

Education Quarterly Reviews
ISSN 2621-5799







Published: 30 April 2021
Analyzing School Attachment of Secondary School Students’ for Regards to Various Variables
Metin Işık, İsa Bahat
Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Turkey

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10.31014/aior.1993.04.02.267
Pages: 571-583
Keywords: School Attachment, Academic Achievement, Student
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether school attachment levels of secondary school students change according to gender, class level, family income level, academic achievement, parents' age level, parents' job and parents' education level variables or not. The sample of the study consists of 382 (211 female, 171 male) students studying in 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades of two secondary schools in Beylikdüzü district of Istanbul in the 2019-2020 academic year. In this study, the "Personal Information Form" developed by the researcher and the "School Attachment Scale for Children and Adolescents" adapted to Turkish by Savi (2011) were used as data collection tools. T-test for binary variables and ANOVA statistical technique for multiple variables were used. According to the findings of the study, there was no significant difference between the variables of gender, academic achievement, parents’ age level, mother's job, family income level and father's education level. However, A significant difference was found between the groups in the variables of the class level of the student, father's job and mother's education level. The findings were discussed and suggestions presented.
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