THE STUDY OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER CANDIDATES’ OPINIONS TOWARDS MIDTERM AND FINAL EXAMINATIONS

In this study views of primary school teacher candidates on midterm and final examinations have been investigated. The research was conducted on senior students studying in Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Education Primary School Teaching Programme. Out of a population of 244 students 179 were selected to constitute the sample. In the study a scale developed by the researcher has been used. Results of the study indicated that the primary school teacher candidates were administered mostly written exams, that they preferred to take multiple choice exams, that they deemed an exam period of 45-60 minutes appropriate, that the exams were directed to measure the memorization ability, that they had begun to prepare for the exams a few days prior to the exam dates, that they considered the questions to have been mostly comprehensible, that they thought that the exam instructions had been usually adequate.