OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Research on Technology in Education is 9. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Collaborative video production and middle school student collaboration, engagement, and interest	150
Ready for a technology future? Chinese preservice preschool teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge and its predicting factors	59
Training educators to use eCoaching to deliver behavior specific praise for math instruction: a randomized controlled trial	56
Using instructive simulations to teach young students simple science concepts: Evidence from electricity content	54
Implicit bias in large language models: Experimental proof and implications for education	47
The impact of technology integration courses on preservice teacher attitudes and beliefs: A meta-analysis of teacher education research from 2007–2017	44
Examining changes in teachers’ perceptions of external and internal barriers in their integration of educational digital resources in K-12 classrooms	41
Facilitating pre-service teachers’ instructional design and higher-order thinking with generative AI: an integrated approach with the peer assessment and concept map	35
K-12 teacher readiness for flipped foreign language teaching: scale development and validation	33
Altering the playback speed of recorded lectures as a learning technique: Examining student practices, motivations, and beliefs	32
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	31
Revisiting contextual relevance: pedagogical agent appearance	31
Enhancing 21st-century competencies via virtual reality digital content creation	29
Psychosocial processes and human desire: an inconvenient truth about online misinformation	28
Embodied learning for computational thinking in early primary education	28
The effect of peer assessment-based collaborative concept mapping on pre-service teachers’ perceptions on smart learning environments	28
Questioning the why and the how: Collective transformative agency of experienced teachers co-designing a justice-oriented high school introductory computing program	27
Prompt text classifications with transformer models! An exemplary introduction to prompt-based learning with large language models	27
Learning in virtual student teams: an examination of shared leadership	25
Engaging learners in the emergency transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
In-service teachers’ (mis)conceptions of artificial intelligence in K-12 science education	24
Supporting new online instructors and engaging remote learners during COVID-19: a distributed team teaching approach	23
Two decades in the making: A scoping review on research on digital making and its potential for digital empowerment in non-formal settings	23
Computational thinking practices: Lessons learned from a problem-based curriculum in primary education	22
The effect of chatbots on learning: a meta-analysis of empirical research	22

Understanding K-12 teachers’ prioritized decision-making about instructional design and technology integration: an exploratory study	22
Students as AI literate designers: a pedagogical framework for learning and teaching AI literacy in elementary education	21
Developing a technology-based instrument for assessing inductive reasoning in kindergarten: applicability, validity and reliability	20
What do we mean by digital equality in education? Toward five conceptual lenses based on a systematic review	20
Examining how teachers define and integrate digital citizenship into core content area curriculum	19
The strength of a tigress: an examination of Latina first-generation college students’ tenacity during the rapid shift to remote learning	19
Using a comic book to engage students in a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum	19
Examining two different models for developing teachers new to computer science: lessons from a CS4All district	18
Causes and consequences of stereotypes: interest stereotypes reduce adolescent girls’ motivation to enroll in computer science classes	18
Do individual characteristics affect online learning behaviors? An analysis of learners sequential patterns	16
The development and validation of a teacher education digital literacy and digital pedagogy evaluation	16
A systematic literature review of usability definitions and psychometric properties of instruments in the field of learning design and technology	16
Past, present, and future directions of learning analytics research for students with disabilities	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
What does it mean to “Engage” for learning on social media?: an analysis of global read aloud Twitter participation	16
Enhancing learning and attitude toward statistics with a microlearning approach using an animated video	16
Effects of goal achievement motivation on K-12 students’ resilience in STEAM activities: the mediating role of in-school social supports	16
Assessing EFL learners’ attitudes on Generative Artificial Intelligence: Development and validation of Generative Artificial Intelligence attitude scale for EFL learners (GenAIAS)	15
An investigation of the mathematics applications in the Apple App Store: Do they contain benchmarks of educational quality?	14
Affinity and anonymity benefitting early career teachers in the r/teachers subreddit	14
Using avatar rehearsals to practice eliciting student thinking with preservice teachers	14
Developing students’ self-regulated learning strategies to facilitate vocabulary development in a digital game-based learning environment	13
Evaluating the role of professional development on elementary teachers’ knowledge, comfort, and beliefs related to teaching computer science to students with high-incidence disabilities	13
Students’ experiences with and perceptions of distance learning through learner-generated comics	13
Dynamic visualization by GeoGebra for mathematics learning: a meta-analysis of 20 years of research	13
Implementing and sustaining coding and robotics practices in rural elementary school districts: an activity theory perspective	12
Engaging students via synchronous peer feedback in a technology-enhanced learning environment	11
Effectiveness of blended learning on students’ learning performance: a meta-analysis	11
Initial discussions of ChatGPT in education-related subreddits	11
Computer science for English learners: supporting teacher learning and improved practice to engage multilinguals in AP computer science principles	10
Promoting intracultural understanding and language proficiency through video creation: a schema activation perspective	10
What is the degree of teacher centrality in optimal teaching of digital literacy in a technology-enhanced environment? Typology of teacher prototypes	10
Developing a validated assessment of artificial intelligence literacy for Chinese university students based on educational objectives taxonomy	10
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	9
The art of blending: a systematic literature review of blended teaching competencies in higher education	9
Classroom interaction geography: visualizing space & time in classroom interaction	9
Facilitating content knowledge, language proficiency, and academic competence through digital storytelling: Performance and perceptions of first-year medical-related majors	9
Artificial intelligence policies in K-12 school districts in the United States: a content analysis shaping education policy	9
Exploring learning outcomes and psycho-emotional experiences of undergraduate students in digital literacy training and support using Web-based assessment platforms	9
Supporting multilingual learners’ science learning from the multimodal perspective: the case of a VR-Enhanced science unit	9
Bridging cultures and computing: Exploring the relationship between Appalachian problem solving and computational thinking	9