Perceptions of teachers in decision making processes in primary schools

This research has been done to determine if there is a difference between gender, graduation, age, seniority, duration of service and perceptions of teachers working in Uşak in decision making processes in primary schools. The importance of the research consist of 1967 teachers working in the province of Uşak in 2015-2016 Educatioanal year. 370 of the teachers working in the province of Uşak have been randomly selected.Likert type of scale developed by Başyiğit (2009) has been used as data collection test questionnaires developed for the purpose of determining participation levels and desire levels of teachers in the decision process have been used.The data obtained with the purpose of data collection has been transferred to the SPSS program and statitistics been analyzed. In data analysis, frequency, percentage, arytmethic average, t test, variance analysis have been used according to research findings from an educational and administrative point of view, participation requests to the decision making process when examined by gender in both sub-dimensions level is high however a significant difference has been found on the men's side. There is no significant differences between the branches. There is also no significant difference between the teacher's participation process and their graduation status. A significant difference has been found on the side of the teachers who have reached 16 years and over years of working service when examined with the teachers working periods in their schools and their request to participation the decision making process. As a result of the analyses of there quests for participation in the decision making process with age variation, teachers between the ages of 26-35 and teachers aged 46 and over, there is a significant difference in favour of teachers between aged 46 and over. There is a significant difference in favour of teachers with a working period of over 16 years as well as the teachers lenghts of the schools service periods. As a summary, teachers want to participate in the general decision making process. Especially it can be said that male teachers who are senior their profession think they should participate in this process. In this case, as teachers gain experience, they have reached the conclusion of their desire to participate in decission making process. Key Words: Taking decision school, Participation in decision, Teacher's perception.