Teachers' viewpoint about portfolio which is an alternative technique in mathematics lessons in elementary schools

The base of this research is taking teachers? viewpoint about portfolio which is an alternative technique in mathematics lessons in elementary schools. Some evaluation methods are brought forward alternative for traditional evaluation approaches with the student -centered education. Having an important place in student centered education Portfolio, which is applied as a pilot method by National Education Ministry, is also important for students to show their personal development to teacher, parents and themselves. At the beginning of this research a literature scanning is made about the subject and a questionnaire is prepared to apply teachers. In this questionnaire some open-ended and closed-ended questions are asked to the teachers. This research is applied to 110 mathematics and class teachers as 65 of whom are female and 45 of whom are male working in Polatlı in Ankara city. After it is prepared fifty teachers are applied a pilot application. Factor analysis is applied to the closed-ended questions in the questionnaire. According to the teachers? answers it is made frequency and percentage distribution to these answers.