The determinants of student achievement in Turkey

MA Dincer, G Uysal - International Journal of Educational Development, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent achievement test results show that Turkish students have been performing poorly
compared to students from other countries. Using science literacy results from the PISA 2006 …

Equity in the Turkish education system: A multilevel analysis of social background influences on the mathematics performance of 15-year-old students

C Özdemir - European Educational Research Journal, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper aims to discover the level of equity in the Turkish education system using maths
outcomes of 15-year-old students in the Programme for International Student Assessment …

Globalization and its challenges for developing countries: The case of Turkish higher education

H Akar - Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010 - Springer
This paper examines the challenges faced by the Turkish higher education system and
exposes the inequities and realities educators in a developing nation must struggle with as …

Turkey: Silencing ethnic inequalities under a carpet of nationalism shifting between secular and religious poles

G Baysu, O Agirdag - The Palgrave handbook of race and ethnic …, 2019 - Springer
This article offers a systematic review of educational and sociological research in Turkey on
the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality between 1980 and 2017 …

After the reform in Turkey: A content analysis of SBS and TIMSS assessment in terms of mathematics content, cognitive domains, and item types

L Incikabi - Education as Change, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to compare SBS with TIMSS in terms of distribution of content
domains (numbers, algebra, geometry, and data and chance) and cognitive domains …

Multi-program high school students' attitudes and self-efficacy perceptions toward mathematics

HY Mumcu, MC Aktaş - Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015 - dergipark.org.tr
Problem Statement: So far, there have been many problems in maths education in the world;
negative attitudes and low self-efficacy perceptions towards mathematics are the two …

Personality, motivation, and math achievement among Turkish students: Evidence from PISA data

E Akben-Selcuk - Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Using the Turkish portion of the Programme for International Student Assessment dataset
(N= 4,848; 51% boys, 49% girls; age, M= 15.81 years, SD= 0.28), this study investigated …

Assessing the efficiency of Turkish secondary education: Heterogeneity, centralization, and scale diseconomies

N Davutyan, M Demir, S Polat - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper begins with a historical overview of the Turkish educational system. We then use
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and econometric methods to evaluate the system's …

Turkish Students' scientific literacy scores: A multilevel analysis of data from program for international student assessment

HB Yilmaz - 2009 - rave.ohiolink.edu
A vast majority of the studies exploring the associations between student and school related
factors and standardized test scores were conducted in developed countries. On the other …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of secondary education PISA results in European member states and Turkey via DEA and SEM

F Lorcu, BA Bolat - Journal of WEI Business and Economics, 2015 - westeastinstitute.com
Abstract The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) conducts educational
research that involves students in the 15 year old age group and seeks to measure their …