Leadership behaviors of primary and high school students

This study conducted to determine, whether behaviours of primary and high school student leaders? leadership or perceptions related to these behaviours vary according to independent variables.This is a descriptive study. The population of the study is students of public and private primary and high schools in the province of Canakkale in the 2009-2010 academic years. The sample consists of 8 primary schools and 6 Anatolian high schools. Bolman and Deal?s leadership orientation questionnaire and demographic information form which developed by the researcher are used in this study. 224 girls, 178 boys for a total of 402 students applied in the survey form. Data are analyzed using SPSS software and confidence interval is taken as %95 for significance tests between the groups.Results of the study are interpreted related to sub-problems defined previously. According to gender, differences were found and it was also found that leadership behaviours of female students had a higher mean compared to the perceptions of male students. According to education level, differences were found and it was also found that leadership behaviours of primary school students had a higher mean compared to the perceptions of high school students. Differences were also found according to the number of books read in one year. Students who read 0-20 books in one year had a lower mean compared to the perceptions of students who read 20 or more books in one year.