Abstract
AN ANALYSIS OF MASTER’S AND DOCTORAL RESEARCH ON FLIPPED INSTRUCTION IN TURKEY
Flipped learning has been one of the most popular trends in education in the last
decade. History of flipped learning dates back to 2007 when two chemistry teachers in
the USA recorded videos and screencast them for enabling their students to compensate
for the lessons they missed. Flipped learning emphasizes effective use of class time by
changing the traditional task of teachers and students inside and outside the classroom. In
flipped learning, students' roles as passive lecture listeners change to active participants
in classroom activities. As its name suggests, flipping takes the presentation or lecture
part which is traditionally done in the classroom and places that in pre-class work. It
can be considered as a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework
elements of a course are reversed. Subsequent to the first implementation of this new
instructional model, a lot of institutions have started to integrate the model into their
education systems and research on flipped learning has begun to gain popularity. This
study aims to analyse master’s and doctoral research on flipped learning conducted in
Turkey. As data collection tool, document analysis method was used in the study. To
this end, some key words related to flipped learning were searched in the data base of
National Thesis Center (NTC) provided by the Council of Higher Education. It was found
that 57 master’s and 31 doctoral research was conducted in different disciplines between
the years of 2014 and 2019 in Turkey. The scope of majority of these studies was usually
based on determining students’ attitudes, perceptions, academic achievements, and selfefficacy
beliefs. Some studies focused on the contribution of flipped learning to learners’
development of 21st century skills as well as to general competence levels. The study also found that flipped learning was implemented in a wide range of disciplines such as
history, chemistry, music, science education, social studies, accounting education, medical
studies, and foreign language education which constituted the greatest proportion of the
current academic research in Turkey.
Keywords
Flipped Learning, Master, Doctoral Studies, Academic Research, Dissertations.
