Abstract:
In the current study, the aim is to determine the high school students’ attitudes
towards their teachers depending on some variables and the relationship between
their attitudes and achievements. Thus, the study was designed according to
relational survey model. The population of the study, which was specified based on
the purposive sampling method, was comprised of 220 ninth and twelfth graders
attending a state high school in the city of Ankara. In the current study, “The Scale
of Students’ Attitudes towards the Teacher (SOSATT)” was used as a data
collection instrument to elicit the students’ attitudes towards their teachers. The
reliability co-efficient of the scale was 0.886. A positive and moderately significant
correlation was found between the ninth grade students’ achievement scores and
their attitude scores taken from the sub-dimensions of the scale and from the whole
scale. Finally, teachers can be suggested to establish more effective communication
with their students and to use methods and strategies that can enhance academic
achievement.
