Technology Use in Primary School Science Education: Bibliometric and Descriptive Analysis

Year 2025, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 504 - 526, 30.08.2025

Jale Kalemkuş

https://doi.org/10.30900/kafkasegt.1632067

Abstract

In this study, it was intended to reveal the general trend of the research on the use of technology in primary school science education in the last 25 years (2000-2024). For this purpose, bibliometric analysis of the data of 115 studies from the Web of Science (WoS) database using the developed parameter was carried out in the VOSviewer program, and descriptive analysis of 107 studies whose full texts were accessed was performed using Excel. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the number of studies on the related topic has increased in recent years. The most frequently used keywords in these studies were “science education”, “augmented reality”, “primary school” and “science learning”. It was also found that Taiwan, People R China and USA were the most productive countries and Hwang, Gwo-Jen, Chen, Chih-Hung and Tsai, Chin-Chung were the most influential authors in this field. It was determined that the most frequently used technologies in these studies were “multimedia technologies”, “technology-supported teaching” and “augmented reality” and “success/learning”, “opinion/experience” and “motivation” were the most frequently examined variables. These results provided a detailed examination of the use of technology in primary school science teaching.

Keywords

Elementary education , augmented and virtual reality , media in education , mobile learning , simulations

Ethical Statement

In this study, we declare that the rules stated in the "Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive" are complied with and that we do not take any of the actions based on "Actions Against Scientific Research and Publication Ethics". At the same time, we declare that there is no conflict of interest between the authors, which all authors contribute to the study, and that all the responsibility belongs to the article authors in case of all ethical violations.

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