In a globalized world, people's financial opportunities are increasing. However, their spiritual and moral behaviour is diminishing. This situation can be seen in both people and institutions, especially in the education sector. Servant Leadership, which presents a new perspective on this humanitarian crisis, is a modern leadership approach. An effective and successful school comprises managers with strong personalities and effective leadership methods. The main purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the personalities of school administrators and their servant leadership behaviours. A correlational research model was used in the research. The participants constituted 14.135 teachers working in schools in the province of Denizli, a city in Turkey, in the academic year of 2016-2017. The sample comprised 327 teachers selected using the convenient easy sampling method. A personal information form prepared by the researcher, compriseing the Servant Leadership Scale and the Adjective Based Personality Test (ABPT) was used in the research. The research data was analysed with the IBM SPSS 21.0 package software program. As a result of the analyses made, a high positive correlation was found between school administrator personalities and Servant Leadership behaviours (r = .764).
There is a shifting paradigm in gifted education from person-based approaches (i.e., identifying giftedness) to process-based approaches (i.e., transacting giftedness). This new framework is centered on enriching educational opportunities that will make the process meaningful (i.e., gifted) to everyone in a setting. However, little is known about how this renewed perspective can be applied in teacher professional development. In line with the socio-ecological models, our study aims to identify the best appropriate model to describe teacher self-efficacy (i.e., the dependent variable in the study) as professional development from an ecological perspective and to propose an ecologically intelligent school (EIS) for the advancement of self-efficacy. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed to create a model using TALIS 2018 dataset. Afterward, indices of goodness-of-fit criteria were examined for each model. The results indicate that there is a complex ecological background, in that various factors affect the dependent variable. Model 3 was determined as the most suitable model that can be proposed as an ecologically intelligent school (EIS) for the advancement of self-efficacy. The factors within the three layers of the socio-ecological model—communication with teachers, communication with students, school climate, and feeling valued by the national level—altogether created an appropriate model explaining teacher professional development, regarding self-efficacy.
This study aims to discover the best appropriate model to explain reading success of academically gifted students through the ecological model. Three models (i.e., Model 1, Model 2, and Model 3) were created by using three layers of the ecological model to investigate the ecological background of reading success. In line with the literature, seven explanatory factors were examined among the items in the student questionnaire of PISA 2018. Exploratory factor analysis to detect factors and confirmatory factor analysis to validate them were used respectively. Cronbach’s Alpha values of each factor (internal consistency) were also calculated. Structural equation modeling was performed to create a model explaining reading success. Afterward, indices of goodness-fit-criteria were examined. The findings indicated that there is a complex background for reading. All factors (i.e., perception of difficulties, perception of competence in reading, enjoyment of reading, teacher support, teacher feedback, value of school and disciplinary climate in the classroom) have a significant effect on reading. According to the results, Model 3 has the best model fit indices among other models. This model, having more complexity and interaction among latent variables, was found as the most comprehensive and appropriate model due to being coherent with the ecological model.
Ana dili olarak Türkçenin ölçülmesi ve değerlendirilmesi maddenin kendisi ve maddeye yönelik katılımcı tepkilerine odaklı bir yaklaşımla sürmektedir. 21. yüzyılda Türkçenin ölçülmesi ise MEB ve ÖSYM öncülüğündeki testler yoluyla gerçekleşmekte ve aynı yaklaşımla paydaşlar tarafından yürütülmektedir. Bununla beraber Dünya’da maddeye tepki sürecinin ekolojik arka planının araştırılması ehemmiyetini giderek artırmaktadır. Madde tepki sürecinde madde ile karşılaşan katılımcı, tepkisinde arka plandaki kompleks bir ekolojik örüntüden etkilenmektedir. Dolayısıyla ilgili örüntünün geçerlilik araştırmalarına dâhil edilmemesi tablonun sınırlı görülebilmesine ve ölçme sonuçlarının eksik yorumlanmasına neden olmaktadır. Madde yanlılığı araştırmalarının mühim bir parçası olan diferansiyel madde fonksiyonunu belirlemeye yönelik çalışmalar bu noktada umut vermektedir. Buradan hareketle Türkçenin ana dili olarak ölçülmesindeki kısıtlı yaklaşımlara da karşılık 3 adımda bu çalışma şekillendirilmiştir. Birinci adımda ana dili olarak Türkçenin ölçülmesi ve değerlendirilmesine yönelik bir çerçeve sunulmuştur. İkinci adımda madde tepki sürecinin ekolojisi tartışılmıştır. Üçüncü adımda kompleks arka planın keşfi için diferansiyel madde fonksiyonu araştırmalarından potansiyel bir çözüm olarak Zumbo ve diğerleri (2015) tarafından geliştirilen ekolojik model tanıtılmıştır. Son aşamada ise kurum bazında MEB ve ÖSYM başta olmak üzere madde yazarları, araştırmacılar ve politika yapıcılar için tavsiye ve teklifler sıralanmıştır. Tartışmanın çıkarımından hareketle ana dili olarak Türkçenin ölçülmesi ve değerlendirilmesinde ekolojik yaklaşımın ve ekolojik modelin geçerlilik araştırmaları için büyük bir potansiyel taşıdığı söylenebilir. Dolayısıyla Türkiye’nin ölçme ihtiyaçlarına uygun olarak ekoloji tabanlı bir perspektifin Türkçenin ana dilinde ölçülmesine adapte edilmesi gerekmektedir. Böylece Türkçe dersi öğretim programının ölçmeye ve değerlendirmeye yönelik yaklaşım ihtiyacının karşılanması mümkün olacaktır.
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