Türkiye’de Uzamsal Yeteneğe ilişkin Araştırma Eğilimleri

Abstract

In this research, it was aimed to determine the research tendencies towards spatial ability between 1996-2020 in Turkey. Accordingly, 88 theses were examined. The study was designed with document review which is one of the qualitative research methods. The theses were determined with criterion sampling. Content analysis was used in the analysis. It was determined that the number of master's theses conducted on spatial ability were more than the doctoral theses, the highest number of master's theses were written in 2016 and 2018 and the highest number of doctoral theses were written in 2012, 2017 and 2019, the advisors of doctoral theses were mostly professors and the advisors of master's theses were mostly assıstant professor, the highest number of these were conducted in Middle East Technical and Marmara University, and the institutions were Education and Science institutions, and the departments were Elementary, the most intended purpose were "effects on the spatial ability of the different applications", the most used research method was quantitative and mixed research, the most preferred research design was experimental design, the most studied group was middle-school students, simple random sampling method was used, sample size of 1-50 people was preferred, the most preferred data collection tool was tests, and the most preferred data analysis technique was descriptive statistics.