The evolution of scientific publications on Practicum and Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the scientific production and performance of the concepts "Practicum" and "Information and CommunicationTechnologies" (ICT) from 2000 to today through a bibliometric analysis. The study resorted to different processes to quantify, analyse, evaluate, and estimate the scientific output by means of specific software such as SciMAT, Analyze Results and Creation Citation Report. The concepts were run through 55 scientific publications dating from 2000 to 2022, extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) citation database. The findings suggest that the evolution of the study about Practicum and ICT is constant and continuous and has followed a stable trend. The results also highlight the research themes that are of greatest scientific interest throughout each of the decades, new methodologies being relevant in each of the timeframes analysed. Future works could build from this review to strengthen links between Practicum and ICT in enhancing quality teacher training.

Keywords: practicum, ICT, scientific production, bibliometric analysis, scientific mapping