Conference paper 2025

A Five-Year Trajectory of STEM Education Research in Indonesia: A Systematic Literature Review

AIP Conference Proceedings
Conference · Vol. 3281 · Issue 1 · Art. 020013
Abstract

STEM education is a learning approach developed to equip students with integrated knowledge in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This teaching method has many positive impacts on both students and teachers. Therefore, Indonesia, which has adopted a curriculum "Merdeka" emphasizing educational freedom, has begun to embrace this teaching method in its schools. This study proposes understanding the development of STEM research in Indonesia over the past five years, from 2018 to 2022. The systematic literature review approach was used as the methodology for this study and focused on Scopus-indexed articles. The research findings are based on the following: the number of studies over the five years has been fluctuating; the majority of articles were published in international conferences; Malaysia dominates as the collaborating country; the level of education where research implementation is dominant in high school; and the active STEM learning activities are primarily related to physics. From this study, it can be concluded that further development of STEM education research in Indonesia is possible and a high opportunity. © 2025 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.

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National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliou, Yunlin, Taiwan
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
STEMid School and Training Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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