Investigation of Turkish students’ performance in mathematics, reading and science literacy in the pisa 2012 data

Abstract

Every student needs to be provided a certain minimum level of acquisition in the education system. Hence, this study investigated differences in students’ performance in mathematics, reading and science literacy among the school types and geographical regions in Turkey by using PISA 2012 data. In this research, MANOVA was employed using Multivariate Linear Model procedure of SPSS. The aims of the research were to examine if there are any differences among Turkish students’ performance that live in different geographical regions in Turkey in terms of mathematics, reading and science literacy and also to examine whether there are any differences among Turkish students’ performance in mathematics, reading and science with respect to the school types or not. Analyses of the current study based on PISA 2012 data showed that Turkish students’ performance in mathematics, reading and science differed significantly across the geographical regions and school types. The major difference was observed among school types.