Review of the monitoring and evaluation of academic skills (MEAS) project according to teachers' opinions

The Ministry of National Education has developed a project for monitoring, researching, and evaluating educational activities. This project is called the Monitoring and Evaluation of Academic Skills (MEAS) project. Through this project, it is aimed to monitor the academic skills of students. Within the scope of this purpose, it can be said that students focus on measuring high-level thinking skills such as critical thinking, creative thinking and problem solving. Since teachers are practitioners and planners in learning environments, it is thought that it is important to get their opinions about the MEAS project. The research conducted in this direction aims to make an original contribution to the literature based on the opinions of the teachers who took part in the project in order to better observe the contributions of the project and to better reveal the shortcomings of the project. The purpose of this research is to determine the opinions of secondary school teachers about the MEAS project. This research was conducted with the phenomenology design. The research participants consist of 15 teachers from different branches working in Van providence during the 2023-2024 education-teaching year. Participants were determined according to easily accessible sampling which is one of the purposeful sampling methods. The data of the research were collected with a structured interview form consisting of eight open-ended questions. Content analysis, a type of qualitative analysis, was used to analyze the collected data. At the end of the research, teachers stated that the MEAS project was effective in revealing students' mental skills, expressing themselves, understanding what they read and making inferences about what they listened to. In addition, they emphasized that it is effective in providing guidance in solving problems encountered in daily life, increasing cognitive levels such as understanding and interpretation, and helping students gain experience.