Examination of Leadership Styles of School Pricinples in Terms of Different Variables

The aim of the study was to examine leadership styles of school pricinples according to opinions of teachers. The study was designed as a quantitative survey model. The data were gathered via “School Principal Leadership Style Scale” developed by Akan, Y？ld？r？m and Yal？？n (2014). The population of the study consisted of 3200 teachers who were working in state schools in Tepeba？？ district of Eski？ehir province during 2016-2017 academic year. Proportionate stratified random sampling was used in the study and the sample consisted of 400 teachers including primary school teachers, teachers from different branches and teachers of vocational courses.. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, independent samples t-test and ANOVA were used to analyze the data.. The findings of the study revealed that the level of transactional leadership style of school principals was “high”, the level of transformational and laissez faire leadership style of school principals were “moderate”. There weren’t any statistically significant results in terms of gender and school type variables. However there was statistically significant result in terms of branch variable