STEM Education in China: A Five Years Review Report

Recently, with the rapid development of STEM education, a large number of related studies have emerged. To understand the latest research status and trend of STEM education, the author used the literature analysis method to sort out and analyze the high-quality STEM education articles in recent five years, and the results show that: Domestic STEM education studies mainly focus on the following four aspects: STEM education concept, STEM education development path, STEM education design, and empirical research on STEM education, research on STEM education has gradually shifted from conceptual research to practical research, such as paying attention to STEM teachers’ development, curriculum design, teaching model construction, etc. The advantage of previous research is that scholars have constructed many models to promote the development of STEM education practice, which provides support for promoting the localization of STEM education in China, but the development path of STEM education proposed by predecessors lacks top-down specific practices, there is less research on STEM textbook development and evaluation model, the scope of STEM education empirical research is narrow, and the research perspective is not broad enough. The review and analysis of STEM education in the past five years, helps readers and researchers to understand the current situation and frontier development direction of STEM education, identify the hot spots and reform trends of STEM education research, and promote further development of STEM education. Draw some enlightenment from it: future research needs to further promote practices, give specific development paths and top-down reform strategies based on existing research; increase empirical research on STEM education, provide a basis for educators to carry out STEM education practice, and promote sustainable development of STEM education.