The Analysis of the Graduate Theses Related to Values Educations

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to examine the graduate theses made for the education of values between the years 2011-2016 in Turkey. In the research conducted by adopting the qualitative research approach, 98 postgraduate theses registered in the Dissertation Center Database of Higher Education Council Publication and Documentation Department were examined. Data collected by document analysis (analysis) technique were analyzed by content analysis technique. The study was conducted in the year 2013 with the most number of graduate education theses and it was seen that the most number of graduate theses were prepared in Atatürk University and Necmettin Erbakan University. Doctoral theses are fewer than master's theses and most of the studies were conducted using qualitative research methods. In addition, it has been determined that most of the researches used in the thesis are using the analysis of the documents as the data collecting tool and the most researching as the sample-study group is carried out using the students, teachers and written sources.

Trends of Values Education Research in Turkey: A Content Analysis of Published Articles

“…When the literature on the subject was examined, it was observed that the doctoral dissertations in the field of values education in Turkey were similar to the results of the research and that there had been a noticeable increase in the number of doctoral dissertations since 2009 (Gündüz et al, 2017). It was understood that the most increase in master's theses occurred in 2013, and the number of theses decreased in the following years (Kurtdede-Fidan & Öner, 2018), in the Journal of Values Education most of the articles published in 2015 and the number of articles also decreased in the following years (Karagöz & Şeref, 2019), the highest number of proceedings on the subject in the International Social Studies Education Symposium were presented in 2017 (Metin & Yılmazer, 2019). When this result is evaluated, it is thought that the Ministry of National Education's emphasis on values education and the fact that the subject is directly involved in the education programs implemented since 2005 has been effective in the increase in the number of articles published.…”

“…Considering the research methods used in the articles examined within the scope of the study, it was seen that the studies conducted in the mixed design were the least preferred, in which the qualitative research method was most preferred by the researchers. There was a similar situation in both the post-graduate theses (Beldağ, 2016;Kurtdede-Fidan & Öner, 2018) and the proceedings presented at the International Symposium on Social Studies Education (Metin & Yılmazer, 2019) in Turkey. In the studies here, qualitative research was used the most and the mixed research method was used at least.…”

“…In this respect, it was seen that, following the nature of qualitative research, document analysis and interview were preferred most. Similarly, document analysis has been used mostly as a data collection tool in graduate theses (Adıgüzel & Ergünay, 2012;Baş & Beyhan, 2012;Kurtdede-Fidan & Öner, 2018) and articles published in the Journal of Values Education (Dündar & Hareket, 2016). However, in doctoral dissertations, unlike the results of the research, since they were mostly carried out in mixed method, the highest scales were used (Gündüz et al, 2017), and the most interviews were used in the proceedings presented at the International Social Studies Education Symposium (Metin & Yılmazer, 2019).…”

Trends of Graduate Theses with the Subject of Education and Training Conducted on Creativity

“…In their study, the researchers stated that graduate theses are almost one-third of the doctoral theses. In studies related to many different fields and topics in which thesis work is examined also, again, the excessiveness of graduate theses compared to doctoral theses is remarkable (Kurtdede-Fidan & Öner, 2018;Küçükoğlu & Ozan, 2013;Karadağ, 2014;Şahin, Göğebakan Yıldız & Duman, 2011;Akyol & Yavuzkurt, 2016). This situation can be explained by the fact that the number of graduate studies is higher than the number of graduate degree programs compared to the doctoral programs in the institutes in Turkey.…”

“…When literature is examined, it was observed that the graduate thesis studies in almost every field were examined by the field experts (Oruç & Ulusoy, 2008;Şahin, Göğebakan, Yıldız & Duman, 2011;Akyol & Yavuzkurt, 2016; Oğuz Haç at & Demir, 2019;Küçükoğlu & Ozan, 2013;Kurtdede-Fidan & Öner, 2018;Bahar & Kiras, 2017;Şimşek &Yaşar, 2019;Dikmenli, Öztürk Demirbaş &Yakar, 2018;Gür Erdoğan, Kaya Uyanık & Canan Güngören, 2018;Sönmez, 2017;Karadağ, 2014;Akkaşoğlu, Akyol, Ulama & Zengin, 2019;Şenyurt & Özer Özkan, 2017;Oruç & Erdoğan, 2018). Examination of scientific research on a subject can both provide information about the qualities of research on that subject and contribute to the study of the literature on that subject.…”