OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 9. 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
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	29
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	29
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	28
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	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
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
Assessing EFL learners’ attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development and validation of Generative Artificial Intelligence attitude scale for EFL learners (GenAIAS)	12
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
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	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