Lin Tzu-Chiang, Tang Kai-Yu, Lin Shu-Sheng, Changlai Miao-Li, Hsu Ying-Shao
Center for Liberal Arts, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Center for Teacher Education, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 18;13:844425. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.844425. eCollection 2022.
This study aims to identify research trends of scaffolding in the field of science education. To this end, both descriptive analysis and co-word analysis were conducted to examine the selected articles published in the Social Science Citation Index journals from 2000 to 2019. A total of 637 papers were retrieved as research samples through rounds of searching in Web of Science database. Overall, this study reveals a growing trend of science educators' academic publications about scaffolding in the recent two decades. In these sample papers, from 1,487 non-repeated keywords, we extracted 286 author-defined keywords shared by at least two studies as a benchmark dictionary. A series of co-word analyses were then conducted based on the dictionary to reveal the underlying co-occurring relationships of the words in title and abstract of the sample papers. Results showed that "scaffolding," "support," and "design" were the top three most frequently used keywords during 2000 and 2019. Visualization of co-word networks in each 5-year period further helps clarify both educators' common research foci and relevant research trends. Derived discussion and potential research directions are also provided.
本研究旨在确定科学教育领域中支架教学法的研究趋势。为此，进行了描述性分析和共词分析，以审视2000年至2019年发表在社会科学引文索引期刊上的所选文章。通过在科学网数据库中进行多轮检索，共检索到637篇论文作为研究样本。总体而言，本研究揭示了近二十年来科学教育工作者关于支架教学法的学术出版物呈增长趋势。在这些样本论文中，从1487个非重复关键词中，我们提取了至少两项研究共有的286个作者定义关键词作为基准词典。然后基于该词典进行了一系列共词分析，以揭示样本论文标题和摘要中词汇的潜在共现关系。结果显示，“支架教学法”“支持”和“设计”是2000年至2019年期间使用频率最高的前三个关键词。对每五年期间共词网络的可视化进一步有助于阐明教育工作者的共同研究重点和相关研究趋势。同时还提供了衍生讨论和潜在的研究方向。
