School administrators' views on alternative assessment and evaluation approaches in primary schools (Uşak city sample)

This study aims to identify the applicability and difficulties of alternative assessment and evaluation approaches, according to school administrators? opinions working as a teaching leader in state primary schools in Usak. For this purpose, descriptive method of screening model has been used in this study.The population of this study consists of school administrators of a total 175 primary schools in Usak city and its counties. 286 school administrators work at these state primary schools. The sample representing the population are 85 schools and 200 school administrators. This data was solved by SPSS packet programme. A questionnaire consisting of two parts, (?Personal Information Form? and "School Administrators' Opinions on Alternative Assessment and Evaluation Approaches") developed by the researcher and thesis supervisor together, has been administered to the participants that form the population.The view of the school administrators were asked questions regarding their gender, years of seniority, level of education, length of service at the current school, age, school type and whether they make any logical diffrences or not in order to find a meaningful relation by t ?test; thier years of seniority, level of education and age by anova. After this research, statistical program has been used to analyze the data obtained from this study. The results of this study indicates that school administrators working at primary schools agreed to the ?quite a lot? degree on the superior aspects of alternative measurement and evaluation tools compared to traditional measurement and evaluation tools, ?low? degree on the weak aspects, ?quite a lot? degree on the vifunctional dimension, and ?moderate? degree on the problems that the teachers encounters during the implementation of those tools.According to the view of school administrators; the weekness, superior of Alternative Assessment and Evaluation Approaches between tradional assessment and evaluation are not related to school type, years of seniority and age.Keywords: School Administrator, Alternative Measurement and Evaluation Techniques, Traditional Measurement and Evaluation Techniques