TY  - JOUR
TT  - GENERATION STUDY OF PISA MATHS PROFICIENCY LEVELS IN TURKISH 6TH GRADE STUDENTS
AU  - Basokcu, T. Oguz
AU  - Ceylan, Simge
PY  - 2017
DA  - August
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 14
EP  - 23
VL  - 6
KW  - Maths proficiency
KW  - PISA
KW  - rasch model
N2  - PISAis an international exam which aims to assess whether 15-year-old students areable to convert their academic outcomes into solving daily life issues as wellas analyzing high level cognitive skills. PISA evaluates the outcomes throughitem-based skills classification constituted by IRT technique with the help ofthe samples gathered from each participant country. Skill classification is agrouping process which helps to interpret the proficiency of students atdifferent points in accordance with the ranges described for each level. Forthe Maths proficiency level of classes gathered by this process increasing from1 to 6 hierarchically: the ability to give the correct answer at Level 1 onlywhen all related information is presented and questions are clearly explainedis recognized, whereas it is more frequent to recognize the correct answer atLevel 6 in which high level cognitive skills are used, necessary knowledge isorganized and interpreted to solve the problem. Of all the OECD countries,15.8% of China and 10% of Japan are at Level 1, which is 52% for Turkey. Anexperimental study is being pursued in an attempt to enhance the Maths literacysuccess of 6th grades by increasing the number of implementations inlarge-scale international exams with TUBITAK Research Project numbered 115K531.About 3200 students are included within the project as a longitudinal study.The equivalence of the tests to that of PISA has been assured. At this point,the study aims to determine whether the classifications made for PISA Turkeysimilarly range also in the younger age group, as well as aiming to find outwhether the origin of the distinction between Turkey and other OECD countriesin the higher levels begins at an earlier age. In Izmir province, 6thgrade students who were determined randomly by the stratification method weresubjected to tests that required multiple levels of thinking and represented 6thgrade Maths subjects through test items in the form of multiple choice,true-false and open-ended. Plausible scores appropriate for PISA procedures andthe cut points determined by using those scores and PISA standards weredesignated and proficiency levels were obtained. The proficiency levels of 6thgrade students in the sample were specified with the help of this method. Whenthe results of the study are analyzed in detail, it is clearly seen that thepercentages described in the PISA 2015 Report show a similar distributionacross the classrooms.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/issue//332638
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/332085
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