OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Technology in 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The antecedent, consequences, and importance of students’ learning preference on learning outcomes with the flipped classroom approach: a person-environment fit perspective	339
Students’ prompt patterns and its effects in AI-assisted academic writing: Focusing on students’ level of AI literacy	113
Bridging theory and practice: the effects of experiential learning-based simulation training on technology integration competency among pre-service teachers	97
The effects of practice testing and feedback on learners’ performance and persistence in a massive open online course	61
Maybe we’ve got it wrong. An experimental evaluation of self-determination and Flow Theory in gamification	42
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	41
An exploration of in-service teachers’ framing, instrumental, and core design judgments in dynamic decision-making for technology integration	38
Evaluating the role of professional development on elementary teachers’ knowledge, comfort, and beliefs related to teaching computer science to students with high-incidence disabilities	38
Parent perceptions of technology-facilitated learning for young children: Associations with parent and child characteristics	36
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	35
The effect of visual cues in e-books on pre-K children’s visual attention, word recognition, and comprehension: An eye tracking study	31
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	30
Effective leader practices to leverage school librarians as leaders in one-to-one computing	29
Developing college students’ learning strategies to improve oral presentation through negotiation of meaning in telecollaboration	29
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	27
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	26
Scaffolding vocational high school students’ computational thinking with cognitive and metacognitive prompts in learning about programmable logic controllers	24
Learning by playing Init2Winit: How alignment knowledge increases educational aspirations and college plans in high school	24
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	24
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	21
‘Transition into relatable reality’: experience analysis in a 3D desktop virtual-reality-based new student online orientation	20
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	20
Teachers’ perceptions and practices of iPads for visual arts learning in early childhood education	20
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	20
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	18

Augmented teachers: K–12 teachers’ needs for artificial intelligence’s complementary role in personalized learning	18
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	18
Impact of social media addiction on college students’ academic performance: an interdisciplinary perspective	17
An examination of the research studies on augmented reality use in preschool education: a bibliometric mapping analysis	17
Comparing the relationship between using educational technology in mathematics and student achievement in South Africa and Germany	17
An online field experience using mixed reality virtual simulation	17
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	16
Using recommender systems to promote self-regulated learning in online education settings: current knowledge gaps and suggestions for future research	15
The more structured, the better? Learning effects of online scaffolds with different structures for student question generation	15
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	15
Leveraging mathematics software data to understand student learning and motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
“I just hope that I can change the world”: supporting student agency in CS for All	14
In critical need of research-based instructional strategies and assessment: an investigation of ePCR math lesson plans for middle school students	14
Different approaches to collaborative problem solving between successful versus less successful problem solvers: Tracking changes of knowledge structure	13
Developing and validating the intention to use technology-enabled learning (I-TEL) scale	12
Gestalt perception: A game designed to explore players’ gameplay self-efficacy and anxiety reflected in their learning effects	12
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	12
Profile of an innovator: a Delphi study to surface key characteristics for innovative educators	12
“This weird time we’re in”: How a sudden change to remote education impacted college students’ self-regulated learning	12
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	11
Students’ affective engagement, parental involvement, and teacher support in emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey in China	11
Exploring the impacts of digital storytelling on English as a foreign language learners’ speaking competence	11
Teacher evaluation of the FABLe literacy application in the Indian context	11
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	10
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	10
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	10
A systematic review of research on technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) for online teaching in the humanities	10
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	9
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	9
Validating a TPACK instrument for 7–12 mathematics in-service middle and high school teachers in the United States	9
The impact of scenario-based online gamified learning environment tailored to player types on student motivation, engagement, and environment interaction	8
Reciprocal issues of artificial and human intelligence in education	8
Building robust teacher-led professional learning communities for computer science educators: Insights from CSTA chapters in the U.S.	8
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	8
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	8
A year of generative AI in English language teaching and learning - A case study	8
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	8
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	8
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	8
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	7
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	7
A systematic review of research on K12 online teaching and learning: Comparison of research from two decades 2000 to 2019	7
From deadpan machine to relating socially: Middle school students’ experiences speaking English with embodied conversational agents	7
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	7
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	7
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	6
The design and use of a digital tool to support the development of preschool children’s logical reasoning	6
Identity exploration for maker educators: constructing meaning in after-school environmental science	6
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	6
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	6

Blended learning in design education: a systematic literature review and research agendas	6
Examining the relationships among self-regulated learning, homework timeliness, and course achievement: a context of female students learning quantitative topics	6
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	6
Dialogue alongside or within lecturing videos for teaching debugging	5
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	5
Computational thinking in K-12 education. An insight through meta-analysis	5
A heuristic framework for video-based teaching and learning scenarios in higher education	5
Classroom interaction geography: visualizing space & time in classroom interaction	5
A scoping review of video games and learning in secondary classrooms	5
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	5
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	4
Design and skill labs: Identifying teacher competencies and competency-related needs in Turkey’s national makerspace project	4
What do empirical studies on technology leadership in education tell us?: content analysis, bibliometric analysis, and text mining	4
Learning in virtual student teams: an examination of shared leadership	4
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	4
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	4
Bad News in the civics classroom: How serious gameplay fosters teenagers’ ability to discern misinformation techniques	4
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	4
Synchronous CMC text chat versus synchronous CMC voice chat: impacts on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and anxiety	4
Exploring computer science understanding and rationales in preservice teacher pathways through faculty professional development	4
Secondary school smartphone policies in England: a descriptive analysis of how schools rationalize, design, and implement restrictive and permissive phone policies	4
The impact of learning to code on higher-order executive-functions: a systematic review of the literature	4
Coding choreography: Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming	4
Teachers’ perceptions of exploiting immersive virtual field trips for learning in primary education	4
Unlocking students’ creative potential in designing technological-enriched design solutions	4
Don’t forget to assess: How teachers check for new and deeper learning when integrating virtual reality in the classroom	4
Pedagogical models for the facilitation of teacher professional development via video-supported collaborative learning. A review of the state of the art	4
Leading digital innovation in schools: the role of the open innovation mindset	3
Increasing pre-teacher engagement in university instruction using Pear Deck	3
Coping with the transition to remote instruction: Patterns of self-regulated engagement in a large post-secondary biology course	3
Supporting new online instructors and engaging remote learners during COVID-19: a distributed team teaching approach	3
Context-specificity to reduce bias in self-assessments: Comparing teachers’ scenario-based self-assessment and objective assessment of technological knowledge	3
Personality traits predict the effects of Internet and academic self-efficacy on practical performance anxiety in online learning under the COVID-19 lockdown	3
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	3
Teaching enthusiasm in video lectures: Evidence from two experimental studies	3
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
PK-5 teacher perspectives on the design of remote teaching: pedagogies and support structures to sustain student learning online	3
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	3
Design thinking in teacher education: Morphing preservice teachers’ mindsets and conceptualizations	3
A research-based conceptual framework for inclusive K-12 online, distance, and digital education	3
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	3
Addressing student engagement during COVID-19: Secondary STEM teachers attend to the affective dimension of learner needs	3
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	3
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	3
Comparing immersive VR and non-immersive VR on social skill acquisition for students in middle school with ASD	2
Learning from different multimedia representation formats: effects of prior knowledge	2
Primary school teachers’ attitudes toward technology use and stimulating higher-order thinking in students: a review of the literature	2
Correction	2
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	2
K-12 teachers’ beliefs about and reactions to students’ off-task technology use	2
Exploring the evolution of field experiences in P-12 online settings: a systematic review of studies from 2007-2022	2
Exploring high school computer science course teachers’ instructional design processes for improving students’ “computational thinking” skills	2
Behind the screen: Exploring parental roles in K-12 online education	2
Plugging into power: Family and community engagement to help dismantle inequalities in computer science (CS) education	2
The mediating effects of engagement on the relationship between perceived digital inquiry and creativity	2
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	2
Educational robotics and STEM in primary education: a review and a meta-analysis	2
Issues of quality on Teachers Pay Teachers: an exploration of best-selling U.S. history resources	2
Advancing culturally responsive-sustaining computer science through K-12 teacher professional development strategies	2
Diving into the role: a multi-case study on supporting novice CS teachers’ knowledge through co-teaching	2
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	2