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Review of Finnish and Turkish Education Systems: PISA Sample

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  • Turkmen, Arzu

    (THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC JOURNAL)

  • Inam, Serkan
  • Durak, Dilek
  • Celik, Sevki
  • Civelek, Okay
  • Tamam, Hasan
  • Altintas, Pinar

Abstract

In recent world communities reserve significant budgets for their educational activities in order to maintain their continuities and to reach certainwelfare level. In this regard success of educational systems must be measured. This measuring process is performed through examinationsconducted on national and international level. In this study education systems of Turkey and Finland were reviewed and assessments were conductedover PISA 2013, for which Turkey has attended for the first time. Purpose in this study is to indicate that the country like Turkey, aimingcontinuous development in education, can develop its education system to certain level through transfer of information and systems, by workingunder the education systems of the country like Finland that has proven itself in educational aspect.PISA examination was preferred in this study as comparison measurement due to its scope and attendance level. Literature study was materializedin the scope of this study on the article and official websites of Finnish and Turkish institutions as well as the OECD (Organization ofEconomical Cooperation and Development) database.It is determined according to the results obtained in PISA 2003 in mathematics, reading and science fields that Turkey is not in the top thirtycountries in success ranking and Finland, according to the study, ranked first on all in these three fields.

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  • Turkmen, Arzu & Inam, Serkan & Durak, Dilek & Celik, Sevki & Civelek, Okay & Tamam, Hasan & Altintas, Pinar, 2015. "Review of Finnish and Turkish Education Systems: PISA Sample," The Russian Academic Journal, The Wolfcorner publishing house, vol. 31(1).
    • Handle: RePEc:scn:000raj:368
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