Writing a Literature Review: Activities on Research in Mathematics Education to Support Students in Conducting Research

Abstract

Literature review as a crucial requirement in planning a mathematics education research project has received attention in the lecturing of mathematics education research methods in higher education environments. However, the students' ability to write literature reviews that require skills in managing and analyzing previous relevant research to students' research requires special attention. This paper aims to represent the significant activities in supporting students' ability to collect, structure, summarize research finding, and write literature reviews that are relevant to students' research. Initial data of 15 students' writing literature review ability was analyzed. Design research comprised the preliminary design, teaching experiment, and retrospective analysis was applied. The outcome of the research presents that students can produce scientific articles through the developed activities of writing literature reviews.