The 4th and 5th Grade Primary Teachers' Opinions Related to Project and Performance Tasks at Science and Technology Course

The aim of this study is to investigate the 4th and 5th grade primary teachers' opinions related to monitoring, evaluation process and the problems about project and performance tasks at Science and Technology Course. Therefore the sample group was constituted by 21 4th and 5th grade primary teachers. In this research, after the teachers' assessments of students' project and performance tasks, a questionnaire included with 6 open-ended question was administered to determine the teachers' monitoring and evaluation process of project and performance tasks. Answers of teachers to the questionnaire were analyzed descriptively by used NVIVO 2 program. The data has been encoded separately by three different researchers then examined the consistency of themes and the themes determined by three researchers was found to be consistent the rate of 85.5%. The different themes were discussed again and reconciliation was provided. According to the results of the research, it has been observed that 81% of teachers have given project and performance tasks on the contrary 19% of teachers haven't given project and performance tasks. Also, it has been observed that 57% of teachers have given project and performance tasks to students as individually and 43% of teachers have given project and performance tasks to students as a group work and 62% of the teachers have been monitoring the process of completion of project and performance tasks but 38% of the teachers haven't been monitoring the process of completion of project and performance tasks because of the reasons such as the crowded classrooms and lack of time. 86% of teachers have used the rubric because of the reasons such as rubric is to be objective and to avoid loss of time and the lack of the sources and materials is the main problem of teachers in this process.