Abstract:

The main objective of the study is to investigate how students evaluate the changes in physics education brought forward by the laboratory schools. Survey is the primary method of data collection. The students in the Ministry of Education (MEB) dependent schools which are currently applying various projects of laboratory schools comprise the population of the study. The sample includes 316 students in nine different lyceés in Istanbul. A program evaluation questionnaire which was developed by the researcher himself has two parts. The first part includes questions about the respondents' demographic characteristics. The second part is about the program evaluation which includes questions that investigate whether the program fulfills its original goals. The frequency & percentage distributions, The T test and one way ANOVA are the statistical techniques used in reporting the results. The findings of the study suggested that the students seemed to have an indecisive attitude in their evaluation of the laboratory schools model. It was observed that the reason for this is that the students were not sufficiently informed about the program by the school administrators. In conclusion, it can be argued that the program has important deficiencies in its application. It was found that the theoretical appropriateness of the program could not have been transferred to the Turkish educational practice adequately, because possibly of the negative aspects of the educational system and the current financial conditions in Turkey. Key words: Cirriculum Laboratory Schools, School Effectiveness, Physics Education.