Socioeconomic Factors of Students’ Relation to Mathematic Achievement: Comparison of PISA and ÖBBS

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Article History: Received 14.06.2014 Received in revised form 01.07.2014 Accepted 19.07.2014 Available online 02.12.2014 The purpose of this study is to identify socioeconomic factors that are related to students’ mathematics achievement in the national large scale test OBBS 2009 and the international large scale test PISA 2009. Socioeconomic factors were considered in two levels. These are student level and school level. Therefore, two level hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used. The participants of the study include 65275 students who took OBBS 2009 and 4575 students who took PISA 2009 in Turkey. In both tests, the factors that were found to be related to mathematics achievement are student’s father’s education and the resources owned. At the school level, the educational development level of the city where the school is located was found to be related to students’ mathematics achievement © 2014 IOJES. All rights reserved