Descriptive Analysis of Researches on Curriculum Development in Education

Abstract

Descriptive analysis of the studies using the curriculum as a descriptive and published at the Curriculum Inquiry journal is conducted in this study. Results revealed that literature review is the preferred method, document analysis is the preferred data collection tool, purposeful sampling is the preferred sampling method, qualitative research is the most used research, and elementary education is the most investigated level in the studies. Future research should concentrate on other respective journals to reach the broad understanding of the studies conducted in the Curriculum and Instruction.

Research Methods: Issues and Research Direction

“…Alias et al (2013) have investigated, via content analysis method of data collection, research methods trends of journals with regard topics investigated, research contexts or settings, sampling methods used, research designs employed, and data analysis methods utilized, among others. In a research work undertaken by Akdemir et al (2015) regarding curriculum development in education, results indicated that document analysis was the preferred data collection technique; the preferred sampling method was purposeful sampling, while qualitative research method was preferred to quantitative research approach. Erdogan et al (2012) isolated, via content analysis approach, some concerns in the research methods used in some studies with regard to their research designs, samples used, data collection instruments employed, reliability and validity tests conducted, and data analysis methods used.…”

Cluster and Conjoint Analysis for Determining Online Shop Shopee Customers Preference Based on E-Service Quality

“…This type of research is quantitative with descriptive exposure, so that the research does not test between variables. Descriptive methods are used to examine the characteristics of variables that are of interest to certain situations [11]. Descriptive research is often carried out to describe the characteristics of interesting variables from a group of humans, for example gender, age, education level, occupation, and others.…”

Analysis of the Subjects and Reasons of Curriculum Studies

“…There has been an increase in research examining tendencies in curriculum studies recently (Akdemir, Karameşe and Arslan, 2015;Demirhan İşcan and Hazır Bıkmaz, 2012;Gömleksiz and Bozpolat, 2013;Hazır Bıkmaz, Aksoy, Tatar and Altınyüzük, 2013;Kozikoğlu and Senemoğlu, 2015;Ozan and Köse, 2014;Özkal, 2020;Schreglmann, 2016;Yeşilpınar Uyar, 2017). In this context, there has been research which studies postgraduate theses in Turkey and abroad in the field of Curriculum and Instruction and Curriculum Development (Demirhan İşcan and Hazır Bıkmaz, 2012); dissertations in the field of Curriculum and Instruction by determining a certain time period (Hazır Bıkmaz et al, 2013;Kozikoğlu and Senemoğlu, 2015;Özkal, 2020), dissertations and master's theses (Gömleksiz and Bozpolat, 2013); tendencies in the field of Curriculum and Instruction in terms of articles published domestically (Ozan and Köse, 2014); Curriculum Development research published in the Journal of Curriculum Inquiry (Akdemir, Karameşe and Arslan, 2015;Yeşilpınar Uyar, 2017) master's theses and dissertations in curriculum development (Schreglmann, 2016). It is understood that the research is limited in terms of detailed discussion on subjects and reasons of studies.…”

“…Alanyazın incelendiğinde, özellikle son yıllarda program araştırmalarındaki eğilimleri inceleyen çalışmalarda artış görülmektedir(Akdemir, Karameşe ve Arslan, 2015;Demirhan İşcan ve Hazır …”