Research Article

An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021

Volume: 11 Number: 3 October 13, 2022
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An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the graduate theses on academic procrastination published in Turkey to evaluate their status in terms of various variables. For this purpose, a list of the theses was obtained as a result of a search in the National Thesis Center using the keywords “academic procrastination” in both Turkish and English languages. From the list, all the open-access theses of which sample consisted of students were included in the study. In line with the determined criteria, a total of 101 graduate theses published between 2003 and 2021 were analyzed through document analysis based on the descriptive content analysis method. The distribution of the theses was examined based on variables including the program type, year of publication, the university, institute, and department where the study was conducted, language, gender of the researcher, research design, sampling method, sample size, region of the data collection, level of education and the data collection tool used to measure academic procrastination. The study revealed that the theses were mostly written in the master’s program (86.14%), in 2019 (15.84%), at Gazi University (5.94%), in the Institute of Educational Sciences (56.44%), in the Department of Educational Sciences (53.47%), in the Turkish language (92.08%), by female researchers (59.41%), based on survey design (94.06%), using random sampling (59.41%), with a sample size of 400-499 (22.77%), with data collected from Central Anatolia (28.71%) from undergraduate students (53.46%) using the Academic Procrastination Scale (56.43%) developed by Çakıcı (2003).

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Other Fields of Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

October 13, 2022

Submission Date

March 30, 2022

Acceptance Date

September 13, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 11 Number: 3

APA
Sarıaslan, N., & Kadıoğlu Akbulut, C. (2022). An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021. Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education, 11(3), 663-685. https://doi.org/10.14686/buefad.1094919
AMA
1.Sarıaslan N, Kadıoğlu Akbulut C. An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021. BUEFAD. 2022;11(3):663-685. doi:10.14686/buefad.1094919
Chicago
Sarıaslan, Nurcan, and Cansel Kadıoğlu Akbulut. 2022. “An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021”. Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education 11 (3): 663-85. https://doi.org/10.14686/buefad.1094919.
EndNote
Sarıaslan N, Kadıoğlu Akbulut C (October 1, 2022) An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021. Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education 11 3 663–685.
IEEE
[1]N. Sarıaslan and C. Kadıoğlu Akbulut, “An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021”, BUEFAD, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 663–685, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.14686/buefad.1094919.
ISNAD
Sarıaslan, Nurcan - Kadıoğlu Akbulut, Cansel. “An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021”. Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education 11/3 (October 1, 2022): 663-685. https://doi.org/10.14686/buefad.1094919.
JAMA
1.Sarıaslan N, Kadıoğlu Akbulut C. An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021. BUEFAD. 2022;11:663–685.
MLA
Sarıaslan, Nurcan, and Cansel Kadıoğlu Akbulut. “An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021”. Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education, vol. 11, no. 3, Oct. 2022, pp. 663-85, doi:10.14686/buefad.1094919.
Vancouver
1.Nurcan Sarıaslan, Cansel Kadıoğlu Akbulut. An Analysis of Graduate Theses on Academic Procrastination Published in Turkey Between 2003 and 2021. BUEFAD. 2022 Oct. 1;11(3):663-85. doi:10.14686/buefad.1094919

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