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ERIC Number: ED583264
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2015-May
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-2146-7463
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A Needs Assessment for Graduate Programs in Education Faculties
Cansiz, Mustafa; Cansiz, Nurcan
Online Submission, Journal of Educational and Instructional Studies in the World v5 n2 Article 4 p27-32 May 2015
The purpose of this study was to discover the needs of graduate students. In graduate programs, the courses may not be in sufficient numbers, satisfy students' interest, and contribute to their area of expertise. As a result, graduate students may take irrelevant courses from other departments to complete their course requirements. In this study, needs assessment was conducted to bring out graduate students' views on courses that education faculty offers. More specifically their thoughts about diversity of elective courses, appropriateness of course content, and adequacy of course materials were investigated. In the study quantitative method was used. The sample included 39 graduate students in one of the well-known faculty of education in Turkey. The results highlighted several areas of special attention. These areas are as follows: difficulty in finding elective courses in their departments, courses being unrelated to the students' interest areas, and workload of the courses. [This article was presented at the International Conference on New Trends in Education and Their Implications (ICONTE) (6th, Antalya, Turkey, April 24-26, 2015).]
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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