Project Practices in Elementary Schools

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Published: Dec 7, 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v2i3.1050

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Memet Karakus
Cukurova University, Department of Educational Sciences, Adana, 01330, Turkey

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This study aims to discuss project applications carried out in elementary schools in terms of the planning, implementation and evaluation aspects. The data was collected through interviews with 18 elementary school teachers in this qualitative study. Analysis of the data was performed using Nvivo 10 program. Results showed that teachers highlighted the attainments and topics of the course, students, process and evaluation in the planning aspect and for the project implementation aspect, student-centeredness was emphasized as well as the effectiveness of parents. As for evaluation, teachers gave importance particularly to determining criteria to be used in project evaluation. In this regard, it is suggested that the curriculum, teacher, student and parents have an important impact on the success of the projects and thus these four variables should be handled in a coordinated way. 

Keywords: Project- based instruction; interdisciplinary instruction; planning and evaluation of instruction

 

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Karakus, M. (2016). Project Practices in Elementary Schools. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2(3), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v2i3.1050
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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2016): Selected Papers of 2nd Global Conference on Contenporary Issues in Education (GLOBE-EDU)
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