Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi Meslek Derslerinde Problem Çözme Becerisi Kazanma Amacına Erişim Düzeyi: Sivas İli Örneği
Attainment Level for Goal to Get the Problem-Solving Skill in the Anadolu Imam Hatip High School Vocational Courses: Example of Sivas Province

Summary/Abstract: The courses related to religious education in Anatolian Imam Hatip High Schools are called voca-tional courses. In these courses, it is mainly aimed that students learn Islam from the main sources and internalize the principles of belief, worship and morality of Islam. In order to achieve this goal, students are aimed to acquire a variety of skills as well as a lot of knowledge, attitude and behavior. As a requirement of the era, skill teaching has become an important topic in recent years. To be based on the skill-based approach in education in Turkey also reveals this situation. As a require-ment of this understanding, it is aimed that students gain some life skills in the courses. Some of these skills are common skills that are aimed to be gained in all courses. Others vary depending on the courses. One of the skills aimed to be acquired in all courses is the problem-solving skill.Any situation that disturbs oneself in the life process of the individual and prevents him from reaching his goals is called a problem. Problem solving skill-in case of the individual faces a prob-lem- means adapting, developing solutions and applying them to eliminate the problem. Since it is vital for the individual and society, it is important that the students reach the goal of gaining problem-solving skills during the teaching process. Vocational courses have a particular and important place for students to achieve their goal of gaining problem-solving skills. As a matter of fact, religion is a reality that encompasses life from various angles and guides the individual throughout life. Thanks to their religious beliefs, the individual can develop different coping strategies in case of problems. In this context, it can be established the relationship between the problem-solving skill and teachings of the Islam on subjects such as patience, gratitude, trust in God, contemplation, consultation, interpret favora-bly, responsibility, diligence, trust awareness, exam awareness, repentance, forgiveness, solidari-ty and effective communication. However, the question of the to what extent students achieve the goal of getting problem-solving skills in the courses is a matter that is waiting to be re-searched scientifically.This research was conducted to determine the functionality of vocational courses, in terms of providing students problem solving skills, taught in Anadolu Imam Hatip High Schools where vocational religious education is conducted at secondary level in Turkey. Furthermore, in this study, it was aimed to determine how the results change depending on the effect of demographic variables. This research was conducted to determine the functionality of vocational courses, in terms of providing students problem solving skills, taught in Anadolu Imam Hatip High Schools where vocational religious education is conducted at secondary level in Turkey. Furthermore, in this study, it was aimed to determine how the results change depending on the effect of demo-graphic variables. The research is important in terms of contributing to the reflection of the skill-based teaching approach put into practice by the Ministry of National Education in practice in religious education.In the study, 1477 students studying in Anatolian Imam Hatip High Schools in Sivas province were applied the Attainment Level Scale for Goal to Get the Problem-Solving Skill in the Religious Teaching. Looking at the results of the research, it has been determined that Anatolian Imam Hatip High School 11th and 12th grade students have a high level of access to the goal of gaining personal problem solving skills (=3.79), the level of access to the purpose of being sensitive to social problems is very high (=4.29), the level of access to the purpose of acquiring religious coping skills is high (=4.00), the level of access to the purpose of solving religious problems skills is high (=4.03) in vocational courses. Based on these findings, it was determined that the students have a high level of access to the purpose of gaining problem solving skills in vocational courses (=3.95).As a result of the research, the findings regarding the independent variables are as follows:• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of gender variable, it was determined that female students (=4.04) had higher levels of achievement of problem-solving skills in reli-gious education than male students (=3.93).• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of a class variable, it was determined that the difference between the mean scores of the 11th (= 3.96) and 12th grades (= 4.00) was not significant.• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of learning place variable, it has been determined that the students (= 4.01) who are educated in the schools in the districts have higher levels of access to the aim of getting problem solving skills in religious education than the students (= 3.97) studying in the city center.• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of a reason for choosing Anatolian Imam Hatip High School variable, a significant difference was found in favor of those who chose it entirely by their own will.• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of where religious knowledge is most learned variable, it has been determined that there are a significant difference between the stu-dents (= 4.02) who learned their religious knowledge mostly from vocational courses/teachers and those (= 3.92) who learned from mosque imam/courses affiliated presidential of religious affairs and those (= 3.88) who learned from sect-religious community.• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of person taken as an example in attitudes and behaviors variable, it has been determined that there is a significant difference in favor of those who took an example the vocational course teachers between the students (= 4.12) who took the vocational courses teachers as an example in their attitudes and behaviors and the students who took the example of their peers (= 3.82), historical people or heroes (= 3.89), famous artists or actors (= 3.92) or other people (= 3.88) and there was no significant difference between the other groups.• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of economic situation variable it has been determined that there was not a significant relationship between students’ level of access to the goal of getting problem-solving skills and their economic status (r=-0.023; p=0.382˃0.05; N=1459).• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of Transition Exam (TEOG) score variable from basic education to secondary education it has been determined that there was not a significant relationship between students' level of access to the goal of getting problem solving skills and their transition exam score from basic education to secondary education (r=0.010; p=0.703˃0.05; N=1459).• The scores obtained from the scale were handled in terms of vocational course grade point average variable, it has been determined that there is a positive and significant relationship be-tween students’ level of achievement of problem solving skill in vocational courses and their grade point average (r=0.308; p=0.000<0.05; N=1459).As a result, it can be said that in order to increase the access of students to the goal of getting problem-solving skills in vocational courses at maximum level, teachers should be given in-service training courses on the subject, studies should be conducted to increase their awareness in the process of training at undergraduate level and the qualification of the textbooks taught in the courses should be revised.

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