COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PhD DISSERTATIONS ON EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN
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Date
2013-01
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Institute of Education and Research, University Of peshawar
Abstract
The study focused on the evaluation of PhD dissertations on education in Pakistan and
the comparison of dissertations conducted under HEC and UGC. The objectives of the
research were; to explore the quality of research in Pakistan, to compare the quality of
research of HEC and UGC, and to design instrument for the evaluation of research
dissertations.
All the PhD dissertations of social sciences identified the target population and
from that population the researcher selected education discipline. Total PhD dissertations
of education consist of 308, the researcher further delimited the study to all those
dissertations that were downloadable with required permissions and fulfilled the
evaluation criteria of the rubric. After the exclusion of dissertations, a total 178
dissertation were left for evaluation on the rubric. The researcher adapted and developed
the rubric from different rubrics developed for evaluation of dissertations. The researcher
collected data using 20 points instrument sheet with five point’s categorical scale, namely
Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory, and Not included scale. For every
dissertation one sheet was used, of the 178 dissertations, 131 were from HEC and 47
were from UGC. For the analysis of data the researcher used two methods, one was
percentage while the other was statistical software to test the hypothesis which posed in
the introduction section.