The role of STEM Education in improving the quality of education: a bibliometric study

Seyedh Mahboobeh Jamali (1) , Nader Ale Ebrahim , Fatemeh Jamali (2)

1 Eshragh Institute, Ministry of Education district 7, Tehran, Iran
2 Islamic Azad University

The United Nations (UN) has launched several initiatives to promote the role of education in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and set Goal 4 for quality education among other SDGs. The integrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) approach is a promising educational framework for sustainable development that improves education quality. In this study, a bibliometric analysis was conducted to evaluate the scientific results of the role of integrated STEM education specifically in improving the quality of education (SDG 4). A hundred and fifty publications, with an increasing trend in the number of documents each year, out of the total number of 74,879 documents related to "education quality" and 5,430 documents related to "STEM education" were chosen from the SCOPUS database. The study analyzes the growth and development of research activities in the area of "STEM education" and "Quality education" as reflected in the publications output in the time span of 27 years from 1993 to 2020. The publication

Mots clés: Sustainable development; Quality of education; STEM education; Computing education; Early childhood education

Domaines: Physique [physics]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Seyedh Mahboobeh Jamali, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Fatemeh Jamali. The role of STEM Education in improving the quality of education: a bibliometric study. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022, 32 (3), pp.1-22. ⟨10.1007/s10798-022-09762-1⟩. ⟨hal-03752150⟩