OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 3. 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
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	223
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	93
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	85
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	58
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	49
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	46
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	40
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	40
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	33
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	29
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	29
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	29
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	27
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	27
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	26
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	26
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	21
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	21
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	21
Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	20
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	20
Computational thinking practices: Lessons learned from a problem-based curriculum in primary education	19
Students as AI literate designers: a pedagogical framework for learning and teaching AI literacy in elementary education	18
What do we mean by digital equality in education? Toward five conceptual lenses based on a systematic review	18

A systematic literature review of usability definitions and psychometric properties of instruments in the field of learning design and technology	18
Effects of goal achievement motivation on K-12 students’ resilience in STEAM activities: the mediating role of in-school social supports	17
Examining two different models for developing teachers new to computer science: lessons from a CS4All district	17
Examining how teachers define and integrate digital citizenship into core content area curriculum	15
Exploring the complex interplay among middle schoolers’ prior coding experience, computational thinking attitudes and skills: a multiple moderated mediation analysis	15
What does it mean to “Engage” for learning on social media?: an analysis of global read aloud Twitter participation	15
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	15
Causes and consequences of stereotypes: interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes	14
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	13
Using a comic book to engage students in a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum	12
Enhancing learning and attitude toward statistics with a microlearning approach using an animated video	12
Using avatar rehearsals to practice eliciting student thinking with preservice teachers	11
An investigation of the mathematics applications in the Apple App Store: Do they contain benchmarks of educational quality?	11
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	11
Successful integration of technology into preschool education: do teachers’ self-efficacy and outcome expectations matter?	11
How teacher presence affects student engagement with a generative artificial intelligence chatbot in learning designed with first principles of instruction	10
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	10
Assessing EFL learners’ attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development and validation of Generative Artificial Intelligence attitude scale for EFL learners (GenAIAS)	10
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	10
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	10
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	9
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	9
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	9
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	9
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	9
Evaluating the role of professional development on elementary teachers’ knowledge, comfort, and beliefs related to teaching computer science to students with high-incidence disabilities	9
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	8
A systematic review of how educators integrate ethics into artificial intelligence curriculum	8
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	8
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	8
Leading digital innovation in schools: the role of the open innovation mindset	7
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	7
Let’s make a game! A case of co-designing with teachers from a research-practice partnership to integrate a virtual reality-enhanced digital game-based learning science unit	7
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	7
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	7
Conceptions of image-generative AI-supported instruction of preservice teachers with different levels of learning attitude: a drawing and epistemic network analysis	7
Social media and pre-service teachers’ apprenticeships of observation	7
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	7
Enhancing stealth assessment in game-based learning through goal recognition	7
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	7
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	7
Artificial intelligence policies in K-12 school districts in the United States: a content analysis shaping education policy	7
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	6
At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning	6
Correction	6
The mediating effects of engagement on the relationship between perceived digital inquiry and creativity	6
Digital storyboards: the impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding	6
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	6
Examining teachers’ readiness for blended teaching with a revised model and instrument	6
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence	6

K-12 teachers’ beliefs about and reactions to students’ off-task technology use	6
Impacts of different gamified problem-solving integration approaches on elementary math: an engagement and metacognitive knowledge perspective	6
Teacher strategies to use virtual learning environments to facilitate algebra learning during school closures	6
Assessing high school students’ perceptions of virtual reality in independent learning: development, network analysis and validation of the Independent Learning and Cognitive Empowerment Scale in Virt	5
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	5
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	5
AI-assisted programming question generation: Constructing semantic networks of programming knowledge by local knowledge graph and abstract syntax tree	5
Learning by playing with generative AI: design and evaluation of a role-playing educational game with generative AI as scaffolding for instant feedback interaction	5
The advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Insights from a 1976–2024 bibliometric analysis	5
The more structured, the better? Learning effects of online scaffolds with different structures for student question generation	5
A systematic review of published student question-generation systems: Supporting functionalities and design features	5
Fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion through social-emotional learning: the role of digital technologies	5
Building a high school violence prevention app to educate and protect students	5
Validating a Creative Coding Rubric through expressive activities for elementary grades	5
An examination of the research studies on augmented reality use in preschool education: a bibliometric mapping analysis	5
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	5
Preservice teachers’ TPACK learning trajectories in an online educational technology course	5
Advancing self-directed learning in STEM education: integrating GPT-based learning aid with multimodal learning analytics	5
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	4
Coding choreography: Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming	4
A heuristic framework for video-based teaching and learning scenarios in higher education	4
Exploring differences in the cognitive and metacognitive scaffolding use of high and low working memory students in block-based programming	4
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	4
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	4
Context-specificity to reduce bias in self-assessments: Comparing teachers’ scenario-based self-assessment and objective assessment of technological knowledge	4
The impact of scenario-based online gamified learning environment tailored to player types on student motivation, engagement, and environment interaction	4
A meta-analysis on the effect of learning analytics interventions on students’ academic performance	4
Teaching enthusiasm in video lectures: Evidence from two experimental studies	4
Teacher goal setting for personalized learning software: associations with perceptions of the value of software and growth mindsets	4
Insights on information literacy from social studies classrooms in the southeast	3
Virtual reality and affective learning in commemorative history teaching: effects of immersive technology and generative learning activities	3
The AI Motivation Scale (AIMS): a self-determination theory perspective	3
Blended teaching readiness of EFL instructors and their perceptions about blended learning in English preparatory schools: a case from Turkey	3
Computer science for secondary multilingual learners: how school policies and practices enable and constrain equitable access	3
School teachers in Germany and Denmark: a comparative study of self-efficacy and distinct profiles in using Artificial Intelligence for teaching and learning	3
University students’ AI thinking: A Latent Profile Analysis and predictive effects of psychological factors	3
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	3
Elementary school students’ and teachers’ perceptions toward creative mathematical writing with Generative AI	3
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	3
Promoting elementary school students’ programming learning: Effects of metacognitive vs. cognitive scaffolding	3
Influencer or teacher leader: an exploration of teacherpreneurs’ use of Instagram to lead	3
An examination of middle school student learner characteristics as related to the reuse and remixing of code in two different computer science learning contexts	3
Analyzing learners engagement in a micromasters program compared to non-degree MOOC	3
An interaction analysis of a computer science co-design conversation on cultural relevance and its implications for design	3
Using AI-empowered assessments and personalized recommendations to promote online collaborative learning performance	3
Keeping the “glass box” transparent: Comparing expert and AI-generated ratings and feedback in stealth assessment for judgement-focused negotiation simulations	3
The evolution of the association between teacher technology integration and its influencing factors over time	3
Gender perspective in the computational thinking program of Uruguay: teachers’ perceptions and results of the Bebras tasks	3
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	3
What would the matrix do?: a systematic review of K-12 AI learning contexts and learner-interface interactions	3