Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümü

The main aim of this study is to determine in what level the teachers at secondary schools display organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) according to the perceptions of the school administrators. The data of this study, which is descriptive, were collected via the "the scale of OCB" which was developed by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, and Moorman (1991). 2 provinces selected from each of seven geographical regions of Turkey and 219 administrators-164 vice principals, 55 principals-selected randomly from four secondary schools of these provinces participated in the study. The results of this study reveal that the teachers at secondary schools highly displayed OCB. According to the school administrators; the teachers mostly display courtesy and then altruism, civil virtue, conscientiousness and sportsmanship behavior in the given order.

Leadership is a process directing to a target of which followers, the participators are shared. For this reason leadership has an important effect on succeeding organizational targets. More importance is given to the leadership studies in order to increase organizational success each day. One of the leadership researches that attracts attention recently is spiritual leadership. Spiritual leadership (SL) is important for imposing ideal to the followers and giving meaning to the works they do. Focusing on SL that has recently taken its place in leadership literature, this study looks into what extend faculty members teaching at Faculty of Education display SL qualities. The study is in descriptive scanning model. 1819 students studying at Kocaeli University Faculty of Education in 2009-2010 academic year constitute the universe of the study. Observing leadership qualities takes long time. Therefore, the sample of the study is determined by deliberate sampling method and includes 432 students studying at the last year of the faculty. Data regarding faculty members’ SL qualities were collected using a questionnaire adapted from Fry's (2003) ‘Spiritual Leadership Scale’. Consequently, university students think that academic stuff shows the features of SL and its sub dimensions in a medium level. According to students, academicians show attitudes related to altruistic love rather than faith and vision. It is found that faculty members couldn’t display leadership qualities enough according to the students at the end of the study.

The purpose of this research is to determine the trust basis of public primary school teachers towards the school managers in the Ministry of National Education,. In the model Qualitative research, the open-ended survey question "If you were a school principal what would you do to have the confidence?" was used to collect as a data collection tool. The data was collected by the participation of 197 teachers from 15 public primary school in Kocaeli. In the analysis of the data, beyond the types of content analysis, categorise analysis was used. As a result of research, 37 variables have been identified including, equality and fairness, impressive communication, participation in the profits,

The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate pre-service teachers’ beliefs about classroom discipline interms of different variables. The sample of the study was 731 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year pre-service teachers from seven different programs at Kocaeli University Faculty of Education in the 2010-2011 academic year. The participants were administered the Beliefs about Discipline Inventory which yields three separate discipline model scores: relationship-listening, confronting-contracting, and rules and consequences. Scores were compared based on gender, program, years in the program and having taken Classroom Management and Student Teaching courses. The findings showed that the most preferred discipline model was the confronting-contracting with moderate levels of teacher control and the least preferred discipline model was the rules and consequences with high levels of teacher control. Pre-service teachers who completed the Student Teaching course had significantly higher ...

This study aims to develop a scale for measuring the aesthetic leadership (AL) characteristics of the school directors and to show that it can be applicable. The population of the study is composed of the teachers who are on duty in the elementary, secondary and high schools located in zmit, Kocaeli. Sample of this descriptive study comprises 400 teachers selected by random sampling amongst the teachers who are on duty in the elementary, secondary and in the high schools located in zmit, Kocaeli. This study has been designed as descriptive research. At the end of scale developing process, an ALS with 51 items and 7 factors has been developed. The Cronbach Alpha reliability co-efficient of ALS has been found as 0.98. The application of the scale reflects that the school directors show a slightly higher level of AL behavior. Compared to the teachers, the school directors show higher level of aesthetic honesty, aesthetic communication, aesthetic appearance, aesthetic applications, aesthetic effort supports, aesthetic sensitivity which are the lower dimensions of the AL behaviors, while they show aesthetic approach at the medium level.

This study aims to compare Swiss and Turkish candidate teachers' attitudes towards multiculturalism and intercultural education and also to investigate whether there is a correlation between multiculturalism and intercultural education. The sample of the study includes 185 candidate teachers, 84 of whom study in Switzerland and 101study in Turkey. The data were collected using "The Scale of Attitude towards Multiculturalism", "The Scale of Attitude towards Intercultural Education" and the personal information form. A significant difference was found between Swiss and Turkish teacher candidates' attitudes toward multiculturalism and intercultural education. Compared to Turkish candidate teachers, Swiss candidate teachers were observed to demonstrate a more positive attitude towards both multiculturalism and intercultural education. We also found a moderate correlation between multiculturalism and intercultural education.

The purpose of this research is to determine the corporate image of secondary schools in Kocaeli according to students' and parents' opinions. The population of the research is the private secondary schools in Kocaeli. Of the thirteen private secondary schools, nine of them accepted to participate in the study. The formation of an overall image requires quite a long time; therefore the students of the final grade and their parents amounting to a number of 800 participants were chosen as the sample of the study. The data was collected by a scale developed by the researchers using the existing scales by Kazoleas, Kim and Moffitt (2001). The findings suggest that, of the different types of image, namely the academic quality image, social image, infrastructure and facility image, physical appearance image and programme image, the most positively perceived one was the academic quality image. Appearance image, social image, infrastructure and facility image and programme image followed. Other findings suggest that students' and parents' perceptions concerning the school image were different, in that parents had more positive image perceptions than students. Different types of image perceptions differed in terms of gender among students and parents.

The aim of this research is to reveal the effect of organizational support perception of teachers on the organizational trust perception of their schools who work in the primary schools. The research is a descriptive scanning model type of research. The universe of the research consists of 1637 teachers who work in the town of Kocaeli of Izmit city. The sampling of the research consists of 680 teachers working in 12 schools who have been chosen randomly. The data of the research has been collected with the organizational support perception and organizational trust scales. In the research the hypothesis which has been developed according to the institutional information and findings has been tested. In order to test the hypothesis correlation and regression analyses have been conducted. At the end of the research a highly positive (r = 0.75) relation between the organizational support perception and organizational trust perception has been determined. It has been discovered that organizational support perception is an effective variable in the regression of the organizational trust in a positive way.

The aim of the research is to determine the relation between organizational image and organizational trust in public primary schools depending on views of teachers, students and parents. The universe of this relational screening model descriptive research consists of teachers, students and parents in Izmit District of Kocaeli. The participants consist of 232 teachers and 247 8th class students and their parents in 8 different schools, which were selected randomly. The data of the research was collected by organizational image scale and organizational trust scale. The research has revealed that organisational image and its sub-dimensions are associated with organisational trust. It has been found out that organizational image and its sub dimensions quality image and relational image significantly explains organizational trust.

The aim of this study is to investigate perceptions of primary student teachers' about the concept of "academician" through metaphor analysis who are studying at Kocaeli University Primary Teaching Department. The data were collected from a teaching class studying 31male, 103 female a total of 134 students in the academic year 2010-2011, Kocaeli University Faculty of Education. This is a descriptive study since it aims to display existing situation. Within this framework, the metaphors developed by student teachers were analyzed and commented in five steps: Transferring quantitative data into SPSS package program. The metaphors about academic concepts developed by teacher candidates were analyzed that whether or not change according to different category. Result of the study, 111 of the students produced 61 current metaphors. Produced metaphors are positive 43, negative 18. According to metaphors by reasons are classificationed including source of information, critics, producer of information, guidance and other.

Öğretmenlik, bireylerin öğrenmelerinin belli bir amaç doğrultusunda baĢlatılması, yönlendirilmesi ve gerçekleĢtirilmesi sürecine iliĢkin etkinlikleri kapsar. Bu etkinlikleri yapan kiĢi de öğretmendir. Öğretmenlerin üstlenmiĢ oldukları roller ve bu rollere verilen değer, mesleklerine iliĢkin tutumlarının göstergesi olabilmektedir.DinleyinFonetik olarak okuyun Sınıf öğretmenliği bölümü öğrencilerinin, öğretmenlik mesleğine iliĢkin görüĢlerini ortaya koymayı amaçlayan bu çalıĢmada taramaya dayalı betimsel yöntem kullanılmıĢtır. Verilerin çözümlenmesinde SPSS 17 paket programından yararlanılmıĢtır. Verilerin çözümlenmesinde t testi ve tek yönlü varyans analizi kullanılmıĢtır. AraĢtırma sonucunda bir bütün olarak öğretmenlik mesleğine iliĢkin tutum puanlarının "orta" ve "yüksek" düzeyinde değer aldığı görülmektedir. Cinsiyet değiĢkenine göre erkek ve kız öğrencilerin tutum puanları arasında anlamlı bir farklılık görülmektedir. Özellikle öğretmenlik mesleğine iliĢkin bayanların daha çok yatkın olduğu yönündeki genel kanı bu araĢtırma sonuçlarında da kendisini göstermiĢtir. Bu araĢtırma sonuçlarından hareketle; öğretmenlik mesleğine iliĢkin tutumlar eğitim fakültelerinde diğer bölüm öğrencileri ile de çalıĢılarak araĢtırılabilir. Eğitim fakültelerinde öğrenim gören öğrencilerin tutumları nitel bir araĢtırma ile ortaya konulabilir.

The aim of this study is to determine the perception levels of secondary school vice directors towards organizational justice and organizational trust and establish their inter-relations. This research of descriptional nature covers vice directors working in educational institutions in the school year of 2006-2007; work area of the study covers vice directors from 1683 secondary schools in 14 provinces