Secondary School Students' Equality of Opportunity and Possibility Perceptions for Primary Schools and Secondary Schools

In this study, it is aimed to determine how the secondary school students perceive primary schools and secondary schools in which they received their education in terms of equality of opportunity and possibility. Causal-comparative model is used for this research. The data of the research, which was conducted on the secondary school students in the city center of Burdur, was collected through the “Scale of Equality of Opportunity and Possibility in Education”. Descriptive analyses such as percentage and frequency and One-Way Manova analysis were used in the study. As a result of this study, it was understood that the perceptions of secondary school students in regard to equality of opportunity and possibility varied based on gender, type of school and whether the place of living is rural or urban. It was determined that the students, who received education in a type of school except for women’s vocational secondary school and live in the city, perceived their primary school and secondary school to be more sufficient in regard to the equality of opportunity and possibility. This study includes suggestions in line with the acquired results