Quantitative descriptive method was used in this study. The target population for this study was Turkish primary
school teachers during the school year 2009-2010. Randomly selected 11 primary schools were used to obtain data
from 207 teachers in city of Gaziantep . An official permission was attained from the Turkish MoNE and the questionnaires were officially posted to schools by the Provincial Directorate of National Education in Gaziantep.
The questionnaires were administered to 250 teachers in selected schools and 207 questionaries (return rate of 83 %)
were valid.