OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Technology and Design 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	57
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	45
Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis	45
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	36
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	32
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	29
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	27
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	26
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	24
Situating technology teachers’ personal PCK: an investigation of the material preconditions for technology education in Sweden	24
Cultivating students’ computational thinking through student–robot interactions in robotics education	23
Designing Maker initiatives for educational inclusion	23
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	23
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	21
Design thinking in early childhood education and care. A literature review and consideration from the perspective of young learners’ craft, design, and technology education	19
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	19
Integrating story-based STEM design challenges in early childhood curricula: an activity theory perspective	17
Conceptions of nature of technology in educational research: a systematic literature review	17
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	17
Industrial designers' thinking in the stage of concept generation for social design: themes, strategies and modes	16
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	16
Can abstraction help ideation? A case study on biologically inspired design	14
Exploring contexts: the connection between mathematics and electricals/electronics for pre-service technical teachers	14
Construction of a sustainable design competency assessment system for fashion designers in China	14
Bridging the gap: blending spatial skills instruction into a technology teacher preparation programme	14

The impact analysis of education on raising awareness towards climate change and energy efficiency	13
Designing integrated STEM curriculum to enhance STEM literacy among middle school students: insights from Chinese context	12
The relationship between the teacher’s approach to teaching and the student’s attitude toward technology in Croatian primary schools	12
The Effects of Implicit Belief of Intelligence on Metacognitive Skills and Project Design Engagement in an invention practice	12
Fostering technologies literacy: integrating technical vocabulary into the primary school Technologies curriculum for young learners	11
Impact of design thinking in higher education: a multi-actor perspective on problem solving and creativity	11
Estimating the replicability of technology education research	11
Co-making the future: crafting tomorrow with insights and perspectives from the China-U.S. young maker competition	11
An update to the technology education teaching framework: factors that support and hinder technology education teachers in Canada	10
A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio	10
The role of gender in Chinese junior high students’ self-efficacy, creative thinking and project-based learning perceived value in technology and engineering education	9
Framing a holistic model of reasoning in the design process in technology education	9
Creativity in textile printing design: An integrative framework in design education	9
Contradictions and paradoxes in design-centric engineering education: a complex responsive processes perspective	8
Act like a user, work like a teacher: evaluation of experience design works through peer-testing	8
Body, dance and abstraction for spatial and structural comprehension in the first year of design education	8
Research on K-12 maker education in the early 2020s – a systematic literature review	8
How lower secondary pupils work with design in green entrepreneurship in STEM education competitions	8
Engineering requirements and their role in engineering undergraduates’ design decision making	8
A card-based design tool for supporting design thinking in elementary students	8
Exploring humorous design techniques in product through incongruity-resolution theory	8
Assessing the state of technology education in primary schools: a systematic review of the last 2 decades	7
Technology across boundaries: preserve or perish	7
Interdisciplinary integrative capabilities as a catalyst of responsible technology-enabled innovation: A higher education case study of Design MSc dissertation projects	7
Planting food sustainability thinking and practice through STEM in the garden	7
Use of personas in co-designing learning experiences with teachers: An exploratory case study	7
A closer look at the relationship between course enrollment size and accident occurrences in hands-on engineering design-based STEM courses	7
Models and modelling in secondary technology and engineering education	7
Computer programming in primary schools: Swedish Technology Teachers’ pedagogical strategies	7
Engaging solution-based design process for integrated STEM program development: an exploratory study through autoethnographic design practice	6
Who counts? Legitimate solutions in construction activities in preschool	6
Exploring the nature and role of student-to-student talk and questioning among young children in technology and design education	6
The influence of subjective knowledge, technophobia and perceived enjoyment on design students’ intention to use artificial intelligence design tools	6
What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?	6
Towards an integrated model of STEM education in secondary schools: perspectives of practicing teachers in Ireland	6
A phenomenographic study of Chinese primary school students’ conceptions about technology	6
Effects of design thinking STEAM instruction on AI learning and creativity	6
“You give a little bit more love to animals than to robots”: primary pupils’ conceptions of ‘programming’ and programmable artefacts	6
The technological physical laboratory to achieve improvements in the quality of learning in epistemic terms	6
Exploring the impact of self-regulated learning intervention on students' strategy use and performance in a design studio course	6
Design studio practice in the context of architectural education: a narrative literature review	6
Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels	6
Book reviews	6
Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces	6
Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of AI Literacy Education for Young Children	6
The impact of the design thinking model on pre-service teachers’ creativity self-efficacy, inventive problem-solving skills, and technology-related motivation	6
Developing an instrument for assessing technology teachers’ understandings of the nature of technology	6
Exploring the metaphoric nature of programming teachers’ reflections on action - a case study with teaching in mind	6
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	6
A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	6

Exploring the architectural design process assisted in conventional design studio: a systematic literature review	6
Pupils’ prior knowledge about technological systems: design and validation of a diagnostic tool for primary school teachers	5
Online Creativity Training: Examining the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Training Approach	5
Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world	5
Organizing metaphors for design methods	5
Exploring the impact of the direct experience of architecture precedents: a study of master student teams	5
Research on the design and implementation of primary school STEM project based on VR coursewares	5
Epistemological treatment of design in technology education	5
Competency of guiding teachers of technology competitions for Chinese college students under the global engineering education accreditation	5
Flexibility; a critical concern in concept development in the early stages of architectural design process (case study: universities in Tehran)	5
Fostering pre-service primary school teachers’ ability to recognize differences in pupils’ understanding of technical systems	5
Learning by evaluating as an interview primer to inform design thinking	5
Impacts of maker education-design thinking integration on knowledge, creative tendencies, and perceptions of the engineering profession	5
Elementary pre-service teachers’ conscious lack of knowledge about technical artefacts	5
Technical science capital in relation to how students manage within higher technical education	5
New article types for the international journal of technology and design education: expanding opportunities for scholarly contribution	5
Integrating simulation into design: an experiment in pedagogical environments	5
Hands on programming: Teachers’ use of Metaphors in gesture and Speech make Abstract concepts tangible	5
HildaRuth Beaumont with Torben Steeg, design and technology in your school. Principles for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. London and New York: Routledge, 2024	5
Critical Digital Citizenship: a scale development and validation study	4
Interaction patterns in architecture studios and lecture rooms in the Nigerian university context: implications for gender mainstreaming in architectural education	4
The pecking order: a Bourdieusian look at authority in virtual peer crits	4
Effect of first-semester basic design studio on architecture students’ creative skills: a pre-and post-test assessment	4
Cultivating ethics sensitivity in design: Impact of integrating ethics within K-12 digital design education	4
Structuring knowledge-building in online design education	4
Development and effectiveness evaluation of a STEM-based game-design project for preservice primary teacher education	4
Using TRIZ10 for enhancing creativity in engineering design education	4
Fictionation: development and evaluation of an idea generation tool grounded on design fiction	4
“Documentation is now so ingrained in me”: how students interpret and value documentation in creative learning domains	4
Project-based learning oriented STEAM: the case of micro–bit paper-cutting lamp	4
Science teacher’s perceptions of the nature of technology: a Q-methodology study	4
Approaches to learning in technology education during the global pandemic: secondary teachers’ technical and technological perspectives and practice in New Zealand	4
Do attitudes matter? An investigation into students’ attitudes toward engineering and learning performances through engineering-focused STEM curricula	4
Adaptation of the Attitude Behavioural Scale section of a PATT instrument for the Omani context	4
Technology education in primary schools: addressing teachers’ perceptions, perceived barriers, and needs	4
How teachers support students during design activities in the chemistry classroom	3
Insights into product design students’ perception of, and engagement with, creativity in design education	3
Exploring the role of situational flow experience in learning through design in 3D multi-user virtual environments	3
An empirical study on immersive technology in synchronous hybrid learning in design education	3
Product hacking as a systematic intervention: towards new strategies and platforms in design education	3
Correction to: A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	3
Pedagogical infrastructures in multidisciplinary technology education	3
The attitudes of landscape architecture students towards distance and face-to-face education methods and the effects of the two education methods on academic achievement in the project course	3
You just have to take a big leap! Authentic teaching and learning in the technology program at an upper secondary school	3
Correction to: Transferring makerspace activities to the classroom: a tension between two learning cultures	3
Implementing artificial intelligence education for middle school technology education in Republic of Korea	3
Final year projects in engineering education: a comparative study of final year engineering projects at public universities in Malawi, Namibia and South Africa	3
Teaching of technological artefacts in early childhood education: a product-centred practice	3
Visualizing high school technology teachers’ creative process in instructional design using the eight trigrams (BaGua) approach	3
A deep dive into the impacts of empathy on design learning and teaching	3
Adapting engineering design thinking for sustainability	3
Architecture in school practice: possible tools for supporting spatial literacy	3
Eight-year-olds’ naïve and acquired knowledge about computer viruses: a mixed methods study	3
Undergraduate students’ beliefs about diverse approaches to making engineering design decisions: Exploring change during a capstone course	3
Transferring makerspace activities to the classroom: a tension between two learning cultures	3
The role of STEM Education in improving the quality of education: a bibliometric study	2
Integrating Vedic principles into architectural education: a systematic literature review	2
Developing students’ sustainability consciousness: the role of attitude and practice toward incorporating new uses of old buildings into architectural education	2
Promoting second graders’ attitudes towards technology through computational thinking instruction	2
Development and implementation of engineering-based aircraft unit: middle school students’ engineering design process skills	2
Natural language approach for bio-informed architectural education: a biomimetic shell design	2
Characterizations of preschool technology education: analyses of seven individual preschool teachers’ and childcare attendants’ descriptions of their teaching	2
Design(ing) fiction in the studio	2
Developing a design thinking engagement scale for early childhood teachers	2
Students’ perceptions towards sustainability in interior design education	2
A girl’s gendered engagement in designing and building robots	2
Gaining insights into the creative process of designing nature inspired product forms	2
Lessons learned through crisis: the effect of Covid-19 on pre-service Technology Education teacher development	2
Teacher judgement accuracy of technical abilities in primary education	2
“Well, a tough question. Congratulations:” How and in what aspects do design students evaluate a design studio course?	2
Analysis of barriers, supports and gender gap in the choice of STEM studies in secondary education	2
Correlation between the composition of personalities and project success in project-based learning among design students	2
A study of children’s learning and play using an underwater robot construction kit	2
Teach to use CAD or through using CAD: An interview study with technology teachers	2
Relationships among students’ hands-on making self-efficacy, incremental belief of intelligence, help-seeking attitudes, and continuance intention to participate in a STEAM contest	2
Effects of association interventions on students’ creative thinking, aptitude, empathy, and design scheme in a STEAM course: considering remote and close association	2
Gender differences in engineering students’ understanding of professional competences and career development in the transition from education to work	2
Factors to assess teacher design knowledge competencies: data literacies practice, design practice, and distributed epistemic practice (3Ds)	2
Validation of the use of concept maps as an evaluation tool for the teaching and learning of mechanical and industrial engineering	2
Developing pre-service primary teachers’ understanding of engineering through engineering habits of mind and engagement with engineers	2