A review on school principals in terms of technology leadership adequacy

The aim of this study is to make a review for technology leadership adequacy of school administrators, officiate in schools, that they need to have in order to make use developping technology in school management and in education, to interpret the findings obtained from the result of the review and according to the results to identify dimensions in which technology leadership adequacy of school administrators are low and to make offers that provide progress.Research environment is formed of school administrators (school principals) who officiate in official schools connected to İzmir National Education Managership in 2009-2010 academic year. There are 1214 schools and 1214 school administrators connected to İzmir NEM. Instead of studying in whole environment, taking sample is preferred and after sample size is determined as 292, disproportionate cluster sampling method which is a kind of gradual sampling method is used as a method of sample determination and first of all 11 counties of 30 counties (Bayraklı, Bornova, Buca, Çiğli, Gaziemir, Karabağlar, Karşıyaka, Konak, Narlıdere, Torbalı, Urla) connected to İzmir province are elected from İzmir NEM then authorization is gotten for to apply research survey in 569 schools connected to these 11 counties. 292 schools are elekted from 11 selected-district with disproportionate element sampling method. Survey application is made in 292 schools that give authorization and in the end of application 249 assessments are gotten to evaluate answered by school administrators after missing or inaccurate answered surveys are elaminated.Principals Technology Leadership Assessment used in survey is developped by American Institutes of Research (AIR) and Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership (CASTLE) with the contribution of IOWA State University.According to the result of the research, school administrators are seemed to have technology leadership adequacy at an important rate however in leadership and vision subdimension school administrators have the minimum technology leadership adequacy. (x=0.71)