The compliance level of primary school administrators’ to ethical principles while evaluating the teachers’ performances

Abstract

This study has been done to determine the compliance level of primary school administrators’ to ethical principles in evaluating the teachers’ performances. In this study, whether the views of administrators and teachers’ about this subject differ in the extent of honesty, democracy, responsibility, and justice according to the duty and on the same extent, whether only the teachers’ views differ according to the variables of sex, occupational seniority, educational background, and whether to take in service training about ethic and branch are tried to be introduced. This study is a browsing model. A total of 74 school administrators, 41 of them from Sakarya City and 33 of them from Kastamonu City, and a total of 457 teachers, 216 of them from Sakarya City and 241 of them from Kastamonu, have attended to this study. In this study, these results are found. The views of teachers and school administrators about the compliance level of primary school administrators to ethical principles in evaluating the teachers’ performances differ according to the duty in the extent of honesty, tolerance, democracy, responsibility, and justice. The views of the teachers differ in the extent of tolerance, democracy and responsibility according to the conditions of taking in service training about ethic, democracy according to the sex, responsibility according to the occupational seniority and honesty according to the branches. According to the variable of educational background of the teachers, there aren’t any differentiations among the views of teachers and school administrators about the compliance level of primary school administrators to ethical principles in evaluating the teachers’ performances