OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Stem Education is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	442
A better fit: using data roles to appeal to more learners and promote critical data literacy	320
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	133
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	119
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	109
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	101
Empirical insights into the influence of ChatGPT-facilitated programming on primary learners’ performances: a mixed methods approach	94
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	91
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	90
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	87
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	79
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	79
The capital of cooperation: a resource-based study of school–out-of-school STEM cooperations across phases and professional roles	78
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	78
Utilizing an NLP-supported mobile reflection application to explore academic engagement, application engagement, and performance in engineering and physics courses	74
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review	69
LUPDA: a comprehensive rubrics-based assessment model for STEAM education	65
A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions	53
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	53
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	48
Enhancing STEM outcomes through mentorship (Mis)matching: an identity grafting approach	47
How do formal and informal science learning experiences during high school shape students’ career interest and STEM identity?	47
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play	46
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects	45
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures	45

Filling the gap between career choice and academic variables: gender comparisons in STEM and social sciences	45
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model	45
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study	44
Characteristics of departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: implications for departmental transformation	43
Investigating the impact of peer supplemental instruction on underprepared and historically underserved students in introductory STEM courses	42
Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives	42
Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument	37
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams	36
Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research	35
Learning from the past; thinking for the future: reflections on STEM and its integration in formal and informal settings	35
Gender gaps in grades versus grade penalties: why grade anomalies may be more detrimental for women aspiring for careers in biological sciences	35
The role of media in influencing students’ STEM career interest	33
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing secondary students’ transdisciplinary STEM practices	33
A microgenetic analysis of teachers’ learning through teaching	33
Tracing distinct learning trajectories in introductory programming course: a sequence analysis of score, engagement, and code metrics for novice computer science vs. math cohorts	32
A more positive mindset context is associated with better student outcomes in STEM, particularly for traditional-age students	32
Learning from watching dialog and monolog videos in online STEM courses	32
Synergistic effects of students’ mathematics and science motivational beliefs on achievement, and their determinants	31
Fostering computational thinking through unplugged activities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	31
Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty	30
Unequal access, equal outcomes? Gender differences in the relationship between university-led STEM program factors and undergraduates' career commitment in STEM	29
STEM identity status: associations with STEM motivation beliefs, STEM activity experiences, social support from parents and peers among Chinese STEM undergraduates	29
Analysis of two pedagogical approaches to foster discipline integrations in an educational data mining class using communities of practice	29
AI literacy and gender equity in elementary education: A quasi-experimental study of a STEAM–PBL–AIoT course with questionnaire validation	28
The power of connections: a mixed methods approach to understanding social capital’s influence on engineering students’ professional skills	28
Learning against the machine: the double edged sword of (Gen)AI in STEM education	27
The effect of professional development on in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy: a meta-analysis of experimental studies	26
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change	26
Epistemic agency in introductory biology: a blind-selection study reveals curricular influences on science integration processes	26
Enhancing mathematical problem posing competence: a meta-analysis of intervention studies	26
Effectiveness of in-service computer science teachers’ professional development in K-12 education: a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Responding to incorrect ideas: science graduate teaching assistants’ operationalization of error framing and undergraduate students’ perception	24
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	24
Digital competence development in schools: a study on the association of problem-solving with autonomy and digital attitudes	24
Mental simulations to facilitate teacher learning of ambitious mathematics instruction in coaching interactions	23
Undergraduates’ reactions to errors mediates the association between growth mindset and study strategies	23
Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development	23
Influence of 3D models and animations on students in natural subjects	22
Engineering design learning for high school and college first-year students in a STEM battlebot design project	22
Undergraduate student perceptions of stress and mental health in engineering culture	22
Bridging borders: assessing the impact of semester-long study abroad programs on intercultural competence development in undergraduate engineering students	21
Eight years of development in welcoming and engaging diverse scholars to share and promote STEM education research worldwide	21
Concept mapping in STEM education: a meta-analysis of its impact on students’ achievement (2004–2023)	21
Helping mentors address scientific communication in STEM research training helps their mentees stay the course	21
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”	21
Adopting scientific literacy in early years from empirical studies on formal education: a systematic review of the literature	20
AI literacy in K-12: a systematic literature review	19
Pathways of opportunity in STEM: comparative investigation of degree attainment across different demographic groups at a large research institution	19
The impact of learning assistant facilitation practices on student in-the-moment learning	18
Raising attainment for low-scoring students through quectures: an analysis of achievement and engagement with personalised learning in lectures	18

Face negotiation in graduate school: the decision to conceal or reveal depression among life sciences Ph.D. students in the United States	18
Undergraduate facilitators of informal STEM education programs use and develop community cultural wealth in their roles	18
Mentoring in STEM higher education: a synthesis of the literature to (re)present the excluded women of color	17
ChatGPT and its ethical implications for STEM research and higher education: a media discourse analysis	17
Single-paper meta-analyses of the effects of spaced retrieval practice in nine introductory STEM courses: is the glass half full or half empty?	17
Measures of success: characterizing teaching and teaching change with segmented and holistic observation data	17
What role should higher education institutions play in fostering AI ethics? Insights from science and engineering graduate students	17
The role of psychological factors and transfer experiences in STEM identity: a regression analysis of vertical and lateral transfers	17
End of the road? The career intentions of under-represented STEM students in higher education	17
“Dear future woman of STEM”: letters of advice from women in STEM	16
Expansive learning in the learning assistant model: how instructors’ goals lead to differences in implementation and development of LAs’ practices	16
Correction: Tool, tutor, or crutch?: A grounded theory of cognitive scaffolding and offloading in AI-assisted programming education	16
Correction: Scaling standards-aligned instruction through teacher leadership: methods, supports, and challenges	16
A meta-analytic investigation of the impact of middle school STEM education: where are all the students of color?	16
Inclusion in practice: a systematic review of diversity-focused STEM programming in the United States	16
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	16
Tool, tutor, or crutch?: A grounded theory of cognitive scaffolding and offloading in AI-assisted programming education	15
Exploring STEM identity profiles among undergraduate STEM students and their relationships with gender, discipline, persistence and engagement: a latent profile analysis	15
Predicting STEM competencies with machine learning: identifying key determinants among 522,802 adolescents	15
Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups	15
Possible future selves in STEM: an epistemic network analysis of identity exploration in minoritized students and alumni	15
The impact of changing engineering perceptions on women’s attitudes and behavioral intentions towards engineering pursuits	15
Beyond performance, competence, and recognition: forging a science researcher identity in the context of research training	15
A meta-analysis of AI-enabled personalized STEM education in schools	14
Applying multimodal learning analytics to examine the immediate and delayed effects of instructor scaffoldings on small groups’ collaborative programming	14
Precision education via timely intervention in K-12 computer programming course to enhance programming skill and affective-domain learning objectives	13
Systemic advantage has a meaningful relationship with grade outcomes in students’ early STEM courses at six research universities	13
Characterizing facilitation practices of learning assistants: an authoritative-to-dialogic spectrum	13
Exploring senior engineering students’ engineering identity: the impact of practice-oriented learning experiences	13
Unlocking STEM pathways: A person-centred approach exploring a teacher recruitment intervention	13
The effects of educational robotics in STEM education: a multilevel meta-analysis	13
Synthesizing intra-individual and social comparisons: how integrated comparative advantage shapes math attitudes and gender stereotypes	12
A scoping review on U.S. undergraduate students with disabilities in STEM courses and STEM majors	12
Engineering student experience and self-direction in implementations of blended learning: a cross-institutional analysis	12
Scaffolded team-based computational modeling and simulation projects for promoting representational competence and regulatory skills	12
Gender patterns in engineering PhD teaching assistant evaluations corroborate role congruity theory	12
Implicit gender stereotypes in STEM: measuring cognitive bias and group differences through reaction times	11
A content analysis of research on technology use for teaching mathematics to students with disabilities: word networks and topic modeling	11
Mixed methods study of student participation and self-efficacy in remote asynchronous undergraduate physics laboratories: contributors, lurkers, and outsiders	11
Expanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary core idea maps by students to promote perceived self-efficacy in learning science	11
Doctoral advisor selection processes in science, math, and engineering programs in the United States	11
Math anxiety affects career choices during development	11
The development of mathematics expectancy-value profiles during the secondary–tertiary transition into STEM fields	11
Influences and inhibitors in STEM undergraduate social responsibility development	10
Can training and apprentice programs in STEM increase worker life satisfaction and optimism?	10
Prior experiences as students and instructors play a critical role in instructors’ decision to adopt evidence-based instructional practices	10
Stressors and normalized stress in undergraduate engineering education culture: development of the Engineering Stress Culture Scale and Undergraduate Engineering Stressors Questionnaire	10
Understanding how facilitators adapt to needs of STEM faculty in online learning communities: a case study	10
Employing automatic analysis tools aligned to learning progressions to assess knowledge application and support learning in STEM	9
Using human, social, structural, and positive psychological capital to explore science and mathematics teacher retention	9
Developing preschool children’s computational thinking and executive functions: unplugged vs. robot programming activities	9
Beyond STEM attrition: changing career plans within STEM fields in college is associated with lower motivation, certainty, and satisfaction about one’s career	9
Putting the pieces of the puzzle together in modeling gendered educational choices	9
Gender gap in STEM pathways: the role of secondary curricula in a highly differentiated school system—the case of Chile	9
Extending STEM identity to the institutional level: how organizational identity and efficacy shape gender-inclusive practice in out-of-school education	9
Facilitation of students’ disembedding in an online visual arts and mathematics education program	9
What shapes statistical and data literacy research in K-12 STEM education? A systematic review of metrics and instructional strategies	9
Abstract thought in STEM education: an integrative literature review	9