Bibliometric Analysis of Educational Policy and Evaluation Research Trends

Abstract

Education is a fundamental factor in nation-building to form people who can compete globally. Various countries have made educational policies to improve the quality of education. Reviewing the effectiveness of education policies needs to be carried out through evaluation activities. This research aims to analyze and examine trends in evaluation research and education policy from 2014 to 2023 to benefit educational institutions. This research uses the bibliometrics analysis method with the help of the Vosviewer platform to visualize data that has been successfully obtained from the Scopus database. The results of this research show that there are 1227 publications, with the country that contributed the most being the United States, with 337 publications, and the affiliate that contributed the most was the University of Edinburgh. Based on the analysis results, keyword co-occurrences were also obtained, namely in the form of network visualization and density visualization. In the network visualization, 108 keywords related to education evaluation and policy were obtained, and then in the density visualization, it was also discovered that based on the dark color, these were keywords that had yet to be carried out. These keywords are sex education, bilingual education, teaching quality, academic achievement, educational equity, higher education policies, adult education, vocational education, teacher education policy, and primary education. Based on these keywords, it can be a research opportunity in the future to study educational evaluations and policies related to these keywords.