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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	188
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	84
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	65
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	53
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	43
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	39
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	36
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	35
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	32
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	31
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	30
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	30
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	28
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	27
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	27
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	26
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	25
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	25
The effects of text-based conversational teachable agents’ communicative features on student math learning: Tone style and emoji use	24
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	23
Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	22
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction	20
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	19
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	19
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	19

Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	18
What do we mean by digital equality in education? Toward five conceptual lenses based on a systematic review	18
The strength of a tigress: an examination of Latina first-generation college students’ tenacity during the rapid shift to remote learning	18
Students as AI literate designers: a pedagogical framework for learning and teaching AI literacy in elementary education	18
Causes and consequences of stereotypes: interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes	17
Computational thinking practices: Lessons learned from a problem-based curriculum in primary education	17
Examining two different models for developing teachers new to computer science: lessons from a CS4All district	16
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	16
A systematic literature review of usability definitions and psychometric properties of instruments in the field of learning design and technology	16
Exploring the complex interplay among middle schoolers’ prior coding experience, computational thinking attitudes and skills: a multiple moderated mediation analysis	15
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	14
Effects of goal achievement motivation on K-12 students’ resilience in STEAM activities: the mediating role of in-school social supports	13
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	13
What does it mean to “Engage” for learning on social media?: an analysis of global read aloud Twitter participation	13
Using a comic book to engage students in a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum	13
Enhancing learning and attitude toward statistics with a microlearning approach using an animated video	12
The development and validation of a teacher education digital literacy and digital pedagogy evaluation	12
Examining how teachers define and integrate digital citizenship into core content area curriculum	12
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	12
How teacher presence affects student engagement with a generative artificial intelligence chatbot in learning designed with first principles of instruction	11
Using avatar rehearsals to practice eliciting student thinking with preservice teachers	11
An investigation of the mathematics applications in the Apple App Store: Do they contain benchmarks of educational quality?	11
Assessing EFL learners’ attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development and validation of Generative Artificial Intelligence attitude scale for EFL learners (GenAIAS)	11
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	9
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	9
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	9
Evaluating the role of professional development on elementary teachers’ knowledge, comfort, and beliefs related to teaching computer science to students with high-incidence disabilities	9
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	9
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	9
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	9
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	9
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	9
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	9
Social media and pre-service teachers’ apprenticeships of observation	8
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	8
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	7
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	7
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	7
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	7
Artificial intelligence policies in K-12 school districts in the United States: a content analysis shaping education policy	7
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	7
Conceptions of image-generative AI-supported instruction of preservice teachers with different levels of learning attitude: a drawing and epistemic network analysis	6
Integrating STAD and flipped learning in expository writing skills: Impacts on students’ achievement and perceptions	6
Building a nationally representative sample of teachers’ online and offline: the Public Instructional Network of School Resources	6
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	6
Leading digital innovation in schools: the role of the open innovation mindset	6
“You can tell a lot about a person by reading their bio”: lessons from inauthentic Twitter accounts’ activity in #Edchat"	6
Preventing pollution: A scoping review of immersive learning environments and gamified systems for children and young people	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
Digital storyboards: the impact of a literacy-themed coding activity on elementary student attitudes for coding	6

K-12 teachers’ beliefs about and reactions to students’ off-task technology use	5
At the intersection of human and algorithmic decision-making in distributed learning	5
AI-assisted programming question generation: Constructing semantic networks of programming knowledge by local knowledge graph and abstract syntax tree	5
Building a high school violence prevention app to educate and protect students	5
Fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion through social-emotional learning: the role of digital technologies	5
The mediating effects of engagement on the relationship between perceived digital inquiry and creativity	5
Correction	5
Teacher strategies to use virtual learning environments to facilitate algebra learning during school closures	5
Validating a Creative Coding Rubric through expressive activities for elementary grades	5
Advancing self-directed learning in STEM education: integrating GPT-based learning aid with multimodal learning analytics	5
Impacts of different gamified problem-solving integration approaches on elementary math: an engagement and metacognitive knowledge perspective	5
Distributed interpretation – teaching reconstructive methods in the social sciences supported by artificial intelligence	5
Attitude and technological pedagogical and content knowledge: The reciprocal predictors?	5
Preservice teachers’ TPACK learning trajectories in an online educational technology course	5
Developing and Testing a Design-Based Learning Approach to Enhance Elementary Students’ Self-Perceived Computational Thinking	5
The advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Insights from a 1976–2024 bibliometric analysis	5
A systematic review of published student question-generation systems: Supporting functionalities and design features	5
Learning by playing with generative AI: design and evaluation of a role-playing educational game with generative AI as scaffolding for instant feedback interaction	4
Affordances and challenges of artificial intelligence in K-12 education: a systematic review	4
The impact of scenario-based online gamified learning environment tailored to player types on student motivation, engagement, and environment interaction	4
Design and skill labs: Identifying teacher competencies and competency-related needs in Turkey’s national makerspace project	4
Organizing for collaboration in simulation-based environments: An affordance perspective	4
The more structured, the better? Learning effects of online scaffolds with different structures for student question generation	4
Educators’ perspectives on and motivations for using TeachersPayTeachers.com	4
The education influencer: A new player in the educator professional landscape	4
A systematic review of conversational AI in language education: focusing on the collaboration with human teachers	4
Assessing high school students’ perceptions of virtual reality in independent learning: development, network analysis and validation of the Independent Learning and Cognitive Empowerment Scale in Virt	4
An examination of the research studies on augmented reality use in preschool education: a bibliometric mapping analysis	4
Breakfast club lessons: staff perspectives on a yearlong collaborative teletherapy initiative during COVID-19	4
A heuristic framework for video-based teaching and learning scenarios in higher education	4
Elementary school students’ and teachers’ perceptions toward creative mathematical writing with Generative AI	3
Barriers and enablers to K-12 blended teaching	3
Promoting elementary school students’ programming learning: Effects of metacognitive vs. cognitive scaffolding	3
Two is better than one—Examining biology-specific TPACK and its T-dimensions from two angles	3
A mixed-methods study of novice teachers’ technology integration: Do they leverage their TPACK knowledge once entering the profession?	3
Coding choreography: Understanding student responses to representational incompatibilities between dance and programming	3
Teaching enthusiasm in video lectures: Evidence from two experimental studies	3
Using AI-empowered assessments and personalized recommendations to promote online collaborative learning performance	3
Designing the next generation of map assessment systems: Open questions and opportunities to automatically assess a student’s knowledge as a map	3
Virtual reality and affective learning in commemorative history teaching: effects of immersive technology and generative learning activities	3
Context-specificity to reduce bias in self-assessments: Comparing teachers’ scenario-based self-assessment and objective assessment of technological knowledge	3
Teacher goal setting for personalized learning software: associations with perceptions of the value of software and growth mindsets	3
Insights on information literacy from social studies classrooms in the southeast	3
Influencer or teacher leader: an exploration of teacherpreneurs’ use of Instagram to lead	3
The evolution of the association between teacher technology integration and its influencing factors over time	3