Mechanisms Used By School Principals to Achieve Effective Instructional Supervision in Delta State Public Secondary Schools, Nigeria
Keywords:
students, teachers, Delta State Public Secondary Schools, instructional Supervision, EducationAbstract
This study examined mechanisms used by principals to achieve effective
instructional supervision in Delta State public secondary schools. It was guided
by two research questions and two hypotheses. The study is a descriptive
survey adopting the ex-post-facto design. The population of the study was
452 public secondary school principals in Delta State as at 2018/2019
academic year. Stratified sampling technique was used to sample 226 public
secondary school principals in Delta State. A self-developed instrument titled
“Instructional Supervision Mechanism Questionnaire (ISMQ)” was used to
gather information from the respondents. The responses were converted into
mean scores and standard deviation for the purpose of answering the research
questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of
significance. Result shows that principals in Delta State public secondary
school use instructional supervision mechanism such as; checking of teachers’
lesson note/plan, ensure that teachers follow the scheme of work, classroom
visitation, teachers use useful instructional materials, provide feedback to
teachers soon after classroom visitation and recommend ways teachers can
enhance their instruction. Also administrative experiences of principals
influence their use of instructional supervision mechanism in Delta State
public secondary schools. It is consequently recommended among others
that principals in Delta State secondary schools should continue to apply
mechanisms such as checking of teachers’ lesson note/plan and ensure that
teachers use useful instructional materials, provide feedback to teachers soon
after classroom visitation and recommend ways teachers can enhance their
instruction.
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