Vocational High School Teachers’ and Students’ Opinions about Performance Tasks
The aim of the study is to determine theopinions of teachers and students in a Vocational High School about performancetasks. This study was carried out with 17 vocational high school students and13 teachers. This study was conducted through qualitative research design byanalyzing the records of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018-09-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/474830 |
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| Summary: | The aim of the study is to determine theopinions of teachers and students in a Vocational High School about performancetasks. This study was carried out with 17 vocational high school students and13 teachers. This study was conducted through qualitative research design byanalyzing the records of the individuals who shared their own interviews,observations and documents. The data were analyzed through content analysis.The first codes were generated for each question and the collected data were arrangedin an inducible approach by determining appropriate themes for these codes. Allthe codes and themes were checked by second researchers. Moreover, theconsistency in coding was determined. In addition to the interviews,observations and document analysis were performed. The results of this studydemonstrate that both the students and the teachers do not have sufficientknowledge about what the performance task is and how it is carried out.Therefore, the performance tasks carried out do not reach their goals.Performance tasks should measure higher order thinking, and they should berelated to real life situations. The results of the study show that performancetasks do not demonstrate these features. In addition, students should haveknowledge and understanding of the subjects in order to complete theirperformance tasks. On the other hand, they are supposed to perform aperformance task about a subject which they mostly do not understand or they donot know. This may be the reason why performance task does not reach its goal. |
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| ISSN: | 2148-7456 |