A case study on identifying the perceptions of teachers on the present organizational structure and processes of an educational institution through the use of metaphors

A comparative case study on school effectiveness characteristics of two private high schools in Ankara Akşit, Tijen F; Şimşek, Hasan; Department of Educational Sciences (2006) This study aimed at exploring the school effectiveness characteristics of two high schools, one with high (School A) and one with low (School B) levels of placement ratio in ÖSS for their graduates, to observe their characteristics as perceived by their stakeholders (students, teachers, parents, school administrative staff and managers). In this study, a comparative pre-structured case study method was employed. The study was conducted in two private high schools in the province of Ankara, Turkey. The parti...
An analysis of the present state of educational administration scholarship in Turkey from the perceptions of the scholars in Ankara Örücü, Deniz; Şimşek, Hasan; Department of Educational Sciences (2006) This study aimed to explore the present state of educational administration scholarship in Turkey as perceived by the educational administration scholars working actively at universities in Ankara. In this study, qualitative research technique was employed. It was conducted in Educational Administration Programmes of Departments of Educational Sciences at the three state universities in Ankara. The participants were 8 professors, 1 associate professor and 10 assistant professors from Ankara University, Hace...
The Relationship between distributed leadership, enabling school structure, teacher collaboration, academic optimism and student achievement: a school effectiveness model Oldaç, Yusuf İkbal; Kondakçı, Yaşar; Department of Educational Sciences (2016) The purpose of this study was to test a school effectiveness model investigating the relationship between student achievement and a set of school-level variables including distributed leadership, enabling school structure, teacher collaboration, and academic optimism. The data for this study were collected from schools located in 3 districts of Adana, Turkey. The sample consisted of 23053 students and 426 teachers from randomly selected 40 public schools. For the purposes of this study, Hierarchical Linear ...
Investigating the relationship between primary and secondary level public school teachers' readiness for change and perceived organizational trust Zayim, Merve; Kondakçı, Yaşar; Department of Educational Sciences (2010) The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ intentional, emotional, and cognitive readiness for change and perceived faculty trust in colleagues, in principal, and in clients (students and parents).The study was designed as a correlational study and the participants comprised of 603 teachers working at primary and secondary level public schools selected from the four school districts in Ankara via cluster sampling. For the data collection, newly developed Readiness for Ch...
Investigating the relationship between teachers' sense of efficacy and perceived openness to change at primary and secondary level public schools Yılmaz, Derya; Kondakçı, Yaşar; Department of Educational Sciences (2010) The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between teachers’ sense of efficacy in student engagement, instructional strategies, and classroom management and perceived openness to change in schools as regards willingness of the teachers to embrace change and teachers’ perception related to principal’s openness to change, and teachers’ willingness to respond to community pressure for change. The research was designed as a correlational study and participants of the study consisted of 552 teache...

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B. Özar, “A case study on identifying the perceptions of teachers on the present organizational structure and processes of an educational institution through the use of metaphors,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 1999.