Investigation of School Administrators’ Character Education Efficacy Beliefs in Terms of Several Variables

The purpose of the present study is to investigate school administrators’ character edu？- cation efficacy beliefs according to the variables which are gender, age, professional and administrative experience, marital status, the graduated faculty, level of graduation and level of the school administered. The research was conducted according to the survey model of quantitative research methods. The population of the study constitutes of administrators who work in public schools in ？stanbul/Pendik District in the academic year of 2016-2017. 227 administrators were included in the study chosen by convenient sampling method. In the study “Administrator Character Education Efficacy Belief Instrument” was used. Since data were not distributed normally, the analysis was conducted by using Mann Whitney-U and Kruskal Wallis-H tests from non-parametric analysis techniques. It was concluded that school administrators’ character education efficacy beliefs did not show a significant difference in terms of gender, age, professional and administrative seniority, marital status, the graduated faculty, administrative position, level of graduation and level of the school administered. Conducting similar studies with different sample groups and variables is expected to contribute to the field of character education