The views of the secondary school administrators and teachers, students and parents in respect to performance evaluation with multiple variables

The aim of this study is to determine the views of the secondary school administrators, teacher and students in these schools and the parents of students in respect to performance evaluation with multiple variables.The study was built on a survey model. The scope of the study comprises 87 school administrators, 1707 teachers assigned in the official secondary schools, 30,839 students and 30,839 parents in Keçiören District of Ankara province during 2009- 2010 academic year. The sample of the study comprises 41 school administrators, 206 teachers, 279 students and 231 parents. In the process of collecting data, three different questionaires developed by the reseacher were applied: ?Administrator- Teacher Questionaire?, ?Student Questionaire? and ?Parent Questionaire?. Percentage (%) and frequency (f) were used for the analysis of the data from the questionnaires.The findings of the study revealed that teachers and school administrators were supportive of the idea that the teachers? performance should be evaluated by students, but unsupportive of the idea that their performance should be evaluated by parents and colleagues, during the performance evaluation with multiple variables. Another finding of the study is that the teachers were supportive of the idea that performance of the school administrators should be evaluated by the students, parents and teachers during the performance evaluation with multiple variables, while the school administrators were supportive of the idea that their own performance should be evaluated by the teachers, but unsupportive of the idea that their performance should be evaluated by the students and the parents. It was also found that students were willing to take active role in the evaluation of their teachers and school administrators and also that parents desired to evaluate the performance of both teachers and school administrators.Key words: Performance evaluation, multiple data resource, secondary education schools, school administrator, teacher, student, parent.