An Analysis of the Relationship among the Type of High School, The Order of Preferrence and Achievement at the Higher Education

The aim of the study is to analyse the achievement levels of undergraduate students attending to the faculty of education based on the type of the high schools they graduated from and their order of preferrence at the University Placement Examination. The sample of the study includes a total of 1957 undergraduate students attending to several departments within the faculty of education such as Turkish language education, computer and instructional technology education, early education, social sciences education, sciences education and classroom teaching. 1130 of the subjects are females whereas 827 are males. The study concludes that the graduates from the Anatolian Teacher higher schools attend to the departments as their high order of preferrences (n:217, x:6.43). However, in terms of achievement levels, they have the lowest level of achievement. (x:2.19). The achievement level of the graduates of high schools with foreign language focus appear to be the highest (n:377, x:2.69). It is also determined that there is a negative relationship between the order of preferrence and their level of achievement but this relationship is not significant.