Opinions of Students' Parents about Performance Task in Science and Technology Class

The aim of this study is to determine the students’ parents’ opinions and their confrontations problems about performance task of the alternative evaluation methods during Science and Technology courses. This new alternative evaluation method aims to remove students’ memorization in education. Performance task’ target is to make studies with their teachers, developing cognitive, sensitive, psycho-motor skills of students and revealing a product as solving problem, understanding what reads, researching. The study was applied to determine parents’ attitudes towards Science and Technology performance homework at two different Primary schools in Hatay. To examine the collected data One-Way ANOVA were used. Research results showed that parents’ have largely positive attitudes towards the performance task.