Research Article

The Relationship between Teachers’ Political Skills and School Academic Optimism Levels

Volume: 9 Number: 3 December 30, 2018
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The Relationship between Teachers’ Political Skills and School Academic Optimism Levels

Abstract

The aim of the research is to explain the relationship between teachers’ political skills and school academic optimism levels. The research consists of relational screening model. The target population of the study consisted of 1950 teachers and for the research, 360 teachers who worked in secondary and high schools in Salihli and Kula districts located in Manisa province during the 2016-2017 academic years examined. In this research, use easily accessible sampling. The data collected with “Political Skill Scale” and “School Academic Optimism Scale” in research. While forming the analysis of the data; frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation, t-test, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA), Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis were used. According to the results of the research, it seen that the teachers’ political skill level is high. It assigned that according to the teachers’ views; the dimension of sincerity is higher than networking ability, interpersonal influence and social astuteness. Research result shows that there is no meaningful difference in gender, graduate level, the duration of working at the same school, professional seniority and number of teachers at the same school variables on political skill. According to the results of the study, it seen that the perceptions of the teachers to the school academic optimism are in medium level. Self-efficacy sub-dimension is higher than the other sub-dimensions of the academic optimism term. Because of the research, it observed that the gender dimension forms a meaningful difference in the self-efficacy dimension of the academic optimism. Study results reveal that there is no meaningful difference in graduate level, professional seniority, number of teachers at the same school and the school type variables on school academic optimism. By looking at analysis results, it clearly understood that there is a positive low-level relationship between teachers’ political skills and school academic optimism levels. Again, secondary school teachers’ networking ability dimension of political skills has a meaningful prediction on school academic optimism of the teachers, but the other sub-dimensions have no meaningful prediction on academic optimism. Yet, high school teachers’ political skill levels have no meaningful effect on their school academic optimism levels.   

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Şule Kurt
Türkiye

Publication Date

December 30, 2018

Submission Date

November 4, 2018

Acceptance Date

December 10, 2018

Published in Issue

Year 1970 Volume: 9 Number: 3

APA
B.bostancı, A., & Kurt, Ş. (2018). Öğretmenlerin Politik Yetileri ile Akademik İyimserlik Düzeyleri Arasındaki İlişki. E-Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 9(3), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.19160/ijer.491908

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