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Bezek Güre, Özlem; Sevgin, Hikmet; Kayri, Murat – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
The research aims to determine the factors affecting PISA 2018 reading skills using the Random Forest and MARS methods and to compare their prediction abilities. This study used the information from 5713 students, 2838 (49.7%) male and 2875 (50.3%) female, in the PISA 2018 Turkey. The analysis shows the MARS method performed better than the Random…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Shera, Perparim – International Education Studies, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to examine the characteristics of Albanian secondary schools, which are associated with reading achievement and the effects of gender and socio-economic status on reading performance of 15-year-old students. This study used data on the background and achievement of 4,596 students in 181 Albanian schools from the 2009…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Reading Achievement, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Influences
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Shukakidze, Berika – International Education Studies, 2013
The work is based on PISA 2009 International Assessment Study. Two counties were selected: a developed country, Estonia and a developing country, Azerbaijan. The following Datum was used for statistical analysis: students average scores in reading (162 schools, 4 600 students from Azerbaijan; 17 schools, 4 923 students from Estonia). The work is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Reading Achievement, Developed Nations