Perspectives of undergraduate students towards IBDP and MoNE high school education
Author(s)
Advisor
Sands, Margaret K.Date
2015Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
The study examined the perspectives of undergraduate students who had graduated
from high school with both an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP)
and a Ministry of National Education Program (MoNEP), and those who graduated
with MoNEP alone. The researcher conducted a 5-point Likert scale survey of 21
questions with 75 undergraduate students studying at a private university in Ankara.
In addition, five undergraduate students were interviewed using a semi-structured
interview. The survey results were analyzed with regard to five factors: university
preparedness, benefits of the curriculum, overall satisfaction, stress and detriments of
the curriculum. To differentiate between IBDP and MoNEP t-tests were conducted.
ANOVA was used to differentiate between subject areas. Interview results were
summarized for deeper insight of the factors. IBDP graduates had more positive
results than MoNEP graduates in preparedness, benefits and satisfaction factors,
whereas MoNEP graduates had more positive results in stress and detriment factors.