Trends of Studies Published in The field of Educational Toys and Games Research: Content Analysis

The aim of this study is to analyze the educational toys and educational games of thesises published by researchers in Turkey in terms of content and methodological aspects and to reveal the findings of research from different angles For this aim, the thesises published in Y？K National Thesis Center during the years 1997-2017 were reviewed in accordance with criteria of inclusion of the research (game-toy-educational play) and a total of 112 theses were included in this study. In the current study, success test, personal information form and various scale types were mostly used for data collection. For the analysis of data it was found that descriptive analysis were made more commonly and ANOVA/ANCOVA and t-test analysis were also used in the studies intensively