Publication: Bridging the gap of quality education provision in secondary schools: a reflection on existing instructional supervisory practices
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2018-02
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International Journal of Advanced Research
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The impact of instructional supervision in enhancing provision of
quality education in learning institutions appears to be in doubt
worldwide. The overall objective of the study was to establish the
effectiveness of the instructional supervisory practices exercised by
instructional supervisors in schools and their contributions towards
quality education provision in secondary schools in Nairobi and
Machakos counties, Kenya. The study sought to find out how Quality
Assurance and Standards Officers prepared for conducting instructional
supervision, assess how Quality Assurance and Standards Officers
conducted instructional supervision in schools, evaluated and how
Quality Assurance and Standards Officers provide preliminary
instructional supervision reports and feedback in schools. Findings
revealed that although the instructional supervisory practices exercised
by QASOs in the schools appear well organized, there are certain
inadequacies; the QASOs don‟t do sufficient preparations before
conducting instructional supervision in schools, QASOs hardly
engaged principals and heads of departments in pre-observational
conference, QASOs spend most of the time checking teachers‟
professional records, and there was usually no sufficient time for
delivering feedback and engaging teachers in the plenary meetings. The
study recommends that to reverse the trends, instructional supervisors
need to be taken through intensive capacity building training to
improve on how they exercise their instructional supervisory practices.