Özet:

The aim of the study is to evaluate the learning outcomes in the second grade life sciences curriculum according to the criteria in the literature and to identify the levels of the learning outcomes. The criteria to be considered in identification of the targeted learning outcomes include clarity, being need-based, consistency, cohesion, behavioural orientation, limitedness, continuity, non-overlapping, generality, accessibility, contiguity and being output-oriented. The Life Sciences Curriculum which was adopted by the Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey in 2018 was taken as the basis for the learning outcomes covered in the assessments and levelling studies that were made according to the identified criteria. Fifty different learning outcomes in the second grade life sciences curriculum constituted the data set of this study. The learning outcomes were analyzed according to their target domains cognitive, affective and psychomotor ; the levels of the learning outcomes were identified and then the targeted ones were evaluated according to the criteria. It was found out that the cognitive and affective domains were attached high importance whereas psychomotor domain was not given weight sufficiently; and only 1 out of the 50 learning outcomes was associated with the psychomotor domain. Furthermore, there were several learning outcomes that do not comply with the criteria of nonoverlapping and limitedness among those within the life sciences curriculum in 2009 while there were only two overlapping learning outcome in the curriculum of 2018.

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