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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
You just have to take a big leap! Authentic teaching and learning in the technology program at an upper secondary school	54
The influence of subjective knowledge, technophobia and perceived enjoyment on design students’ intention to use artificial intelligence design tools	43
Editorial	37
Spanish and Swedish teachers’ perspective of teaching STEM and robotics in preschool – results from the botSTEM project	32
Theoretical model and practical analysis of immersive industrial design education based on virtual reality technology	31
Adapting the difficulty of hands-on tasks to pupils’ prior knowledge: effects on challenge and skill development	27
Supporting traditional handicrafts teaching through eye movement technology	26
AI-assisted architectural design studio (AI-a-ADS): How artificial intelligence join the architectural design studio?	26
Towards a three-part heuristic framework for technology education	24
Architecture students’ attitudes toward emergency distance education and elements affecting their success in design studios: a sample from Turkey	24
Implementing artificial intelligence education for middle school technology education in Republic of Korea	23
Correction to: Transferring makerspace activities to the classroom: a tension between two learning cultures	22
Adapting engineering design thinking for sustainability	21
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	20
Architecture in school practice: possible tools for supporting spatial literacy	19
Spontaneous decision-making behavior: correlation of electrodermal activities to an architecture design time-problem	16
An empirical study on immersive technology in synchronous hybrid learning in design education	16
Exploring the metaphoric nature of programming teachers’ reflections on action - a case study with teaching in mind	16
The potential for spatial ability development through the Swedish technology and craft compulsory curricula	15
Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Food Technology Education	14
Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	14
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	14
Rethinking construction in preschool: discerning didactic strategies in Swedish preschool activities	14
Exploring the role of situational flow experience in learning through design in 3D multi-user virtual environments	13
Bringing computational thinking to technology education classrooms: Hacking car activity for middle schools in the republic of korea	13

Exploring the impact of self-regulated learning intervention on students' strategy use and performance in a design studio course	13
Engaging solution-based design process for integrated STEM program development: an exploratory study through autoethnographic design practice	12
Is group work beneficial for producing creative designs in STEM design education?	12
Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis	12
Teaching design for additive manufacturing: efficacy of and engagement with lecture and laboratory approaches	11
Developing an instrument for assessing technology teachers’ understandings of the nature of technology	11
Elementary students’ perceptions of STEM professionals	11
Technological problem solving: an investigation of differences associated with levels of task success	11
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	11
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	10
Online education in design disciplines: factors influencing the interactive experience of group learning	10
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	10
Design studio practice in the context of architectural education: a narrative literature review	9
The attitudes of landscape architecture students towards distance and face-to-face education methods and the effects of the two education methods on academic achievement in the project course	9
Insights into product design students’ perception of, and engagement with, creativity in design education	9
A deep dive into the impacts of empathy on design learning and teaching	9
Book reviews	9
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	8
Idea characteristics arising from individual brainstorming and design heuristics ideation methods	8
Cultivating ethics sensitivity in design: Impact of integrating ethics within K-12 digital design education	8
Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces	8
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	7
Teachers' perspectives about the content, context, and educational suitability of the GPS cows module for Australian teachers in New South Wales	7
Fostering technical skills and creativity in the digital fabrication spaces: an open-ended prototyping approach	7
Product hacking as a systematic intervention: towards new strategies and platforms in design education	7
Correction to: A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	7
Learning by Evaluating (LbE): promoting meaningful reasoning in the context of engineering design thinking using Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ)	7
Towards an integrated model of STEM education in secondary schools: perspectives of practicing teachers in Ireland	7
Conceptions of nature of technology in educational research: a systematic literature review	7
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	7
Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels	6
Technology teachers’ teaching engineering self-efficacy: an investigation of Chinese high school general technology teachers	6
Using empathy maps to support design-thinking enhanced transdisciplinary STEM innovation in K-12 setting	6
Using structural equation modelling for understanding relationships influencing the middle school technology teacher’s attitudes toward STEAM education in Korea	6
Final year projects in engineering education: a comparative study of final year engineering projects at public universities in Malawi, Namibia and South Africa	6
Undergraduate students’ beliefs about diverse approaches to making engineering design decisions: Exploring change during a capstone course	6
Changes to stakeholder engagement approaches throughout a capstone engineering design course	6
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	6
Industrial design students’ perceptions towards a career in user experience field in Turkey	6
Eight-year-olds’ naïve and acquired knowledge about computer viruses: a mixed methods study	6
Realities vs expectations: children’s perception and imagination of AI	6
Exploring the nature and role of student-to-student talk and questioning among young children in technology and design education	6
Students’ and teachers’ responses to use of a digital self-assessment tool to understand and identify development of twenty-first century skills when working with makerspace activities	6
Design thinking in early childhood education and care. A literature review and consideration from the perspective of young learners’ craft, design, and technology education	6
Impacting secondary students’ STEM knowledge through collaborative STEM teacher partnerships	6
A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	6
Gender does not make the difference: interest in STEM by gender is fully mediated by technical socialization and degree program	5
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	5
Teaching to whom and with whom: the role of context in developing preservice teachers’ self-efficacy for teaching engineering and coding via robotics	5
Immersive digital creation environments in design education	5

Transferring makerspace activities to the classroom: a tension between two learning cultures	5
Exploring pre-service teachers’ technology-integration belief and scientific inquiry in a teacher-development course	5
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	5
What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?	5
Validation of the use of concept maps as an evaluation tool for the teaching and learning of mechanical and industrial engineering	5
Effects of digital media literacy course on primary school students’ digital media literacy: an experimental study	5
Developing pre-service primary teachers’ understanding of engineering through engineering habits of mind and engagement with engineers	5
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	5
Probing cultural differences in product design and consumer evaluation using repertory grid analysis	5
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	5
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	5
How teachers support students during design activities in the chemistry classroom	5
Cultivating students’ computational thinking through student–robot interactions in robotics education	5
Emotional valence and arousal: the impact of AI-generated image stimuli on design creativity	5
Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world	5