OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Stem Education is 15. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
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	161
The influences of social agents in completing a STEM degree: an examination of female graduates of selective science high schools	145
The relationship between epistemological beliefs, reflective thinking, and science identity: a structural equation modeling analysis	142
Examining engineering students’ participation in entrepreneurship education programs: implications for practice	119
Blended and more: instructors organize sensemaking opportunities for mathematical equations in different ways when teaching the same scientific phenomenon	106
An alternative to STEBI-A: validation of the T-STEM science scale	104
Which evidence-based teaching practices change over time? Results from a university-wide STEM faculty development program	82
Changing between representations of elementary functions: students’ competencies and differences with a specific perspective on school track and gender	74
Engineering pedagogical content knowledge: examining correlations with formal and informal preparation experiences	68
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	64
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	64
The influences of student- and school-level factors on engineering undergraduate student success outcomes: A multi-level multi-school study	55
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	53
Shifts in learning assistants’ self-determination due to COVID-19 disruptions in Calculus II course delivery	48
Mathematics and science across the transition from primary to secondary school: a systematic literature review	47
Establishing a baseline of science communication skills in an undergraduate environmental science course	43
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change	40
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	37
Characterizing facilitation practices of learning assistants: an authoritative-to-dialogic spectrum	37
Documenting professional learning focused on implementing high-quality instructional materials in mathematics: the AIM–TRU learning cycle	37
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	34
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	33
Unlocking STEM pathways: A person-centred approach exploring a teacher recruitment intervention	32
Leveraging national laboratories to increase Black representation in STEM: recommendations within the Department of Energy	30
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	30

Science teacher identity research: a scoping literature review	30
One size doesn’t fit all: how different types of learning motivations influence engineering undergraduate students’ success outcomes	30
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	29
In memory of Jeffrey E. Froyd: a collection of tributes	28
Precision education via timely intervention in K-12 computer programming course to enhance programming skill and affective-domain learning objectives	28
A systematic review of high impact empirical studies in STEM education	28
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	28
Understanding science data literacy: a conceptual framework and assessment tool for college students majoring in STEM	28
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	27
Enhancing mathematical problem posing competence: a meta-analysis of intervention studies	26
Authentic STEM research, practices of science, and interest development in an informal science education program	24
The effect of professional development on in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy: a meta-analysis of experimental studies	24
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	23
Teachers’ race and gender biases and the moderating effects of their beliefs and dispositions	23
Engineering practices as a framework for STEM education: a proposal based on epistemic nuances	23
Motivation, pedagogy, and gender: examining the multifaceted and dynamic situational responses of women and men in college STEM courses	22
Integration of computational thinking in K-12 mathematics education: a systematic review on CT-based mathematics instruction and student learning	21
Digital competence development in schools: a study on the association of problem-solving with autonomy and digital attitudes	21
Effects of digital game-based STEM education on students’ learning achievement: a meta-analysis	21
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges	21
Mental simulations to facilitate teacher learning of ambitious mathematics instruction in coaching interactions	20
Building science through questions in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms	18
Pre-service elementary teachers’ science and engineering teaching self-efficacy and outcome expectancy: exploring the impacts of efficacy source experiences through varying course modalities	18
Influence of 3D models and animations on students in natural subjects	18
Scaling standards-aligned instruction through teacher leadership: methods, supports, and challenges	18
STEM doctoral students’ skill development: does funding mechanism matter?	18
Expanding disciplinary and interdisciplinary core idea maps by students to promote perceived self-efficacy in learning science	18
Exploring students’ procedural flexibility in three countries	17
An exploratory study of STEM teachers’ mentorship networks	17
Adapting the CACAO model to support higher education STEM teaching reform	17
The role of structured inquiry, open inquiry, and epistemological beliefs in developing secondary students’ scientific and mathematical literacies	16
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	16
What shapes implementation of a school-based makerspace? Teachers as multilevel actors in STEM reforms	16
Measuring science self-efficacy with a focus on the perceived competence dimension: using mixed methods to develop an instrument and explore changes through cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses i	16
Short-term effects of a classroom-based STEAM program using robotic kits on children in South Korea	16
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	16
Engineering student experience and self-direction in implementations of blended learning: a cross-institutional analysis	16
A content analysis of research on technology use for teaching mathematics to students with disabilities: word networks and topic modeling	16
A longitudinal analysis of developing marine science identity in a place-based, undergraduate research experience	15
Examining how social networks influence women and under-represented minority students’ pursuit of engineering in university: when, who, and how?	15
The Taxonomy of Opportunities to Learn (TxOTL): a tool for understanding the learning potential and substance of interactions in faculty (online) learning community meetings	15
Engineering design learning for high school and college first-year students in a STEM battlebot design project	15