The authors selected the Delphi method to develop a rank-ordered list of topics that would be
of substance and which researchers in the international community might wish to further
explore individually or in collaboration with their colleagues and students. The international
participants who served as panelists are recognized as leading professionals by their peers within the technology education school subject area (technology education, design and
technology education, technology and engineering education, etc.). The authors posed two
questions to the panelists and charged each of them with (a) identifying the most important
issue related to each question and (b) providing brief descriptions of each issue. In the end, 17
issues were identified and the top 10 were rank-ordered for Research Question No. 1 and eight
issues for Research Question No. 2 were identified. Obviously, it is unknown whether a
different set of international panelists would have generated a different list of issues. The final
rank-ordered list, however, does provide food for thought for future international researchers
and graduate advisors of aspiring graduate research students who have as one of their goals to
establish a better knowledge-base for the technology education school subject.