Abstract:

This research has been carried out to take the opinions of secondary school principals in the city of the İstanbul about the criteria employed for the assignments of school principals and to give sug-gestions to those concerned. The sampling of this research is composed of school principals who were chosen by the appropirate sampling method and who worked in secondary schools in 2014-2015 academic year, in İstanbul. The findings were uploaded to SPSS programme and assesed by using the variant analysis in compliance with demographic variables. The probable differantiations between principal appointment criteria with demographic variables were analyzed by Mann Whitney U Test. When the findings were analysed, it has been observed that there is a meaningful difference with regards to sex, age, seniority variance in management but, no difference, on the other hand, with regards to faculty. When observed on the basis of articles, there is a high level of agreement with regards to the following articles; “Principal assignments needs to be done before the academic year”, “Objective, measurable, dioristic criteria must be taken as basis in the reassingment of principals”, “Based on these findings assignments of school principalls must be done before the academic year and appointments to school must be done according to achievment indicators”.

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