Examining the trend of research on active engagement in science education: Bibliometric analysis

Authors

  • Haryati Kamarrudin UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4044-3178
  • Othman Talib UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA
  • Ainul Azmin Md Zamin International Islamic University Malaysia

Keywords:

Active engagement, science education, Bibliometric analysis

Abstract

In the field of educational psychology, active engagement is one of the instructional approach research topics. Research shows that various benefits occur when students are actively engaged in their own learning, including increased motivation and higher order thinking skills. The growing interest in promoting students' active engagement in science education has gained increased attention for its role in determining science majors and career choices. Based on the benefits of active engagement in science education, many research studies have been conducted on this topic. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse and reports published documents related to active engagement from the Scopus database. As of April 24th, 2021, a total of 1174 documents are retrieved and analysed. This article summarises the research productivity, most active source title, distribution of publications by countries, most active institutions, most productive authors, and citation analyses using established bibliometric indicators. The results show an increased growth rate of literature on active engagement in science education from 2016 to 2020. Numerous studies on active engagement in science education have been conducted with the collaboration of multiple authors, published in various journals, by a total of 168 authors from 90 different countries and 167 institutions.

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Author Biography

Othman Talib, UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Educational Studies,

University Putra Malaysia.

 

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Published

2022-10-01

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