The evaluation of the application process of the cathch up education programme by the administrators, teachers and the students (a case study of Ankara province)

In our country, although the primary education is free and compulsory and the textbooks of primary education are supplied by the government, some of the children at the school age do not go to schools. Ministry of National Education General Directorship of Primary Education prepared ?The Catch-up Education Program (YSÖP)? with the financial support of the European Union and the technical contribution of the UNICEF and started to apply it in the national standing in the 2008-2009 educational year. In this study, the evaluation of the Catch-up Education Program?s application process by the school administrators, teachers and the students in the primary schools is examined. This study is applied in 5 primary schools opened in some districts within the borders of Municipality of Ankara. 6 school administrators, 7 teachers and 34 students participated in the focus group interviews are asked to evaluate the application process of YSÖP. The responses of the school administrators, teachers and the students were recorded through audio recording machines and analyzed by using the three stages of the grounded theory. Firstly, the responses of the administrators, teachers, and the students were analyzed among themselves and then, the data obtained from the common questions in all the groups were compared. The aim of this study is to evaluate the point of views of the administrators, teachers and the students about the Catch-up Education Program (YSÖP) process from determining the student and the beginning of the education to the graduation from the program and passing into the same age ?level classes.