General trends in master and doctorate thesis in the area of computer education and ınstructional technologies in Turkey

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In this study, between 2010-2014, the general trend of master’s and  doctoral theses in Computer Education and Instructional Technology and 1999-2010 years was to evaluate the situation based on changes between. The sample of the study are obtained from national thesis center at YOK website allowed 119 master's and doctoral theses. For this purpose, the subject of dissertation research and content analysis, methodology, research design, work environment, sample size, data collection and statistical analysis of questionnaires were examined. According to the obtained results, the most studied topics; student outcomes, method; experimental design of qualitative research methods, the working environment; CEIT undergraduate students, 31-100 participants, as data collection and inventory surveys as t-test was used for statistical analysis. Compared with the thesis published between the years 1999-2010; the work is not done or poorly done work on many issues, the working environment as it is to pursue university students from secondary education. It was found that increase using log for data collection and decrease using attitude scale.

Keywords: educational technology, ınstructional technology, computer and ınstructional technology education, master's and doctoral theses, research trends

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