Investigation of Doctoral Dissertations on Argumentation in Türkiye in Terms of Validity and Reliability Measures

The purpose of the study is to reveal the validity and reliability measures of doctoral theses that were carried out with the argumentation method and made available between 2017-2022. In addition, examining and comparing the validity and reliability measures taken in quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method studies is among the aims of the study. The data set of this study, which was conducted with the systematic review method, consists of doctoral dissertations in the field of education in T & uuml;rkiye and published in Council of Higher Education Thesis Centre. Forty-eight doctoral theses were analysed throughout the study. Among these, theses that did not have a title on validity and reliability, were determined to be the same and were not conducted in the field of education were eliminated. In addition, a pilot study was conducted with 3 theses that were determined to be in English in order to foresee the negative situations that may arise during the coding process and to take precautions. Therefore, 27 studies were analysed within the scope of the research. The data obtained were summarised according to the themes determined in the previous studies and analysed according to the descriptive analysis method. As a result, it was found that the measures used as validity in some theses were given under the title of reliability in some theses. Therefore, it can be said that there is no consensus in the literature for validity and reliability measures and a consistent classification is not made.

Dergi

YUKSEKOGRETIM DERGISI

Yıl

2025

Cilt

15

Sayı

2

Sayfa

425-440

ISSN

2146-796X

eISSN

2146-7978

DOI

10.53478/yuksekogretim.1336695

WoS UID

WOS:001555670800001