TEACHERS’ OPINIONS RELATED WITH ETHIC BEHAVIOURS OF EDUCATION INSPECTORS

Abstract

Problem: Relation styles of education inspectors that take into consideration ethic values can provide teachers to have more morale and loyalty while working for their schools and students. Secondary school teachers' opinions related with ethic behaviors of education inspectors and sample situations the teachers have experienced are brought out by this search. Population of this study concerns 42 primary schools from Adiyaman and its central counties. As applying to this poll at schools will create some problems (like time, cost and control difficulties) %25 (twenty-five) percent of the research population has been chosen randomly as cluster sample. (10 schools).All the teachers working in these schools were chosen randomly and they were all included in the study. Polls were applied to the all teachers from 10 schools. Returning and appropriate questionnaires for processing were evaluated. Method: A poll that had 22 questions with 5 multiple choices were used to collect data. Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the data from the account of reliability based on data acquired from application was calculated as 87. SPSS packaged software was used to analyze the data, t test and one-way analysis of variance were used as statistical analysis methods. While commenting on arithmetic averages , ranges were evaluated like this.1.00 – 1.79 'very low' , 1.80 – 2.59 'low', 2.60 -3.39 'moderate' , 3.40 – 4.19 'high' ,4.20 – 5.00 'very high'. The highest score was 110 points and the lowest score was 22 points available for the questionnaire test, Mann Whitney U test ,one- way analysis of variance and Kruskal Wallish test were performed to test whether the opinions changed or not according to personal characteristics. Findings: As a result of this study, teachers have identified that ethical behavior level of education inspectors is at medium level. Variances like gender, the number of teachers at school and the question of desire to be an education inspector don't show significant difference. While there is no significant difference between the opinions of people who have given positive answers to the question of 'Would you like to be an education inspector?' the opinions of people who have given positive answers to the question of 'Do you believe in the necessity of the inspection?' have showed significant difference according to those who have given negative answers. Suggestions: According to these results it can be advised that inspectors can be directed to in-service training study about 'Ethics Training' to develop their own ethical principles and to perform behaviors that have more humanistic nature and ethic principles. Keywords: Ethics, Ethical behaviors, Educational inspector's ethics, Ethical leadership.