Türkiye’de “Eleştirel Okuma” Konusunda Yapılan Lisansüstü Tezlerin İncelenmesi

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the postgraduate theses in education sciences about critical reading in Turkey according to various parameters. The document analysis method, a qualitative research procedure, was employed to examine the theses in the corpus, which was derived from the archive of the Council of Higher Education by using the keyword "Critical Reading" in the thesis search section. In the present research, the contents of 37 accessible theses in education were analyzed from varied perspectives. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS, a statistical software program, and tables were produced to present the generated frequencies and percentages. The analyses revealed that master's theses prevailed in the corpus and most of the authors were female, while their supervisors were predominantly male. A great majority of the supervisors were found to be associate professors, followed by full professors. It was observed that most of the analyzed postgraduate studies were performed in the Aegean region. The research also showed that most were conducted at Bülent Ecevit University (three theses) and Uşak University (three theses).