OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Technology and Design Education is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the role of situational flow experience in learning through design in 3D multi-user virtual environments	50
Teaching design for additive manufacturing: efficacy of and engagement with lecture and laboratory approaches	44
Correlates between imagination types and abilities in designing works	32
Bringing computational thinking to technology education classrooms: Hacking car activity for middle schools in the republic of korea	31
The influence of subjective knowledge, technophobia and perceived enjoyment on design students’ intention to use artificial intelligence design tools	28
Exploring the metaphoric nature of programming teachers’ reflections on action - a case study with teaching in mind	22
Spanish and Swedish teachers’ perspective of teaching STEM and robotics in preschool – results from the botSTEM project	20
Insights into product design students’ perception of, and engagement with, creativity in design education	19
Developing an instrument for assessing technology teachers’ understandings of the nature of technology	19
Expertise comparison among product design students: a cross-sectional analysis	18
Idea characteristics arising from individual brainstorming and design heuristics ideation methods	17
Spontaneous decision-making behavior: correlation of electrodermal activities to an architecture design time-problem	16
Adapting engineering design thinking for sustainability	16
You just have to take a big leap! Authentic teaching and learning in the technology program at an upper secondary school	15
Teachers’ pedagogical beliefs in Norwegian school makerspaces	15
Towards a three-part heuristic framework for technology education	15
Technological problem solving: an investigation of differences associated with levels of task success	14
Rethinking construction in preschool: discerning didactic strategies in Swedish preschool activities	14
Book reviews	12
Supporting traditional handicrafts teaching through eye movement technology	12
An exploration of an interprofessional embedded educational model between occupational therapy and industrial design: a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenological inquiry	12
Gender disparity in STEM education: a survey research on girl participants in World Robot Olympiad	12
The potential for spatial ability development through the Swedish technology and craft compulsory curricula	11
Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Food Technology Education	11
A deep dive into the impacts of empathy on design learning and teaching	11

Exploring the impact of self-regulated learning intervention on students' strategy use and performance in a design studio course	11
Is group work beneficial for producing creative designs in STEM design education?	11
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	10
Elementary students’ perceptions of STEM professionals	10
Online education in design disciplines: factors influencing the interactive experience of group learning	10
Cultivating ethics sensitivity in design: Impact of integrating ethics within K-12 digital design education	9
Engaging solution-based design process for integrated STEM program development: an exploratory study through autoethnographic design practice	9
Architecture students’ attitudes toward emergency distance education and elements affecting their success in design studios: a sample from Turkey	9
An empirical study on immersive technology in synchronous hybrid learning in design education	9
Implementing artificial intelligence education for middle school technology education in Republic of Korea	8
Correction to: Transferring makerspace activities to the classroom: a tension between two learning cultures	8
Design studio practice in the context of architectural education: a narrative literature review	8
Students’ attitudes toward technology: exploring the relationship among affective, cognitive and behavioral components of the attitude construct	8
The mediating role of creative problem solving between design thinking and self-efficacy in STEM teaching for STEM teacher candidates	8
Correction to: Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	7
Investigating changes in preservice teachers’ conceptions of technological literacy	7
Theoretical model and practical analysis of immersive industrial design education based on virtual reality technology	7
Cultivating empathy and upgrading design decisions of students: the impact of simulating public transit experiences of individuals with mild visual impairments	7
Adapting the difficulty of hands-on tasks to pupils’ prior knowledge: effects on challenge and skill development	6
Product hacking as a systematic intervention: towards new strategies and platforms in design education	6
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	6
Pedagogical infrastructures in multidisciplinary technology education	6
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	6
Final year projects in engineering education: a comparative study of final year engineering projects at public universities in Malawi, Namibia and South Africa	6
Using structural equation modelling for understanding relationships influencing the middle school technology teacher’s attitudes toward STEAM education in Korea	6
Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels	6
Architecture in school practice: possible tools for supporting spatial literacy	6
Learning by Evaluating (LbE): promoting meaningful reasoning in the context of engineering design thinking using Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ)	6
Teachers’ cognitive beliefs about their assessment and use of tools when evaluating students’ learning of technological systems: a questionnaire study	6
Changes to stakeholder engagement approaches throughout a capstone engineering design course	6
Realities vs expectations: children’s perception and imagination of AI	6
Exploring the nature and role of student-to-student talk and questioning among young children in technology and design education	5
Correction to: A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	5
Examining the reliability of Adaptive Comparative Judgement (ACJ) as an assessment tool in educational settings	5
Using empathy maps to support design-thinking enhanced transdisciplinary STEM innovation in K-12 setting	5
Technology teachers’ teaching engineering self-efficacy: an investigation of Chinese high school general technology teachers	5
Probing cultural differences in product design and consumer evaluation using repertory grid analysis	5
Industrial design students’ perceptions towards a career in user experience field in Turkey	5
Students’ and teachers’ responses to use of a digital self-assessment tool to understand and identify development of twenty-first century skills when working with makerspace activities	5
Exploring pre-service teachers’ technology-integration belief and scientific inquiry in a teacher-development course	5
What can first-year undergraduate students “envision” from a pandemic?	5
Eight-year-olds’ naïve and acquired knowledge about computer viruses: a mixed methods study	5
Teachers' perspectives about the content, context, and educational suitability of the GPS cows module for Australian teachers in New South Wales	5
The effect of a STEM integrated curriculum on design thinking dispositions in middle school students	4
Design thinking in early childhood education and care. A literature review and consideration from the perspective of young learners’ craft, design, and technology education	4
Fostering technical skills and creativity in the digital fabrication spaces: an open-ended prototyping approach	4
Characterizations of preschool technology education: analyses of seven individual preschool teachers’ and childcare attendants’ descriptions of their teaching	4
Analysis of barriers, supports and gender gap in the choice of STEM studies in secondary education	4
Developing pre-service teachers’ computational thinking: a systematic literature review	4
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	4

Emotional valence and arousal: the impact of AI-generated image stimuli on design creativity	4
Gender does not make the difference: interest in STEM by gender is fully mediated by technical socialization and degree program	4
A study of the effect of peer assessment on children’s critical thinking in a kindergarten craft course	4
Undergraduate students’ beliefs about diverse approaches to making engineering design decisions: Exploring change during a capstone course	4
Developing pre-service primary teachers’ understanding of engineering through engineering habits of mind and engagement with engineers	4
Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world	4
The distant studio: a survey of design students’ experience with distance educational formats	4
Impacting secondary students’ STEM knowledge through collaborative STEM teacher partnerships	4
Integrating story-based STEM design challenges in early childhood curricula: an activity theory perspective	4
Designing Maker initiatives for educational inclusion	4
Pedagogical approaches for eliciting students’ design thinking strategies: tell-and-practice vs. contrasting cases	4
A principle-based philosophical framework for fashion design praxis and education in new design landscapes	4
A systematic literature review of student evaluation of peer exemplars and implications for design, Technology, and Engineering Learning	4
Cultivating students’ computational thinking through student–robot interactions in robotics education	4
Validation of the use of concept maps as an evaluation tool for the teaching and learning of mechanical and industrial engineering	4
Transferring makerspace activities to the classroom: a tension between two learning cultures	4
Effects of digital media literacy course on primary school students’ digital media literacy: an experimental study	4
Visualizing high school technology teachers’ creative process in instructional design using the eight trigrams (BaGua) approach	4