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Trends and Research Issues of STEM Education: A Review of Academic Publications from 2007 to 2017

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, , Citation Paranee Chomphuphra et al 2019 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1340 012069 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/1340/1/012069

1742-6596/1340/1/012069

Abstract

STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic) research has been become more attractive area in science education for a decade. This study was aim to analyze research articles in a SCOPUS database and two journals which were not indexed in SCOPUS including Journal of STEM Teacher Education, and International Journal of STEM Education. The research articles during 2007 to 2017 were reviewed and analyzed according to the authors' nationality, journals, STEM research topics. The research findings indicated that there were 56 published papers related to providing STEM learning activities in school setting, top three countries which published STEM papers over the decades were United States (46), Australia (2), Canada (2). Besides, the journal with the greatest number of published papers was Journal of STEM Teacher Education, with a total of 16 papers, and the second is International Journal of STEM education. The three popular topics which published in STEM papers were innovation for STEM learning, professional development and gender gap and Career in STEM, respectively.

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10.1088/1742-6596/1340/1/012069