Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate the supervisory practices of supervisors in
public schools in the Bosomtwe district as well as examine the relationship between
supervisory practices and quality assurance in the schools. Glickman, Gordon and
Ross-Gordon (2009) developmental supervision served as the theoretical framework
of the study. The descriptive survey research design within the positivists’
quantitative methodology was used to collect numeric data with structured
questionnaires. A sample was 338, comprising 68 education supervisors, and 270
teachers. However, 300 questionnaires were completely filled and returned,
representing a response rate of 88.8%. The sample was selected through census and
proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. With the aid of the Statistical
Package for Service Solution version 26, descriptive (mean, standard deviation) and
inferential statistics (Pearson correlation) were used to analyse the data. The study
found that even though the supervisors practiced a mix of supervision in the schools,
they practiced the non-directive supervision most, and followed by the directive
control supervision, directive informational supervision, and collaborative supervision
respectively. The study further discovered that there was a significant positive
relationship between supervisory practices and quality assurance in the schools. Based
on these findings, the study recommended that Ghana Education Service through the
Bosomtwe Education Directorate should organize refresher training programmes for
supervisors on the effective practice of supervision to enable them to balance and
implement their supervisory practices so as to ensure quality assurance in schools.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of
Educational Studies, University of Education, Winneba, submitted
to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Master of Education
(Supervision and Quality Assurance)
in the University of Education, Winneba.
