ORTAÖĞRETİM ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN OKULA İLİŞKİN TUTUMLARININ DEVAMSIZLIK VE OKUL BAŞARILARI ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of effect of high school students’ attitudes on their absence and school success and to find out whether the attitudes of high school students towards school change according to personal values of them or not. The data of this study is collected through survey technique from quantitative methods. The study group is consisted of 10th grade students in 10 government high schools located in Viranşehir, the town of Şanlıurfa city, in academic years of 2011-2012 spring term. In the selection of the study group, stratified sampling method was used and at least 25 percent of the students in 10th grade in each school filled the scales. Test techniques such as percent, standard deviation, t-Test, variance (ANOVA) analysis and Tukey-HSD were used. ‘’Attitudes towards school scale’’ with 21 items developed by Adıgüzel (2012) was used to collect data for this study. The scale is composed of 4 negative and 17 positive attitude items under 4 sub dimensions and was applied to 357 students: 201 boys, 156 girls. SPSS 16.0 was used for the statistical analysis. According to results obtained through this study, female students’ attitudes towards school are found to be significantly more positive than male students. Students’ attitudes towards school show significant difference compared to their absence levels. Students with lower level of absenteeism are found to have more positive attitudes to school compared to students with more level of absenteeism. However, students’ attitudes towards school do not show any significant difference compared to their marks and school success level.