THE TEACHER ATTIUDES TOWARD THE LEARNER CONTROL STRATEGY

ABSTRACT The major purpose of this reserach was to examine the uses` level of learner control strategy by teachers as general in their courses. For this study, data were collected from 219 state primary school teachers, including Turkish, English, math, science, social science, religion and morality, and computer technology teachers in the province of Adana, Turkey, during the 2010-2011 academic year. The data were gathered by administering the learner control strategy questionnaire (for teachers) that was developed by the researcher, who collected the data from participating schools over a span of a month. The frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations were considered in the data analysis, which was performed using spss for windows 11.5. The data analysis showed that the means of items 13 ( my students can express their views on the length of each lesson), 21 (my students can decide what courses they should take) and 22 (my students can choose what topics, units or parts of units that they want to study) were low, whereas the means of the other items on the questionnaire were high.

ÖĞRENCİ KONTROL STRATEJİSİNE YÖNELİK ÖĞRETMEN TUTUMLARI

ÖZET Bu araştırmanın temel amacı öğretmenlerin derslerinde genel olarak öğrenci kontrol stratejisini kullanım düzeylerini incelemektir. Bu çalışma için veriler 2010-2011 eğitim-öğretim yılında Türkiye-Adana ilinde devlet resmi ilköğretim okullarında görev yapan, Türkçe, İngilizce, Matematik, Fen, Sosyal Bilgiler, Din Kültürü ve Ahlak Bilgisi ve Bilgisayar öğretmeni olan 219 öğretmenden toplanmıştır. Veriler araştırmacı tarafından geliştirilen Öğrenci Kontrol Stratejisi anketi kullanılarak bir ayı kapsayan süre içerisinde toplanmıştır. Veri analizi spss 11.5 programında frekans, yüzde, ortalama ve standart sapma istatistik verileri kullanılarak sınanmıştır. Data analizinde 13. maddenin (Öğrencilerim her derste görüşlerini açıklayabilir.), 21. maddenin (Öğrencilerim hangi dersleri alacaklarına karar verebilirler.) ve 22. maddenin (Öğrencilerim hangi konu, ünite veya ünite bölümünü çalışmak isterlerse çalışabilirler.) ortalamalrının düşük olduğu buna karşılık diğer maddelerin ortalamalarının yüksek olduğu görülmüştür.

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