OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 3. 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
Applying the self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student engagement in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	319
Perceived usability evaluation of educational technology using the System Usability Scale (SUS): A systematic review	107
Digital readiness and its effects on higher education students’ socio-emotional perceptions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	91
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	78
Adaptation of a conventional flipped course to an online flipped format during the Covid-19 pandemic: Student learning performance and engagement	61
A review of research on 360-degree video and its applications to education	42
“This weird time we’re in”: How a sudden change to remote education impacted college students’ self-regulated learning	36
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Teachers’ exposure to professional development and the quality of their instructional technology use: The mediating role of teachers’ value and ability beliefs	35
Distance education under duress: a case study of exchange students’ experience with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Korea	31
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	31
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	29
Approximations of practice as a framework for understanding authenticity in simulations of teaching	29
A narrative approach to university instructors’ stories about promoting student engagement during COVID-19 emergency remote teaching in Saudi Arabia	28
Arduino-assisted robotics coding applications integrated into the 5E learning model in science teaching	27
Synchronous CMC text chat versus synchronous CMC voice chat: impacts on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and anxiety	26
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	26
Revisiting online learner engagement: exploring the role of learner characteristics in an emergency period	26
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	25
Computational thinking in K-12 education. An insight through meta-analysis	24
Student engagement in K12 online education during the pandemic: The case of Turkey	24
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	23
Personality traits predict the effects of Internet and academic self-efficacy on practical performance anxiety in online learning under the COVID-19 lockdown	21
Support provided for K-12 teachers teaching remotely with technology during emergencies: A systematic review	20
Interaction principles for digital puppeteering to promote teacher learning	19

A systematic narrative review of agent persona on learning outcomes and design variables to enhance personification	19
Addressing student engagement during COVID-19: Secondary STEM teachers attend to the affective dimension of learner needs	18
Teachers’ perceptions of exploiting immersive virtual field trips for learning in primary education	18
A systematic review of research on K12 online teaching and learning: Comparison of research from two decades 2000 to 2019	18
Pedagogical models for the facilitation of teacher professional development via video-supported collaborative learning. A review of the state of the art	18
Exploring the impacts of digital storytelling on English as a foreign language learners’ speaking competence	18
Supporting new online instructors and engaging remote learners during COVID-19: a distributed team teaching approach	17
Learning analytics based feedback and recommendations in flipped classrooms: an experimental study in higher education	17
A systematic review of research on technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) for online teaching in the humanities	17
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	17
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	17
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	16
Young chinese children's remote peer interactions and social competence development during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Robot programming intervention for promoting spatial relations, mental rotation and visual memory of kindergarten children	15
Students’ in-moment challenges and developing maker perspectives during problem-based digital making	15
Primary school teachers’ attitudes toward technology use and stimulating higher-order thinking in students: a review of the literature	15
Connecting computational thinking in everyday reasoning and programming for elementary school students	14
Reciprocal issues of artificial and human intelligence in education	14
Issues of quality on Teachers Pay Teachers: an exploration of best-selling U.S. history resources	14
TPACK’s pedagogy and the gradual release of responsibility model coalesce: integrating technology into literacy teacher preparation	14
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	14
Learning with virtual humans: Introduction to the special issue	13
Scaffolding vocational high school students’ computational thinking with cognitive and metacognitive prompts in learning about programmable logic controllers	13
Profiles of student ICT use and their relations to background, motivational factors, and academic achievement	12
The flipped classroom approach in an English for specific purposes (ESP) course: A quasi-experimental study on learners’ self-efficacy, study process, and learning performances	12
An exploratory study of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking and programming skills	12
Educational robotics and STEM in primary education: a review and a meta-analysis	11
Leveraging mathematics software data to understand student learning and motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	11
What would the matrix do?: a systematic review of K-12 AI learning contexts and learner-interface interactions	11
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	11
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	10
Assessing digital nativeness in pre-service teachers: Analysis of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale and implications for practice	10
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	10
An online field experience using mixed reality virtual simulation	10
Coping with the transition to remote instruction: Patterns of self-regulated engagement in a large post-secondary biology course	10
Different approaches to collaborative problem solving between successful versus less successful problem solvers: Tracking changes of knowledge structure	10
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	9
The development and validation of a teacher education digital literacy and digital pedagogy evaluation	9
Does online teaching strategy matter: exploring the effect of online teaching strategies on students’ ambidextrous innovation capacities based on the online teaching situation in China	8
Relationship between touchscreen tablet usage time and attention performance in young children	8
The effect of visual cues in e-books on pre-K children’s visual attention, word recognition, and comprehension: An eye tracking study	8
Developing and Testing a Design-Based Learning Approach to Enhance Elementary Students’ Self-Perceived Computational Thinking	8
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	8
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	8
Online pair-programming: elementary school children learning scratch together online	8
PK-5 teacher perspectives on the design of remote teaching: pedagogies and support structures to sustain student learning online	8
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	7
The impact of conversational agents’ language on summary writing	7
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	7

Literature review of the reciprocal value of artificial and human intelligence in early childhood education	7
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	7
Trends in tools used to teach computational thinking through elementary coding	7
Development and initial validation of Digital Age Teaching Scale (DATS) to assess application of ISTE Standards for Educators in K–12 education classrooms	7
Using recommender systems to promote self-regulated learning in online education settings: current knowledge gaps and suggestions for future research	7
Funds of knowledge in making: reenvisioning maker education in teacher preparation	6
Comparing immersive VR and non-immersive VR on social skill acquisition for students in middle school with ASD	6
Validating a TPACK instrument for 7–12 mathematics in-service middle and high school teachers in the United States	6
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	6
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	6
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	6
Developing intercultural competence through drone-assisted virtual field trips while adapting to pandemic times	6
Learning by playing with generative AI: design and evaluation of a role-playing educational game with generative AI as scaffolding for instant feedback interaction	6
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence	6
Examining the relationships among self-regulated learning, homework timeliness, and course achievement: a context of female students learning quantitative topics	6
Topics, author profiles, and collaboration networks in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education : A bibliometric analysis of 20 years of research	5
Team Mensa: A case study of supporting middle school girls' interest in computer science through an informal learning program	5
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	5
At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning	5
Comparing the relationship between using educational technology in mathematics and student achievement in South Africa and Germany	5
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	5
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	5
Maybe we’ve got it wrong. An experimental evaluation of self-determination and Flow Theory in gamification	5
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	4
A scoping review of video games and learning in secondary classrooms	4
Using an automated assessment tool to explore difficulties of middle school students in introductory programming	4
Vlogs for enhancing trainee teachers’ motivational beliefs about school experience and teaching practice: They are on the factory floor for professional development	4
Affordances and constraints of the teacher-to-teacher online marketplace of ideas: understanding early career elementary teachers’ perceptions	4
Don’t forget to assess: How teachers check for new and deeper learning when integrating virtual reality in the classroom	4
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	4
Teacher strategies to use virtual learning environments to facilitate algebra learning during school closures	4
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	4
Classroom interaction geography: visualizing space & time in classroom interaction	4
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	4
Teachers’ definitions of successful education technology implementation	4
Computational thinking practices: Lessons learned from a problem-based curriculum in primary education	4
Organizing for collaboration in simulation-based environments: An affordance perspective	3
AI-assisted programming question generation: Constructing semantic networks of programming knowledge by local knowledge graph and abstract syntax tree	3
A research-based conceptual framework for inclusive K-12 online, distance, and digital education	3
Teaching with robotics: creating and implementing integrated units in middle school subjects	3
The design and use of a digital tool to support the development of preschool children’s logical reasoning	3
Impact of social media addiction on college students’ academic performance: an interdisciplinary perspective	3
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	3
Imagining robots of the future: Examining sixth-graders’ perceptions of robots through their literary products	3
The future of virtual team learning: navigating the intersection of AI and education	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
Design thinking in teacher education: Morphing preservice teachers’ mindsets and conceptualizations	3
From deadpan machine to relating socially: Middle school students’ experiences speaking English with embodied conversational agents	3
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	3
Implementing a 1:1 technology program in a rural, public school: a study of perceptions of technology integration	3
A systematic review of published student question-generation systems: Supporting functionalities and design features	3
Student, direct thyself! Facilitating self-directed learning skills and motivation with an electronic development portfolio	3
Design and skill labs: Identifying teacher competencies and competency-related needs in Turkey’s national makerspace project	3
Learning in virtual student teams: an examination of shared leadership	3
Gestalt perception: A game designed to explore players’ gameplay self-efficacy and anxiety reflected in their learning effects	3
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	3