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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	83
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	76
Investigating generative artificial intelligence’s role in logo design pedagogy: effects on learning experience and outcomes	63
Understanding visual product language in industrial design education: a four-phase pedagogical approach	51
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	42
“Empathy is my favorite word”: Facilitating design thinking mindset through modular learning and self-assessments in an online course	36
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	35
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	33
Leadership development as a missed opportunity in design and technology education	31
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	30
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	30
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	30
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	26
Situating technology teachers’ personal PCK: an investigation of the material preconditions for technology education in Sweden	25
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	23
Perceptions of virtual nature among design students: implications for well-being and restorative design education	23
Integrating story-based STEM design challenges in early childhood curricula: an activity theory perspective	22
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	22
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	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	20
Conceptions of nature of technology in educational research: a systematic literature review	20
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	19
Why design and technology education never settled, and may never: a historical-conceptual analysis of a hybrid curriculum	18
Exploring contexts: the connection between mathematics and electricals/electronics for pre-service technical teachers	18
Technological determinism? Exploring students’ deliberations on renewable energy technology	18

Construction of a sustainable design competency assessment system for fashion designers in China	17
Fostering technologies literacy: integrating technical vocabulary into the primary school Technologies curriculum for young learners	17
The impact of school-enterprise cooperative courses on the professional identity of young designers	17
Influence of empathic design process on universally designed kitchen environments in an online project-based course	16
Computational thinking and entrepreneurship in robotics-supported engineering design-based 2E-STEM education: an environmental education process	16
Estimating the replicability of technology education research	16
The relationship between the teacher’s approach to teaching and the student’s attitude toward technology in Croatian primary schools	16
The impact analysis of education on raising awareness towards climate change and energy efficiency	16
The Effects of Implicit Belief of Intelligence on Metacognitive Skills and Project Design Engagement in an invention practice	15
Designing integrated STEM curriculum to enhance STEM literacy among middle school students: insights from Chinese context	15
Discovering the meaning of creativity in instructional design. A co-creation and concept mapping approach	15
Framing a holistic model of reasoning in the design process in technology education	15
The role of gender in Chinese junior high students’ self-efficacy, creative thinking and project-based learning perceived value in technology and engineering education	14
An update to the technology education teaching framework: factors that support and hinder technology education teachers in Canada	14
Creativity in textile printing design: An integrative framework in design education	14
Body, dance and abstraction for spatial and structural comprehension in the first year of design education	13
A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio	13
Research on K-12 maker education in the early 2020s – a systematic literature review	13
A card-based design tool for supporting design thinking in elementary students	13
Co-making the future: crafting tomorrow with insights and perspectives from the China-U.S. young maker competition	12
A meta-analysis to explore the role of design thinking in enhancing creativity as learning outcomes in STEM education	12
Comparative analysis of hand and VR sketching: impact of immersion on Idea generation in product design education	12
Architecture live projects: learning from a 2-year action research study	12
Interdisciplinary integrative capabilities as a catalyst of responsible technology-enabled innovation: A higher education case study of Design MSc dissertation projects	11
A closer look at the relationship between course enrollment size and accident occurrences in hands-on engineering design-based STEM courses	11
Assessing the state of technology education in primary schools: a systematic review of the last 2 decades	11
Engineering requirements and their role in engineering undergraduates’ design decision making	11
Exploring the integration of generative design in STEM classrooms: student perceptions and learning experiences	10
The impact of the design thinking model on pre-service teachers’ creativity self-efficacy, inventive problem-solving skills, and technology-related motivation	10
Enhancing industrial design students’ motivation and learning in Model-Making workshops: video tutorials as interventions	10
Models and modelling in secondary technology and engineering education	10
Computer programming in primary schools: Swedish Technology Teachers’ pedagogical strategies	10
Use of personas in co-designing learning experiences with teachers: An exploratory case study	10
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	10
Who counts? Legitimate solutions in construction activities in preschool	10
Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of AI Literacy Education for Young Children	9
“You give a little bit more love to animals than to robots”: primary pupils’ conceptions of ‘programming’ and programmable artefacts	9
Rethinking architectural design education and practice with AI: a cognitive–social–technical perspective	9
The technological physical laboratory to achieve improvements in the quality of learning in epistemic terms	9
Exploring the architectural design process assisted in conventional design studio: a systematic literature review	9
Effects of design thinking STEAM instruction on AI learning and creativity	9
The influence of subjective knowledge, technophobia and perceived enjoyment on design students’ intention to use artificial intelligence design tools	8
Book reviews	8
What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?	8
Exploring the impact of self-regulated learning intervention on students' strategy use and performance in a design studio course	8
Sustainable computing in STEAM generative education: integrating biology, art, science of design and engineering with nature	8
Impact of implementing digital tools in the basic design studios on the students’ design process in the following years	8
Exploring the metaphoric nature of programming teachers’ reflections on action - a case study with teaching in mind	8
A holistic look at creativity: evaluating pupils’ creative design ideation and prototypes through comparative judgment	8
Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces	8

Towards an integrated model of STEM education in secondary schools: perspectives of practicing teachers in Ireland	7
Mapping makerspaces in education: a meta-systematic review	7
Where are the girls? reflections on gender and technology education	7
Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels	7
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	7
Epistemological treatment of design in technology education	6
The application of GPT-4 in grading design university students’ assignment: an exploratory study	6
HildaRuth Beaumont with Torben Steeg, design and technology in your school. Principles for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. London and New York: Routledge, 2024	6
Technical science capital in relation to how students manage within higher technical education	6
Unveiling young children’s collaborative communication in hands-on problem-solving	6
Exploring the impact of the direct experience of architecture precedents: a study of master student teams	6
Online Creativity Training: Examining the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Training Approach	6
New article types for the international journal of technology and design education: expanding opportunities for scholarly contribution	6
Exploring the nature and role of student-to-student talk and questioning among young children in technology and design education	6
Learning by evaluating as an interview primer to inform design thinking	6
Competency of guiding teachers of technology competitions for Chinese college students under the global engineering education accreditation	6
Flexibility; a critical concern in concept development in the early stages of architectural design process (case study: universities in Tehran)	6
Fostering pre-service primary school teachers’ ability to recognize differences in pupils’ understanding of technical systems	6
A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	6