The Views of School Principals, Teachers and Parents Regarding the Accountability of Schools in Education: A Qualitative Research

In this research, it is aimed to describe the school accountabilities according to school principals’, teachers’ and parents’ views. It has been done by case of study method of the qualitative research methods. The working group of this research made in 2015-2016 educational year has been formed by 24 participants; 8 school principals, 8 teachers and 8 parents whose have been in the some primary and secondary schools in ？ay？rl？ district of Erzincan province according to maximum variation samples. In the research, semi-structured interview form based on the opinions of school principals, teachers and students’ parents’ views about schools accountabilities has been used as data collecting tool. Three open ended questions have been asked to the school principals, teachers and parents. Dates have been got by face to face interviews. In the interpreting of dates process, content analysis technique have been used. Research findings have been formed under three title “school principals”, “teachers” and “parents”. The result of analysis, “school principals”, title has been formed of 3 theme and 18 categories under the these three theme, “teachers” title has been formed 3 theme and 23 categories and “parents” title has been forms 3 theme and 17 categories