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Democratic values are significantly important in today’s global world. Young children acquire values through schools. In this context, to describe the level of middle school students’ democratic values is the problem of this research. The sample of the research consisted of 300 middle school students from 7th and 8th grades. The scale created to measure democratic values of students consisted of six dimensions: ‘Respect to equality and diversity’, ‘respect to others rights’, ‘tolerance and diversity’, freedom of others’, ‘respect to others’ diversity’ and ‘sensitivity to diversity’. The factor analysis was conducted to construct validity of the scale explained 53,6 % of total variance whereas has 87 alpha internal consistency coefficient. The analysis was conducted in terms of each dimension, and democratic values were compared by demographic variables such as gender, parents’ education level, parents’ job, monthly income of the family, number of brothers and sisters. Results show that middle school students adopted democratic values in high level. In addition to this, except for two dimensions, some variables such as gender, parents’ education level, parents’ job, monthly income of the family, number of brothers and sisters did not affect democratic values of middle school students.

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