INVESTIGATION OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF ACADEMIC STAFF IN A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ACCORDING TO SOME VARIABLES

This study aims to find out the classroom management skill level of academic staff (professors, associate professors, assistant professors, teaching assistants and research assistants) in an education depart- ment of a selected university and to determine whether their class- room management skill level has significantly differentiate according to some variables. Gender, marital status, academic title, age and bachelor's degree are selected as the independent variables for this study. The study is designed as a survey research. There is no sa m- pling procedure as all population can be reachable and the research- er focuses on 113 academic members who work in the education de- partment of the selected university. 93 academicians involved in this study by filling the personal information sheet and classroom management skills scale. Data was analyzed by the SPSS 22 and the Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were carried out. According to the results of this study, classroom management skill level of academic staff is at the good level. Their classroom management skill level dif- ferentiates according to gender, marital status, age and bachelor's degree; however, it has not been statistically different in terms of ac- ademic title.