ANALYZING POST-GRADUATE DISSERTATIONS IN EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISION IN UNIVERSITIES OF TURKEY ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT VARIABLES

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dissertations in the field of educational supervisionin universities of Turkey according to different variables. The research is a qualitative anddescriptive. As a result of the research, it was found that dissertations were distributed to 24different universities. When we analyze dissertations in terms of the institutions, it was foundthat 50.47% of dissertations examined were in social sciences institutions (54), 49.43% ofdissertations were in educational sciences institutions (53). In terms of the gender of thosewho write dissertations, it was found that 29.91% of them (32 dissertations) was written bywomen; 70.09% of them (75 dissertations) was made by men. In terms of the level, 86.92%of them (93 dissertations) was at master level, 13.08% of them (14 dissertations) were atthe doctoral level. In terms of the types of research, it was found that out of 107 educationalsupervision dissertations, 19.63% of them (21 dissertations) was qualitative, 80.37% of them(86 dissertations) were quantitative.