Abstract:

The purpose of the current study is to investigate teachers’ ethical values and compare them in relation to some variables based on the secondary school students’ perceptions. The study is a descriptive study designed in the survey model. The universe of the study consists of 25.517 secondary school students attending schools in the city of Kütahya in 2014-2015 school year. The size of the sampling was calculated to be 378 for 95% reliability level. The data were collected through “Student Perception-based Teachers’ Ethical Values Scale (SEVS)”. Descriptive statistics were used to determine teachers’ ethical values based on students’ perceptions. For comparisons, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Mann Whitney U test were employed. Based on the students’ perceptions, the teachers’ level of compliance to ethical values was found to be high. According to the results of the comparisons, the teachers’ level of compliance to ethical values varies significantly according to the students’ gender, grade level and achievement; their opinions about whether there are some students humiliated by school directors, teachers or their peers; their opinions about the language used by their families while communicating with them; their opinions about whether they are viewed to be students who are successful, loved and appreciated; their opinions about whether they see the school as a place that makes them happy. In light of the findings of the study, some suggestions were made at the end of study

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