Answers to biology qestions asked in student selection exams by teacher candidates between the years of 1999-2004

In this study, the achievement levels of freshman students pursuing their educations inthe Faculty of Gazi Education in Gazi University were compared by employing biyology testquestions asked in Student Selection Exams between 1999-2004 years,according to somesocio-economic factors.Main statistical methods to analyze data collected in this study were t-test and one-way ANOVA tests. Additionally, in t-tests and one-way ANOVA tests, the independentvariables of the study are genders, departments, the scores taken from Student Selection Test,high school types, their fields, the geographic regions that they were graduated, theirattendance to preparation courses offered by the private institutions to the university test, theirparents? educational and income levels and the number of the siblings.The sample of study covers the freshman students coming from the departments ofMathematics Education, Science Education, Elementary Education, as well as Physics,Chemistry and Biology Education. As a scale of this study, an achievement test with 25 itemsselected from Biyology Questions asked in Student Selection Exams between 1999-2004 wereprepared to assess science, math and elementary major freshman students? achievementlevels. According to biology topics, the distributions of biology questions used in this studymeets the frequency of main biology topics asked in the Student Selection Exams.In the result, there are some statistically mean differences observed in the kind ofdepartments, student?s success levels, scores taken from Student Selection Test, their fieldand attendance to a private institution for preparing the test, their parents? educational andincome levels and the number of siblings showing a meaningful difference, it was observedthat there happened no differency in the factors such as gender, high school type and regionalgraduation places.Keywords: Student Selection Exams, Socio-economic Factors, Success LevelThis document was created by the trial version of Print2PDF.Once Print2PDF is registered, this message will disappear.Purchase Print2PDF at http://www.software602.com