Predicting of science achievement of primary school 4th grade students

The aim of this research is to investigate attitude, motivation, self-efficacy belief; gender, parental education level and teacher evaluation score the level of predicting the science achievement of primary school students. The study group of this research, in which the relational screening model was used, consists of 545 primary school 4th grade students and their classroom teachers studying in the central district of Kütahya. As a data collection tool, Personal Information Form, Science Attitude Scale (SAS), Motivation Scale for Learning Science (MSLS), Science Course Self-Efficacy Scale (SCSS), Teacher Evaluation Form and 2019-2020 academic year fall term 1st and 2nd written science exam grades were used. Pearson Product Moments Correlation and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were used in the analysis of the data. The findings showed positive significant correlations found to be between science achievement and all independent veriable and the predictive veriables included in the analysis together explained 51% of the total variance in science course achievement scores. In addition, it was found that gender, motivation, self-efficacy beliefs and teacher evaluation score were significant predictors of science achievement.