TEACHERS’ OPINIONS ON TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP ROLES OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Year 2024, Volume: 25 Issue: 2, 191 - 207, 01.04.2024

Yucel Simsek Tamer Sert Beyza Himmetoglu Dal

https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.1308334

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to examine the opinions of teachers about technology leadership roles of school principals during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study, which utilized qualitative research methods, was designed as a survey study. Sample group of the study constituted of 259 teachers. Data of the study was collected with “Elementary School Principals’ Technology Leadership Role Scale” and analyzed via descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA and Mann Whitney-U test. According to the results, both elementary school teachers and subject matter teachers think that school principals successfully demonstrated the role of technology leadership roles during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of the analyses conducted to determine whether teachers' opinions vary according to various variables, it was concluded that there are no differences in terms of the entire scale and its dimensions based on genders and seniority of teachers. In terms of the working domain, it was seen the opinions of elementary school teachers on vision dimension are higher than those of subject matter teachers. Based on the results, some recommendations which can contribute to both implementation and theory have been developed. Accordingly, conducing researches which employ multiple data collection methods and tools to investigate technology leadership roles of school principals is considered important.

Keywords

Technology leadership, school principals, Covid-19 pandemic

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