Abstract
STEM education has become important in many countries around the world. STEM education can begin while students are very young. However, earlier research has shown that one of the most important factors influencing the decision on scientific research selection is the middle school science classes. In this research, we extract database from Scopus to evaluate the scientific results of publications in the field of STEM education in middle school in the period 2000–2020. A data set of 272 academic papers was indexed to monitor the development of this field by Scopus. The results of the quantitative analysis showed that researches on STEM education in middle schools have boomed in the last 5 years, mainly in the USA. The trend of research collaboration in the field of STEM education in middle schools is not strong. The research topics are quite diverse, focusing on a number of issues: gender, engineering education, curriculum, etc. This study has some limitations, including that only data from the Scopus database were selected and manually filtered, so our analyses totally depended on the quality of the input information imported from the Scopus database.
Highlights
In the 21st century, the change of human life has been accompanied by the evolution of technology
STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to the learning process, in which principled academic concepts are integrated with real-world lessons, where students apply knowledge and skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to specific contexts, making connections between schools, communities, workplaces and global institutions, which is conveyed and connects students on the basis of learning through practice and oriented to solving practical problems [2,3,4]
In the study design stage, the main research question was: What was the bibliometric of publications in STEM Education in Middle School, indexed in the Scopus database for the 2000–2020 period? Data collection stage is divided into three sub-stages: Data collection, data filtering and data cleaning
Summary
In the 21st century, the change of human life has been accompanied by the evolution of technology. Scientific inquiry, scientific practices and engineering practices are required to encourage students to be a citizen who can adapt to face new conditions and problems [1]. STEM education is an interdisciplinary approach to the learning process, in which principled academic concepts are integrated with real-world lessons, where students apply knowledge and skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics to specific contexts, making connections between schools, communities, workplaces and global institutions, which is conveyed and connects students on the basis of learning through practice and oriented to solving practical problems [2,3,4]. STEM education has become important in many countries around the world, and has come to be the concern of many policy makers. A lot of discussion on STEM is provided with claims of shortage of highly skilled labour [5]
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