An Evaluation of KPSS Scores According to Grade Point Avarege and Gender

Abstract

In Turkey, candidates who want to be appointed as a teacher have to enter a selection exam knovvn as the KPSS exam(Government Officials Selection Examinalion) after they have graduated from college. The aim of this study was to compare the candidates’ Grade Point Average (GPA) and KPSS scores according to gender. Moreover, it was also investigated whether the GPA can be predicative of KPSS scores. This study involved 727 teacher candidates (311 female, 416 male) who graduated from Erzincan Faculty of Education in the summer semester of 2002-2003 academic year and who entered the KPSS-Ogretmenlik exam in 2003. The results show that the GPA of female teacher candidates was significantly higher than that of male teacher candidates and tire KPSS scores of male teacher candidates were significantly higher than that of female teacher candidates. The GPA is predicative for scores of the KPSS for 15 % of male candidates and for 14.6% of female candidates.