OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Stem Education is 17. 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
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	40
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges	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
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change	22
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
Mathematics and science across the transition from primary to secondary school: a systematic literature review	21
Enhancing mathematical problem posing competence: a meta-analysis of intervention studies	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