TY - JOUR TT - The Effect of Parents’ Level of Education on Students’ Mathematics Achievement AU - Ural, Alaattin AU - Çınar, Fatma Nilay PY - 2016 DA - July JF - Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi JO - MAKÜ EBED PB - Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-6467 SP - 42 EP - 57 VL - 3 IS - 4 KW - Anne-babanın eğitim düzeyi KW - matematik başarısı N2 - Aim of the current research is to examine whether there is a relationship between parental education level and mathematics achievement. Sample of the research consists of 55 7th grade students in a school which was selected randomly in Burdur. The students were given a form in which they were asked to mark their parents’ level of education and write their mathematics points in the end of the first semester. Parental education level as independent variable were categorized as primary, middle, high school and university and the students’ points in those categories were compared with Kruskal Wallis H-Test. The results revealed that there was not a relationship between parental education level and mathematics achievement statistically. However, it was seen that the students’ mathematics points increased as their mothers’ level of education, and this situtation was also valid for their fathers considerably. Only the fathers who graduated from middle school broke the pattern UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ebed/issue//239290 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/207756 ER -