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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	174
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	75
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	61
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	58
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	51
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	50
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	42
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	36
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	36
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	34
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	31
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	29
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	29
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	28
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	28
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	27
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	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	26
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	25
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	25
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	24
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	24
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	23
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	22

Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	19
What do we mean by digital equality in education? Toward five conceptual lenses based on a systematic review	19
The strength of a tigress: an examination of Latina first-generation college students’ tenacity during the rapid shift to remote learning	19
Computational thinking practices: Lessons learned from a problem-based curriculum in primary education	18
Students as AI literate designers: a pedagogical framework for learning and teaching AI literacy in elementary education	18
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	17
A systematic literature review of usability definitions and psychometric properties of instruments in the field of learning design and technology	17
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	17
Examining two different models for developing teachers new to computer science: lessons from a CS4All district	17
Causes and consequences of stereotypes: interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes	17
Using a comic book to engage students in a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum	17
Effects of goal achievement motivation on K-12 students’ resilience in STEAM activities: the mediating role of in-school social supports	15
What does it mean to “Engage” for learning on social media?: an analysis of global read aloud Twitter participation	15
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
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	13
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	13
Assessing EFL learners’ attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development and validation of Generative Artificial Intelligence attitude scale for EFL learners (GenAIAS)	12
How teacher presence affects student engagement with a generative artificial intelligence chatbot in learning designed with first principles of instruction	12
An investigation of the mathematics applications in the Apple App Store: Do they contain benchmarks of educational quality?	12
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	11
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	11
Using avatar rehearsals to practice eliciting student thinking with preservice teachers	11
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	11
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	10
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	10
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	9
Social media and pre-service teachers’ apprenticeships of observation	9
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	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
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	9
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	9
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	9
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	9
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	9
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	9
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	9
Conceptions of image-generative AI-supported instruction of preservice teachers with different levels of learning attitude: a drawing and epistemic network analysis	8
Artificial intelligence policies in K-12 school districts in the United States: a content analysis shaping education policy	8
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	8
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	8
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	8
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	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
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	7
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	7
The mediating effects of engagement on the relationship between perceived digital inquiry and creativity	6
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence	6
Digital storyboards: the impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding	6

Leading digital innovation in schools: the role of the open innovation mindset	6
K-12 teachers’ beliefs about and reactions to students’ off-task technology use	6
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	6
The more structured, the better? Learning effects of online scaffolds with different structures for student question generation	5
Correction	5
AI-assisted programming question generation: Constructing semantic networks of programming knowledge by local knowledge graph and abstract syntax tree	5
A review of research on 360-degree video and its applications to education	5
Advancing self-directed learning in STEM education: integrating GPT-based learning aid with multimodal learning analytics	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
A systematic review of published student question-generation systems: Supporting functionalities and design features	5
Impacts of different gamified problem-solving integration approaches on elementary math: an engagement and metacognitive knowledge perspective	5
Developing and Testing a Design-Based Learning Approach to Enhance Elementary Students’ Self-Perceived Computational Thinking	5
Fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion through social-emotional learning: the role of digital technologies	5
Organizing for collaboration in simulation-based environments: An affordance perspective	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
At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning	5
Teacher strategies to use virtual learning environments to facilitate algebra learning during school closures	5
Building a high school violence prevention app to educate and protect students	5
Preservice teachers’ TPACK learning trajectories in an online educational technology course	5
Validating a Creative Coding Rubric through expressive activities for elementary grades	5
The advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Insights from a 1976–2024 bibliometric analysis	5
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	4
Context-specificity to reduce bias in self-assessments: Comparing teachers’ scenario-based self-assessment and objective assessment of technological knowledge	4
A heuristic framework for video-based teaching and learning scenarios in higher education	4
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	4
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	4
Design and skill labs: Identifying teacher competencies and competency-related needs in Turkey’s national makerspace project	4
Coding choreography: Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming	4
The effect of visual cues in e-books on pre-K children’s visual attention, word recognition, and comprehension: An eye tracking study	4
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	4
The impact of scenario-based online gamified learning environment tailored to player types on student motivation, engagement, and environment interaction	4
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	4
Teaching enthusiasm in video lectures: Evidence from two experimental studies	4
An examination of the research studies on augmented reality use in preschool education: a bibliometric mapping analysis	4
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	4
Virtual reality and affective learning in commemorative history teaching: effects of immersive technology and generative learning activities	3
Promoting elementary school students’ programming learning: Effects of metacognitive vs. cognitive scaffolding	3
An interaction analysis of a computer science co-design conversation on cultural relevance and its implications for design	3
Insights on information literacy from social studies classrooms in the southeast	3
Influencer or teacher leader: an exploration of teacherpreneurs’ use of Instagram to lead	3
Teacher goal setting for personalized learning software: associations with perceptions of the value of software and growth mindsets	3
Elementary school students’ and teachers’ perceptions toward creative mathematical writing with Generative AI	3
The evolution of the association between teacher technology integration and its influencing factors over time	3
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	3
Using AI-empowered assessments and personalized recommendations to promote online collaborative learning performance	3
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	3
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	3
The AI Motivation Scale (AIMS): a self-determination theory perspective	3