https://www.ijedal.com/index.php/ijedal <p>International Journal of Educational Administration and Leadership: Theory and Practice (IJEDAL) is an national and international peer-reviewed, non-profit, Professional scientific journal. IJEDAL is a journal that accepts manuscripts related to educational administration and leadership. The journal is published online twice a year. IJEDAL publishes research employing a variety of qualitative and/or quantitative methods and approaches in all areas of the educational administration and leadership field. IJEDAL welcomes articles from different institutions and countries.</p> <p>There is no publication fee for the manuscripts published in IJEDAL. As the publication language of the journal is in English, the authors of the manuscripts that have accepted to publish must have proofreading after all editorial, and peer review processes have been completed.</p> en-US ijedaljournal@gmail.com (IJEDAL JOURNAL) ijedaljournal@gmail.com (Contact and Support ) Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://www.ijedal.com/index.php/ijedal/article/view/21 <p>This study emphasizes the importance of educational organizations being agile to adapt to changing information and technology conditions and aims to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure the agility levels of schools. The research was conducted with a three-stage working group. In the first stage, the 55-item draft scale was applied to 437 participants and its construct validity was examined with exploratory factor analysis (AFA). In the second stage, the 33-item scale obtained as a result of AFA was applied to 683 participants and its construct validity was tested with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In the third stage, 78 school administrators and teachers were sampled for test-retest application and criterion validity. It was determined that the scale has a four-dimensional structure. These dimensions are named as agile leader, agile teacher, agile school environment and agile communication with external stakeholders. The proposed four-dimensional structure was validated with CFA and the fit indices were found to be at an acceptable level. The overall Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated as 0.95. In addition, independent groups t-test, item total and item residual correlation analysis, inter-factor correlation analysis and test-retest correlation analysis were performed for the reliability of the scale. As a result of these analyses, the reliability and validity of the scale were ensured and it was named the School Agility Scale.</p> Mustafa Taktak, Mustafa Özgenel Copyright (c) 2024 International Journal of Educational Administration and Leadership: Theory and Practice https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.ijedal.com/index.php/ijedal/article/view/21 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300 https://www.ijedal.com/index.php/ijedal/article/view/23 <p>This research aimed to examine the relationship between school culture and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs. Relational survey design, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. The sample group of the research consisted of 381 teachers working in Istanbul. "School Culture Scale" and Teacher Self-Efficacy Belief Scale were used to collect data, and the obtained data were analyzed with the SPSS package program. Descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis were applied to analyze the research data. According to the findings of the research, it was determined that female teachers' self-efficacy beliefs were higher than male teachers. On the other hand, it was concluded that teachers perceived duty culture as the dominant culture in schools, and the lowest perceived school culture was bureaucratic culture. Another finding showed that there was a positive relationship between all types of school culture and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs, and it was concluded that "support culture" and "bureaucratic culture" positively predicted teachers' self-efficacy beliefs.</p> İsmail Ataç, Serkan Yüksel, Mevlüt Şahin, Saadet Şahin Copyright (c) 2024 International Journal of Educational Administration and Leadership: Theory and Practice https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.ijedal.com/index.php/ijedal/article/view/23 Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300