Sense of School Belonging Among Imam Hatip High School Students (？orum Case)

This research, the main purpose of which is to examine the sense of school belonging of imam hatip high school (IHHS) students, has been carried out on 276 students (145 girls, 131 boys) who are studying at imam hatip high schools in the city center of ？orum in the 2018-2019 academic year. ”IHHS School Belonging Scale” which was developed by A？lamac？ and Eker was used for data collection. The analysis of the data transferred to the SPSS 16.0 package program has been done by descriptive statistics, independent groups t-test and one-way variance analysis. According to the findings, it has been found that the students’ level of school belonging (X=3.51) is high. Although there is no statistically significant difference between the scores of the students' school belonging scale according to their gender, it has been determined that the average of male students is higher than the average of female students. Moreover, while the scores obtained from the scale do not show a significant difference according to the students' class levels, the educational level of the parents, the income of the family and the academic achievement level of the past year (p> 0.05), there are significant differences between the groups according to the students' reasons for the IHHS preference and the fields they want to study at university