The Primary School Principals' Communication Styles

The purpose of this study was to determine the primary school principals' communication styles. The data of the research were collected with "Questionnaire on Principal Interaction" developed by Kremer-Hayon and Wubbels (1993). The questionnaire consists of 62 questions related to the dimensions: Leadership, helpful/friendly, understanding, responsibility/freedom, uncertain, dissatisfied, admonishing and strict. 305 elementary school teachers participated to the research from 21 schools in Ni?de . The data have been analysed using means, standard deviation, t-test, variance analyze and Tukey test. The results of the study indicated that elementary school teachers perceived that primary school principals showed leadership at maximum level and satisfaction at minimum. It was found out that perceptions of elementary school teachers about principal behaviours differentiated according to seniority, gender and branch; but there were not any differences related to their education level.