The Opinions of the Educational Supervisors on Researches about Supervision System

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of the scientific researches about supervision system, based on the views of the educational supervisors. In this study, a phenomenological interviewing method within the framework of qualitative research was used. The relevant data was gathered via standardized open-ended interviews, the sampling study group consists of 46 educational supervisors. The results of the study reveal that participants think that the scientific researches do not make effective and enough contribution to supervision system in general. This is because of academic researchers’ having not enough information about educational supervision system; subjects of the researches were rather theoretical and didn’t reflect the realities of practical supervision activities; similar and repeated subjects didn’t take the attention of supervisors, therefore the data collecting instruments were not carefully filled by the participants. For scientific researches being effective and making enough contribution, researches should be carried out with the collaboration of educational supervisors; there should be more emphasis on interviews and participant observation rather than the quantitative researches; feedback should be given about the studies after the studies’ being published; data collecting instruments should have less number of questions and be rather short; subjects reflecting the real problems in supervision system should be recognized and studied