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标题：Assessment of Instructional Supervision Practices at Efutu Circuit in the Cape Coast Metropolis
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作者：Ebenezer Kobina Mensah ; Michael Boakye-Yiadom
期刊名称：Journal of Education and Practice
印刷版ISSN：2222-288X
电子版ISSN：2222-288X
出版年度：2019
卷号：10
期号：31
页码：38-43
DOI：10.7176/JEP/10-31-04
出版社：The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
摘要：The study aimed at assessing the state of instructional supervision at Efutu Circuit. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and mainly used a questionnaire to obtain data from participants. A sample size of 80 was used for the study. The study revealed that instructional supervisors conduct impromptu visits and class observation only when there is the need. However, little clinical supervision is practiced to support teachers, democratic sharing in an attempt to solve instructional challenges and monitoring of instruction through lessons monitoring tool and syllabus coverage monitoring tool. The study further showed that teachers demonstrate varied attitudes towards instructional supervision which are negative. Their perceptions are that the current supervision is more or less “looking for errors, the current supervision is authoritative rather than democratic, the current supervision is inspection rather than a collaborative process, the current supervision involves a lot of processes that are time consuming as well as the current supervision support us to improve teaching. From the study findings, it was recommended that headteachers should be prompt in supervision of instruction (conduct regular classroom observation) and not only do it when there is need. Also, they need to increase the practice of clinical supervision..
关键词：assessment; instructional; supervision practices; headteachers; circuit