Investigating the level of effective leadership characteristics that kindergarten principal have from the point of some varibles

This study, aims to determine how it differs that how much school administrators have the effective leadership characteristics with respect to opinions of teachers according to sex, age, educational status, title, employment type, seniority and school type. Research universe is consumed of 221 people which are employed as teachers or administrators in elementary schools and independent nursery schools which are located in Küçükçekmece in İstanbul. Sample group is randomly selected elementary schools and all of the nursery schools in the universe. The scale of effective leadership characteristics [ELNÖ-R] is consumed of 40 statements those consist 7 sub-dimensions. In this study, it is investigated that if school administrators? degrees of possesion to effective leadership characteristics and leadership behaviours differentiate according to some variables. The data that is obtained is analyzed using Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis tests.According to results of the analysis, independent nursery school teachers that are employed and salaried has more negative opinions about school administrators? degrees of possession of effective leadership characteristics than those of regular and contractual teachers in independent nursery schools. Additionally, according to evaluations of elementary school and nursery school teachers about their administrators, it can be seen that elementary school administrators feel more excitement about their job than that of nursery school administrators.