Cenk Akay is a Faculty Member at Mersin University, Turkey. Cenk Akay received his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Mersin University. Dr Cenk Akay is a programme developer and instructional methods expert whose main research interests lie in the fields of curriculum development, meta research in education, science education, instructional processes and technologies, EU funded educational programmes projects. He has published many articles and wrote parts in four books on these subjects. Some of his research published in SSCI journals are:
• Akay, C. (2018). Digital drama versus digital story: Do they really matter on pre-service EFL teachers’ attitudes on ınstructional technologies and material developing skills. Croatian Journal of Education: Hrvatski časopis za odgoj i obrazovanje, 20(2), 431-462. https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v20i2.2636
• Kanadlı, S., & Akay, C. (2019). An investigation of the Schommers' epistemological beliefs model in terms of gender and academic success: A meta-analysis. Education and Science, 44(198), 389-411. http://dx.doi.org/10.15390/EB.2019.7992
• Karatepe, R., & Akay, C. (2020). The study of the relationship between 21st-century learner skills, individual innovativeness and epistemological beliefs of teacher candidates by structural equation modelling, South African Journal of Education, 40(2), 1-15.
• Gülle A., Akay, C., & Uzun B. (2021). Zoltán Kodály gives a hand to secondary school students in recorder performance and attitudes toward music in Turkey, International Journal of Music Education, (Online First), https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02557614211005904