Perception Of Teachers And Administrators On Effectiveness Of Supervision In Basic Schools In Krachi District Of Ghana

ABSTRACT

This study "Perception of Teachers' and Administrators on the

effectiveness of Supervision in basic school in Krachi District of Ghana"

attempts to grapple with one of the crucial problems facing educational

management in Ghana.

Since 1987, Ghana has embarked on transformation of her educational

system at the pre-university level to make it efficient and effective. Elaborate

programmes on superVision have been put in place to achieve the desired

objectives. But some reports indicate that there appears to be no improvement

in the quality of the teaching and learning in Basic School in krachi District.

The main objective of the study is to find out the extent to which

effective supervision existed in basic schools in Krachi District.

The study is a survey in narure and it covered five Out of seve . . n CIrCUits

in Krachi District.

A sample of one hundred and seventy six (176) respondents made up of

( 127) classroom teachers and forty-nine administrators draw t-. .

one n 10m thlrtv-

. (36) Basic Schools in the 1997/98 school year were u· d f

SIX se Or the studv

S . . al computation usin2: frequencies and percenta .

tattsUC . -- ges were used to

anaIysed the information collected.

The major finding was that supervision was inUde u. .

q ate and meffecti ve

This confirms most local newS paper repOrts On the .'

Views at some

educationists especially Dolphyne (1998) that the POOr .

. pertormance of pupils

. h Basic Schools was due mostly to lack of eft" .

In t ese eell ve su ..

. pervlslon.