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Kamil YILDIRIM received his Ph.D. in educational sciences, majoring in educational administration. Yıldırım has experience in different educational settings as a teacher in schools, and an expert in MoNE Board of Education and the Department of International Institutions (OECD, World Bank). He has been working at Aksaray University since 2010. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yıldırım currently serves as the head of the Department of Educational Administration. His research interests include educational quality, teacher education, professional well-being, and educational leadership. Some of his recent studies are as follows.
Yildirim, K., & Aslan, A. (2021). Examination of the quality teaching in Turkish higher education based on the external evaluation reports from multiple perspectives. Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 25, 102-125, doi: 10.14689/enad.25
Yıldırım K (2021) Analysing the role of external policy interventions in explaining the trend of school educators’ intrinsic motivation. Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research 16(1): 306-327. https://doi.org/10.29329/epasr.2020.334.17
Yıldırım K and Yenipınar Ş (2021) Examining the role of contextual conditions and leadership status of school principals from multiple perspectives. International Journal of Research in Education and Science 7(1): 207-226.
Dr. Olcay Yavuz is, an Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department where he teaches courses in School Law, School Finance, Doctoral Inquiry Seminar, Leadership Perspectives, Program and Personnel Evaluation, Quantitative Methods in Educational Leadership, Organizational Development, Advanced Research Methods, Learning Theories, Leadership Development, School Leader Field-Based Internship as well as Dissertation Advisement and Defense. His research focuses on improving the college and career readiness of underprivileged students, comprehensive school counseling framework, program evaluation, and leadership development.
Dr. Yavuz earned his doctorate in Teacher Leadership from Rutgers State University. He also received his Master of School Counseling from New York Institute of Technology and obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Science Education. Prior to coming to SCSU, He spent twelve years of his professional career as an educational leader, supervisor, professional counselor and math teacher in K-12 public schools. Dr. Yavuz holds K-12 Supervisor Standard Certificate, Director of K-12 School Counseling Services Standard Certificate, as well as K-12 Standard Mathematics Teaching and Permanent Professional School Counseling Certifications.
Prior to joining the faculty at Southern, Dr. Yavuz taught graduate level courses at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He also worked at Rutgers State University as a project manager of “College and Career Readiness for All Initiative”. Through his scholarship, Dr. Yavuz has been training educational leaders, teachers, counselors and other key stakeholders to design, lead and evaluate research supported college and career readiness programs. Currently, as a researcher and school leader educator, Dr. Yavuz provides educational leaders and teachers with transformative learning experiences, resources, and support they need to implement effective strategies for improving education for all K-12 students.
As the founding editor of Journal of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (JELPS), Dr. Yavuz designed and launched a new scholarly journal. The U. S. Department of Education invited JELPS to be indexed in Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) that is used by over 12 million researchers around the world each year. Recently, Dr. Yavuz also developed the International Youth Leadership Academy (IYLA) which is a social justice project to support immigrant, refugee and international student success, including academic, social-emotional, college and career readiness needs. Finally, Dr. Yavuz designed and organized the first CT School Administrator and Counselor Leadership Forum on building collaborative efforts among CT school counselors and administrators to support K-12 student success
Teaching Interests
School Law, School Finance, Doctoral Inquiry Seminar, Leadership Perspectives, Program and Personnel Evaluation, Quantitative Methods in Educational Leadership, Organizational Development, Advanced Research Methods, Learning Theories, Leadership Development, School Leader Field-Based Internship as well as Dissertation Advisement and Defense
Research Interests
Comprehensive school counseling framework
College and career readiness for all
Program evaluation and assessment
STEM leadership
Educational leadership development
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