This study focused on the doctoral program in Curriculum and Instruction (CIPP) due to its crucial role in training qualified human capital and in creating solutions for economic and social problems. It investigated to what extent CIPP contributes to training innovative and creative Turkish PhD holders evaluating their dissertations through a rubric. Two expert raters in educational sciences evaluated seventy dissertations completed by the Turkish PhD holders in Turkey and abroad between 2013 and 2019 according to the cutoff scores in the rubric. Twenty-nine dissertations were rated at Below Level 1, forty-one dissertations at Level 1 and no dissertations at Level 2. No significant difference was observed among the dissertations despite significant differences in theoretical framework, method and contributions of research dimensions. The dissertations completed in Turkey and abroad do not contribute an innovative perspective to education. It is understood that the programs are not effective to train innovative and creative the PhD holders. Several implications were discussed to improve the doctoral programs.