Abstract :
This study which is targeting to analyze the validity of the performance evaluation system in education through the opinions of teachers and administrators is a general scanning model research. Population of the research is composed by the teachers employed at the state primary and secondary schools in the main districts of Ankara. In the research, stratified and random sampling methods have been used and it contains 419 educators. The ideas of educators about the performance evaluation system hasbeen analyzed with the descriptive statistical techniques and percentage distributions, means and standard deviations have been determined. The difference tests are carried out to evaluate the differences in the educators’ opinion taking into account the level of education, gender, duty, seniority, level of income, type of the very first employment, status of educator, status and membership of teachers’ union variables.Collected data are analyzed by the Excel and SPSS 13.0 statistics software. The findings of the research are as follows: The educators’ opinion on the performance evaluation that has been given rise by the changes in Turkish Education System is “hardly agree”. In other words, they are hesitant and/or negative on the issue. In this respect, the educators who do not have trade union membership are more positive compared to those having the membership.
