An Analysis of Two Decades of Educational Technology Publications

204 Pages·2018·4.939 MB·English

by  Gloria Natividad, J. Michael Spector, Nicholas Evangelopoulos

Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
Gloria Natividad · J. Michael Spector 
Nicholas Evangelopoulos
An Analysis of
Two Decades
of Educational
Technology
Publications
Who, What and Where
Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
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Ronghuai Huang, Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University, Beijing,
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Criteria for Selecting the Ten Journals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Research Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Operational Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Historical Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Previous Studies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
A Series of Analyses on Educational Technology Journals . . . . . . . . . . 20
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2 The Ten Journals Selected for This Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET). . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Journal of the Learning Sciences (JLS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D). . . . . . . 30
Instructional Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
TechTrends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Educational Technology and Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Computers and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Journal of Educational Computing Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
JournalofResearchonTechnologyinEducation(JRTE)(2001–2014)
—FormerlyKnownasJournalofResearchonComputinginEducation
(1995–2001). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Educational Technology: The Magazine for Managers of Change in
Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3 How Was the Data Collected and Analyzed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
High-Level Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Extracted Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
High-Loading Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Factor Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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4 Research Questions and Their Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Research Question 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Research Question 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Research Question 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Research Question 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Research Question 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5 Research Topics and Trends in Educational Technology . . . . . . . . . 85
Research Question 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Recommendations for Further Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
6 Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Appendix A: British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).. .... 99
Appendix B: British Journal of Educational Technology
(BJET)—5 Top-Cited Articles .. .... .... .... ..... .... 103
Appendix C: Journal of the Learning Sciences.... .... .... ..... .... 109
Appendix D: Journal of the Learning Sciences—5
Top-Cited Articles.... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 113
Appendix E: Educational Technology Research and Development
(ETR&D).. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 119
Appendix F: Educational Technology Research and Development
(ETR&D)—5 Top-Cited Articles .... .... .... ..... .... 123
Appendix G: Instructional Science.. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 129
Appendix H: Instructional Science—5 Top-Cited Articles... ..... .... 131
Appendix I: TechTrends—5 Top-Cited Articles... .... .... ..... .... 137
Appendix J: Journal of Educational Technology
& Society .. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 143
Appendix K: Journal of Educational Technology
& Society—5 Top-Cited Articles.... .... .... ..... .... 145
Appendix L: Computers & Education... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 151
Appendix M: Computers & Education—5 Top-Cited Articles .... .... 159
Appendix N: Journal of Educational Computing Research.. ..... .... 165
Appendix O: Journal of Educational Computing
Research—5 Top-Cited Articles .... .... .... ..... .... 167
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Appendix P: Journal of Research on Technology in Education ... .... 173
Appendix Q: Journal of Research on Technology
in Education—5 Top-Cited Articles . .... .... ..... .... 175
Appendix R: Journal of Research on Computing in Education.... .... 181
Appendix S: Journal of Research on Computing
in Education—5 Top-Cited Articles.. .... .... ..... .... 183
Appendix T: List of the High-Loading Terms for the
3-Factor Solution..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 187
Appendix U: List of the High-Loading Terms for the
10-Factor Solution ... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 189
Appendix V: Wordmaps from the Titles and from the Abstracts.. .... 191
List of Figures
Fig. 3.1 A WordMap from the top 25 high-loading abstracts and a
WordMap from the top 25 high-loading titles for Factor 22.2,
which we labeled: Student Learning.... .... .... .... ..... .. 57
Fig. 4.1 The SJR (the SCImago Journal Rank) for the journals:
Computers and Education, Journal of the Learning Sciences,
EducationalTechnologyResearchandDevelopment,theBritish
Journal of Educational Technology Educational Technology
and Society, Instructional Science, Journal of Educational
Computer Research and TechTrends.... .... .... .... ..... .. 66
Fig. 5.1 Time series plots: percentage of all articles published
per year in the ten journals, for each of the 22 topics... ..... .. 87
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List of Tables
Table 1.1 Names of the ten journals selected to be analyzed in this
study and the total number of research papers published in
each one from 1995 to 2014 ... .... .... .... .... ..... .. 5
Table 1.2 Emerging technologies and the challenges to adopt them
(from the NMC Horizon Reports 2004–2014) .. .... ..... .. 12
Table 1.3 Informationreportedoneachoftheeightjournals(amongthe
tenselectedtobeanalyzedinthisstudy)aspartoftheseries
of analyses in educational technology: the magazine for
managers of change in education.... .... .... .... ..... .. 21
Table 1.4 Methodology, findings, and years covered on each of the
eight journals (among the ten selected to be analyzed in this
study) as part of the series of analyses in educational
technology .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .. 22
Table 2.1 British JournalofEducationalTechnology(BJET)Scientific
indicators . .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .. 26
Table 2.2 The ten most-cited articles published in the British
Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) .... .... ..... .. 27
Table 2.3 Journal of the Learning Sciences Scientific indicators ..... .. 29
Table 2.4 The Ten most-cited articles published in the Journal
of the Learning Sciences .. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .. 30
Table 2.5 Educational Technology Research and Development
Scientific indicators . ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .. 32
Table 2.6 The ten most-cited articles published in Educational
Technology Research and Development (ETR&D)... ..... .. 33
Table 2.7 Instructional Science Scientific indicators.. .... .... ..... .. 34
Table 2.8 Thetenmost-citedarticlespublishedinInstructionalScience
during the selected period of 20 years .... .... .... ..... .. 35
Table 2.9 TechTrends scientific indicators . .... .... .... .... ..... .. 37
Table 2.10 The ten most-cited articles published in TechTrends during
the 20 years ... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .. 38
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