Analysis of postgraduate theses on technology management in educational institutions

This study has been designed with the purpose of examining post-graduate theses carried out between 2013 and 2023 in the field of technology management in educational administration. In accordance with this purpose, the distribution and tendencies of the theses in the field of technology management and prepared throughout the 11 years' period between 2013 and 2023 have been analysed in terms of their types, publishing years, study subjects, types of universities, research methods, research models, data collecting tools, data analysis techniques, types of samples, and sampling methods. Adopting descriptive and content analysis methods, this qualitative study has examined 364 theses which then have been classified with respect to their academic level (master's theses and dissertations), completion year, and thematic focus. It has been concluded at the end of the study that master's theses outnumber dissertations in the specified period; postgraduate theses in the field of technology management have been carried out in an education institution each year since 2013; the most postgraduate theses have been prepared in 2023; the most studied subject has been technology use within classes; state universities surpass private ones in the total number of studies; although the most commonly used methods are quantitative methods, qualitative and mixed methods have been significantly presented in terms of usage; scanning has become the mostly preferred method while scales have presented themselves as the mostly used data collecting tool; descriptive analysis has been the popular data analysis tool while teachers predominantly are the main resource of the study data, and the convenience sampling method has outnumbered any of other methods as the primary method of sampling.