Evaluation of the activities of participants of expectations and satisfaction levels of Scouting Federation of Turkey

When scouting was in its peak as worldwide youth movements, scouting could not establish its youth oriented organization in Turkey. Scouting activities are administered by two institutions in Turkey: National Education Ministry (NEM) and Turkish Scouting Federation (TIF).Purpose of this study is to find out What TIF scouts and scouting leaders expectations and satisfaction levels are. Currently, TIF has 39 thousands licensed scouts and 154 Scout leaders. 13 thousand scouts have attended TIF camps in 2011 under the supervision of 154 Scout leaders. Study is conducted with 1675 Scouts and 136 Scout leaders. Surveys used in the research are used in researcher?s graduation thesis and, its validness, accepted by its respected committee members.Survey has two sections. In first sections, questions about participants? demographic information are asked. In the second section, participant expectations, satisfaction levels, and questions regarding camps? physical conditions are asked. To find out scouts? and their leaders? opinions, arithmetic average, eviation, one way anova and T-test methods are utilized. Standard Data regarding scouts and scout leaders? personal information such as gender, age, how many times they have attended scouting camps and scout leaders; seniority are analyzed with 0.05 level of significance.According to research results, scouts and Scouting leaders state that they attend scouting activities for pleasure and like what they are doing. They also state that a wide spread campaign to outreach more people. Both groups also agree that scouting activities not only helps physical but also emotional growth of youth. Also, scouting leaders state that TIF and NEM should be combined under one umbrella organization.Suggestions are as follows, scouting activities should be under TIF, which is recognized by World National Scouting Institution. Secondly , scouting leaders should be educated and trained with the international norms to serve best to their respected nations.