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Niehues, Wenke; Kisbu-Sakarya, Yasemin; Selcuk, Bilge – Educational Psychology, 2020
Turkey is an interesting context to study the applicability of the Expectancy-Value-Theory (EVT), since it is a less well-studied research context with a highly selective, centralised, and competitive education system and a more collectivistic-orientated population. In such a context, well-established factors known to drive students' achievement,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Parent Attitudes
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Arikan, Serkan; Yildirim, Kasim; Erbilgin, Evrim – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
Turkish students on average had lower scores than OECD countries on mathematics, science, and reading at international assessment programs. As PISA measures the extent to which 15-year-old students are prepared to handle the challenges they may encounter in their future lives, and evaluates students' ability to reflect and to apply their knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scores, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement