OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Technology and Design Education is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	57
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	45
Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis	45
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	36
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	32
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	29
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	27
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	26
Situating technology teachers’ personal PCK: an investigation of the material preconditions for technology education in Sweden	24
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	24
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	23
Cultivating students’ computational thinking through student–robot interactions in robotics education	23
Designing Maker initiatives for educational inclusion	23
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	21
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
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	19
Integrating story-based STEM design challenges in early childhood curricula: an activity theory perspective	17
Conceptions of nature of technology in educational research: a systematic literature review	17
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	17
Industrial designers' thinking in the stage of concept generation for social design: themes, strategies and modes	16
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	16
Can abstraction help ideation? A case study on biologically inspired design	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
Bridging the gap: blending spatial skills instruction into a technology teacher preparation programme	14

The impact analysis of education on raising awareness towards climate change and energy efficiency	13
Designing integrated STEM curriculum to enhance STEM literacy among middle school students: insights from Chinese context	12
The relationship between the teacher’s approach to teaching and the student’s attitude toward technology in Croatian primary schools	12
The Effects of Implicit Belief of Intelligence on Metacognitive Skills and Project Design Engagement in an invention practice	12
Fostering technologies literacy: integrating technical vocabulary into the primary school Technologies curriculum for young learners	11
Impact of design thinking in higher education: a multi-actor perspective on problem solving and creativity	11
Estimating the replicability of technology education research	11
Co-making the future: crafting tomorrow with insights and perspectives from the China-U.S. young maker competition	11
An update to the technology education teaching framework: factors that support and hinder technology education teachers in Canada	10
A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio	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	9
Framing a holistic model of reasoning in the design process in technology education	9
Creativity in textile printing design: An integrative framework in design education	9
A card-based design tool for supporting design thinking in elementary students	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
Act like a user, work like a teacher: evaluation of experience design works through peer-testing	8
Body, dance and abstraction for spatial and structural comprehension in the first year of design education	8
Research on K-12 maker education in the early 2020s – a systematic literature review	8
How lower secondary pupils work with design in green entrepreneurship in STEM education competitions	8
Engineering requirements and their role in engineering undergraduates’ design decision making	8
Assessing the state of technology education in primary schools: a systematic review of the last 2 decades	7
Technology across boundaries: preserve or perish	7
Interdisciplinary integrative capabilities as a catalyst of responsible technology-enabled innovation: A higher education case study of Design MSc dissertation projects	7
Planting food sustainability thinking and practice through STEM in the garden	7
Use of personas in co-designing learning experiences with teachers: An exploratory case study	7
A closer look at the relationship between course enrollment size and accident occurrences in hands-on engineering design-based STEM courses	7
Models and modelling in secondary technology and engineering education	7
Computer programming in primary schools: Swedish Technology Teachers’ pedagogical strategies	7
Exploring the architectural design process assisted in conventional design studio: a systematic literature review	6
Engaging solution-based design process for integrated STEM program development: an exploratory study through autoethnographic design practice	6
Who counts? Legitimate solutions in construction activities in preschool	6
Exploring the nature and role of student-to-student talk and questioning among young children in technology and design education	6
The influence of subjective knowledge, technophobia and perceived enjoyment on design students’ intention to use artificial intelligence design tools	6
What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?	6
Towards an integrated model of STEM education in secondary schools: perspectives of practicing teachers in Ireland	6
A phenomenographic study of Chinese primary school students’ conceptions about technology	6
Effects of design thinking STEAM instruction on AI learning and creativity	6
“You give a little bit more love to animals than to robots”: primary pupils’ conceptions of ‘programming’ and programmable artefacts	6
The technological physical laboratory to achieve improvements in the quality of learning in epistemic terms	6
Exploring the impact of self-regulated learning intervention on students' strategy use and performance in a design studio course	6
Design studio practice in the context of architectural education: a narrative literature review	6
Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels	6
Book reviews	6
Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces	6
Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of AI Literacy Education for Young Children	6
The impact of the design thinking model on pre-service teachers’ creativity self-efficacy, inventive problem-solving skills, and technology-related motivation	6
Developing an instrument for assessing technology teachers’ understandings of the nature of technology	6
Exploring the metaphoric nature of programming teachers’ reflections on action - a case study with teaching in mind	6
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	6

A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	6
HildaRuth Beaumont with Torben Steeg, design and technology in your school. Principles for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. London and New York: Routledge, 2024	5
Flexibility; a critical concern in concept development in the early stages of architectural design process (case study: universities in Tehran)	5
Learning by evaluating as an interview primer to inform design thinking	5
Pupils’ prior knowledge about technological systems: design and validation of a diagnostic tool for primary school teachers	5
Online Creativity Training: Examining the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Training Approach	5
Organizing metaphors for design methods	5
Research on the design and implementation of primary school STEM project based on VR coursewares	5
Technical science capital in relation to how students manage within higher technical education	5
Integrating simulation into design: an experiment in pedagogical environments	5
Epistemological treatment of design in technology education	5
Competency of guiding teachers of technology competitions for Chinese college students under the global engineering education accreditation	5
Fostering pre-service primary school teachers’ ability to recognize differences in pupils’ understanding of technical systems	5
Impacts of maker education-design thinking integration on knowledge, creative tendencies, and perceptions of the engineering profession	5
Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world	5
Exploring the impact of the direct experience of architecture precedents: a study of master student teams	5
Elementary pre-service teachers’ conscious lack of knowledge about technical artefacts	5
New article types for the international journal of technology and design education: expanding opportunities for scholarly contribution	5
Hands on programming: Teachers’ use of Metaphors in gesture and Speech make Abstract concepts tangible	5