INVESTIGATION OF GRADUATE THESES ABOUT THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION IN TURKEY

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the trend of the master and doctoral theses in Turkey about digital technology use in science education. The study adopted document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods. The theses were examined by considering 18 theses between 2005-2019 that were open-access on the National Thesis Center of the Turkish Higher Education Institution. The theses were investigated according to their distribution by year, type, universities, researcher gender, advisors’ title, research method, data collection sample and tools. The obtained data were presented in frequencies and percentages and shown in tables. The study results showed that secondary school students were mostly chosen as the data collection sample in the theses, the mixed method was used the most accepted as the research method, and the use of scale with test was seen to be used more in data collection technique