City and Regional Planning Undergraduate Students Attitudes Towards Learning Outcomes

Abstract

The purpose of undergraduate education is to train cumulative and questioning individuals. Through this basic understanding, each discipline-oriented curriculum is shaped for the agenda and the outlook. The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) is a department covering some four years of education which is under the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture in some universities and some in Architecture. Students who graduate from CRP can work in the public or private sector and in local administrations as city and regional planners.Although the CRP Department is a discipline affiliated with Institute of Science in Turkey, it offers a theoretical-conceptual framework in many different contexts including geographical, demographic, sociological, economic, political, legal and historical contexts. The CRP Department aims to learn how a undergraduate student can analyze the relationship between human- society-space trilogy and historical context and process-institutional structure-application dimensions. For this reason, CRP undergraduate education contributes to the transformation of the spatial structure in different geographical regions together with the social structure changing from the early ages.Today, 22 universities in Turkey are trained in CRP department. For the 2017-2018 education period, 1237 student were placed in CRP departments and 4% (52 people) of these students were placed in CRP department of Necmettin Erbakan University (NEU) (OK, 2017). Necmettin Erbakan University CRP Department started its undergraduate education in the 2014-2015 Education Year. The department will award first undergraduate graduates in Spring 2018. The aim of this study is to analyze the evaluations of undergraduate students studying in the City and Regional Planning Department of the Engineering and Architecture Faculty in the context of the program outputs. In this context, the quality of education is to make inferences that can contribute to the process of restructuring the educational curriculum in the direction of continuous innovation principle. Questionnaire was used as a means of collecting information in the survey. Statistical evaluation of data; SPSS 21.0 program, Frequency Analysis, Independent Samples Test and One Way Variance Analysis. The results show that undergraduate students are not related to their age, gender, and perceptions of their learning outcomes. Statistical evaluation of the data was done by using Frequency Analysis, Independent Samples Test and One Way Variance Analysis using SPSS 21.0 program. Maps were exported from the database created in the SPSS program with “.xls” extension and transferred to ArcGis program. As a result, it was found that there was no relation between age, gender, class characteristics and perceptions of learning outcomes of undergraduate students.

Keywords: City and Regional Planning Department, Undergraduate Education, Learning Outcomes