Analyzing Content of Theses Master’s Degree in Curricula and General Methods of Teaching at the University of Misan For the years from 2018 to 2020

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to analyzing content of theses Master’s Degree in curricula and general methods of teaching. The sample size has reached (41) theses. The researcher has prepared the content analysis   includes four areas each field includes a number of pivots, the results shaded:

      The use of the Arabic language in writing theses by (95%), and the sole supervision of theses was higher than the co-supervision by (51%) the sole supervision. The percentage of supervision in the specialization of curricula and general methods of teaching reached (44%), which is higher than the rest of the disciplines in the methods of Teaching. It became clear that the Ministry of Education is the most targeted body in theses, by (80%), and that intermediate school students are the most targeted groups, by (29%), followed by the primary stage, by (20%). As for the rest of the groups, their percentage was less. The sample of males and females together was as follows: (43%), whereas the percentage of females was (41%), the percentage of males was (16%). The method was adopted intentionally in selecting samples by (61%), and the percentage of English language and mathematics was (44%) as the highest percentage of the rest of the materials covered by the theses, and literature review in Arabic and foreign used in the theses was by (78%). Also, it became clear that the methodology of the theses was mostly experimental by (73%), and that the most independent experimental variables studied in teaching strategies by (93) As for the most experimental dependent variables studied, it is achievement by (67%), and that all experimental theses deliberately designed the two equivalent groups. Further, it became clear that the most used branches of the descriptive curriculum are the survey method, by (91%). It is also noticed that the most used tools are the achievement test with a percentage of (%49) the total tools, and (98%) of the tools were prepared by the researchers. Moreover, in (76%) of the theses, two tools were used. It became clear that (85%) of the theses used descriptive and inferential statistics in processing data, and the statistical program (spss) was adopted by (90%), and it became also clear that all the theses used Arabic and foreign sources.