OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Research on Technology in 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Applying the self-determination theory (SDT) to explain student engagement in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	231
Digital readiness and its effects on higher education students’ socio-emotional perceptions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	89
Using personalized learning as an instructional approach to motivate learners in online higher education: Learner self-determination and intrinsic motivation	79
Perceived usability evaluation of educational technology using the System Usability Scale (SUS): A systematic review	76
Appraising research on personalized learning: Definitions, theoretical alignment, advancements, and future directions	74
Toward a taxonomy of adaptivity for learning	56
Adaptation of a conventional flipped course to an online flipped format during the Covid-19 pandemic: Student learning performance and engagement	48
Using digital technology to promote higher education learning: The importance of different learning activities and their relations to learning outcomes	46
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	33
A review of research on 360-degree video and its applications to education	33
Distance education under duress: a case study of exchange students’ experience with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Korea	29
Personalized learning in iSTART: Past modifications and future design	28
Teachers’ exposure to professional development and the quality of their instructional technology use: The mediating role of teachers’ value and ability beliefs	28
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
“This weird time we’re in”: How a sudden change to remote education impacted college students’ self-regulated learning	27
Efficiency of digital and non-digital educational games: A comparative meta-analysis and a meta-thematic analysis	27
Effects of self-regulation scaffolding on online participation and learning outcomes	26
The educational value of internet use in the home for school children: A systematic review of literature	25
A narrative approach to university instructors’ stories about promoting student engagement during COVID-19 emergency remote teaching in Saudi Arabia	24
Synchronous CMC text chat versus synchronous CMC voice chat: impacts on EFL learners’ oral proficiency and anxiety	23
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	23
Arduino-assisted robotics coding applications integrated into the 5E learning model in science teaching	21
Measuring teacher beliefs about coding and computational thinking	20
Revisiting online learner engagement: exploring the role of learner characteristics in an emergency period	20
Who Is behind this? Preparing high school students to evaluate online content	19

Student engagement in K12 online education during the pandemic: The case of Turkey	19
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	19
Computational thinking in K-12 education. An insight through meta-analysis	18
Approximations of practice as a framework for understanding authenticity in simulations of teaching	18
Digital curation for promoting personalized learning: A study of secondary-school science students’ learning experiences	17
Strengths-based blended personalized learning: An impact study using virtual comparison group	17
Personality traits predict the effects of Internet and academic self-efficacy on practical performance anxiety in online learning under the COVID-19 lockdown	17
Personalized learning and ESSA: What we know and where we go	16
Addressing student engagement during COVID-19: Secondary STEM teachers attend to the affective dimension of learner needs	16
Support provided for K-12 teachers teaching remotely with technology during emergencies: A systematic review	16
Teachers’ perceptions of exploiting immersive virtual field trips for learning in primary education	16
Pedagogical models for the facilitation of teacher professional development via video-supported collaborative learning. A review of the state of the art	15
A systematic review of research on K12 online teaching and learning: Comparison of research from two decades 2000 to 2019	14
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of pre-service science teachers: A Delphi study	14
Supporting new online instructors and engaging remote learners during COVID-19: a distributed team teaching approach	14
How do different laboratory environments influence students’ attitudes toward science courses and laboratories?	13
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	13
A systematic review of research on technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) for online teaching in the humanities	13
Factors to consider when designing effective learning: Infusing computational thinking in mathematics to support thinking-doing	13
Typology of digital leadership roles tasked with integrating new technologies into teaching: Insights from metaphor analysis	12
Exploring the impacts of digital storytelling on English as a foreign language learners’ speaking competence	12
Young chinese children's remote peer interactions and social competence development during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Exploring the impact of video making on students’ writing skills	12
Feasibility and usability of MentorPal, a framework for rapid development of virtual mentors	11
A systematic narrative review of agent persona on learning outcomes and design variables to enhance personification	11
Learning with virtual humans: Introduction to the special issue	11
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	11
Scaffolding vocational high school students’ computational thinking with cognitive and metacognitive prompts in learning about programmable logic controllers	11
Connecting computational thinking in everyday reasoning and programming for elementary school students	11
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	11
Students’ in-moment challenges and developing maker perspectives during problem-based digital making	10
Examining K–12 teacher learning in a makerspace through the activity–identity–community framework	10
Development and promise of a vocabulary intelligent tutoring system for Second-Grade Latinx English learners	10
Instructor misbehavior and student outcomes: Replication and extension in the online classroom	10
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	10
Interaction principles for digital puppeteering to promote teacher learning	10
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	10
Distributed leadership for personalized learning	10
Primary school teachers’ attitudes toward technology use and stimulating higher-order thinking in students: a review of the literature	10
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	10
Assessing digital nativeness in pre-service teachers: Analysis of the Digital Natives Assessment Scale and implications for practice	10
The device in the room: Technology’s role in third grade literacy instruction	9
Leveraging mathematics software data to understand student learning and motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Examining K-12 educator experiences from digital citizenship professional development	9
Issues of quality on Teachers Pay Teachers: an exploration of best-selling U.S. history resources	9
Participants’ views of the use of video in lesson study in higher education in Spain: An exploratory multiple case study	9
TPACK’s pedagogy and the gradual release of responsibility model coalesce: integrating technology into literacy teacher preparation	9
Robot programming intervention for promoting spatial relations, mental rotation and visual memory of kindergarten children	9
Uncovering themes in personalized learning: Using natural language processing to analyze school interviews	9
Profiles of student ICT use and their relations to background, motivational factors, and academic achievement	9

Exploring Top Hat’s Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Belongingness, Engagement, and Self-Confidence: A Mixed Methods Study	9
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	9
How teachable agents influence students’ responses to critical constructive feedback	9
Social media use and its effect on university student’s learning and academic performance in the UAE	8
Coding moves: Design and research of teaching computational thinking through dance choreography and virtual interactions	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
On the digital frontier: Stakeholders in rural areas take on educational technology and schooling	8
Effects of interactivity and progressive visuospatial cues on learners’ comprehension of dynamic visualizations	8
Learning analytics based feedback and recommendations in flipped classrooms: an experimental study in higher education	8
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	8
PK-5 teacher perspectives on the design of remote teaching: pedagogies and support structures to sustain student learning online	8
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	7
Examining middle school teachers’ implementation of a technology-enriched problem-based learning program: Motivational factors, challenges, and strategies	7
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	7
Coping with the transition to remote instruction: Patterns of self-regulated engagement in a large post-secondary biology course	7
An exploratory study of pre-service teachers’ computational thinking and programming skills	6
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	6
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	6
Trends in tools used to teach computational thinking through elementary coding	6
An online field experience using mixed reality virtual simulation	6
Relationship between touchscreen tablet usage time and attention performance in young children	6
Reading from print, laptop computer, and e-reader: Differences and similarities for college students’ learning	6
The development and validation of a teacher education digital literacy and digital pedagogy evaluation	5
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	5
The impact of conversational agents’ language on summary writing	5
#Digital parents: Intergenerational learning through a digital literacy workshop	5
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	5
Development and initial validation of Digital Age Teaching Scale (DATS) to assess application of ISTE Standards for Educators in K–12 education classrooms	5
Reciprocal issues of artificial and human intelligence in education	5
Online pair-programming: elementary school children learning scratch together online	5
Educational robotics and STEM in primary education: a review and a meta-analysis	5
Development, validity, and reliability of an educational robotics based technological pedagogical content knowledge self-efficacy scale	5
Using recommender systems to promote self-regulated learning in online education settings: current knowledge gaps and suggestions for future research	5
Funds of knowledge in making: reenvisioning maker education in teacher preparation	4
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	4
Examining the relationships among self-regulated learning, homework timeliness, and course achievement: a context of female students learning quantitative topics	4
Parents of children with special educational needs’ shared work in fully online learning	4
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	4
Vlogs for enhancing trainee teachers’ motivational beliefs about school experience and teaching practice: They are on the factory floor for professional development	4
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	4
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	4
Topics, author profiles, and collaboration networks in the Journal of Research on Technology in Education: A bibliometric analysis of 20 years of research	4
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	4
Virtual high-fidelity simulation assessment of teamwork skills: How do students react?	4