Abstract:

In this study which aims to determine the general trends of the applied articles related to educational use of the ARCS motivational model, content analysis method was used. In this study, 128 applied articles in journals indexed in Web of Science, ERIC, SCOPUS, ULAKBIM and Google Scholar were examined and classified by electronic form. The studies analyzed with Google Forms and Microsoft Excel. It is determined that the majority of the articles in the study were obtained from the journals indexed in Web of Science; the largest number of publications were published in the year 2018; most articles are published in Computers & Education; the most studied subject area is computer assisted/web based training; the most used method is quantitative method; the most common data collection tool is the motivation questionnaire; the most used sample group is university students; and the most commonly used data analysis technique is the t test.