Abstract
With a notice that was issued by the Ministry of National Education, all the public high schools were gradually converted into Anatolian High School as of 2010. The aim of this research is to determine the criteria of school reputation of Anatolian High schools and how and to what extent the criteria changed after the notice was issued. Qualitative research was conducted in this research. The procedure of data collection is rooted in a maximum variation sampling. Anatolian High schools located in Buca, Ä°zmir, were classified according to students’ placement scores and by dividing these schools according to levels such as upper, low and intermediate, two school principals from each level were interviewed face-to-face. The data were analyzed with the computer programme MAXODA. The findings were edited considering the implementation of converting general high school into Anatolian High School. According to the findings, school reputation is influenced by 7 themes, namely “Being a Preferable School, The Education Quality of the School, Relationships with the Environment, The Adequacy of Financial Resources, The Service Quality of the School, Management Skills and The Effect of the Conversion of Anatolian High Schools.” It was understood that the school reputation of schools that were Anatolian High schools before the notice was issued declined whereas the school reputation of schools that were converted into Anatolian High school with the notice increased. Key words: Schools’ reputation, Anatolian High Schools, Turkey education system, quantitative research.
Highlights
Population, population growth rate, geographical distribution of population and economic conditions are the determiners of Educational demand (Kavak, 2011)
The Anatolian High School principals were interviewed in order to determine the relationship between cases
The importance that is given to Anatolian High School stems from the fact that the medium of education is foreign language and that it is an educational establishment where the students whose academic successes are high are chosen by means of exams
Summary
Population, population growth rate, geographical distribution of population and economic conditions are the determiners of Educational demand (Kavak, 2011). When the demands of schools are subject to discussion in today’s competitive environment, schools are always associated with the target group’s positive attitudes rather than presenting good services (Alkibay and ÖzgünAyar, 2013). The perceptions of stakeholders like students studying in those schools or teachers and parents who cooperate with institutions, and the correspondence of these perceptions among stakeholders are crucial. This requires the necessity of examining reputation defined as stakeholders’ positive attitudes towards the institution.
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