Evaluating The Opinions Of Primary School Teachers About The Measurement And Assessment In The 1st Grade Science And Techonology Class

In the research, evaluating the opinions of primary school teachers about the measurement and assessment in the 1st grade Science and Techonology Class is aimed. As this research is a descriptive one, survey models were used in it. In the research, questionnaire forms that were developed by the researcher were used as the data collection vehicle. During the process of improvement, studies made in subject area were inspected and literature research about the subject was made. Under the light of investigations, draft of the measurement vehicle was prepared and scope validity was inspected and pre-application was made after the draft was presented to the subject area specialists. After the pre-application results; by making the neccesary arrengements, the last shape was given to measurement vehicle which is in the form of two main parts. Prepared measurement vehicle was applied to 200 primary teachers who work in Çanakkale city center, county-city-villages. In the research, in order to analyse the datas obtained from the questionnaire, the pocket programme SPSS 13.0 was used. The frequency (f), percentage (%), and arithmetical mean of the answers that teachers gave in the questionnaire were calculated with the help of TTest, One Way ANOVA and Chi-square (x2) technique. When the opinions of the teachers about the measurement and assessment according to the datas is examined, they stated that they are in the need of inservice training. About the new approaches for the measurement and assessment subject, they seem to be indecisive about Science and Technology Education Programme's supplement of sufficient explanations, having adequate examples, the time sufficiency in the measurement and assessment programme, the service ability of the measurement and assessment forms, the excessive number of measurement and assessment forms, the measurement methods' taking over-time, the complexity of the measurement methods, the sufficiency of assessment questions, assessment's taking over-time and the complexity of the assesment. Primary school teachers have the opinion of the incapacity of the specialists who would be helpful for them on measurement and assessment. No meaningful difference according to sex and service year found among the primary teachers' opinions on the measurement and assessment in the 1st grade Science and Technology class. It is found that there is a meaningful difference according the class level and the school they graduated from among the primary school teachers' opinions on the measurement and assesment in the 1st grade Science and Technology class. The frequency of teachers' usage of measurement and assesment vehicles and methods changes between "usually" and "occasionally". Also there is no meaningful difference according to sex, class level and the school they graduated from among the opinions of the primary teachers for usage frequency of measurement and assessment vehicle and methods in the 1st grade Science and Technology classes. Meaningful difference according to service year was found among the opinions of the teachers on the usage frequence of the measurement and assesment in the 1st Grade Science and Technology classes.