School Climate and Reading Achievement Gap of Students in Turkey: What Does PISA Say?

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: New Research on School Climate, Academic Achievement, and Higher Education (Table 6)

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to examine the relationship between school climate and student achievement. School climate is considered as a two-level structure at student and school level. The relationship between success and school climate was examined with the two-level hierarchical linear model method.
The variable with the highest correlation with reading success is student behaviors that hinder teaching. There is a negative significant relationship between student behaviors that disrupt teaching and reading success. A one-unit increase in student behaviors that disrupt teaching causes a 38.64 point decrease in reading scores (γ02= -38.639, SH=5.25, p<0.01).
The findings are the fact that social justice in education is still not achieved, what needs to be read behind the PISA results.

Author

• Metin Ozkan, University of Gaziantep
  Presenting Author