Abstract
CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES AND THESES ON TURKISH LESSON CURRICULUM PUBLISHED BETWEEN THE YEARS OF 2000-2016
This study aims to analyze the methodological parts of articles and theses published between the years of 2000-2016 within the field of Turkish Lesson curriculum in Turkey. For this purpose, articles and thesises were analyzed in terms of their publishing year ranges, number of authors, methods, data collection procedures, sample characteristics, number of references, data analysis techniques and study purposes. A total of 25 articles attained by surveying the journals between 2000-2016 in ULAKBIM Database and 35 theses by analyzing the Higher Education Council (YÖK) National Theses Center by employing document content analysis. As the results, it has been determined that there has been a rise in the number of the studies in the field of Turkish curriculum in 2005 and 2012; the articles have been written by a few authors; the qualitative studies have been preferred; data has been collected through document analyses and likert type scales / questionnaires; collected data has been analyzed by qualitative or predictive statistical techniques. It has been determined that some of the studies that have been analyzed lack the exact data concerning the information about method section of the documents employed in the study.
Keywords
Turkish curriculum, content analysis, thesis, articles.