Abstract:

In this study, The Organizational Climate Description for Elementary Schools (OCDQ-RE) (Hoy & Tarter, 1997b) has been adapted into Turkish. The scale was applied to a 230-people- sample group. Explanatory Factor Analyses (EFA) was executed for structural validity of the scale. The results of the EFA showed that scale consisted of six factors. The factors were named as a “Supportive Principal Behavior”, “Directive Principal Behavior”, “Restrictive Principal Behavior”, “Intimate Teacher Behavior”, “Collegial Teacher Behavior” and “Disengaged Teacher Behavior” paying attention to their uses in the original scale and in Turkish. The scale consists of Likert type 39 items and four answer choices as “rarely occurs, sometimes occurs, often occurs and very frequently occurs”. Item factor loadings in the related scale range from 0.46 and 0.82, corrected item-total correlations between 0.35 and 0.77, and reliability coefficients between 0.70 and 0.89. As a result of the findings of this study, The Organizational Climate Scale was found out to be a valid and reliable measurement tool to be used in describing the organizational climate of the public elementary and secondary schools

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