Uygulay c lara G re Yaz Kur’an Kurslar Uygulamas ve Denetimi üzerine De erlendirme

Audit can be defined as the control of human behaviors for the benefit of public and the institution (Taymaz, 2005). Ba ar(1994: 148-149) defines audit as an integration of activities composed of elements such as status determination, assessment,correction, and improvement. In Turkish National Education System, there is a Primary School Inspectors Directorate which issubordinate to the Provincial Directorate for National Education. The purpose of this directorate is to audit the educationprovided in the cities and decide whether it achieves its goals or not. Jurisdiction of primary school inspectors in cities isconsiderably wide. It is observed that primary school inspectors are assigned with the duty of auditing education in all kinds ofprivate or public institutions. Audits of summer schools are also among these duties. It is important to indicate that studentsattend to summer schools voluntarily.Koran courses are educational institutes which are opened as due 7/d article of the Law number 633 about the constitutionand duties of Religious Affairs Directorate. They operate according to the provisions of the respective directive of the same law.The purpose of Koran courses emanated from the need for learning the Koran can be summarized as to teach how to read Koranin an appropriate way or to help memorizing it, to teach the explanation of the texts from Koran, to introduce the Prophet’s lifeand exemplary morality, to enlighten the participants in parallel with the beliefs, prayers, and ethics principles of Islam religion,and to give necessary religious information about everyday life of a Muslim (Sucu, 1999). It should be noted that attending toKoran courses is voluntary.According to Akyürek (2005), when the tasks expected from a Koran course student are analyzed, the following facts areobserved: Teacher, first of all, should have domain knowledge to teach Koran and other religious information. Moreover, in orderto be able to teach the domain knowledge to the target population, educational knowledge and skills are required. In addition tothis, the teacher should have general knowledge to be able to relate the domain knowledge to the everyday lives of the students. educational knowledge and skills, and general knowledge prior to the service.The purpose of audit in education is to find the realization levels of the pre-determined educational and training objectivesand the most appropriate values and operations for those educational and training objectives (Ayd n, 2007). The purpose of thisstudy is to determine the status of the course audits performed by p