The aim of this study is to examine thematically and methodologically the doctoral dissertations in the field of measurement and evaluation in education in universities in Turkey between 1992 and 2022. The sample of the study consists of a total of 198 doctoral dissertations completed in the field of measurement and evaluation in education, published in the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education (YOK) and without access barriers. This research was designed in case study design, which is one of the qualitative research methods. Under the categories determined in line with the purpose of the study, data were collected with the thesis review form developed by the researcher and analyzed according to content analysis. According to the findings obtained, it was determined that the number of doctoral dissertations completed in the field of measurement and evaluation in education has generally increased since 2013, doctoral dissertations were mostly completed at Hacettepe University, and most of the dissertations were supervised by professors. As a result of the examination of doctoral dissertations according to subject areas, it was seen that the majority of the studies were in the category of "theories". The other most frequently studied subject areas in the field of measurement and evaluation in education were found to be in the categories of (1) "computer adaptive testing / multi-stage testing", (2) "differential item functioning / bias" and (4) "test equating". As a result of the analysis of the keywords, it was determined that keywords were mostly used in the category of "statistical methods/statistics/algorithms". It was also concluded that keywords in the categories of "theories [generalizability theory / classical test theory / item response theory]" and "variables" were frequently used. In doctoral dissertations, it was seen that data from large-scale testing were mostly used, especially the data from the Programme for International Student Assessment-PISA were used.

Measurement and evaluation in education, doctoral dissertation, thematic review, methodological review