TY  - CHAP
AB  - Improving Turkey's low level of education quality and achieving equity in quality education across its seven regions continue to be a monumental challenge. The purpose of this study was to document the extent of Turkey's regional differences in science achievement at the eighth grade and to investigate factors associated with these differences. Identifying the factors influencing Turkey's regional inequalities in student learning is crucial for establishing policies that will help raise the educational performance at the national level as well as close regional gaps. A series of hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analyses were performed at two levels (the school/class level and student level) using Turkey's nationally representative data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007. Findings suggested that attempts to increase Turkish students' achievement and close the achievement gaps between regions should target the students in the undeveloped regions, particularly in Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia. Designing interventions to improve competency in Turkish and to compensate for the shortcomings of insufficient parental education, limited home educational resources, poor school climate for academic achievement, and inadequate instructional equipment and facilities might be expected to close the regional achievement gaps as well as raise the overall achievement level in Turkey. Using TIMSS data, this study provided an example of a methodology that may be employed to describe how student achievement is distributed among various subpopulations of national interest and to investigate the factors that contribute to differences in the achievement distribution.
VL  - 13
SN  - 978-0-85724-449-9, 978-0-85724-450-5/1479-3679
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-3679(2010)0000013008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2010)0000013008
AU  - Erberber Ebru
ED  - Alexander W. Wiseman
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Analyzing Turkey's data from TIMSS 2007 to investigate regional disparities in eighth grade science achievement
T2  - The Impact of International Achievement Studies on National Education Policymaking
T3  - International Perspectives on Education and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 119
EP  - 142
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -