Problem Statement: The intention of this study is to determine
whether written examination questions used in primary education fulfill
their purpose in measuring students’ verbal skills acquisition or not,
whether the distribution of the written examination questions on the
cognitive domain sublevels is balanced or not, and whether the
examination questions reach target behaviors determined by the
program or not. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to make a number
of suggestions designed in accordance with the results of the research.
The results will be obtained by means of a taxonomic distribution in the
cognitive domain of the written examination questions used in
measuring Turkish students’ verbal skills acquisition, assessing the level
of the questions used to reach target behaviors determined by the
program, and determining teachers’ measurement and assessment
competencies. Method: The study has been conducted in 47 institutions
of primary education selected from various socio-cultural districts in the
Kayseri province. The written examination papers of 101 Turkish
language teachers selected from the chosen schools have been
collected. A total of 69 written examination papers have been randomly
selected from the written examination paper samples belonging to the
sixth, seventh, and eighth grades and 603 questions have been chosen
for the analysis. These 603 questions have been examined using the
qualitative research approach, document examination method, and the