THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEVELS OF TEACHERS’ AND ADMINISTRATORS’ WORK ENGAGEMENT AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SCHOOLS
This research aims to reveal the relationship between the engagement levels of employees and the effectiveness level of schools. Having utilized relational survey models, this research has a descriptive survey model. The research seeks to examine the relation between the variables. The population of the study consists of primary and secondary school teachers and administrators working at private and state schools located within the districts of Kahramanmaraş (Dulkadiroğlu and Onikişubat) during the academic year of 2016 and 2017. The research sample holds a total of 410 participants who were selected by the simple random sampling method. This research has employed the “Engagement Scale” to determine the engagement levels of the teachers and administrators and “Effective School Scale” to identify their perception towards the effectiveness of schools. Frequency, percentage, mean, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation and multiple regression analysis were used during data analysis. Research results have revealed a positive and significant relation between the engagement levels of the employees and the effectiveness of schools. The engagement level of the teachers and administrators has been found to be a significant predictor of effective school. The engagement levels of the teachers and administrators account for about 34% of the total explained variance of the effectiveness level of primary and secondary schools.

Keywords
Effective School, Work Engagement, Teacher, Administrator.