OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Technology and Design Education is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	61
Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis	51
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	48
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	37
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	36
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	31
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	29
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	29
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	25
Situating technology teachers’ personal PCK: an investigation of the material preconditions for technology education in Sweden	25
Designing Maker initiatives for educational inclusion	24
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	23
Cultivating students’ computational thinking through student–robot interactions in robotics education	23
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	19
Design thinking in early childhood education and care. A literature review and consideration from the perspective of young learners’ craft, design, and technology education	19
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	18
Conceptions of nature of technology in educational research: a systematic literature review	18
Integrating story-based STEM design challenges in early childhood curricula: an activity theory perspective	18
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	17
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	17
Bridging the gap: blending spatial skills instruction into a technology teacher preparation programme	15
The impact analysis of education on raising awareness towards climate change and energy efficiency	14
Exploring contexts: the connection between mathematics and electricals/electronics for pre-service technical teachers	14
Construction of a sustainable design competency assessment system for fashion designers in China	14
Can abstraction help ideation? A case study on biologically inspired design	14

The relationship between the teacher’s approach to teaching and the student’s attitude toward technology in Croatian primary schools	13
The Effects of Implicit Belief of Intelligence on Metacognitive Skills and Project Design Engagement in an invention practice	13
Designing integrated STEM curriculum to enhance STEM literacy among middle school students: insights from Chinese context	13
Industrial designers' thinking in the stage of concept generation for social design: themes, strategies and modes	12
Estimating the replicability of technology education research	12
Fostering technologies literacy: integrating technical vocabulary into the primary school Technologies curriculum for young learners	12
A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio	11
Impact of design thinking in higher education: a multi-actor perspective on problem solving and creativity	11
Creativity in textile printing design: An integrative framework in design education	10
An update to the technology education teaching framework: factors that support and hinder technology education teachers in Canada	10
The role of gender in Chinese junior high students’ self-efficacy, creative thinking and project-based learning perceived value in technology and engineering education	10
Framing a holistic model of reasoning in the design process in technology education	9
A card-based design tool for supporting design thinking in elementary students	9
Research on K-12 maker education in the early 2020s – a systematic literature review	9
Interdisciplinary integrative capabilities as a catalyst of responsible technology-enabled innovation: A higher education case study of Design MSc dissertation projects	8
A closer look at the relationship between course enrollment size and accident occurrences in hands-on engineering design-based STEM courses	8
Act like a user, work like a teacher: evaluation of experience design works through peer-testing	8
Co-making the future: crafting tomorrow with insights and perspectives from the China-U.S. young maker competition	8
Technology across boundaries: preserve or perish	8
A phenomenographic study of Chinese primary school students’ conceptions about technology	8
How lower secondary pupils work with design in green entrepreneurship in STEM education competitions	8
Body, dance and abstraction for spatial and structural comprehension in the first year of design education	8
Assessing the state of technology education in primary schools: a systematic review of the last 2 decades	8
Who counts? Legitimate solutions in construction activities in preschool	8
Exploring humorous design techniques in product through incongruity-resolution theory	8
Contradictions and paradoxes in design-centric engineering education: a complex responsive processes perspective	8
Engineering requirements and their role in engineering undergraduates’ design decision making	8
Models and modelling in secondary technology and engineering education	7
Computer programming in primary schools: Swedish Technology Teachers’ pedagogical strategies	7
Effects of design thinking STEAM instruction on AI learning and creativity	7
Exploring the effects of a video clip and prior experience with an example on enhancing the design ideation of master’s students: a two-condition comparative study	7
Use of personas in co-designing learning experiences with teachers: An exploratory case study	7
Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of AI Literacy Education for Young Children	7
The technological physical laboratory to achieve improvements in the quality of learning in epistemic terms	7
The impact of the design thinking model on pre-service teachers’ creativity self-efficacy, inventive problem-solving skills, and technology-related motivation	7
“You give a little bit more love to animals than to robots”: primary pupils’ conceptions of ‘programming’ and programmable artefacts	7
Exploring the architectural design process assisted in conventional design studio: a systematic literature review	7
Design studio practice in the context of architectural education: a narrative literature review	6
Exploring the nature and role of student-to-student talk and questioning among young children in technology and design education	6
A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	6
Flexibility; a critical concern in concept development in the early stages of architectural design process (case study: universities in Tehran)	6
What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?	6
The influence of subjective knowledge, technophobia and perceived enjoyment on design students’ intention to use artificial intelligence design tools	6
Exploring the metaphoric nature of programming teachers’ reflections on action - a case study with teaching in mind	6
Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces	6
Towards an integrated model of STEM education in secondary schools: perspectives of practicing teachers in Ireland	6
Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world	6
Integrating simulation into design: an experiment in pedagogical environments	6
Developing an instrument for assessing technology teachers’ understandings of the nature of technology	6
Engaging solution-based design process for integrated STEM program development: an exploratory study through autoethnographic design practice	6

Exploring the impact of self-regulated learning intervention on students' strategy use and performance in a design studio course	6
Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels	6
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	6
Learning by evaluating as an interview primer to inform design thinking	6
Book reviews	6