Secondary school students’ level of fulfillment of their learning responsibilities in school learning

Learning responsibility is one of the most studied responsibility forms in the literature.Learning responsibility has a particular importance because of forming a basis for individual's learning the other responsibilities.The aim of this study is to determine secondary school students’ level of fulfilment of their learning responsibilities in school learning. The study is a research implemented in screening modeling. Data are acquired from “Learning Responsibility Scale II” (LRS) and 591 students. LRS-II is a scale comprised of 22 terms and 2 factors. Validity property of data collection tool is tested through (1) exploratory factor analyze, (2) item-total correlation and (3) analyses of item distinctiveness. Factor loads of the item are between 0.552 and 0.721. Amount of declared variance is 41.366 %. Reliability coefficient of LRS-II is determined as Cronbach’s Alpha .89. On the data; arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t test, MWU test, ANOVA test are conducted. It is revealed briefly at the end of the study that secondary school students better fulfilled their externally managed learning responsibilities with a significant difference and that female students compared to male students, lower class students compared to senior class students, students attending private teaching institutions compared to those who do not and general high school students compared to Anatolian high school students better fulfilled their learning responsibilities.