DETERMINATION OF STUDENTS’ PROFILES ACCORDING TO HOME EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT VIA LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS

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The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between mathematics achievements andownership of the home educational resources of students via Latent Class Analysis (LCA) using Programmefor International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 study. Although 5895 15-year-old Turkish studentswere participated in PISA study, the data of 5355 students were included in the analysis because of themissing data of the selected variables. 12 items which were related to students’ home educational resourceswere used in LCA analysis. As a result, 3 classes were determined; 32% of students were in 1st latent class,29% of students were in 2nd latent class and 39% of students were in 3rd latent class. It was revealed thatstudents in 1st latent class had only “a desk to study at”, “a quiet place to study”, “books to help with yourschool work” and “a dictionary” while students in 3rd latent class had all the home educational resources(12 items). Furthermore, it was shown that students in 3rd latent class had the highest mathematics scorewhile students in 1st latent class had the lowest mathematics scores.