HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ and STUDENTS’ IDEAS on EVIDENCE-BASED HISTORY TEACHING: An EXAMINATION of EXISTING STATUS

This study has been realized to detect perception of teachers and students to “history teaching method based on evidence”; to provide to teachers and students comparison between “history teaching method based on evidence” and existing system in purpose to evaluate, at the same time. The research has been realized with 12 history teachers from different high school types and 12 students from different high school types who loved/ unloved history. As the research design, action research study pattern from qualitative research methods was used. As among the examples of action research pattern; liberatory/developmental/critical is preferred in research. Criterion sampling type from purposeful sampling model was defined as the sample type for the research. "Teacher and Student Interview Form, Evidence-Based History Teaching Presentation and Voice Recorder" were used in the collection of research data. During the research process, interviews were held in pre-determined schools in days and time periods for which teachers and students were available. The data collected during the research process were analyzed letter- perfect. For this purpose, at the first stage interviews recorded voice recorder was transferred to word processing file; after that categorical analysis tables formed from proposals were made ready to use in accordance with the research questions. For the research result; in addition to that research questions asked from teachers and students during the "history teaching based on evidence” practice are almost same, it has been observed that students gave more specific answers than teachers. In addition, when general opinions of teachers and students are examined, it can be said that their opinions on applying the history teaching method based on evidence to the schools and urgently to put it into practice are the same