Perceiving the notion of quality school from teachers' and managers' point of view

ABSTRACTPERCEIVING THE NOTION OF QUALITY SCHOOL FROMTEACHERS? AND MANAGERS? POINT OF VIEWGÖKÜŞ, EmineGazi University Department of Post-Graduate Trainig of EducationalManagement, Inspection, Budgeting and PlaningThesis Consuntant: Asistant Prof. Dr. İlhan AKARFebruary 2007, 172 pagesThe purpose of the study is to find out the understanding of qualified schoolterm by teachers and administers on: curriculum, teaching and learning activites,supports on students, leadership/administration, resources and success factors. Herein, public school teachers and administers were interwieved for their ideas.The data taken from the questionnaire is measured by SPSS 11.5. Accordingto the results of the questionnaire, the public school teachers and administers are"full" agree on the qualified school term. Furthermore, when the study is generallyassessed, it was noticed that the statements of teachers and administers with thehighest and the lowest arithmetic average are similar, and there isn't a valuabledifference, which is equal to .05, between the ideas of the teachers and administersupon "curriculum", "teaching and learning activites", "supports on students","leadership/administration", "resources" and "success" factors, the deterniners of aqualified school term. Thus, it is conspicious that quality is a need in all the fields inhuman-beings' lives. Nowadays, it is the most necessary need in education field. Ithas became the primary aim of both the teachers and administers to requaire quality,and to give a qualified education to their students.