Examining the relationship between school principals' technological leadership behaviors and teachers' attitudes towards distance education

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between school principals' technological leadership behaviors and teachers' distance education attitudes according to the views of high school teachers. The sample of the study, which was conducted in the descriptive and relational survey model from quantitative research methods, consists of 244 high school teachers who worked in a private school in various provinces of Turkey in the "2022-2023 Academic Year" and participated in the survey. Teachers were investigated on the basis of different variables (gender, age, education level, branch, professional seniority, experience of receiving and providing distance education). "Personal Information Form" and "Distance Education Attitude Scale" developed by Ağır (2007) and "School Principal Technological Leadership Behavior Scale (OMTLD-S)" developed by Durnalı (2018) were used as data collection tools. The data were collected digitally via Google form and IBM SPSS Statistic 29.0.1 program was used to analyze the collected data. In examining the variability in teachers' perceptions of school principals' technological leadership behaviors, Mann Whitney U test was applied for the variables of gender, education level, distance education receiving and giving experience; Kruskal-Wallis test was applied for the variables of age, branch and professional seniority. In examining the variability in teachers' distance education attitudes, Independent Sample T test was applied for gender, education level, distance education receipt status, distance education delivery experience variables; One-Way ANOVA test was applied for age, branch and professional seniority variables. According to the findings obtained after the analyses, teachers' perceptions of school principals' technological leadership behaviors and distance education attitudes do not differ significantly according to the variables taken as basis. However, there is a slight significant difference only between 31-40 years old and 41-50 years old in the age variable.