Abstract:

Performance studies have an important place in the power and success of the programs created in schools. In this study, studies on improving performance in the Turkish National Education System were examined and in this context, the applicability of the Theory of Constraints was evaluated in terms of increasing the education quality and performance of schools. This theory likens the system to the links of the chain. He thinks that the strength of the system is only the weakest link. It accepts that the improvement to be made to the weakest link in the system will actually be the improvement of the entire system, that is, the increase of its performance. In other words, this theory guides the manager in terms of focusing on the weakest link that affects the performance in the system. After TQM was abolished in schools, no systematic method was presented to the administrators in our schools on how to increase the performance of the school. This lack of method has led to different performance-oriented practices by the school administrator in each school. Besides being a waste of time and effort, wrong practices may have different negative consequences for the social future. In the light of previous performance studies in the field of education, the study is thought to contribute to the creation of new paradigms for improving performance in education, based on the principles of the Theory of Constraints.

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