Investigation of Relation Between Academic Achievement And School, Family And Student’s Characteristics With Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between the academic achievement of students attending secondary school of grades 6, 7 and 8 and school, family and student characteristics with multilevel structure equation modelling. The sample of this research using the predictive correlational research design is composed of 6, 7 and 8 grades of students who are studying in a total of thirty five schools including five official and two private schools selected from each of the provinces of Ankara which are Çankaya, Keçiören, Mamak, Altındağ and Yenimahalle in the first term of the academic year of 2016-2017. In this research to collect data, the student information questionnaire developed by the researcher, the scale of fear of negative evaluation in the academic environment developed by Alkan (2015) and the academic risk taking scale adapted to Turkish by Korkmaz (2002) were used. As a result of the research, at the within level the direct effects of the socioeconomic level, the fear of negative evaluation and academic risk taking behavior variables were found to be significant on academic achievement. While the effects of socioeconomic level and academic risk-taking behavior variables on academic achievement is positive, the effect of fear of negative evaluation variable on academic achievement is negative. In between level, the direct effects of the classroom size and number of students per teacher have significant direct effect on academic achievement. The effect of both variables on academic achievement is negative.