Graduate school of social sciences examination of graduate thesis on early literacy between 2012-2022

This study was conducted with the aim of examining the postgraduate theses in the field of early literacy in Turkey between the years 2012-2022 under various headings and determining the extent of it in the national literature. The document analysis model which is based on qualitative data was used in the study the sample of the research was determined by criterion sampling, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. The sample of the research consists of 44 postgraduate theses in which this concept is used in the title of the thesis by using the keyword early literacy at the National Dissertation Center of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK). 33 of the 44 postgraduate theses are master's degree and 11 are doctoral dissertations. It has been observed that the most postgraduate theses were completed in 2021 between the years of 2012-2022, which were reached at the Council of higher education National Thesis Center. In addition, it has been observed that the postgraduate theses in the field of early literacy are completed in the same years belonged to 15 universities. It has been determined that the vast majority of postgraduate theses related to early literacy are done at the master's degree level, and there are fewer doctoral-level thesis studies. The theses examined were done at most at the institutes of educational sciences and social sciences with equal frequency numbers also at most at the departments of child development and education and basic education with equal frequency numbers. It has been determined that the gender of the researchers in the examined theses is mostly female. Most of the research sample consists of students. It has been determined that the most used research pattern in theses is scanning. In addition It has been found that quantitative method is used the most in theses. When the distributions of data collection tools and research titles were examined in the graduate theses the matter in hand, it was observed that the scale was used the most as a data collection tool.