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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	473
Empirical insights into the influence of ChatGPT-facilitated programming on primary learners’ performances: a mixed methods approach	337
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	127
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	113
A better fit: using data roles to appeal to more learners and promote critical data literacy	106
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	103
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	102
The capital of cooperation: a resource-based study of school–out-of-school STEM cooperations across phases and professional roles	90
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	87
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	83
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	82
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	81
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	79
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	72
LUPDA: a comprehensive rubrics-based assessment model for STEAM education	70
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	63
Utilizing an NLP-supported mobile reflection application to explore academic engagement, application engagement, and performance in engineering and physics courses	55
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review	53
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	51
A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions	50
Enhancing STEM outcomes through mentorship (Mis)matching: an identity grafting approach	49
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play	48
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures	47
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model	47
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects	46

Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives	45
Filling the gap between career choice and academic variables: gender comparisons in STEM and social sciences	45
How do formal and informal science learning experiences during high school shape students’ career interest and STEM identity?	45
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study	44
Investigating the impact of peer supplemental instruction on underprepared and historically underserved students in introductory STEM courses	39
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams	38
Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument	37
Characteristics of departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: implications for departmental transformation	37
Learning from the past; thinking for the future: reflections on STEM and its integration in formal and informal settings	37
Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research	36
A more positive mindset context is associated with better student outcomes in STEM, particularly for traditional-age students	36
Gender gaps in grades versus grade penalties: why grade anomalies may be more detrimental for women aspiring for careers in biological sciences	35
Synergistic effects of students’ mathematics and science motivational beliefs on achievement, and their determinants	34
Learning from watching dialog and monolog videos in online STEM courses	34
The role of media in influencing students’ STEM career interest	33
A microgenetic analysis of teachers’ learning through teaching	33
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing secondary students’ transdisciplinary STEM practices	32
Fostering computational thinking through unplugged activities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	31
Tracing distinct learning trajectories in introductory programming course: a sequence analysis of score, engagement, and code metrics for novice computer science vs. math cohorts	31
Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty	30
AI literacy and gender equity in elementary education: A quasi-experimental study of a STEAM–PBL–AIoT course with questionnaire validation	29
The power of connections: a mixed methods approach to understanding social capital’s influence on engineering students’ professional skills	29
Learning against the machine: the double edged sword of (Gen)AI in STEM education	28
Addressing inequities in STEM through culturally responsive practices in an after-school math enrichment activity	28
STEM identity status: associations with STEM motivation beliefs, STEM activity experiences, social support from parents and peers among Chinese STEM undergraduates	27
Epistemic agency in introductory biology: a blind-selection study reveals curricular influences on science integration processes	27
Analysis of two pedagogical approaches to foster discipline integrations in an educational data mining class using communities of practice	27
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change	27
Unequal access, equal outcomes? Gender differences in the relationship between university-led STEM program factors and undergraduates' career commitment in STEM	27
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
The effect of professional development on in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy: a meta-analysis of experimental studies	25
Mental simulations to facilitate teacher learning of ambitious mathematics instruction in coaching interactions	24
Digital competence development in schools: a study on the association of problem-solving with autonomy and digital attitudes	23
Influence of 3D models and animations on students in natural subjects	23
Undergraduates’ reactions to errors mediates the association between growth mindset and study strategies	23
Responding to incorrect ideas: science graduate teaching assistants’ operationalization of error framing and undergraduate students’ perception	23
Engineering design learning for high school and college first-year students in a STEM battlebot design project	23
Undergraduate student perceptions of stress and mental health in engineering culture	22
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	22
Helping mentors address scientific communication in STEM research training helps their mentees stay the course	21
Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development	21
Eight years of development in welcoming and engaging diverse scholars to share and promote STEM education research worldwide	20
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”	19
Concept mapping in STEM education: a meta-analysis of its impact on students’ achievement (2004–2023)	19
Adopting scientific literacy in early years from empirical studies on formal education: a systematic review of the literature	19
AI literacy in K-12: a systematic literature review	19
Undergraduate facilitators of informal STEM education programs use and develop community cultural wealth in their roles	19
Bridging borders: assessing the impact of semester-long study abroad programs on intercultural competence development in undergraduate engineering students	19
The role of psychological factors and transfer experiences in STEM identity: a regression analysis of vertical and lateral transfers	18

Single-paper meta-analyses of the effects of spaced retrieval practice in nine introductory STEM courses: is the glass half full or half empty?	18
Raising attainment for low-scoring students through quectures: an analysis of achievement and engagement with personalised learning in lectures	18
The impact of learning assistant facilitation practices on student in-the-moment learning	18
Pathways of opportunity in STEM: comparative investigation of degree attainment across different demographic groups at a large research institution	18
ChatGPT and its ethical implications for STEM research and higher education: a media discourse analysis	17
Face negotiation in graduate school: the decision to conceal or reveal depression among life sciences Ph.D. students in the United States	17
What role should higher education institutions play in fostering AI ethics? Insights from science and engineering graduate students	17
Be curious and persistent: joint roles of curiosity and persistence in adolescents’ STEM achievements	17
A second-order meta-analysis of interventions and their effectiveness in STEMM education: effects on motivational, affective, and attitudinal outcomes	17
Mentoring in STEM higher education: a synthesis of the literature to (re)present the excluded women of color	17
Measures of success: characterizing teaching and teaching change with segmented and holistic observation data	17
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
Correction: Scaling standards-aligned instruction through teacher leadership: methods, supports, and challenges	16
Correction: Tool, tutor, or crutch?: A grounded theory of cognitive scaffolding and offloading in AI-assisted programming education	16
End of the road? The career intentions of under-represented STEM students in higher education	16
Predicting STEM competencies with machine learning: identifying key determinants among 522,802 adolescents	15
Inclusion in practice: a systematic review of diversity-focused STEM programming in the United States	15
Tool, tutor, or crutch?: A grounded theory of cognitive scaffolding and offloading in AI-assisted programming education	15
“Dear future woman of STEM”: letters of advice from women in STEM	15
Expansive learning in the learning assistant model: how instructors’ goals lead to differences in implementation and development of LAs’ practices	15
The impact of changing engineering perceptions on women’s attitudes and behavioral intentions towards engineering pursuits	15
A meta-analytic investigation of the impact of middle school STEM education: where are all the students of color?	15
Possible future selves in STEM: an epistemic network analysis of identity exploration in minoritized students and alumni	14
Exploring STEM identity profiles among undergraduate STEM students and their relationships with gender, discipline, persistence and engagement: a latent profile analysis	14
Systemic advantage has a meaningful relationship with grade outcomes in students’ early STEM courses at six research universities	14
Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups	14
Exploring senior engineering students’ engineering identity: the impact of practice-oriented learning experiences	14
The effects of educational robotics in STEM education: a multilevel meta-analysis	13
Model-based reasoning in STEM education: a systematic literature review	13
Characterizing facilitation practices of learning assistants: an authoritative-to-dialogic spectrum	13
Applying multimodal learning analytics to examine the immediate and delayed effects of instructor scaffoldings on small groups’ collaborative programming	13
A meta-analysis of AI-enabled personalized STEM education in schools	13
Beyond performance, competence, and recognition: forging a science researcher identity in the context of research training	13
Engineering student experience and self-direction in implementations of blended learning: a cross-institutional analysis	12
Expanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary core idea maps by students to promote perceived self-efficacy in learning science	12
Precision education via timely intervention in K-12 computer programming course to enhance programming skill and affective-domain learning objectives	12
Unlocking STEM pathways: A person-centred approach exploring a teacher recruitment intervention	12
Synthesizing intra-individual and social comparisons: how integrated comparative advantage shapes math attitudes and gender stereotypes	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	11
Doctoral advisor selection processes in science, math, and engineering programs in the United States	11
Mixed methods study of student participation and self-efficacy in remote asynchronous undergraduate physics laboratories: contributors, lurkers, and outsiders	11
The development of mathematics expectancy-value profiles during the secondary–tertiary transition into STEM fields	11
A scoping review on U.S. undergraduate students with disabilities in STEM courses and STEM majors	11
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
Math anxiety affects career choices during development	11
Can training and apprentice programs in STEM increase worker life satisfaction and optimism?	11
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
Influences and inhibitors in STEM undergraduate social responsibility development	10
Employing automatic analysis tools aligned to learning progressions to assess knowledge application and support learning in STEM	10
Prior experiences as students and instructors play a critical role in instructors’ decision to adopt evidence-based instructional practices	10
Measurement in STEM education research: a systematic literature review of trends in the psychometric evidence of scales	9
Gender gap in STEM pathways: the role of secondary curricula in a highly differentiated school system—the case of Chile	9
Developing preschool children’s computational thinking and executive functions: unplugged vs. robot programming activities	9
What shapes statistical and data literacy research in K-12 STEM education? A systematic review of metrics and instructional strategies	9
Extending STEM identity to the institutional level: how organizational identity and efficacy shape gender-inclusive practice in out-of-school education	9
Abstract thought in STEM education: an integrative literature review	9
Facilitation of students’ disembedding in an online visual arts and mathematics education program	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
The currency of research access: how undergraduates leverage social capital to gain research experience	9
Putting the pieces of the puzzle together in modeling gendered educational choices	9