The Factors Effecting Reading Literacy in the Programme for International Students' Achievement (PISA) 2009

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the factors effecting the reading literacy of 15 year old age-group students in Turkey, within the context of the Programme for International Student's Achievment (PISA) 2009. The study involved 4996 students. To determine the factors effecting reading literacy, analysis based on sub-problems was conducted. In this analysis, firstly an exploratory factor analysis by questionnaire was conducted concerning questions relating to interest and learning strategies. Then the defined factors were analyzed based upon confirmatory factor analysis and, finally, linear regression analysis was conducted to establish the reading literacy explanation ratio of the defined factors. Based upon these results, a 7-factor stucture related to reading literacy was derived and confirmatory factor analysis of the 7-factored structure was confirmed. This defined 7-factor structure explained 59.71 percent of the total variation. As a result of multiple linear regression analysis, it was found that the determined variables identified the 14.1 portion of reading.