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	236
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	190
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	169
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	144
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	129
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	104
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	86
Which evidence-based teaching practices change over time? Results from a university-wide STEM faculty development program	68
The impact of AI-assisted pair programming on student motivation, programming anxiety, collaborative learning, and programming performance: a comparative study with traditional pair programming and in	67
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	64
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	54
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	51
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	50
A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions	47
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review	46
Whose ability and growth matter? Gender, mindset and performance in physics	41
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges	40
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	40
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model	38
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play	37
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures	37
Enhancing STEM outcomes through mentorship (Mis)matching: an identity grafting approach	34
Seven years of development as building a foundation for the journal’s leadership in promoting STEM education internationally	33
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects	33
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams	32

Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument	32
Comparing success of female students to their male counterparts in the STEM fields: an empirical analysis from enrollment until graduation using longitudinal register data	31
Characteristics of departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: implications for departmental transformation	30
Investigating the impact of peer supplemental instruction on underprepared and historically underserved students in introductory STEM courses	30
A systematic review of STEM education research in the GCC countries: trends, gaps and barriers	29
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study	29
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing secondary students’ transdisciplinary STEM practices	28
Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives	28
A microgenetic analysis of teachers’ learning through teaching	28
A more positive mindset context is associated with better student outcomes in STEM, particularly for traditional-age students	27
Fostering computational thinking through unplugged activities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	27
Learning from watching dialog and monolog videos in online STEM courses	27
Learning from the past; thinking for the future: reflections on STEM and its integration in formal and informal settings	26
The role of media in influencing students’ STEM career interest	26
Gender gaps in grades versus grade penalties: why grade anomalies may be more detrimental for women aspiring for careers in biological sciences	25
The impacts of learning analytics and A/B testing research: a case study in differential scientometrics	25
Tracing distinct learning trajectories in introductory programming course: a sequence analysis of score, engagement, and code metrics for novice computer science vs. math cohorts	24
Replicating or franchising a STEM afterschool program model: core elements of programmatic integrity	23
Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research	23
Synergistic effects of students’ mathematics and science motivational beliefs on achievement, and their determinants	23
Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty	22
Analysis of two pedagogical approaches to foster discipline integrations in an educational data mining class using communities of practice	22
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change	22
Enhancing mathematical problem posing competence: a meta-analysis of intervention studies	21
Mathematics and science across the transition from primary to secondary school: a systematic literature review	21
Responding to incorrect ideas: science graduate teaching assistants’ operationalization of error framing and undergraduate students’ perception	19
The effect of professional development on in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy: a meta-analysis of experimental studies	19
Mental simulations to facilitate teacher learning of ambitious mathematics instruction in coaching interactions	19
Effectiveness of in-service computer science teachers’ professional development in K-12 education: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
The influences of student- and school-level factors on engineering undergraduate student success outcomes: A multi-level multi-school study	19
Undergraduates’ reactions to errors mediates the association between growth mindset and study strategies	18
Engineering design learning for high school and college first-year students in a STEM battlebot design project	18
Analyzing the associations between motivation and academic performance via the mediator variables of specific mathematic cognitive learning strategies in different subject domains of higher education	18
STEM courses are harder: evaluating inter-course grading disparities with a calibrated GPA model	18
Influence of 3D models and animations on students in natural subjects	17
Undergraduate student perceptions of stress and mental health in engineering culture	17
Bridging borders: assessing the impact of semester-long study abroad programs on intercultural competence development in undergraduate engineering students	17
Helping mentors address scientific communication in STEM research training helps their mentees stay the course	17
Eight years of development in welcoming and engaging diverse scholars to share and promote STEM education research worldwide	17
Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development	17
Digital competence development in schools: a study on the association of problem-solving with autonomy and digital attitudes	17
Possibilities and pitfalls of practitioners in trying to apply change theory as viewed through the lens of Reinholz, White, and Andrews “Change theory in STEM higher education: a systematic review”	17
Adopting scientific literacy in early years from empirical studies on formal education: a systematic review of the literature	16
Concept mapping in STEM education: a meta-analysis of its impact on students’ achievement (2004–2023)	16
Measures of success: characterizing teaching and teaching change with segmented and holistic observation data	15
Coping behavior versus coping style: characterizing a measure of coping in undergraduate STEM contexts	15
End of the road? The career intentions of under-represented STEM students in higher education	15
Single-paper meta-analyses of the effects of spaced retrieval practice in nine introductory STEM courses: is the glass half full or half empty?	15
AI literacy in K-12: a systematic literature review	15
Raising attainment for low-scoring students through quectures: an analysis of achievement and engagement with personalised learning in lectures	15

The impact of learning assistant facilitation practices on student in-the-moment learning	15
Pathways of opportunity in STEM: comparative investigation of degree attainment across different demographic groups at a large research institution	15
ChatGPT and its ethical implications for STEM research and higher education: a media discourse analysis	14
Face negotiation in graduate school: the decision to conceal or reveal depression among life sciences Ph.D. students in the United States	14
Intercultural competence outcomes of a STEM living–learning community	14
Expansive learning in the learning assistant model: how instructors’ goals lead to differences in implementation and development of LAs’ practices	14
Mentoring in STEM higher education: a synthesis of the literature to (re)present the excluded women of color	14
Correction: Scaling standards-aligned instruction through teacher leadership: methods, supports, and challenges	14
“Dear future woman of STEM”: letters of advice from women in STEM	13
The role of epistemological beliefs in STEM faculty’s decisions to use culturally relevant pedagogy at Hispanic-Serving Institutions	13
Racism, sexism and disconnection: contrasting experiences of Black women in STEM before and after transfer from community college	13
Inclusion in practice: a systematic review of diversity-focused STEM programming in the United States	13
Correction: Pre-service elementary teachers’ science and engineering teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy: exploring the impacts of efficacy source experiences through varying course modaliti	13
Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups	12
Beyond performance, competence, and recognition: forging a science researcher identity in the context of research training	12
The impact of changing engineering perceptions on women’s attitudes and behavioral intentions towards engineering pursuits	12
A meta-analytic investigation of the impact of middle school STEM education: where are all the students of color?	12
The cognitive principles of learning underlying the 5E Model of Instruction	11
The effects of educational robotics in STEM education: a multilevel meta-analysis	11
Systemic advantage has a meaningful relationship with grade outcomes in students’ early STEM courses at six research universities	11
Exploring senior engineering students’ engineering identity: the impact of practice-oriented learning experiences	11
Possible future selves in STEM: an epistemic network analysis of identity exploration in minoritized students and alumni	11
Applying multimodal learning analytics to examine the immediate and delayed effects of instructor scaffoldings on small groups’ collaborative programming	11
Precision education via timely intervention in K-12 computer programming course to enhance programming skill and affective-domain learning objectives	10
Gender patterns in engineering PhD teaching assistant evaluations corroborate role congruity theory	10
Authentic STEM research, practices of science, and interest development in an informal science education program	10
Unlocking STEM pathways: A person-centred approach exploring a teacher recruitment intervention	10
A scoping review on U.S. undergraduate students with disabilities in STEM courses and STEM majors	10
Correction to: I will teach you here or there, I will try to teach you anywhere: perceived supports and barriers for emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
An alternative to STEBI-A: validation of the T-STEM science scale	10
Engineering practices as a framework for STEM education: a proposal based on epistemic nuances	10
The development of mathematics expectancy-value profiles during the secondary–tertiary transition into STEM fields	10
Effects of digital game-based STEM education on students’ learning achievement: a meta-analysis	10
Characterizing facilitation practices of learning assistants: an authoritative-to-dialogic spectrum	10
Exploring students’ procedural flexibility in three countries	9
Expanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary core idea maps by students to promote perceived self-efficacy in learning science	9
Math anxiety affects career choices during development	9
Synthesizing intra-individual and social comparisons: how integrated comparative advantage shapes math attitudes and gender stereotypes	9
Engineering student experience and self-direction in implementations of blended learning: a cross-institutional analysis	9
Scaffolded team-based computational modeling and simulation projects for promoting representational competence and regulatory skills	9
A content analysis of research on technology use for teaching mathematics to students with disabilities: word networks and topic modeling	9
Stressors and normalized stress in undergraduate engineering education culture: development of the Engineering Stress Culture Scale and Undergraduate Engineering Stressors Questionnaire	8
Implicit gender stereotypes in STEM: measuring cognitive bias and group differences through reaction times	8
Mixed methods study of student participation and self-efficacy in remote asynchronous undergraduate physics laboratories: contributors, lurkers, and outsiders	8
Employing automatic analysis tools aligned to learning progressions to assess knowledge application and support learning in STEM	8
Doctoral advisor selection processes in science, math, and engineering programs in the United States	8
Facilitation of students’ disembedding in an online visual arts and mathematics education program	8
Validation of the Mathematics Motivation Questionnaire (MMQ) for secondary school students	8
Can training and apprentice programs in STEM increase worker life satisfaction and optimism?	8
Understanding how facilitators adapt to needs of STEM faculty in online learning communities: a case study	7
Beyond STEM attrition: changing career plans within STEM fields in college is associated with lower motivation, certainty, and satisfaction about one’s career	7
Prior experiences as students and instructors play a critical role in instructors’ decision to adopt evidence-based instructional practices	7
Influences and inhibitors in STEM undergraduate social responsibility development	7
I will teach you here or there, I will try to teach you anywhere: perceived supports and barriers for emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
(Re-)Designing a measure of student’s attitudes toward science: a longitudinal psychometric approach	7
What shapes statistical and data literacy research in K-12 STEM education? A systematic review of metrics and instructional strategies	7