International Journal of Stem Education

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Stem Education is 20. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia338
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps270
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful199
The capital of cooperation: a resource-based study of school–out-of-school STEM cooperations across phases and professional roles182
Which evidence-based teaching practices change over time? Results from a university-wide STEM faculty development program127
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education112
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis87
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course87
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education76
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses73
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space73
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review71
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 in68
Utilizing an NLP-supported mobile reflection application to explore academic engagement, application engagement, and performance in engineering and physics courses66
LUPDA: a comprehensive rubrics-based assessment model for STEAM education64
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review64
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators63
Whose ability and growth matter? Gender, mindset and performance in physics62
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers59
A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions51
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges48
Enhancing STEM outcomes through mentorship (Mis)matching: an identity grafting approach46
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures40
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play39
How do formal and informal science learning experiences during high school shape students’ career interest and STEM identity?39
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects39
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model37
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams37
Investigating the impact of peer supplemental instruction on underprepared and historically underserved students in introductory STEM courses36
Characteristics of departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: implications for departmental transformation36
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study36
Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives35
Comparing success of female students to their male counterparts in the STEM fields: an empirical analysis from enrollment until graduation using longitudinal register data34
Filling the gap between career choice and academic variables: gender comparisons in STEM and social sciences34
Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument34
A systematic review of STEM education research in the GCC countries: trends, gaps and barriers33
Learning from the past; thinking for the future: reflections on STEM and its integration in formal and informal settings33
Learning from watching dialog and monolog videos in online STEM courses33
A microgenetic analysis of teachers’ learning through teaching31
Replicating or franchising a STEM afterschool program model: core elements of programmatic integrity31
Synergistic effects of students’ mathematics and science motivational beliefs on achievement, and their determinants31
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing secondary students’ transdisciplinary STEM practices30
The impacts of learning analytics and A/B testing research: a case study in differential scientometrics29
Tracing distinct learning trajectories in introductory programming course: a sequence analysis of score, engagement, and code metrics for novice computer science vs. math cohorts27
A more positive mindset context is associated with better student outcomes in STEM, particularly for traditional-age students26
Gender gaps in grades versus grade penalties: why grade anomalies may be more detrimental for women aspiring for careers in biological sciences26
Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research26
AI literacy and gender equity in elementary education: A quasi-experimental study of a STEAM–PBL–AIoT course with questionnaire validation25
The role of media in influencing students’ STEM career interest25
Fostering computational thinking through unplugged activities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis25
Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty24
Unequal access, equal outcomes? Gender differences in the relationship between university-led STEM program factors and undergraduates' career commitment in STEM24
Learning against the machine: the double edged sword of (Gen)AI in STEM education24
Analysis of two pedagogical approaches to foster discipline integrations in an educational data mining class using communities of practice24
Enhancing mathematical problem posing competence: a meta-analysis of intervention studies23
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change23
The effect of professional development on in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy: a meta-analysis of experimental studies23
The influences of student- and school-level factors on engineering undergraduate student success outcomes: A multi-level multi-school study23
Mathematics and science across the transition from primary to secondary school: a systematic literature review23
Influence of 3D models and animations on students in natural subjects22
STEM courses are harder: evaluating inter-course grading disparities with a calibrated GPA model22
Undergraduates’ reactions to errors mediates the association between growth mindset and study strategies22
Mental simulations to facilitate teacher learning of ambitious mathematics instruction in coaching interactions22
Analyzing the associations between motivation and academic performance via the mediator variables of specific mathematic cognitive learning strategies in different subject domains of higher education22
Engineering design learning for high school and college first-year students in a STEM battlebot design project22
Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development22
Undergraduate student perceptions of stress and mental health in engineering culture21
Effectiveness of in-service computer science teachers’ professional development in K-12 education: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Digital competence development in schools: a study on the association of problem-solving with autonomy and digital attitudes20
Responding to incorrect ideas: science graduate teaching assistants’ operationalization of error framing and undergraduate students’ perception20
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