Uluslararası Bakalorya Programı'na ilişkin yönetici, öğretmen, veli ve mezun görüşleri
Özet
This research aims at determining the opinious of school administrators (school principals and deputy principals, IBDP coordinators and deputy coordinators), teachers, parents and graduates about IBDP.The research field and working group consist of 55 school administrators , 146 teachers, 70 parents and 140 graduate students; as for the location of the schools 6 of them are in İstanbul, 3 in Ankara, one in Tarsus, one in Kocaeli and the last one in Bursa; all of which are private high schools and one of which is social sciences high school. All these participants answered the questioannaire called ?The questioannaire related to IBDP? done by the researcher. All these data were processed by the help of SPSS. Teachers and administrators were compared with respect to ?duty variable,? while parents and graduates were compared with respect to ?group variable?.The results obtained from the research are that: the most meaningful aims of IBDP, stated by the administrators and teachers are: improving students ability in critical thinking and improving students oral expression ability and raising awareness about there are various activities with multi aims. For these administrators and teachers who joined in the learning environment in IBDP. In terms of the content of the IBDP, they (administrators and teachers) stated as the most frequent answer that ?It reflects contemporary and scientific knowledge? and added that ?this program is qualified enough to fulfill all targets.? As for the evaluation of the UBDP, the same group put forward that in this program there occurs different evaluation of written, oral, multiple choice exams etc. and all behaviours are always reinforced. There isn?t any meaningful difference between the results obtained by the duty variable in terms of objectives, learning environment and evaluation.The parents and graduates opted for IBDP because of the wish to get a more qualified education. Graduates give importance to such statements ?IBDP has great contribution in university education,? ?I am pleased with the, IBDP programme,? ?IBDP gives us the ability to answer the questions by taking critical thinking into consideration.? As for the parents, they support the ideas such as;?IBDP improves critical thinking ability,? ?It also improves the techniquies of asking questions using critical thinking ability,? ?It improves students oral expression ability? as the most frequent answers.There is also a meaningful difference between the parents and graduates? answers according to the group variable in terms of ideas, objectives and general attittudes, parents have more positive opinions about IBDP compared with the graduates.