Research Article

Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement

Volume: 10 Number: 1 April 15, 2020
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Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement

Abstract

The foundation of transition from elementary education to secondary education is rooted in exams as well as the success gained from those exams. Although students were placed into a secondary education institution based on their exam scores in the previous exam system, with the newly-implemented ‘Entrance System for High Schools’ (shortly LGS in Turkish), there are two different student placements under consideration: (1) centralized placement, and (2) local placement. The purpose of the current study is to develop an attitude scale based on Guttman Scaling in order to investigate the attitudinal behaviors of the parents in the current education system. In line with this objective, a draft scale, consisting of ten items were administered to 241 parents whose children were placed into a high school in the 2017-2018 academic year. In the direction of the responses provided by the parents, four items were removed from the scale. Reliability test was conducted on the residual six items. The coefficient of reproducibility was calculated as 0,986 and scalability coefficient was 0,925, which is considered as acceptable for the reliability of the current scale. It was concluded that Guttman Scaling for local placement (i.e., address-based placement) is a reliable research tool for measuring attitudes towards placements in secondary education.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Other Fields of Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

April 15, 2020

Submission Date

November 26, 2019

Acceptance Date

April 5, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 10 Number: 1

APA
Coşkun, M., İnam, B., & Turanlı, N. (2020). Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement. Sakarya University Journal of Education, 10(1), 152-165. https://doi.org/10.19126/suje.646778
AMA
1.Coşkun M, İnam B, Turanlı N. Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement. SUJE. 2020;10(1):152-165. doi:10.19126/suje.646778
Chicago
Coşkun, Meltem, Bahattin İnam, and Necla Turanlı. 2020. “Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement”. Sakarya University Journal of Education 10 (1): 152-65. https://doi.org/10.19126/suje.646778.
EndNote
Coşkun M, İnam B, Turanlı N (April 1, 2020) Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement. Sakarya University Journal of Education 10 1 152–165.
IEEE
[1]M. Coşkun, B. İnam, and N. Turanlı, “Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement”, SUJE, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 152–165, Apr. 2020, doi: 10.19126/suje.646778.
ISNAD
Coşkun, Meltem - İnam, Bahattin - Turanlı, Necla. “Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement”. Sakarya University Journal of Education 10/1 (April 1, 2020): 152-165. https://doi.org/10.19126/suje.646778.
JAMA
1.Coşkun M, İnam B, Turanlı N. Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement. SUJE. 2020;10:152–165.
MLA
Coşkun, Meltem, et al. “Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement”. Sakarya University Journal of Education, vol. 10, no. 1, Apr. 2020, pp. 152-65, doi:10.19126/suje.646778.
Vancouver
1.Meltem Coşkun, Bahattin İnam, Necla Turanlı. Entrance System for High Schools: Development of the Guttman Attitude Scale towards Local Placement. SUJE. 2020 Apr. 1;10(1):152-65. doi:10.19126/suje.646778

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