An Examination of Postgraduate Theses Written About the Gifted

This study aims at conducting a qualitative document review of postgraduate theses to scrutinise the
studies that can be performed in the most extensive manner on gifted individuals and to show where
Turkey is in its study of the gifted. Their importance has been increasingly recognised across the
world but only lately noticed in Turkey. In this context, 91master, 33 doctorate theses and 1 specialty
thesis obtained from the archive of the Council of Higher Education were examined in the study.
According to the findings obtained as a result of the study, the number of theses written on the
gifted in Turkey has increased in the last five years. Thesis studies on the gifted have been
performed as a quantitative method. As for the population/sample/study group used, it is seen that
the theses have mostly concentrated on elementary school students through multi-purposive
sampling method. It was found that scales are the most used measuring tool in the theses and the
independent t-test is the most used test to analyse the data obtained.