Evaluation of the initial reading and writing introduction according to congruence-contingency model of Stake

The aim of the study was to investigate the curriculum of initial reading and writing according to the convenience- contingency model of Stake.Using the maximum sampling method, the research was carried out in 2010-2011 school year on the teachers of first year students from five different schools and an equal number of fifty first year students selected randomly from the classes of the teachers, with different socio-economic levels. The teachers interviewed consisted of fifteen teachers of first year students selected randomly from a county of the city Bolu.In the study, such scales were developed as the scale for determining the capacity of reading-writing, scales for the faculty of reading-writing in first- term and second- term, test for assessing the comprehension of reading-writing in first- term and second-term, teachers? observation forms, open-ended survey scales for determining teachers `views. The research was based on both quantitive and qualitatitive data. The data was analysed by using statistical methods such as percentage values, frequency, standard deviation and arithmetic mean. In the analysis of the qualitative data, content analysis method was employed.Initial reading and writing curriculum was evaluated within the scope of input, process and output. Students? capacity of reading and writing was evaluated in the input; teachers `performances in providing the first reading-writing acquisition and their performances according to the teaching standards of first reading-writing in the process. Students? success and the teachers `views about the challenges in the curriculum were assessed in the output.The results obtained from the study can be summarized as follows;The conclusion was that the skills of the students were enough to hold the pen properly, to write and read their names, to show the reading direction of the text, to comprehend that the text is an expression of thought, to hold the book in the right direction, and to have the capacity of reading-writing. In the capacity of reading and writing it was seen that the skills of the students were inadequate in terms of reading and writing the one, two and three-syllable words.When the results of yearlong observations were examined, the performance of the teachers was found to be adequate in terms of time allocated to teaching, materials used, methods and techniques chosen and the procedures used in assessment and evaluation.Reading, writing and comprehension skills of the students were found to be adequate.It's concluded that the teachers has been confronted with the difficulties about acquirements , content , phonics based sentence method, teaching cursive script, parents, evaluation methods, training inspectors, school administrators during the application of the curriculum.