The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019
Students’ socioeconomic status, school climate, and students’ attitudes stand out as important factors that determine academic achievement. The current study investigated the relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate, and academic achievement comparatively in...
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| description | Students’ socioeconomic status, school climate, and students’ attitudes stand out as important factors that determine academic achievement. The current study investigated the relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate, and academic achievement comparatively in terms of countries. Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 data from Turkey, United Kingdom, and Singapore were used for comparison. The study adopted a correlation design for each comparison. The participants were eighth grade students from these three countries. The data were analyzed with Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression. The Singapore sample had an auto-correlation problem, so it was not included in the regression analysis. Socioeconomic status explained 16.6% and attitude towards science explained 9.8% of the change in the academic achievement in the United Kingdom sample while these values were 21.9% and 14.4% for the Turkey sample, respectively. The sub-dimensions of the independent variable were also examined in the study. One the most important factors associated with students’ academic achievement in Turkey is their socioeconomic status. In this sense, the limitations of students in their access to home resources for learning are reflected negatively to their academic performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3b2145364514445a1e02d7971e08c462022-12-22T03:46:02ZengICASEScience Education International2077-23272022-12-0133436637510.33828/sei.v33.i4.3 The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 Metin Kaya 0 Faculty of Education, İstanbul Medipol University, Turkey Students’ socioeconomic status, school climate, and students’ attitudes stand out as important factors that determine academic achievement. The current study investigated the relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate, and academic achievement comparatively in terms of countries. Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 data from Turkey, United Kingdom, and Singapore were used for comparison. The study adopted a correlation design for each comparison. The participants were eighth grade students from these three countries. The data were analyzed with Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and hierarchical multiple regression. The Singapore sample had an auto-correlation problem, so it was not included in the regression analysis. Socioeconomic status explained 16.6% and attitude towards science explained 9.8% of the change in the academic achievement in the United Kingdom sample while these values were 21.9% and 14.4% for the Turkey sample, respectively. The sub-dimensions of the independent variable were also examined in the study. One the most important factors associated with students’ academic achievement in Turkey is their socioeconomic status. In this sense, the limitations of students in their access to home resources for learning are reflected negatively to their academic performance. https://www.icaseonline.net/journal/index.php/sei/article/view/451academic achievementattitudesschool climatesocioeconomic statustimss analysis |
| spellingShingle | Metin Kaya The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 Science Education International academic achievement attitudes school climate socioeconomic status timss analysis |
| title | The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 |
| title_full | The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 |
| title_short | The Relationship among socioeconomic status, attitude towards science, school climate and students' science achievement: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS: A cross-country comparison of TIMSS 2019 |
| title_sort | relationship among socioeconomic status attitude towards science school climate and students science achievement a cross country comparison of timss a cross country comparison of timss 2019 |
| topic | academic achievement attitudes school climate socioeconomic status timss analysis |
| url | https://www.icaseonline.net/journal/index.php/sei/article/view/451 |
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