RESEARCH TRENDS IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN TURKEY BETWEEN 2014 AND 2016

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The purpose of this study is to find out research trends in the field of “Curriculum and Instruction” in Turkey by exploring the articles that were published between 2014 and 2016. For the purpose, articles were evaluated in terms of their number of authors, methods, data collection procedures, sample characteristics, data analysis techniques, subject areas and their topics. The articles were explored by investigating the documents within the framework of descriptive approach and research trends in the field of CI were attempted to be described.  In the study, 24 journals that are published in the field of CI, which are all included in the ULAKBIM Database, were covered in the study. According to results it was determined that the majority of the articles were written either by a single author or two authors, used quantitative research method, descriptive studies, used questionnaires and likert type scale, studied with graduate students and used t-test and variance analysis.