OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying the self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student engagement in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	256
Digital readiness and its effects on higher education students’ socio-emotional perceptions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	91
Using personalized learning as an instructional approach to motivate learners in online higher education: Learner self-determination and intrinsic motivation	88
Perceived usability evaluation of educational technology using the System Usability Scale (SUS): A systematic review	83
Appraising research on personalized learning: Definitions, theoretical alignment, advancements, and future directions	80
Toward a taxonomy of adaptivity for learning	60
Using digital technology to promote higher education learning: The importance of different learning activities and their relations to learning outcomes	50
Adaptation of a conventional flipped course to an online flipped format during the Covid-19 pandemic: Student learning performance and engagement	48
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	43
A review of research on 360-degree video and its applications to education	35
Teachers’ exposure to professional development and the quality of their instructional technology use: The mediating role of teachers’ value and ability beliefs	30
Distance education under duress: a case study of exchange students’ experience with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Korea	29
“This weird time we’re in”: How a sudden change to remote education impacted college students’ self-regulated learning	29
Personalized learning in iSTART: Past modifications and future design	28
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Effects of self-regulation scaffolding on online participation and learning outcomes	26
The educational value of internet use in the home for school children: A systematic review of literature	26
Students’ affective engagement, parental involvement, and teacher support in emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey in China	25
A narrative approach to university instructors’ stories about promoting student engagement during COVID-19 emergency remote teaching in Saudi Arabia	24
Arduino-assisted robotics coding applications integrated into the 5E learning model in science teaching	23
Synchronous CMC text chat versus synchronous CMC voice chat: impacts on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and anxiety	23
Measuring teacher beliefs about coding and computational thinking	23
Computational thinking in K-12 education. An insight through meta-analysis	22
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	22
Revisiting online learner engagement: exploring the role of learner characteristics in an emergency period	22

Approximations of practice as a framework for understanding authenticity in simulations of teaching	21
Student engagement in K12 online education during the pandemic: The case of Turkey	20
Who Is behind this? Preparing high school students to evaluate online content	20
Support provided for K-12 teachers teaching remotely with technology during emergencies: A systematic review	19
Pedagogical models for the facilitation of teacher professional development via video-supported collaborative learning. A review of the state of the art	18
Strengths-based blended personalized learning: An impact study using virtual comparison group	18
Personality traits predict the effects of Internet and academic self-efficacy on practical performance anxiety in online learning under the COVID-19 lockdown	18
Digital curation for promoting personalized learning: A study of secondary-school science students’ learning experiences	17
Personalized learning and ESSA: What we know and where we go	17
Addressing student engagement during COVID-19: Secondary STEM teachers attend to the affective dimension of learner needs	17
Teachers’ perceptions of exploiting immersive virtual field trips for learning in primary education	16
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of pre-service science teachers: A Delphi study	16
A systematic review of research on K12 online teaching and learning: Comparison of research from two decades 2000 to 2019	16
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	16
Supporting new online instructors and engaging remote learners during COVID-19: a distributed team teaching approach	14
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	14
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	14
TPACK’s pedagogy and the gradual release of responsibility model coalesce: integrating technology into literacy teacher preparation	14
Typology of digital leadership roles tasked with integrating new technologies into teaching: Insights from metaphor analysis	14
Exploring the impacts of digital storytelling on English as a foreign language learners’ speaking competence	14
Exploring the impact of video making on students’ writing skills	14
A systematic review of research on technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) for online teaching in the humanities	13
Issues of quality on Teachers Pay Teachers: an exploration of best-selling U.S. history resources	13
Factors to consider when designing effective learning: Infusing computational thinking in mathematics to support thinking-doing	13
A systematic narrative review of agent persona on learning outcomes and design variables to enhance personification	13
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	12
Students’ in-moment challenges and developing maker perspectives during problem-based digital making	12
Primary school teachers’ attitudes toward technology use and stimulating higher-order thinking in students: a review of the literature	12
Interaction principles for digital puppeteering to promote teacher learning	12
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	12
Connecting computational thinking in everyday reasoning and programming for elementary school students	12
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	12
Young chinese children's remote peer interactions and social competence development during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Feasibility and usability of MentorPal, a framework for rapid development of virtual mentors	12
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	12
Learning analytics based feedback and recommendations in flipped classrooms: an experimental study in higher education	11
Development and promise of a vocabulary intelligent tutoring system for Second-Grade Latinx English learners	11
Profiles of student ICT use and their relations to background, motivational factors, and academic achievement	11
Scaffolding vocational high school students’ computational thinking with cognitive and metacognitive prompts in learning about programmable logic controllers	11
Learning with virtual humans: Introduction to the special issue	11
Distributed leadership for personalized learning	10
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	10
Examining K–12 teacher learning in a makerspace through the activity–identity–community framework	10
Robot programming intervention for promoting spatial relations, mental rotation and visual memory of kindergarten children	10
On the digital frontier: Stakeholders in rural areas take on educational technology and schooling	10
Instructor misbehavior and student outcomes: Replication and extension in the online classroom	10
Uncovering themes in personalized learning: Using natural language processing to analyze school interviews	10
An exploratory study of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking and programming skills	10
Assessing digital nativeness in pre-service teachers: Analysis of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale and implications for practice	10
Social media use and its effect on university student’s learning and academic performance in the UAE	9

Effects of interactivity and progressive visuospatial cues on learners’ comprehension of dynamic visualizations	9
Examining K-12 educator experiences from digital citizenship professional development	9
Reciprocal issues of artificial and human intelligence in education	9
How teachable agents influence students’ responses to critical constructive feedback	9
Leveraging mathematics software data to understand student learning and motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
PK-5 teacher perspectives on the design of remote teaching: pedagogies and support structures to sustain student learning online	8
Coding moves: Design and research of teaching computational thinking through dance choreography and virtual interactions	8
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	8
Coping with the transition to remote instruction: Patterns of self-regulated engagement in a large post-secondary biology course	8
The effect of visual cues in e-books on pre-K children’s visual attention, word recognition, and comprehension: An eye tracking study	8
Trends in tools used to teach computational thinking through elementary coding	7
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	7
Relationship between touchscreen tablet usage time and attention performance in young children	7
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	7
Online pair-programming: elementary school children learning scratch together online	7
Educational robotics and STEM in primary education: a review and a meta-analysis	7
Examining middle school teachers’ implementation of a technology-enriched problem-based learning program: Motivational factors, challenges, and strategies	7
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	7
Reading from print, laptop computer, and e-reader: Differences and similarities for college students’ learning	7
An online field experience using mixed reality virtual simulation	7
#Digital parents: Intergenerational learning through a digital literacy workshop	6
Examining the relationships among self-regulated learning, homework timeliness, and course achievement: a context of female students learning quantitative topics	6
The development and validation of a teacher education digital literacy and digital pedagogy evaluation	6
The impact of conversational agents’ language on summary writing	6
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	6
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	6
Developing intercultural competence through drone-assisted virtual field trips while adapting to pandemic times	5
Development and initial validation of Digital Age Teaching Scale (DATS) to assess application of ISTE Standards for Educators in K–12 education classrooms	5
Different approaches to collaborative problem solving between successful versus less successful problem solvers: Tracking changes of knowledge structure	5
Does online teaching strategy matter: exploring the effect of online teaching strategies on students’ ambidextrous innovation capacities based on the online teaching situation in China	5
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	5
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	5
Virtual high-fidelity simulation assessment of teamwork skills: How do students react?	5
Funds of knowledge in making: reenvisioning maker education in teacher preparation	5
Development, validity, and reliability of an educational robotics based technological pedagogical content knowledge self-efficacy scale	5
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	5
Using recommender systems to promote self-regulated learning in online education settings: current knowledge gaps and suggestions for future research	5
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	4
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	4
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	4
Teachers’ definitions of successful education technology implementation	4
Topics, author profiles, and collaboration networks in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education : A bibliometric analysis of 20 years of research	4
Vlogs for enhancing trainee teachers’ motivational beliefs about school experience and teaching practice: They are on the factory floor for professional development	4
Classroom interaction geography: visualizing space & time in classroom interaction	4
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	4
Developing and Testing a Design-Based Learning Approach to Enhance Elementary Students’ Self-Perceived Computational Thinking	4
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	4
Student engagement with evidence-based supports for literacy on a digital platform	4
What would the matrix do?: a systematic review of K-12 AI learning contexts and learner-interface interactions	4
Construct validity of data from a TPACK self-assessment instrument in 2-year public college faculty in the United States	4