ERIC Number: ED624188
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 13
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Investigation of Secondary School Students' Attitudes towards Refugee Students
Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International EJERCongress (2022)
The purpose of the present research is to examine secondary school students' attitudes towards refugee students in terms of some variables. The population of the research, which was designed in a single survey model, consisted of 40791 secondary school students studying in public schools in Pendik district of Istanbul in the second semester of the 2021-2022 academic year. The sample of the study consisted of 355 students selected by simple random sampling method. A personal information form and the Attitude Scale Towards Refugee Students were used to identify the attitudes of students towards refugee students studying at their schools in collecting the research data. The scale consisted of 24 items with 3-point Likert type nand one dimension. As a result of the analysis, it was found that secondary school students' attitudes towards refugee students were at a "high" level. In addition, their attitudes towards refugee students did not differentiate significantly according to the gender of the students, the number of classes they study and whether there are refugee students in their classes, but according to the variable of the class studied, the attitudes of the 5th and 7th grade students towards refugee students were higher than that of the 6th and 8th grade students, and this difference was found to be statistically significant. [This paper was published in: "EJERCongress 2022 Conference Proceedings," Ani Publishing, 2022, pp. 185-197.]
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Age Differences
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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