OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Stem Education is 19. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The implementation of peer assessment as a scaffold during computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning in secondary STEM education	296
Beyond “study skills”: a curriculum-embedded framework for metacognitive development in a college chemistry course	240
Which evidence-based teaching practices change over time? Results from a university-wide STEM faculty development program	186
A decade of advancing development, diversity, engagement, and excellence in STEM education	171
Predicting implementation of active learning by tenure-track teaching faculty using robust cluster analysis	145
Characteristics of interactive classrooms that first year students find helpful	116
Enhancing programming learning performance through a Jigsaw collaborative learning method in a metaverse virtual space	101
“That’s just the way it is”: bullying and harassment in STEM academia	84
How are primary school computer science curricular reforms contributing to equity? Impact on student learning, perception of the discipline, and gender gaps	78
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	69
Exploring instructional design in K-12 STEM education: a systematic literature review	64
Teamwork dynamics in the context of large-size software development courses	64
Utilizing an NLP-supported mobile reflection application to explore academic engagement, application engagement, and performance in engineering and physics courses	61
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a mapping review	59
Perceived network bridging influences the career commitment decisions of early career teachers	55
Investigation of STEM fields motivation among female students in science education colleges	52
LUPDA: a comprehensive rubrics-based assessment model for STEAM education	52
A systematic review of STEM teacher recruitment and retention interventions	50
Whose ability and growth matter? Gender, mindset and performance in physics	50
The computational thinking for science (CT-S) framework: operationalizing CT-S for K–12 science education researchers and educators	49
Enhancing STEM outcomes through mentorship (Mis)matching: an identity grafting approach	43
STEM education institutional change projects: examining enacted approaches through the lens of the Four Categories of Change Strategies Model	38
Modality matters: how combining oral and written instructional explanations improves STEM learning from video lectures	38
“Weebles wobble but they also commit to lifelong relationships”: teachers’ transdisciplinary learning in computational play	37
How do formal and informal science learning experiences during high school shape students’ career interest and STEM identity?	37

Quantifying ento-literacy: development and validation of an international insect-focused attitude and knowledge survey instrument	36
What do integrated STEM projects look like in middle school and high school classrooms? A systematic literature review of empirical studies of iSTEM projects	36
Secondary school mathematics and entrance into the STEM professions: a longitudinal study	34
Internal and external influences on role stereotype adherence and gender dynamics on engineering design teams	34
Seven years of development as building a foundation for the journal’s leadership in promoting STEM education internationally	34
Characteristics of departments with high-use of active learning in introductory STEM courses: implications for departmental transformation	34
Applicant qualifications and characteristics in STEM faculty hiring: an analysis of faculty and administrator perspectives	32
Filling the gap between career choice and academic variables: gender comparisons in STEM and social sciences	32
A systematic review of STEM education research in the GCC countries: trends, gaps and barriers	31
A microgenetic analysis of teachers’ learning through teaching	31
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
Investigating the impact of peer supplemental instruction on underprepared and historically underserved students in introductory STEM courses	31
Learning from the past; thinking for the future: reflections on STEM and its integration in formal and informal settings	30
Learning from watching dialog and monolog videos in online STEM courses	30
A more positive mindset context is associated with better student outcomes in STEM, particularly for traditional-age students	29
The role of media in influencing students’ STEM career interest	29
Synergistic effects of students’ mathematics and science motivational beliefs on achievement, and their determinants	29
Gender gaps in grades versus grade penalties: why grade anomalies may be more detrimental for women aspiring for careers in biological sciences	29
Fostering computational thinking through unplugged activities: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	26
Replicating or franchising a STEM afterschool program model: core elements of programmatic integrity	25
Authorship and topic trends in STEM education research	25
Development and validation of an instrument for assessing secondary students’ transdisciplinary STEM practices	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
The impacts of learning analytics and A/B testing research: a case study in differential scientometrics	24
Analysis of two pedagogical approaches to foster discipline integrations in an educational data mining class using communities of practice	22
AI literacy and gender equity in elementary education: A quasi-experimental study of a STEAM–PBL–AIoT course with questionnaire validation	22
Context and content of teaching conversations: exploring how to promote sharing of innovative teaching knowledge between science faculty	22
The influences of student- and school-level factors on engineering undergraduate student success outcomes: A multi-level multi-school study	21
Development of the Cooperative Adoption Factors Instrument to measure factors associated with instructional practice in the context of institutional change	21
Enhancing mathematical problem posing competence: a meta-analysis of intervention studies	21
Unequal access, equal outcomes? Gender differences in the relationship between university-led STEM program factors and undergraduates' career commitment in STEM	21
The effect of professional development on in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy: a meta-analysis of experimental studies	21
Mental simulations to facilitate teacher learning of ambitious mathematics instruction in coaching interactions	20
Engineering design learning for high school and college first-year students in a STEM battlebot design project	20
Responding to incorrect ideas: science graduate teaching assistants’ operationalization of error framing and undergraduate students’ perception	20
Undergraduate student perceptions of stress and mental health in engineering culture	20
Undergraduates’ reactions to errors mediates the association between growth mindset and study strategies	20
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	20
Mathematics and science across the transition from primary to secondary school: a systematic literature review	20
Effectiveness of in-service computer science teachers’ professional development in K-12 education: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Digital competence development in schools: a study on the association of problem-solving with autonomy and digital attitudes	19
Influence of 3D models and animations on students in natural subjects	19
Helping mentors address scientific communication in STEM research training helps their mentees stay the course	19
Accelerating STEM education reform: linked communities of practice promote creation of open educational resources and sustainable professional development	19
STEM courses are harder: evaluating inter-course grading disparities with a calibrated GPA model	19