Investigation of the relationship between values orientation of the secondary school students and academic achievements

In this study, it is aimed to find out whether there is a significant difference between the value orientations and academic achievements of the middle school students according to the different variables. For this purpose, the main problem of "Is there a relationship between the value orientations and academic achievements of secondary school students?" were searched by taking into consideration gender, age and homework time variables. The research was conducted with correlational survey model from the general survey models included in the quantitative research methods. The study group consisted of 596 secondary school students in a secondary school in the Hendek district of Sakarya province in the 2018-2019 academic year. The selection of the research group was determined by random sampling method(easily accessible) using randomly-probability sampling. The data were obtained by using the Value Orientation Scale (DSI) and the course grade information obtained from the students' passbooks for the previous academic year. In order to solve the research problems, firstly the normality assumption has been tested. Skewness and skewness coefficients of variables were examined for testing the assumption of normality. Simple linear regression, Pearson's correlation coefficient, unrelated samples-t test, Mann Whitney U test, One-way Anova and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to analyze the data according to the obtained skewness and skewness coefficients. In analyzing data, SPSS 17.0 software package was used with0.05 significance level in order to test the significance of the research problems. Within the scope of the research, a statistically significant and low positive positive relationship was found between the students' well-being value orientations and the academic achievements of Turkish, mathematics, religious culture and ethics, science, social studies and English courses. It was found that there was a statistically significant and low level negative relationship between the achievement value orientations of students and the academic achievements of Turkish, mathematics, religious culture and ethics, science, social studies and English courses. The findings related to the concepts were discussed in detail in the literature and suggestions were made regarding the results of the research and future researches.