In recent world communities reserve significant budgets for their educational activities in order to maintain their continuities and to reach certain
welfare level. In this regard success of educational systems must be measured. This measuring process is performed through examinations
conducted on national and international level. In this study education systems of Turkey and Finland were reviewed and assessments were conducted
over PISA 2013, for which Turkey has attended for the first time. Purpose in this study is to indicate that the country like Turkey, aiming
continuous development in education, can develop its education system to certain level through transfer of information and systems, by working
under the education systems of the country like Finland that has proven itself in educational aspect.
PISA examination was preferred in this study as comparison measurement due to its scope and attendance level. Literature study was materialized
in the scope of this study on the article and official websites of Finnish and Turkish institutions as well as the OECD (Organization of
Economical Cooperation and Development) database.
It is determined according to the results obtained in PISA 2003 in mathematics, reading and science fields that Turkey is not in the top thirty
countries in success ranking and Finland, according to the study, ranked first on all in these three fields.
Arzu Turkmen, Serkan Inam, Dilek Durak, Sevki Celik, Okay Civelek, Hasan Tamam, Pinar Altintas Review of Finnish and Turkish Education Systems: PISA Sample // The Russian Academic Journal, Vol. 31, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 0-0