A Content Analysis of the Problem-Themed Articles Published in Turkey

In this research, problem theme articles on education in Turkey were investigated in terms of the field, subject, study group/sampling, applied method, data collection tools, analysis techniques, and publishing language. Within the scope of the research designed based on the descriptive content analysis, 362 studies which were published until 2018 were analyzed. At the end of the analyses, it was determined that the number of problem-based studies has increased, mostly in the field of mathematics and even in the topic of problem solving. Mainly the case study and the experimental method was used, and most studied group was university first-class level and secondary school seventh class students. Most applied data collection tool was the achievement tests and the descriptive analysis technique was the most preferred data analysis technique. Most of the studies were chosen from those, which were published in Turkish.