Abstract:

This present study aimed to examine diversely the post-graduate theses completed in Turkey concerning Maths anxiety. In this regard, the theses were examined in terms of the year of publication, the universities, the institutions, the departments, the academic titles of supervisors, the sorts, the methods, the target audience, the data-collection tools, the types of data analysis, and the focus of thesis topic. Having a descriptive research design, the study used a qualitative research method. The document analysis method was used to collect data. The data was gathered from the 43 authorized full access post-graduate theses submitted by the Council of Higher Education National Thesis Centre Database via searching “Maths” and “Anxiety” keywords together. The data was analysed by means of content analysis technique using “Thesis Examination Form” and presented in graphs along with their frequencies. The results revealed that there was lack of theses concerning “Maths Anxiety”, the theses mostly completed in Afyon Kocatepe, Dokuz Eylül and Marmara Universities in the institutions of social sciences and the departments of Maths and Science education. The study also showed that the most of the studies consist of MA theses, the supervisors mostly composed of assistant professors, the quantitative research method was used most, the majority of the participants of the studies consist of middle school students as the target group, the most used data collection tool were scales and ANOVA as an analysis type was frequently used. The studies focusing on the relation between Maths anxiety and diverse variables was shown to be investigated more. The study includes suggestions in the direction of the findings.

Keywords: