Niyazi Özer

The facets of job satisfaction among vice‐principals in elementary schools

Purpose – Literature on vice‐principals that aims to get a better understanding of their roles, role perceptions in school management, and their attitudes towards school management have revealed that the vice‐principalship is one of the least researched and least discussed. The purpose of this paper is to explore the facets of job satisfaction among Turkish vice‐principals.Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected via a survey administered to 159 vice‐principals working for elementary schools in a city in the eastern part of Turkey and results were gathered by May 2010. A two‐part survey questionnaire was used to elicit responses from vice‐principals. The instrument consists of 31 items and asks respondents to indicate the extent of their agreement with each of the items on a four‐point Likert scale. In this study items were designed as a five‐point scale. There is a section to collect personal information. It was included together with an item asking for their career orientation.Findings – The re...

Parental e-nvolvement: a phenomenological research on electronic parental involvement1

Abstract This phenomenological study explored parental e-nvolvement (or electronic parental involvement), defined as parental efforts to plan, engage in, support, monitor and/or assess the learning experiences of their children either at home or at school predominantly using technological devices and media. Data were gathered from 23 volunteering parents through semi-structured interviews. The findings suggested that most parents use or have their children use a variety of technologies with tablets, computers, (smart)phones, and internet taking the lead. Participating parents used technology to have their children study, make practice on or repeat what they have learned at school, to help them prepare research projects, homework or presentations, and to communicate with teachers, schools and other parents. The pros of parental e-nvolvement mainly included enabling parents to supervise their children in terms of academic, personal or social well-being; increasing technology literacy; enabling easy and quick access to information sources; enhancing learner autonomy and academic achievement. Cons included mainly the risk of exposure to inconvenient websites/content; technology addiction; and making the child antisocial. Finally, different strategies to parents use to prevent their children from the harms and risks during parental e-nvolvement were presented and discussed.

Türk Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Öğretim Elemanlarına Güvenleri ve Derse Katılımları: Güveniyorum, öyleyse katılırım!

The purpose of this study is threefold: 1) to determine the levels of university students’ engagement and trust in professors, 2) to investigate if there is a significant difference between students’ engagement and trust scores in terms of some variables, and 3) to explore the relationship between student engagement and trust in professors. The participants comprised 1840 university students studying at seven different faculties of Inonu University during the 2013-2014 academic year. A test battery containing demographic information, student trust scale and student engagement scale was administered to the participating students. Results showed that female students and students from earlier grades trust in professors and engage into classroom activities more. Regression analysis results, also, indicated that students’ scores on trust in professors explained approximately 16% of the total variance in student engagement. This implies that when students trust in their professors they tend to engage in lessons more, which, in turn, brings about better learning.

Okul Yöneticilerinin Değişime Yönelik Eğilimleri

The purpose of this study was to determine the school administrators’ tendencies towards change. The population of this descriptive study was comprised of a total of 212 school administrators, 116 of whom serve in primary schools and 96 of whom serve in secondary schools in the city centre of the province of Adiyaman, Turkey. In the study, appropriate sampling method was used and applied to 151 school administrators from these schools who agreed to participate as volunteers. School Administrators’ Tendencies towards Change scale was used in order to measure the participating principals’ tendencies towards change. As a result of the study, it was determined that school administrators were mostly entrepreneurs in the case of change, that they believe in benefits of a change, that they tend to maintain the status quo and meet change with moderate resistance. Overall, school administrators were mostly found to have tendency towards change. School administrators’ tendencies towards change differed significantly in terms of variables of gender and educational level, while they did not differ significantly in terms of variables including area of expertise, type of task, seniority and type of school

İl Eğitim Denetmenlerinin İletişim Becerileri ile Empatik Eğilimlerinin Bazı Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi

In this study empathetic tendencies and communication skills of city education supervisors are determined and the relation between communication skills and empathetic tendencies is described It is a descriptive study based on relational screening model The study group of this study is 306 participants chosen through convenience sampling among 1045 city education supervisors working in 13 cities In the analysis of data ANOVA and t test are used There is not a meaningful difference in city education supervisors rsquo; gender branch and seniority variables According to the variable ldquo;Are you pleased with your work? rdquo; there is a meaningful difference in support of the ones giving the answer ldquo;Yes rdquo; Communication skills of city education supervisors predict their empathetic tendencies When points of communication skills and empathetic tendencies are evaluated together it can be said that supervisors rsquo; perceptions of empathetic tendencies are lower Workshop and seminars increasing city education supervisors rsquo; both communication skills and empathetic tendencies will affect their behaviors positively