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

Article	Citations
The antecedent, consequences, and importance of students’ learning preference on learning outcomes with the flipped classroom approach: a person-environment fit perspective	374
Bridging theory and practice: the effects of experiential learning-based simulation training on technology integration competency among pre-service teachers	136
The effects of practice testing and feedback on learners’ performance and persistence in a massive open online course	54
Parent perceptions of technology-facilitated learning for young children: Associations with parent and child characteristics	53
Comparing the relationship between using educational technology in mathematics and student achievement in South Africa and Germany	52
“I just hope that I can change the world”: supporting student agency in CS for All	42
The effect of visual cues in e-books on pre-K children’s visual attention, word recognition, and comprehension: An eye tracking study	41
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	38
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	33
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	33
Evaluating the role of professional development on elementary teachers’ knowledge, comfort, and beliefs related to teaching computer science to students with high-incidence disabilities	31
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	30
Effective leader practices to leverage school librarians as leaders in one-to-one computing	30
An online field experience using mixed reality virtual simulation	29
Developing college students’ learning strategies to improve oral presentation through negotiation of meaning in telecollaboration	29
Leveraging mathematics software data to understand student learning and motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	27
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	25
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	25
Teachers’ perceptions and practices of iPads for visual arts learning in early childhood education	24
‘Transition into relatable reality’: experience analysis in a 3D desktop virtual-reality-based new student online orientation	24
The more structured, the better? Learning effects of online scaffolds with different structures for student question generation	22
An examination of the research studies on augmented reality use in preschool education: a bibliometric mapping analysis	22
Impact of social media addiction on college students’ academic performance: an interdisciplinary perspective	22
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	21

An exploration of in-service teachers’ framing, instrumental, and core design judgments in dynamic decision-making for technology integration	21
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	20
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	20
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	20
Scaffolding vocational high school students’ computational thinking with cognitive and metacognitive prompts in learning about programmable logic controllers	19
Students’ prompt patterns and its effects in AI-assisted academic writing: Focusing on students’ level of AI literacy	19
Augmented teachers: K–12 teachers’ needs for artificial intelligence’s complementary role in personalized learning	18
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	18
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	18
Maybe we’ve got it wrong. An experimental evaluation of self-determination and Flow Theory in gamification	18
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	16
Gestalt perception: A game designed to explore players’ gameplay self-efficacy and anxiety reflected in their learning effects	16
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	16
“This weird time we’re in”: How a sudden change to remote education impacted college students’ self-regulated learning	15
Developing and validating the intention to use technology-enabled learning (I-TEL) scale	15
Teacher evaluation of the FABLe literacy application in the Indian context	15
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	15
Building robust teacher-led professional learning communities for computer science educators: Insights from CSTA chapters in the U.S.	14
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	14
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	13
From deadpan machine to relating socially: Middle school students’ experiences speaking English with embodied conversational agents	13
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	12
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	12
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	12
Validating a TPACK instrument for 7–12 mathematics in-service middle and high school teachers in the United States	11
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	10
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	10
The impact of scenario-based online gamified learning environment tailored to player types on student motivation, engagement, and environment interaction	10
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	10
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	9
A year of generative AI in English language teaching and learning - A case study	9
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	9
A systematic review of research on K12 online teaching and learning: Comparison of research from two decades 2000 to 2019	9
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	9
Exploring the impacts of digital storytelling on English as a foreign language learners’ speaking competence	9
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	8
In critical need of research-based instructional strategies and assessment: an investigation of ePCR math lesson plans for middle school students	8
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	8
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	8
Reciprocal issues of artificial and human intelligence in education	8
Blended learning in design education: a systematic literature review and research agendas	8
Profile of an innovator: a Delphi study to surface key characteristics for innovative educators	8
Different approaches to collaborative problem solving between successful versus less successful problem solvers: Tracking changes of knowledge structure	8
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	7
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	7
A systematic review of research on technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) for online teaching in the humanities	7
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	7
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	6
Coding choreography: Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming	6
Bad News in the civics classroom: How serious gameplay fosters teenagers’ ability to discern misinformation techniques	6

Examining the relationships among self-regulated learning, homework timeliness, and course achievement: a context of female students learning quantitative topics	6
Plugging into power: Family and community engagement to help dismantle inequalities in computer science (CS) education	6
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	6
Advancing culturally responsive-sustaining computer science through K-12 teacher professional development strategies	6
Correction	6
Don’t forget to assess: How teachers check for new and deeper learning when integrating virtual reality in the classroom	6
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	5
Dialogue alongside or within lecturing videos for teaching debugging	5
A heuristic framework for video-based teaching and learning scenarios in higher education	5
A scoping review of video games and learning in secondary classrooms	5
Classroom interaction geography: visualizing space & time in classroom interaction	5
A research-based conceptual framework for inclusive K-12 online, distance, and digital education	5
Supporting new online instructors and engaging remote learners during COVID-19: a distributed team teaching approach	5
Unlocking students’ creative potential in designing technological-enriched design solutions	5
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	5
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	5
Design and skill labs: Identifying teacher competencies and competency-related needs in Turkey’s national makerspace project	4
What do empirical studies on technology leadership in education tell us?: content analysis, bibliometric analysis, and text mining	4
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	4
Increasing pre-teacher engagement in university instruction using Pear Deck	4
Secondary school smartphone policies in England: a descriptive analysis of how schools rationalize, design, and implement restrictive and permissive phone policies	4
Learning in virtual student teams: an examination of shared leadership	4
Leading digital innovation in schools: the role of the open innovation mindset	4
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	4
PK-5 teacher perspectives on the design of remote teaching: pedagogies and support structures to sustain student learning online	4
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	4
Exploring computer science understanding and rationales in preservice teacher pathways through faculty professional development	4
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	4
Teaching enthusiasm in video lectures: Evidence from two experimental studies	4
Addressing student engagement during COVID-19: Secondary STEM teachers attend to the affective dimension of learner needs	4
The design and use of a digital tool to support the development of preschool children’s logical reasoning	4
Behind the screen: Exploring parental roles in K-12 online education	3
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	3
Context-specificity to reduce bias in self-assessments: Comparing teachers’ scenario-based self-assessment and objective assessment of technological knowledge	3
Design thinking in teacher education: Morphing preservice teachers’ mindsets and conceptualizations	3
The impact of learning to code on higher-order executive-functions: a systematic review of the literature	3
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Conceptions of image-generative AI-supported instruction of preservice teachers with different levels of learning attitude: a drawing and epistemic network analysis	3
Personality traits predict the effects of Internet and academic self-efficacy on practical performance anxiety in online learning under the COVID-19 lockdown	3
Diving into the role: a multi-case study on supporting novice CS teachers’ knowledge through co-teaching	3
Artificial intelligence policies in K-12 school districts in the United States: a content analysis shaping education policy	3
Coping with the transition to remote instruction: Patterns of self-regulated engagement in a large post-secondary biology course	3
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	3
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	2
Pedagogical models for the facilitation of teacher professional development via video-supported collaborative learning. A review of the state of the art	2
Virtual reality and affective learning in commemorative history teaching: effects of immersive technology and generative learning activities	2
Synchronous CMC text chat versus synchronous CMC voice chat: impacts on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and anxiety	2
Elementary school students’ and teachers’ perceptions toward creative mathematical writing with Generative AI	2
Comparing immersive VR and non-immersive VR on social skill acquisition for students in middle school with ASD	2
K-12 teachers’ beliefs about and reactions to students’ off-task technology use	2
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	2
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence	2
Improving preservice teachers’ use of instructional practices using mixed reality simulations: A mixed methods study	2
The mediating effects of engagement on the relationship between perceived digital inquiry and creativity	2
Digital storyboards: the impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding	2
Learning from different multimedia representation formats: effects of prior knowledge	2
Faculty perceptions of the impact of professional development on online teaching practices	2
Student, direct thyself! Facilitating self-directed learning skills and motivation with an electronic development portfolio	2
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	2
Revisiting online learner engagement: exploring the role of learner characteristics in an emergency period	2
A rainbow Hurricane?: Exploring student evaluations of ambiguously credible tweeted information within crisis contexts	2
Teacher goal setting for personalized learning software: associations with perceptions of the value of software and growth mindsets	2
TeRMEd: a framework for educators to aid in the design and evaluation of technology-enhanced resources in mathematics	2
At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning	2