Author :
Abstract
Keywords
Abstract
In this day and age, the scientific journals are the indispensable elements of the academic world. Just as in other fields, new browsing tools and electronic databases that provide access to up-to-date knowledge and researches increased the swiftness of receiving information and the trustworthiness of the information received in music education. These databases are essential for propounding, structuring, and initiating new research ideas in the field of music education. Herein, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) confronts us as an outstanding database for music education as well as other educational disciplines. This study, whose subject is tendencies of ERIC indexed music education publications, is a qualitative research. A type of qualitative researches, document analysis technique was used in this study. The population of this research consists of music education publications searched in the ERIC database, and the sample consists of 176 ERIC indexed music education publications made in Turkey. The sample group in this study was determined by one of the non-random sampling techniques, the purposeful sampling method. As the result of the study, it is determined that usually the studies that are; few-authored, made with single-method, constructed with data collected through survey and scale, made with the sample groups selected with regards to availability, made with relatively easier statistical techniques, conducted preferring some specific sub-areas of music education, and made intending to satisfy the requirements of academic promotion instead of as creating peculiar studies are found to be outnumbering.
Keywords
- Alper, A. & Gülbahar, Y. (2009). Trends and issues in educational technologies: A review of recent research in TOJET. The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 8(2), 124-135.
- Arık, R. S. & Türkmen, M. (2009, May). Examination of articles in scientific journals published in the field of educational sciences. In I. Turkey First International Congress of Educational Research, Çanakkale.
- Asan, A. (2017). International journal indexes, importance, and status of Turkey journals: Part 1: scientific journal indexes. Acta Medica, 1(1), 33-42.
- Atılgan, D. (2005). Remarks on the importance of national indexes and citation systems in information organization. Osman Horata (Ed.), Periodicals and Information Technologies Symposium in Social Sciences, Ankara, (pp. 36-43). Ankara: Yeni Avrasya Yayınları.
- Bush, T. & Crawford, M. (2012). Mapping the field over 40 years: A historical review. Educational Management Administration and Leadership. 40 (5), 537-543.
- Büyüköztürk, Ş., Kılıç Çakmak, E., Akgün, O. E., Karadeniz, Ş. & Demirel, F. (2016). Bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri. (22. Edition). Ankara: Pegem Akademi.
- Creswell, J. W. (2017). Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methots approaches. (3. Edition). Ankara: Eğiten Kitap.
- Çubukçu, Z., Yılmaz, B. Y. & İnci, T. (2016). Determination of comparative curriculum research trends -a content analysis. International Journal of Turkish Literature Culture Education, 5(1), 446-468.
- Doğan, C. D. & Demir, E. (2017). Examination of academic articles published in the educational science field in Turkey regarding the number of citations and h index. The Journal of Academic Social Science, 5(60), 110-123.
- Erdem, D. (2011). Examining some of the features in terms of science education articles from the journals published between 2005-2006 in Turkey: A descriptive analysis. Journal of Measurement and Evaluation in Education and Psychology, 2(1), 140-147.
- Erdoğan, M., Marcinkowski, T. & Ok, A. (2009). Content analysis of selected features of k‐8 environmental education research studies in Turkey, 1997-2007. Environmental Education Research, 15(5), 525-548.
- Göktaş, Y., Küçük, S., Aydemir, M., Telli, E., Arpacık, O., Yıldırım, G. & Reisoğlu, İ. (2012). Educational technology research trends in Turkey: A content analysis of the 2000-2009 decade. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 12, 443-460.
- Grzybowski, A. (2009). The journal impact factor: how to interpret its true value and importance. Medical Science Monitor, 15(2), SR1-SR4.
- Gürbüz, S. & Şahin, F. (2016). Sosyal bilimlerde araştırma yöntemleri. (3. Education). Ankara: Seçkin Yayıncılık.
- Head of Inter-University Council (2016). Associate Professorship Application Requirements, retrieved November 2020, from https://www.uak.gov.tr/?q=node/68
- Hertzberg, S., & Rudner, L. (1999). Quality of researchers' searches of the ERIC database. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 7, 25.
- Kaptan, S. (1998). Bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri ve istatistik yöntemleri. Ankara. Tekışık Ofset.
- Kardeş, B. & Parasız, G. (2020). An overview of the field studies of teaching staff at music education departments in Turkey. Kastamonu Education Journal, 28(3), 1268-1280.
- Kemiksiz, O. (2017). Evaluation of articles on listening skills. International Journal of Languages’ Education and Teaching, 5(1). 511-531.
- Kerman, J. (2009). Contemplating music: Challenges to musicology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Kurt, A. & Erdogan, M. (2015). Content analysis and trends of curriculum evaluation research: 2004-2013. Education and Science, 40(178), 199-224.
- Lorenzo, O., Herrera-Torres, L. & Hernández-Candelas, M. (2007). Scientific production in music education at the international level: an analysis of the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database. Research Perspectives in Music Education, 11(1), 12-21.
- National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE), retrieved November 2020, from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/projects/eric.asp
- Ozan, C. & Köse, E. (2014). Research trends in curriculum and instruction. Sakarya University Journal of Education, 4(1), 116-136.
- Rudner, L. (2001). How many people search the ERIC database each day? (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED458292).
- Seçer, I., Ay, I. Ozan, C. & Yılmaz, B.Y. (2014). Research trends in the field of guidance and psychological counseling: a content analysis. Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Journal, 5(41), 49-60.
- Seyidoğlu, H. (1995). Bilimsel araştırma ve yazma el kitabı (6. Edition). Ankara: Güzem Yayınları.
- Sönmez, V. & Alacapınar, F. G. (2014). Örneklendirilmiş bilimsel araştırma yöntemleri. (3. Edition). Ankara: Anı Yayıncılık.
- Sözbilir, M. & Kutu, H. (2008). Development and current status of science education research in Turkey. Essays in Education, 24(1), 3.
- Tavşancıl, E. & Aslan, E. (2001). İçerik analizi ve uygulama örnekleri. İstanbul: Epsilon Yayınları.
- Tok, M. & Potur, Ö. (2015) Trends of the academic studies in writing education area (2010 –2014 years). Journal of Mother Tongue Education, 3(4), 1-25.
- Ulutaş, F. & Ubuz, B. (2008). Research and trends in mathematics education: 2000 to 2006. Elementary Education Online, 7(3), 614-626.
- Varışoğlu, B., Şahin, A. & Göktaş, Y. (2013). Trends in Turkish education studies. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 13(3), 1776-1781.
- Verburgh, A., Elen, J. & Lindblom-Ylänne, S. (2007). Investigating the myth of the relationship between teaching and research in higher education: A review of empirical research. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 26(5), 449-465.
- Yener, S. (2018). The role of theory in social sciences. Social Sciences Research Journal, 7(3), 102-113.
- Yıldız, D. (2016). Examination of articles published in ınternational language journals in terms of object/subject and method. Gazi University Journal of Gazi Educational Faculty, 36(2): 399-425.
- Yun-Fang Tu & Gwo-Jen Hwang (2020). Trends and research issues of mobile learning studies in hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism education: a review of academic publications from 2002 to 2017. Interactive Learning Environments, 28(4), 385-403.
