Evaluation of applicability for the 9th class geography curriculum at secondary education in respect of student and teacher opinion.

The aim of this research is to evaluate 9th class geography curriculum, which is valid since 14.07.2005, considering both students? and teachers? opinion at side of overview, purposes, advantage, teaching- learning process, measure and evaluation. Universe of the research, is all of the 9th class students which has been educating and teachers which has been working at Etimesgut district of Ankara. The sampling data is collected the sudents and teachers which have attended to 9th class in 12 different high schools at Etimesgut.For the purpose of collecting data about the research, a survey which oriented to overview, advantage, teaching- learning process, measure and evaluation of 9th class geography curriculum which is in use since 2005 was applied to 517 students and 26 teachers educating at Etimesgut.As the obtained data analyzed, at first stage, percent and distribution of frequency was examined. At the second stage to measure students? opinion about 9th class geography curriculum under gender factor, the t-Test was performed. And at the third stage, to measure students? opinion about 9th class geography curriculum according to type of school, one-way variance analyze was performed. At the forth stage, to measure teachers? opinion about geography curriculum according to type of education, graduation grade, and professional course U-test was performed, and according to type of working year variant Kruskal Wallis Test was performed.At the result of the search, it has find out that teachers think negative and the students think a little positive about appliance of the 9th class geography curriculum.According to this research results at which 9th class geography curriculum has evaluated, the curriculum was generally find out negative by teachers and a little positive by 9th class students. There are some important problems at performing the programme. These are; the population of classrooms are more crowded than foresighted for the programme, inadequacy of the schools infrastructures (computer, internet, DVD, VCD and etc.) and although the geography curriculum was changed, the evaluation regulation has not refreshed up to now, inadequacy of Professional course, lesson hour, the requariements for Turkey?s education system and programs unitypeness for every college type