Teacher Perceptions of School-based Evaluation: A Descriptive Analysis Based on Teachers' Wives

This study is about transformation that has been happening in the field of management and in relation to it in inspection that has been recently taking place both in Turkey and all around the World. The transformation as "School Based Administration" (SBA) in educational administration and "School Based Evaluation" (SBE) or "Self-evaluation" in inspection refers to the transformation of the concepts, expressions, goals, indicators and processes about education, administration and inspection. The research was designed as qualitative and a semi-structured interview was made with 35 teachers. Statements of teachers were classified and interpreted in three themes. The most significant point from the interviews is that teachers criticize classical inspection methods and think that SBE has also similar limitations. Teachers do not rely on the inspectors though they find inspection necessary. They have doubts that they will have similar experiences of inspection done in the past with SBE. They consider inspection as functional and state that they are hopeful with SBE though their expectations have not been met so far. However, their expectations are followed by expressions of condition and worry.