Analyse the Views of The Master’s Degree Students at the Mathematics Teaching Department on the Use of Qualitative Research Methods

Authors : Gözdegül Arık Karamık, Gamze Bağ

Pages : 305-313

Doi:10.17556/erziefd.1370043

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Publication Date : 2024-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Post-graduate study is a career step at which individuals make efforts to specialize in a field and which allows them to make self-development. Many different methods are used in research carried out during the process. The biggest component that is important for a research and increases its scientific quality is the method used. The aim of this study is to examine the views of mathematics teaching post- graduate students on the use of qualitative research methods. The current study employs the design of a case study- one of the qualitative research designs. The study group was composed of 12 post-graduate students of primary education mathematics teaching who were writing their thesis in a university in the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The research data were collected through personal interview forms and focal group interview forms. The data were put to content analysis and descriptive analysis. The current study concludes that the articles and theses written in qualitative study method are more difficult than the ones written in quantitative study method but that post-graduate students think they can cope with the work due to their personal competence. It was also found here that the participants could not distinguish between research sub-problems and research questions, that they could not divide the problems into sub-problems. Another finding obtained here was related to forming the conceptual framework and accordingly the participants tended to fill the gaps in the conceptual framework of other studies, to use the existing framework and they had personal competence.
Keywords : yükseköğrenim, nitel araştırma, matematik öğrenimi