The Sufficiency of the Science and Mathematics Questions in the Student Selection Exam (SSE) in the Year 2003 on the Measurement of the Students’ Scientific Process Skills

Abstract

The Student Selection Exam (SSE), being one of the most important exams in Turkey, aims to evaluate the success levels of the students and to place, according to their preferences, the examinees who will do better in a degree program than the others. For this reason, the faet that the SSE should be designed in such a way that it will be able to discriminate from among the examinees the prospective science and mathematics students with scientific thinking skills should not be neglected. In this research, the aim is to determine whether the science and mathematics questions in the SSE are sufficient enough to measure whether or not the students have some scientific process skills. The Scientific Process Skill Test (SPST) was given to 209 students who had been placed in science and mathematics teaching programs after the 2003 SSE. The SSE weighted Standard points of the students and their SPST results were compared by the Pearson Moments Multiplication Correlation Coefficient (r). The correlation coefficient was found to be 0.17, which shows that there is a low relation between the two tesis.