the methodological analysis of psychology theses available in irandoc

thesis is the research output of the phd/master’s courses and it is expected that experimental procedure as the basis of the scientific research is accurately observed. this study, conducted to evaluate the methodology of psychology theses, after analyzing the different research methods, has found the “kivi & kampenhood” methodology as the suitable one, in this study, due to shortage of budget and limitation of time, from 136 psychology theses available in irandoc, 30 titles from different universities have been selected and the obtained results have been evaluated by descriptive statistics. the analyzed theses have most of research processes, most of them have observed the order of research phases and have used interview to collect data.