OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 25. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	322
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	151
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	123
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	66
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	64
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	57
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	52
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	51
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	50
Reality check in virtual worlds: Teacher roles across immersive learning environments	48
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	40
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	37
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	35
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	35
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	35
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	35
Modeling hidden states in learning: a hidden Markov model approach to stealth assessment for problem solving in computational thinking	34
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	33
Exploring the impact of teacher support in competitive digital learning games on primary students’ learning and academic engagement	33
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	29
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	29
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	28
Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	27
Students as AI literate designers: a pedagogical framework for learning and teaching AI literacy in elementary education	26
What do we mean by digital equality in education? Toward five conceptual lenses based on a systematic review	26