Organizational culture in high schools (The case of Sincan)

The aim of this study is caried on to clarify the public high school teachers? perception about school culture.The research sample consisted of 244 teachers, working in Ankara, Sincan in the 2007-2008 academic year.?Personal Data Form? and ?School Culture Inventory? were used to collect the data for the research. Two research questions were answered in the research. Arithmetic mean, standart deviation, t- test, One Way ANOVA (F) and Test of Significance were used to anlyze the data.The results of the research are summarized below:Teachers? scores of perceptions of school culture in general is in the level of ?I agree?. Teachers? scores of perceptions of school culture show significant differences in terms of their branch, the age of school and school type. On the other hand, teachers? scores of perceptions of school culture both in general and concerning the sub-dimensions vary in terms of such variables as their gender, age, the duration of service at school , the duration of teaching service and graduated school.