OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 8. 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
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	33
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	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
Effective leader practices to leverage school librarians as leaders in one-to-one computing	30
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	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
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	27
Leveraging mathematics software data to understand student learning and motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
‘Transition into relatable reality’: experience analysis in a 3D desktop virtual-reality-based new student online orientation	24
Teachers’ perceptions and practices of iPads for visual arts learning in early childhood education	24
Impact of social media addiction on college students’ academic performance: an interdisciplinary perspective	22
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
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
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	20
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
Students’ prompt patterns and its effects in AI-assisted academic writing: Focusing on students’ level of AI literacy	19
Scaffolding vocational high school students’ computational thinking with cognitive and metacognitive prompts in learning about programmable logic controllers	19
Maybe we’ve got it wrong. An experimental evaluation of self-determination and Flow Theory in gamification	18
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
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	16
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
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
“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
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
From deadpan machine to relating socially: Middle school students’ experiences speaking English with embodied conversational agents	13
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	13
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	12
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	12
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	12
Validating a TPACK instrument for 7–12 mathematics in-service middle and high school teachers in the United States	11
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
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
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
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
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
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