Abstract:

The objective of this research is to evaluate teacher comments for the purpose of defining difficulties and deficiencies of 8th grade Turkish Republic History of Revolution and Ataturkism course book that is taught in 2016-2017 education year and bringing course book to more functional state. It was included teacher and student comments to dedicate course book to students as better. Pheno-menological pattern that is a qualitative research approach was used in this study. Data were collected using semi-structured interview form developed by researcher. Interviews were performed with 20 teachers working Kutahya city and its counties. It was received teacher opinions about outstanding difficulties and deficiencies of course book, whether subjects and visuals are enough in course book in the first three questions of semi-structured interview form. It was taken suggestions from teachers for what can be done for it to be more useful in the last question of interview form. Obtained data were analyzed with content analysis method. Frequency and percentage tables were created by coding teacher comments. In the direction of social studies teachers, it was suggested that topics should be brief, pages shouldn’t be choked to paragraph, and important points should remarkably be specified in order that Turkish Republic History of Revolution and Ataturkism course book is more beneficial.

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