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PhD Theses in Turkish Sports Sciences:
A Study Covering the Years 1988-2002
Yaman H 1 , Atay E 2
1 Akdeniz University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family
Medicine, Antalya
2 Akdeniz University, Institute of Health, PhD Programme of Physical
Education and Sports Sciences, Antalya
Background: undergraduate Education in physical Education and sport sciences is widely
performed in our country. Gaining new faculty to the schools of physical Education and
Sciences and supporting the academic dimesnion of sports sciences with scientific work
requires postgraduate training in physical Education and sports sciences.
In this study PhD studies concerning Physical Education and Sports Sciences in Turkey
have been evaluated.
Methods: The database of the Turkish Council of Higher Education has been searched for
PhD theses with different combinations of keywords like “Sport(s)”, “All Dissertations”ve
“Physical Education”. The serached covered the period of year 1988-2002. Theses were
classified according to the institute, year, university, the title of the menthors and the
field of sports sciences. Classification have been performed by two investigators
seperately and the results have been unified after a concensus. The inter and intra
validity of the investigators ratings of the sorts sciences fields were high (Kendall
Tau_b=0.84 ve 1.00, p