Innovative Teaching Methods

Innovative Teaching Methods is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of the flipped classroom model, active learning, peer instruction, and classroom response systems on student engagement and performance in higher education. It discusses various teaching strategies and educational technologies to create an inclusive learning environment and improve learning outcomes.

Flipped Classroom
Active Learning
Peer Instruction
Student Engagement
Classroom Response Systems
Higher Education
Teaching Strategies
Student Performance
Educational Technology
Inclusive Learning Environment

Research works: 24k
In the world top 10%: 2.4k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +4%
Largest producer: United States

Innovative Teaching Methods

Which countries lead Innovative Teaching Methods research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.7k works
2 Indonesia 1.2k works
3 China 725 works
4 Türkiye 366 works
5 India 360 works
6 Malaysia 272 works
7 United Kingdom 208 works
8 Spain 162 works
9 Philippines 162 works
10 Germany 147 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States1,698 · 32.0%Indonesia1,201 · 22.7%China725 · 13.7%Türkiye366 · 6.9%6 others listed1,311 · 24.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Innovative Teaching Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Yogyakarta State University publishes the most Innovative Teaching Methods research, followed by State University of Padang and State University of Malang.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 74 works
2 State University of PadangIndonesia 61 works
3 State University of MalangIndonesia 57 works
4 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 52 works
5 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 46 works
6 State University of MedanIndonesia 44 works
7 State University of MakassarIndonesia 37 works
8 State University of JakartaIndonesia 35 works
9 State University of SemarangIndonesia 33 works
10 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Teaching Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovative Teaching Methods include Daniel J. Klionsky.

1 Daniel J. Klionsky United States 134k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Innovative Teaching Methods?

The most cited paper in Innovative Teaching Methods is "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics" (Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles J. McDonough et al., 2014), with 9,713 citations. Next come "Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses" (6,063) and "Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results" (2,682).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles J. McDonough et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	12 May 2014	9,713
2	Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses Richard R. Hake · American Journal of Physics	1998	6,063
3	Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results Catherine H. Crouch, Eric Mazur · American Journal of Physics	Sep 2001	2,682
4	The laboratory in science education: Foundations for the twenty‐first century Avi Hofstein, Vincent N. Lunetta · Science Education	3 Dec 2003	2,563
5	The Flipped Classroom: A Survey of the Research Jacob Bishop, Matthew A. Verleger Conference paperOpen access	3 Sep 2020	2,438

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Where is Innovative Teaching Methods research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Teaching Methods research in 2022-now are Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Bandung (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Butare.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 YogyakartaIndonesia 118 works
2 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 84 works
3 JakartaIndonesia 79 works
4 BandungIndonesia 78 works
5 AnkaraTürkiye 74 works
6 PadangIndonesia 69 works
7 MalangIndonesia 68 works
8 MedanIndonesia 65 works
9 SurabayaIndonesia 65 works
10 SemarangIndonesia 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

ButareRW · 21.2 works37×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovative Teaching Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovative Teaching Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Rwanda, Education University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	University of RwandaRwanda	67.1	23.1%	42.6×	21	+151.0%
2	Education University of Hong KongChina	65.3	29.3%	11.4×	11	+35.5%
3	University of Hong KongChina	57.8	40.0%	1.7×	10	-50.3%
4	University of GeorgiaUnited States	57.4	30.8%	4.0×	12	+24.0%
5	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	52.1	29.0%	2.6×	14	+31.8%
6	State University of PadangIndonesia	52.0	4.7%	8.6×	61	+22.6%
7	Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia	50.3	3.2%	19.6×	74	-1.0%
8	Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia	49.2	15.2%	4.2×	18	+66.3%
9	University of MalayaMalaysia	49.2	18.0%	3.9×	14	+61.2%
10	University of MataramIndonesia	48.0	9.7%	5.3×	29	+21.1%
11	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	47.0	14.5%	2.2×	13	+46.3%
12	National University of MalaysiaMalaysia	46.6	7.8%	6.1×	26	+10.2%
13	Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico	46.5	10.7%	9.1×	16	+23.8%
14	University of PittsburghUnited States	45.3	16.8%	3.2×	17	+6.0%
15	Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia	44.8	4.1%	19.3×	26	+51.2%
16	University of JohannesburgSouth Africa	44.8	21.0%	2.3×	10	+50.8%
17	State University of MedanIndonesia	44.5	0.6%	9.0×	44	+29.1%
18	University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia	43.9	2.9%	8.0×	25	+53.4%
19	Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia	43.6	2.7%	6.4×	32	+80.6%
20	Griffith UniversityAustralia	43.5	31.8%	2.9×	8	-7.2%
21	State University of MakassarIndonesia	43.4	3.1%	7.0×	37	+147.9%
22	State University of MalangIndonesia	43.3	5.3%	8.9×	57	-20.1%
23	King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia	43.2	19.4%	2.3×	8	+52.1%
24	Atatürk UniversityTürkiye	43.0	10.3%	5.3×	13	+23.5%
25	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	43.0	16.7%	2.0×	10	+1.5%
26	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway	42.8	15.1%	2.4×	9	+30.0%
27	University of California, IrvineUnited States	42.4	24.5%	3.0×	12	-14.2%
28	King Mongkut's Institute of Technology LadkrabangThailand	41.6	18.1%	9.7×	8	+212.3%
29	Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia	41.5	2.3%	9.2×	46	-5.2%
30	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States	41.2	15.6%	3.4×	22	-34.0%
31	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	40.6	8.3%	2.5×	20	+17.0%
32	Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia	40.6	12.7%	3.8×	13	+101.7%
33	Universidad de GranadaSpain	40.0	17.6%	2.3×	9	-35.0%
34	University of TorontoCanada	39.5	14.4%	1.1×	16	-5.5%
35	Gazi UniversityTürkiye	39.3	7.8%	5.5×	17	+39.8%
36	University of South AfricaSouth Africa	39.0	16.9%	3.4×	10	+121.3%
37	The University of MelbourneAustralia	38.5	16.1%	1.2×	9	+22.4%
38	Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia	38.1	1.8%	7.9×	52	-49.6%
39	All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia	38.1	10.7%	2.4×	17	+154.1%
40	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States	37.8	20.5%	2.9×	9	-43.0%
41	Universiti of Malaysia SabahMalaysia	35.2	3.4%	10.5×	14	+105.9%
42	State University of JakartaIndonesia	34.8	2.7%	10.0×	35	-24.1%
43	State University of SemarangIndonesia	33.5	4.6%	6.5×	33	-29.5%
44	Harvard UniversityUnited States	32.6	22.1%	0.4×	9	-35.3%
45	University of British ColumbiaCanada	29.3	5.2%	1.7×	13	-25.4%
46	Laguna State Polytechnic UniversityPhilippines	24.9	0.1%	33.4×	11	+122.0%
47	Sanata Dharma UniversityIndonesia	21.5	0.0%	10.5×	8	+35.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Innovative Teaching Methods, country by country

Is Innovative Teaching Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative Teaching Methods.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Innovative Teaching Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

Fractional works of Innovative Teaching Methods over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Innovative Teaching Methods research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Innovative Teaching Methods research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Teaching Methods?

What are the most cited papers in Innovative Teaching Methods?

Where is Innovative Teaching Methods research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Innovative Teaching Methods?

Is Innovative Teaching Methods research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion