ECER 2011 – Student Views On Turkish Open High School

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Student Views on Turkish Open High School

Pelin Taşkın(presenting / submitting) Saadet Kuru Cetin(presenting)

Conference:

ECER 2011

Network:

6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures

Format:

Paper

Session Information

06 SES 13, Open and Distance Education

Paper Session

Time:

2011-09-16

10:30-12:00

Room:

L 24/27,1 FL., 46

Chair:

Mart Laanpere

Contribution

 

 

STUDENT VIEWS ON TURKISH OPEN HIGH SCHOOL

One of the dimensions of distance education, which has a variety of names defined by different authors (Karen at all 2009; Reid at all 2009; Alston, and Kent, 2008; Huett at all, 2008; Özerbaş, 1998; Sujatha 2002,etc.), in literature such as open learning, open teaching, non-traditional education, distance learning, distance teaching, correspondence education, virtual high school, independent study, home study and etc. is open high school which is examined in this paper. The main reasons of the students to enroll open high school are the willingness to complete secondary education, to attend university, to increase their knowledge, and also to have statute and to have important social roles in the society (Adıyaman, 1997). By its nature open high school should be linked with educational media. In this respect, it was constituted by the Ministry of Education, General Directorate of Education Technologies, which was already designing and producing educational media then (Uluğ, 1994). The aims of Turkish open high school, which are identified in the fifth article of the regulation of open high school, are (1) to provide the opportunity of education in different fields to those who graduate from elementary education however can not continue to secondary education and quit/graduate from the secondary education and who quit/graduate from universities, (2) to contribute the equality of opportunity in the level of secondary education and to raise and reinforce the level of culture of Turkish society, and (3) to equip the students for life and university education through the usage of high-tech mass communication tools and new technologies, which is high level reviewed in this paper.  In this regard the reasons of the students to enroll to open high school, the quality of the services provided, views of the students about the applications, legal basis of open high school, and problems which occur in the praxis are discussed.

Method

10 young male and 10 young female open school students were interviewed through eight open-ended interview questions about the reasons of enrolling to open high school, the quality of the applications of open high school and the services provided and problems which occur in the praxis. Opinions of the students have been analyzed through content analysis, a qualitative research method. The main purpose in content analysis is to attain concepts and connections, which can serve the purpose of explaining the collected data. As a consequence verbal data is transformed into quantitative data (Coffey and Atkinson, 1996; Glesne, 1999, Yıldırım and Şimşek 2000). Initially, the categories of analysis are identified in content analysis (Coffey and Atkinson, 1996; Yıldırım and Şimşek, 2000). While analyzing students’ answers, categories are being identified.

Expected Outcomes

It is widely accepted that new information and communication technology application in education provides immense boost for open high school. In Turkey, some of the population under 25 has disabilities to access the educational opportunities, open high school presents a good alternative for these students. The other researches concerned with open high school (Alston, and Kent, 2008; Huett at all, 2008; Özerbaş, 1998) and the views of the participants who were interviewed in this research pointed out the importance of the long distance education for those who can not access formal education because of various reasons. Compared to the statistics of 2010 it has been realized that the number of female students of open high school has increased in 2011 and has become nearly equal to the number of male students. The number of enrolled student increased from 44.000 to 543.155 between the years 1992 to 2011.

References

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Author Information

Pelin Taşkın (presenting / submitting)

Ankara University

Faculty of Educational Sciences

Ankara

Saadet Kuru Cetin (presenting)

Ankara University

Faculty of Educational Sciences

Ankara

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