Özet:

Approach of constructive education has led to significant changes in our educational system. One may see that several studies have been done on the impacts of such an approach. The present study was conducted for this purpose. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the new curricula, firstly introduced in the 20042005 academic year in selected pilot schools and then in whole Turkey, according to the views of administrators and teachers. For this purpose, in the province of Izmir, total of 246 school managers working in 14 pilot primary schools and teachers have been consulted. The Constructivist Approach to Education Evaluation Questionnaire” which was developed by Çınar, Teyfur and Teyfur. As the data analysis, frequency (f), percentage (%), standard deviation (SD), arithmetic mean (X), t-test for two group comparisons (t) and more than two groups comparisons, analysis of variance (F) were performed. The present study indicates that both school managers and teachers adopt this approach but they also reported that the infra-structure of the schools were insufficient and there were problems in management of classroom due to crowded classrooms in the schools