OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Technology and Design Education is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Students’ attitudes toward technology: exploring the relationship among affective, cognitive and behavioral components of the attitude construct	45
Impact of design thinking in higher education: a multi-actor perspective on problem solving and creativity	38
Project-based learning oriented STEAM: the case of micro–bit paper-cutting lamp	25
The role of STEM Education in improving the quality of education: a bibliometric study	23
When design thinking goes to school: A literature review of design competences for the K-12 level	22
Implementing artificial intelligence education for middle school technology education in Republic of Korea	21
Learning from failure: A systematized review	20
Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Food Technology Education	19
Exploring the impact of design thinking tool among design undergraduates: a study on creative skills and motivation to think creatively	18
Cultivating students’ computational thinking through student–robot interactions in robotics education	17
The teacher recruitment crisis: examining influential recruitment factors from a United States technology and engineering teacher preparation program	16
Using an iSTEAM project-based learning model for technology senior high school students: Design, development, and evaluation	15
A review of STEM education with the support of visualizing its structure through the CiteSpace software	15
Supporting technology-enabled design education and practices by DFuzzy decision model: applications of cultural and creative product design	15
A pedagogical study on promoting students' deep learning through design-based learning	15
Design studio practice in the context of architectural education: a narrative literature review	15
Building a sustainable model of integrated stem education: investigating secondary school STEM classes after an integrated STEM project	14
Development and effectiveness evaluation of a STEM-based game-design project for preservice primary teacher education	14
Towards a signature pedagogy for design and technology education: a literature review	14
Analysis of barriers, supports and gender gap in the choice of STEM studies in secondary education	13
Ninth-grade students’ perceptions on the design-thinking mindset in the context of reverse engineering	12
Using game design to increase teachers’ familiarity with design thinking	12
The genesis of design: learning about design, learning through design to learning design in play	12
Building performance simulation tools as part of architectural design: breaking the gap through software simulation	12
STEM education goals in the twenty-first century: Teachers’ perceptions and experiences	12

An assessment of the transparency of contemporary technology education research employing interview-based methodologies	11
Spanish and Swedish teachers’ perspective of teaching STEM and robotics in preschool – results from the botSTEM project	11
Cross-age peer tutoring in a technology-enhanced STEAM project at a lower secondary school	11
The impact of prior occupations and initial teacher education on post-graduate pre-service teachers’ conceptualization and realization of technology integration	11
Developing pre-service teachers’ computational thinking: a systematic literature review	11
Exploring the architectural design process assisted in conventional design studio: a systematic literature review	10
The contribution of 3D computer modeling education to twenty-first century skills: self-assessment of secondary school students	10
Shutting the studio: the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on architectural education in the United Kingdom	10
You are an astroneer: the effects of robotics camps on secondary school students’ perceptions and attitudes towards STEM	9
Is group work beneficial for producing creative designs in STEM design education?	9
Planting food sustainability thinking and practice through STEM in the garden	9
Teaching digital models: secondary technology teachers’ experiences	8
Maker culture and its potential for STEM education	8
Learning by evaluating (LbE) through adaptive comparative judgment	8
Teaching design for additive manufacturing: efficacy of and engagement with lecture and laboratory approaches	8
Exploring the technology teacher shortage in New Zealand: the implications for quality teaching and learning	8
Effects of association interventions on students’ creative thinking, aptitude, empathy, and design scheme in a STEAM course: considering remote and close association	7
Supporting traditional handicrafts teaching through eye movement technology	7
Impact of COVID-19 on distance learning practical design courses	7
Towards a three-part heuristic framework for technology education	7
Research front and evolution of technology education in Taiwan and abroad: bibliometric co-citation analysis and maps	7
Entrepreneurship, STEM attitude, and career interest development through 6E learning byDeSIGN™ model based STEM education	7
Proposing a novel mixed-reality framework for basic design and its hybrid evaluation using linkography and interviews	6
Characteristics of student engagement in high-school robotics courses	6
Hands on programming: Teachers’ use of Metaphors in gesture and Speech make Abstract concepts tangible	6
Pupils’ prior knowledge about technological systems: design and validation of a diagnostic tool for primary school teachers	6
A systematized review of research with adaptive comparative judgment (ACJ) in higher education	6
Technology education in primary schools: addressing teachers’ perceptions, perceived barriers, and needs	6
The impact of the design thinking model on pre-service teachers’ creativity self-efficacy, inventive problem-solving skills, and technology-related motivation	6
Aligning a CAD course constructively: telling-to-peer and writing-to-peer activities for efficient use of CAD in design curricula	6
The role of sense of community and motivation in the collaborative learning: an examination of the first-year design course	6
Architectural concept design process impacted by body and movement	6
How future proof is design education? A systematic review	6
Structuring knowledge-building in online design education	6
The virtual body in a design exercise: a conceptual framework for embodied cognition	6
Bridging the gap: blending spatial skills instruction into a technology teacher preparation programme	6
Impacting secondary students’ STEM knowledge through collaborative STEM teacher partnerships	6
A systematic literature review of empirical research on technology education in early childhood education	5
Technology-driven design process: teaching and mentoring technology-driven design process in industrial design education	5
Insights from bauhaus innovation for education and workplaces in a post-pandemic world	5
Idea characteristics arising from individual brainstorming and design heuristics ideation methods	5
Science teacher’s perceptions of the nature of technology: a Q-methodology study	5
Correlation between the composition of personalities and project success in project-based learning among design students	5
Attitudes of Croatian Pupils on the relationship of Environmental Issues and Sustainable Development with Technology and Engineering	5
Investigating the role of spatial thinking in children’s design ideation through an open-ended design-by-analogy challenge	5
An empirical study on immersive technology in synchronous hybrid learning in design education	5
Impacts of maker education-design thinking integration on knowledge, creative tendencies, and perceptions of the engineering profession	5
Gender differences in engineering students’ understanding of professional competences and career development in the transition from education to work	5
Developing disposition to critical thinking and problem-solving perception in instructional design projects for producing digital materials	5
Elementary students’ perceptions of STEM professionals	5

Embracing the social turn: epistemic change in engineering students enrolled in an anthro-design course