Views of Secondary School Students in the Context of Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Reading Comprehension Levels

Reading includes an affective process as well as cognitive one. As one of the sub-categories of affective dimension, the perception of self-efficacy has an effect upon comprehension and interpretation in the process of reading. The aim of this study is to contribute to deepen the literature by bringing the findings of research that is practiced on different samples within the frame of dimensional relationship between the perception of reading self-efficacy and reading comprehension skill. In this context the city of Antalya is defined as population. Data are collected from the samples of 1033 students defined circumstantially. Data that are gathered by means of reader self-efficacy scale and reading comprehension test questions, are loaded to SPSS program and analyzed. In the process of data, Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient is calculated. According to the result, it is ascertained that perception of self-efficacy of 8th grade students is high. Relationship between perception of self-efficacy and reading comprehension is also discovered as medium-level and significant positive correlation. Acquired findings are presented at the conclusion part by being discussed with the related researches in the literature.