An examination on the relationship between the 2018 Turkish language curriculum and the 2019 high school entrance exam

Educational activities take place with the guidance of the curriculum. Curriculum gives answers to the questions of how the acquisitions that should be given to the students can be given better and which acquisition is suitable for which grade level. Measurement-evaluation studies carried out at the end of education and training activities are very important in terms of seeing the outputs of education. The questions asked in the placement exams for higher education institutions, which are held centrally in schools and in the last year of education, must be compatible with the achievements in the curriculum. The compatibility between the 2018 Turkish Curriculum, which is the last of our curriculum created with the constructivist approach that we have been applying since 2005, and the Turkish questions in the 2019 LGS as a result of the training given with this program were examined. With the 2018 Turkish Course Curriculum, many new acquisitions and question types have emerged in the Turkish course. It has been observed that the textbooks, which are the most important material for students to comprehend these acquisitions and question types, were not created in accordance with the goals of the new curriculum. It was determined that the achievements in the 2018 Turkish Lesson Curriculum could not be adequately sampled in the 2019 LGS Turkish questions, listening and speaking skills from the four learning areas of the Turkish lesson could not be measured at all, and writing skills were measured at a minimum level. It has been determined that the questions about the reading skill, which is the most studied area to be measured, do not fully overlap with the acquisitions and the skills that are desired to be acquired by the students. The reason for this situation that arises in the questions about reading is that the achievements of Turkish lessons cannot be measured exactly only with multiple-choice tests. In this respect, it has been concluded that tools that can measure all language skills should be included in the measurement studies in Turkish lessons.