CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT RELATED STUDIES DURING: 2000 – 2019

Year 2021, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 12 - 21, 31.08.2021

Reem Jawabreh Nüket Gündüz

Abstract

This study purposes to perform a content analysis to define the general framework of studies related to curriculum development. For this reason, 100 articles were studied between 2000 to 2010 related to curriculum development in terms of journals, the year of publication, countries, aims, development mechanism, methodology. The qualitative approach was used to analyze and describe data through frequency and percentage. The findings indicated that strategies and methods of teaching and needs assessment, implementation, and evaluation are the topics that discussed in studies frequently, the most studies related to curriculum were noticed to have been that discussed between 2015 to 2019, and it was revealed the order of countries which concern to curriculum, the qualitative research approach was most utilized in studies. Future studies should concentrate on curriculum development.

Keywords

curriculum;, curriculum devolopment;, content analysis;

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