The Subject Areas of Post-graduate Theses Completed at Educational Sciences Between 2000-2008

AbstractThe purpose of this research is to investigate the topics of problems in post-graduate theses completed at the Institutes of Educational Sciences in Turkey. This is a qualitative research where documentary analysis was applied. The population of research involves master's theses and dissertations completed at the Institutes of Educational Sciences at the state universi ties in Turkey between 2000-2008; the sample of research consists of 666 master's theses and 186 dissertations selected via stratified sampling. In this research which content analysis was applied, post-graduate theses were mostly carried out at “primary school” level, the data were mostly gathered from “students”. At both levels, the target topic dealt with most was “student”. In master's theses, most frequently “opinions” were obtained; in dissertations, “academic achievement” was the most popular variable. At both levels, it was found out that survey research was more prefered than experimental research