Factors Affecting Success Of High School Students In Turkey

Abstract

This paper analyses the success of high school students in Denizli/Turkey who aim to access the quantitative departments of universities such as department of mathematics etc. Depending on the relevant literature, the dependent variable is the student scores in the university access exam, while the explanatory variables collection of the characteristics of the student, their family, and the school. For this research, the space was 1793 students. Our final sample size is 944 questionnaires that fulfilled the requirements of a scientific study. Some key explanatory variables are used one by one to estimate the students' success. Subsequently, the different success models were estimated using multiple explanatory variables covering aspects of the student, their family, their school, and their environment. The results confirm that supportive education, income, parents' educational level, and the family's social and cultural status positively influence a student's success. School specific factors are usually not significant. Each part of the education system can apply the results from this study to reorganize the structure of syllabuses of the courses and to understand better family and school related factors' effect on the students' success.