An evaluation on thesis made in turkey between 2015-2020 in the field of physical education and sports, recreation and sports management

The aim of this research is to comprehensively analyze the research trends of the theses made in the fields of physical education and sports, sports management and recreation. The research was subjected to content analysis by making a literature review on postgraduate thesis studies. The research consisted of national theses carried out in the "Physical Education and Sports", "Sport Management" and "Recreation" Departments from 2015 to 2020, registered in the database of YÖK (Council of Higher Education) Thesis Center. The sample consisted of a total of 616 master's theses, which were analyzed with the keywords 333 "Recreation", 219 "Physical Education" and 64 "Management", that were open to electronic access. In order to collect the data, the theses prepared in the research conducted with the keywords "Sports Management", "Physical Education" and "Sports and Recreation"; 11 different themes such as thesis type, year, university, department, title, author, keyword, research method, sample group, data analysis method and data collection method were subjected to content analysis. According to the results obtained of the research: Master's theses in the discipline of "Physical Education and Sports" were made in 2019 and 2020 at the most, and mostly in the field of recreation and the 'field' was selected the most as the sampling. In the study, it was determined that university students and the general population were mostly studied with, content analysis and parametric techniques were used most as data analysis techniques, and questionnaires were used most frequently as data collection tools.