School Administrators and Teachers Perception Levels on the Communication Skills of School Administrators (Erzurum Sample)

Abstract

This study investigates whether communication skills of school administrators change according to the perceptions of school administrators and teachers. The study is in descriptive survey model. The population of the study consists of 2317 teachers and 227 school administrators working at primary and secondary schools of Yakutiye district of Erzurum during 2012-2013 academic year. 352 teachers and 40 school administrators form the sample of the study.Communication Skills Survey developed by Şimşek (2003) has been revised and used as data collection instrument. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t-test have been used for data analysis. As a result of the study, it is found that the perceptions of school administrators towards communication skills are highly strong; the perceptions of teachers towards school administratorscommunication skills are strong but need to be developed; there is a meaningful difference between teachers and school administrators perceptions on school administrators communication skills.