Research Status and Hotspots of Pre-service Teachers' ICT in Education Competencies- Visualization Research Based on Citespace

Abstract

Focusing on "pre-service teacher" and "ICT" as the keywords, this paper adopts Citspace to visualize the knowledge map, and uses the Web of Science as the database to analyze the publishing situation and research hotspots of pre-service teachers' ICT in education competencies from 2002 to 2022. Through keyword co-occurrence network analysis, the paper finds that: Nanyang Technological University has a lot of research achievements in teachers' ICT in education competencies, and the journal of Computer and Education is cited the most. Furthermore, keywords clustering analysis was carried out on the research hotspots, and 10 hotspot issues related to pre-service teachers' ICT in education competencies were obtained, which were roughly divided into teacher education, the application of ICT in education, and the hot theories of informatization teaching.