2024

2023

Regulation Amending the Regulation on Secondary Education Institutions

In accordance with the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Secondary Education Institutions, a "prevention, intervention and guidance commission" was established to carry out activities for students at risk of repeating a grade due to absenteeism and failure.The situation of a student who has two consecutive days of unexcused absenteeism will be notified to his/her parents by mail, e-mail or other means of communication, the parents will be invited to the school, informed about the student's situation and asked to submit the apology document, if any, to the school administration.

 
Students whose unexcused absences exceed 10 days and 30 days in total will be considered unsuccessful regardless of their course grades and their parents will be notified in writing. For those who have lost a first-degree relative, the total period of unexcused absenteeism will be 40 days, provided that it does not exceed 10 days.

 
The prevention, intervention and guidance commission will invite the parents of students who are absent and at risk of repeating a grade to the school on the 5th day of absence, and will work in cooperation to eliminate the reasons for absenteeism. Each day of unexcused absenteeism will be added as one hour to the time for social responsibility activities specified in the weekly course schedule.

 
Those who do not have the right to study at the vocational education center and are subject to compulsory education will be directed to open education high school, vocational open education high school or open education imam hatip high school, taking into account the parent and student demand. With the aim of increasing students' belonging to the school and ensuring school attendance, each day of unexcused absenteeism will be added as one hour to the time for social responsibility activities specified in the weekly course schedule.

 
In cases requiring inpatient treatment, a new provision has been introduced for cases where the duration of the reports issued by health institutions exceeds the total period of absenteeism. Accordingly, in order to prevent loss of rights in such cases, in cases requiring inpatient treatment, the period of absenteeism of students will be 60 days, as is the case for students with a disease requiring registered continuous treatment or organ transplantation.

Transitions to open upper secondary schools became more difficult

With the Regulation, transfers and transitions to open high schools will not be possible, except for exceptions such as national athletes, mainstreaming students, students under the protection law, children of martyrs and veterans, those whose excuses are deemed appropriate by the Ministry and students who have lost their right to study in formal secondary education institutions according to the relevant provisions of the regulation.

50 success points will not be enough to pass a grade

The Regulation introduces a series of new amendments to the high school passing standards. Accordingly, the 50 average previously required for passing to the next grade will no longer be sufficient. In order to ensure that students complete their education and training processes with the competencies and achievements related to the courses, those who fail at most 1 course will be able to pass directly to the next grade, provided that they have a year-end achievement score of 50.
 

Students with a new course average of 50 who fail at most 3 courses will be able to move to the next grade as responsible. According to the regulation, students who fail 4 or more courses in high schools will have to repeat the grade. This practice will be implemented gradually starting from the 2023-2024 academic year. In this context, the provisions of the new regulation will be applied to 9th grade students starting high school this year, while the old practice will continue for other grades.
 

In the planning made on the basis of the information of the students who need to participate in the responsibility exams in the e-School system, 12th grade students who cannot graduate from school and who are in a pending status and students who do not attend school despite being notified of absenteeism will be included in the responsibility exam plan if they notify the school directorate until 5 working days before the responsibility exam date.
 

Regulations have been made regarding grade repetition and the right to study in vocational education centers, and arrangements have been made to ensure that vocational education center students do not proceed to mastership training in the 12th grade without receiving the journeyman certificate in the 11th grade.
 

Students who, while studying in open education upper secondary school, vocational open education high school or open education imam hatip high school, are in a position to transfer and transfer to formal secondary education institutions in terms of the credits they have achieved, meet the conditions for enrollment in formal secondary education institutions in terms of age, have the right to study in formal secondary education and have not received a disciplinary penalty of expulsion from formal education, from the end of October in the first semester of the new academic year and from the first working day of the second semester until the end of February in the second semester, depending on the preference within the secondary education registration area, Anatolian upper secondary schools, Anatolian imam hatip upper secondary schools, vocational and technical Anatolian upper secondary schools with appropriate programs and quotas by the decision of the student transfer and placement commission.

New Regulation for Assessment and Evaluation

The Ministry of National Education amended the regulation for assessment and evaluation. The Regulation sets out the procedures and principles regarding measurement and evaluation in education and training institutions.

Important changes can be listed as follows:

• The practice of written exam hours in 4th grade primary school was abolished. In 4th grade, student grades will be based on the student development file.

• There will be an 'exam week' in schools. The dates of the exams will be announced at the beginning of the school year.

• Except for practical exams, it will be essential that exams of courses taught in more than one branch will be held jointly in order to allow teachers to make joint evaluations.

• There will be two exams per semester for each subject. For courses with six or more weekly class hours, a third exam can be held if the provincial class/area clerks decide to do so.

• Exams for Turkish/Turkish language and literature and foreign language courses will be written and practical to measure listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.

• In primary schools, specially developed measurement tools will be used to monitor and improve students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in order to improve the correct and beautiful use of Turkish.

• Teachers may conduct short-term exams at the end of the unit/theme and/or subject to give feedback to students. These exams will not be graded.

• With ABIDE research, students' levels of acquiring high-level thinking skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, reasoning, and interpretation through real life scenarios will be monitored and evaluated at the provincial level and compared by years.

• In order to protect and improve Turkish language, the research, which monitors the development of students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills gained during the teaching process, will be conducted in two-year cycles and a country-wide report will be prepared.

• A "school-based monitoring" research will be conducted to see the impact of curricula on students' academic outcomes.

• The country's progress in education will be monitored at the international level through the international monitoring surveys PISA and TIMSS.

• In order to increase the effectiveness of process-oriented assessment, in-class assessment and evaluation studies and to improve the qualifications of teachers, "assessment and evaluation centers" established within the General Directorate will be activated in provinces.

2022

PA II- Increasing Attendance and Schooling Rates in Secondary Education Project: (2021-2024)

Considering that secondary education is within the scope of compulsory education, it is important to provide students with activities that will contribute to their self-realization inside and outside the school, and to provide the necessary environments for these activities, and to prevent the continuation of academic failure by paving the way for students to learn at their own pace with individualized learning, make-up and training courses.

 In this direction, with the project prepared within the scope of the European Union Instrument for Pre-Accession Financial Assistance (IPA II), it is aimed to increase the level of education and skill by ensuring that everyone has access to education at secondary education levels and to combat early school leaving/absenteeism. The general objectives of the project are to increase attendance and enrollment rates by making efforts to make students more attractive, to improve their motivation at school, and to increase teacher-student interaction.

According to the 2017-2018 Ministry of National Education Statistics, the project will be implemented in 50 schools in 14 provinces with the highest grade repetition and absenteeism rate at NUTS-I level. Pilot provinces represent 14 NUTS II regions. (Afyonkarahisar, Ağrı, Ankara, Bingöl, Çankırı, Hakkari, Hatay, İstanbul, Nevşehir, Sakarya, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tekirdağ, Trabzon) Based on this, students studying at secondary education level, teachers working in secondary education institutions, parents and the relevant National National Assembly during the project implementation process. The personnel of the central organization of the Ministry of Education are the target groups of the project and are expected to provide maximum benefit.

Teaching Materials and e-Content Studies

• Interactive Textbooks

Textbooks prepared by the General Directorate of Secondary Education and approved by the Board of Education in the 2021-2022 academic year have been made suitable for the interactive whiteboard. The books are enriched with different e-contents. Efforts to develop e-content and add it to the interactive book continue. In addition, the updates made in the books are followed by the Board of Education and Discipline, and every change is reflected in the books.

In addition, enrichment studies continue through printed textbooks, lecture videos, lecture presentations, subject summaries and data matrix. In this context, the relevant contents have been added to the textbooks within the framework of cooperation with the Programs and Textbooks Department. Work on updating and enriching the content in question will continue.

• Mobile Question Bank Application

OGMMATERYAL QUESTION BANK mobile application is available for free on the appstore and playstore to assist the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students in their studies. In the prepared mobile application, there are questions prepared to measure the students' ability to use the information they have acquired in their daily lives, covering the entire curriculum consisting of units belonging to Turkish Language and Literature, History, Geography, Philosophy group, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English.

• YKS Camp

YKS question solutions for Biology, Geography, Philosophy, Physics, English, Chemistry, Mathematics, History, Turkish Language and Literature courses for the 2021-2022 academic year for the 12th grade students, starting from February 14, 2022. It will continue to be broadcast live on the Youtube channel of the General Directorate of Secondary Education until the first week.

In addition, question-solving tests and videos, lecture videos, mini-tests, including all lessons for students preparing for YKS, are available on the "OGMMATERYAL" website.

• Workbooks

In order to support students and teachers, and to increase the diversity of resources in all classes and levels, a workbook for basic lessons has been prepared and started to be presented to students and teachers at the beginning of each month from "yardimcikaynaklar.meb.gov.tr" and "OGMMATERYAL" e-Content warehouse. The workbooks are prepared by enriching them with gamified subject summary, matching, filling in the blanks, puzzles, open-ended questions, and multiple choice questions. Work continues on the workbooks prepared for the basic courses (Turkish Language and Literature, History, Geography, Philosophy, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English), renewed at the beginning of each month in accordance with the annual plan.