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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	293
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	136
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	112
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	61
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	53
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	51
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	50
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	47
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	39
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	37
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	34
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	33
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	32
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	32
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	32
Modeling hidden states in learning: a hidden Markov model approach to stealth assessment for problem solving in computational thinking	29
Exploring the impact of teacher support in competitive digital learning games on primary students’ learning and academic engagement	28
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	28
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	27
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	25
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	24
What do we mean by digital equality in education? Toward five conceptual lenses based on a systematic review	23
Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	23
Students as AI literate designers: a pedagogical framework for learning and teaching AI literacy in elementary education	23
Effects of goal achievement motivation on K-12 students’ resilience in STEAM activities: the mediating role of in-school social supports	22

Exploring the complex interplay among middle schoolers’ prior coding experience, computational thinking attitudes and skills: a multiple moderated mediation analysis	22
Examining how teachers define and integrate digital citizenship into core content area curriculum	20
Examining two different models for developing teachers new to computer science: lessons from a CS4All district	20
Enhancing learning and attitude toward statistics with a microlearning approach using an animated video	20
Using a comic book to engage students in a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum	19
A systematic literature review of usability definitions and psychometric properties of instruments in the field of learning design and technology	19
A phenomenographic analysis of undergraduates’ conceptions of generative AI-mediated learning	15
An investigation of the mathematics applications in the Apple App Store: Do they contain benchmarks of educational quality?	14
Causes and consequences of stereotypes: interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes	14
How teacher presence affects student engagement with a generative artificial intelligence chatbot in learning designed with first principles of instruction	13
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	13
Using avatar rehearsals to practice eliciting student thinking with preservice teachers	13
Successful integration of technology into preschool education: do teachers’ self-efficacy and outcome expectations matter?	12
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	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	12
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	12
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	11
Evaluating the role of professional development on elementary teachers’ knowledge, comfort, and beliefs related to teaching computer science to students with high-incidence disabilities	11
A fairness-centric approach to stealth assessment in collaborative game-based learning	11
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	11
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	10
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	10
Modeling situational interest: A multimodal representation framework for intelligent assessment in learning environment	10
Toward guidance and principled values on the ethical, responsible, and transparent use of GenAI in the educational research process	10
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	10
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	10
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	10
A systematic review of how educators integrate ethics into artificial intelligence curriculum	10
Social media and pre-service teachers’ apprenticeships of observation	10
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	9
A framework for generative AI policy and guidelines in K-12 education	9
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	9
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	8
Promoting elementary students’ computer science conceptual knowledge and coding performance: a mixed methods case study	8
Enhancing stealth assessment in game-based learning through goal recognition	8
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	8
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	8
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	8
Conceptions of image-generative AI-supported instruction of preservice teachers with different levels of learning attitude: a drawing and epistemic network analysis	8