Hot Topics and Trends in Research on PAD Class in China—Visual Analysis Based on CNKI Core Journals

Abstract

As a localized and innovative teaching mode, PAD Class successfully integrates the advantages of lecture-based and discussion-based teaching modes. This mode fully embodies the educational concept of "taking students as the main body and teachers as the leading factor". It can significantly stimulate students’ autonomy and creativity, and then improve teaching efficiency and teaching quality. In this study, the core journals related to "PAD Class" included in CNKI were analyzed based on CiteSpace by using bibliometric methods. Visual analysis is carried out from the dimensions of research volume, research authors, research institutions and research hotspots. It is concluded that the number of core journals published in the class is a convex parabola; More than half of them rely on various fund projects and are supported by national policies, and their research has a certain depth and breadth; The research shows the development trend of group cooperation, multi-person participation and team inheritance; It integrates students' thinking accomplishment, professional accomplishment and ideological and political education, and is developing towards diversification. Through the analysis, it is expected to provide valuable reference for the follow-up study. Promote the further development of the innovative teaching mode of split class.