Research Information System
Milli Egitim, vol.50, no.230, pp.939-958, 2021 (Scopus)
Postgraduate education, which consists of master's and doctoral programs, includes a two-stage teaching process in a selected branch after the undergraduate education. Postgraduate education aims to specialize in a certain field. In order to achieve the aims of postgraduate education, it is necessary to prepare programs suitable for the content of the field in which the education is given and to act in cooperation with the students and faculty members. In this process, revealing the needs, expectations and opinions of the students are considered as important for the success of the program. For this reason, the opinions of the students towards a program are considered as important as the opinions those who prepare and evaluate the program. In this context, the aim of this study is to reveal the opinions of graduate students in the field of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (CEIT) about post-graduate education. In this direction, the students' reasons for receiving post graduate education, their expectations from post-graduate education, the problems they encountered during the postgraduate education process, and their opinions about these problems were tried to be revealed. For this purpose, 20 graduate students were reached, 10 of whom were masters students and others were doctoral students. The data were collected through a form titled “Opinion Form Regarding Postgraduate Education”. From the data obtained, it was concluded that the students generally integrated postgraduate education with the concepts of academic career, scientific processes, personal development and specialization in the field.