Examining the Relationship Between Participation and Academic Emphasis Based on The Views of School Principals

This aim of this study is to examine the relationship between participation and academic emphasis in schools based on the views of school principals. The research group consists of 828 Turkish school principals who participated in The Teaching and Learning International Survey [TALIS] 2018. Within the scope of the research, the school leadership scale was used to determine the approaches of school principals on the participation of teachers, the participation among stakeholder scale was utilized to determine the views on stakeholder participation and the academic pressure scale to determine the academic emphasis of the school. In order to determine the participation level, the school leadership scale and the participation among stakeholders scale were combined in the path analysis. In the analysis of the data, t-test, ANOVA and the LSD test as post hoc tests, the Pearson Correlation analysis and the path analysis were used. As a result of the research, it was determined that school principals’ views were close to high level regarding teacher and stakeholder participation and high level regarding academic emphasis. It was observed that there are significant positive correlations between teacher participation, stakeholder participation and academic emphasis, and school principals’ views on participation is a significant predictor of academic emphasis.