Investigating the Views of Mathematics Teachers on the Effectiveness of Branch Teachers’ Committee Meeting

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the views of mathematics teachers on the effectiveness of
branch teachers’ committee meeting. The study was carried out with 97 (61 elementary school and 36 secondary
school) mathematics teachers who were working in different regions of Turkey. For data collection, a
questionnaire consisting of 20 items developed by Demirtaş and Cömert (2006) and a form included open-ended
questions were used. In order to analyze the gathered data, content analysis technique was performed. At the end
of the study it was observed that the views of mathematics teachers on effectiveness of committee meetings are
amount to on average. Besides, the quantitative findings, the answers given to open – ended questions showed
that a considerable amount of teachers see branch teachers’ committee meeting as a matter of form and have
weak beliefs in the necessity of the meetings. Through the findings gathered, some recommendations were made
by the researchers.