School Administrators’ Relationships with Academic Studies carried out in Educational Administration and Scholars

The study aims at determining the extent of implementation of the theories and research on educational administration. It analyzes the school administrators’ relationships with research studies carried out on educational administration and scholars. The questionnaire used in the survey was applied to 310 school principals and assistant principals in primary and secondary schools in Istanbul. The study has found that the institutional collaboration between scholars and school administrators is weak. It was revealed that the majority of school administrators began office without any specific training in school administration; that they did not follow at all or rarely followed research studies on school administration; that the research studies did not address real problems in schools; that researchers were not interested in knowing schools better; that they felt their attempts to implement research studies were thwarted by their superiors and present regulations; and they had limited access to scientific studies.