OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	197
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	86
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	70
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	56
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	43
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	39
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	36
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	34
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	29
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	29
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	28
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	27
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	26
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	26
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	25
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	24
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	24
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	22
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	22
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	20
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	19
Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	19
The strength of a tigress: an examination of Latina first-generation college students’ tenacity during the rapid shift to remote learning	18
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	17
Computational thinking practices: Lessons learned from a problem-based curriculum in primary education	17
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	17
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	16
Effects of goal achievement motivation on K-12 students’ resilience in STEAM activities: the mediating role of in-school social supports	16
Using a comic book to engage students in a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum	16
Enhancing learning and attitude toward statistics with a microlearning approach using an animated video	15
Examining how teachers define and integrate digital citizenship into core content area curriculum	14
The development and validation of a teacher education digital literacy and digital pedagogy evaluation	13
What does it mean to “Engage” for learning on social media?: an analysis of global read aloud Twitter participation	13
Causes and consequences of stereotypes: interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes	12
The flipped classroom approach in an English for specific purposes (ESP) course: A quasi-experimental study on learners’ self-efficacy, study process, and learning performances	12
Exploring the complex interplay among middle schoolers’ prior coding experience, computational thinking attitudes and skills: a multiple moderated mediation analysis	12
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	11
Examining two different models for developing teachers new to computer science: lessons from a CS4All district	11
Using avatar rehearsals to practice eliciting student thinking with preservice teachers	10
How teacher presence affects student engagement with a generative artificial intelligence chatbot in learning designed with first principles of instruction	10
An investigation of the mathematics applications in the Apple App Store: Do they contain benchmarks of educational quality?	10
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	9
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	9
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	9
Assessing EFL learners’ attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development and validation of Generative Artificial Intelligence attitude scale for EFL learners (GenAIAS)	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
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	9
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	9
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	9
Successful integration of technology into preschool education: do teachers’ self-efficacy and outcome expectations matter?	9
Social media and pre-service teachers’ apprenticeships of observation	8
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	8
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	8
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	8
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	7
Conceptions of image-generative AI-supported instruction of preservice teachers with different levels of learning attitude: a drawing and epistemic network analysis	7
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	7
Artificial intelligence policies in K-12 school districts in the United States: a content analysis shaping education policy	7
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	7
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	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
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	7
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	6
Digital storyboards: the impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding	6
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence	6
Leading digital innovation in schools: the role of the open innovation mindset	6
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	6
The mediating effects of engagement on the relationship between perceived digital inquiry and creativity	6
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	6
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	6
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	6
At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning	6

K-12 teachers’ beliefs about and reactions to students’ off-task technology use	6
Examining teachers’ readiness for blended teaching with a revised model and instrument	5
Validating a Creative Coding Rubric through expressive activities for elementary grades	5
Advancing self-directed learning in STEM education: integrating GPT-based learning aid with multimodal learning analytics	5
Building a high school violence prevention app to educate and protect students	5
A systematic review of published student question-generation systems: Supporting functionalities and design features	5
Preservice teachers’ TPACK learning trajectories in an online educational technology course	5
Developing and Testing a Design-Based Learning Approach to Enhance Elementary Students’ Self-Perceived Computational Thinking	5
The advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Insights from a 1976–2024 bibliometric analysis	5
Organizing for collaboration in simulation-based environments: An affordance perspective	5
Correction	5
Teacher strategies to use virtual learning environments to facilitate algebra learning during school closures	5
AI-assisted programming question generation: Constructing semantic networks of programming knowledge by local knowledge graph and abstract syntax tree	5
Fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion through social-emotional learning: the role of digital technologies	5
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
Impacts of different gamified problem-solving integration approaches on elementary math: an engagement and metacognitive knowledge perspective	5
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	4
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	4
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	4
Coding choreography: Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming	4
The impact of scenario-based online gamified learning environment tailored to player types on student motivation, engagement, and environment interaction	4
Learning by playing with generative AI: design and evaluation of a role-playing educational game with generative AI as scaffolding for instant feedback interaction	4
An examination of the research studies on augmented reality use in preschool education: a bibliometric mapping analysis	4
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	4
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	4
The more structured, the better? Learning effects of online scaffolds with different structures for student question generation	4
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	4
A heuristic framework for video-based teaching and learning scenarios in higher education	4
Teaching enthusiasm in video lectures: Evidence from two experimental studies	4
A meta-analysis on the effect of learning analytics interventions on students’ academic performance	3
Promoting elementary school students’ programming learning: Effects of metacognitive vs. cognitive scaffolding	3
The evolution of the association between teacher technology integration and its influencing factors over time	3
The AI Motivation Scale (AIMS): a self-determination theory perspective	3
Context-specificity to reduce bias in self-assessments: Comparing teachers’ scenario-based self-assessment and objective assessment of technological knowledge	3
Elementary school students’ and teachers’ perceptions toward creative mathematical writing with Generative AI	3
Insights on information literacy from social studies classrooms in the southeast	3
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	3
Virtual reality and affective learning in commemorative history teaching: effects of immersive technology and generative learning activities	3
Teacher goal setting for personalized learning software: associations with perceptions of the value of software and growth mindsets	3
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	3
Influencer or teacher leader: an exploration of teacherpreneurs’ use of Instagram to lead	3
Using AI-empowered assessments and personalized recommendations to promote online collaborative learning performance	3
Achieving equity in esthetic education: a metaverse-supported synchronous classroom approach for art appreciation	2
Computational thinking through embodied learning: a comparison of mixed-reality and unplugged activities	2
What would the matrix do?: a systematic review of K-12 AI learning contexts and learner-interface interactions	2
Analyzing learners engagement in a micromasters program compared to non-degree MOOC	2
Developing college students’ learning strategies to improve oral presentation through negotiation of meaning in telecollaboration	2
An interaction analysis of a computer science co-design conversation on cultural relevance and its implications for design	2
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	2
From deadpan machine to relating socially: Middle school students’ experiences speaking English with embodied conversational agents	2
Building robust teacher-led professional learning communities for computer science educators: Insights from CSTA chapters in the U.S.	2
A year of generative AI in English language teaching and learning - A case study	2
Effective leader practices to leverage school librarians as leaders in one-to-one computing	2
Blended teaching readiness of EFL instructors and their perceptions about blended learning in English preparatory schools: a case from Turkey	2
Computer science for secondary multilingual learners: how school policies and practices enable and constrain equitable access	2
An examination of middle school student learner characteristics as related to the reuse and remixing of code in two different computer science learning contexts	2
Impact of social media addiction on college students’ academic performance: an interdisciplinary perspective	2
A research-based conceptual framework for inclusive K-12 online, distance, and digital education	2
The impact of learning to code on higher-order executive-functions: a systematic review of the literature	2
Parent perceptions of technology-facilitated learning for young children: Associations with parent and child characteristics	2
Bridging theory and practice: the effects of experiential learning-based simulation training on technology integration competency among pre-service teachers	2
Gender perspective in the computational thinking program of Uruguay: teachers’ perceptions and results of the Bebras tasks	2
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	2
“I just hope that I can change the world”: supporting student agency in CS for All	2
Integrating computational thinking into education: A study on CT-PACK framework and teacher development	2
Correction	2
Teacher evaluation of the FABLe literacy application in the Indian context	2