Evaluation of Research Backgrounds of Master's Theses of Razi University, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, based on the Desired Structure and Content of Background Writing in the Years 2013-2019 | ||
| فصلنامه بازیابی دانش و نظامهای معنایی | ||
| Article 4, Volume 8, Issue 26, April 2021, Pages 79-102 PDF (535.15 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22054/jks.2021.58049.1404 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nahid Shahveisi1; Gholamreza Heidari* 2; Vakil Ahmadi3 | ||
| 1M.A. Student in Information Science and Knowledge, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran | ||
| 2Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran | ||
| 3Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study analyzes the research background section of the five master's theses in the fields of Information science and epistemology, social sciences, psychology, political science and counseling in the years 1393 to 1398 of Razi University, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences. This research has been studied by the method of quantitative content analysis of the applied type, 140 dissertation titles were inspected. The tool used in this research is a checklist. Mean data comparison tests were used to analyze the data. It shows that in terms of structure in the field, the field of consulting has the highest average and the field of political science has the lowest average in terms of structure. In terms of content by discipline, the social sciences have the highest average and the field of psychology the lowest. In the "by year" structure, the closer the research backgrounds are to 1998, the better they are, and in terms of content, the closer they get to 1998, the weaker they are. This means that the research backgrounds were better in 1993 and 1994. The findings also indicate the second place of the field of information science and epistemology among other fields. In this field, in terms of structure based on year, the year 1395, and in terms of content, the year 93 had a better situation among other years. The results indicate that according to the criteria, the research background is relatively good in terms of structure, but weak in terms of content, and not of good quality. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Literature Reviews; Thesis; Structure and Content of Literature Review; Faculty of Social Sciences and Education; Razi University | ||
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