ERIC Number: EJ1440294
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jun
Pages: 15
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Concurrent Validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions: Canonical Correlation Analysis
International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, v11 n2 p143-157 2024
The aim of the study is to reveal the concurrent validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions (OKMS). For this purpose, the relationship between the OKMS subtest raw scores of the students who took the exam and the 8th-grade year-end achievement scores of the courses within the scope of the exam was analyzed by canonical correlation analysis. Grade 8 achievement scores were taken as the independent (predictor) variable, and OKMS subtest scores were taken as the dependent (criterion) variable. The study was conducted on 3029 8th-grade students who took the OKMS. Only one canonical correlation was found to be significant between the two sets of variables. 8th-grade achievement scores were highly positively correlated with OKMS subtest scores. While 8th-grade foreign language and science achievement scores had a high predictive power for OKMS subtest raw scores, it was found that the predictive power of the achievement scores of the religious culture course in explaining the OKMS subtest raw scores was low. The set of 8th-grade scores explained 48.6% of the total variance in the variable set of OKMS subtest raw scores. The OKMS subtest variable set explains 60.1% of the total variance in the set of 8th-grade scores.
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Test Validity, Raw Scores, Achievement Tests, Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, Science Tests, Language Tests, Religious Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Science Education, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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