Evaluating the Supervisory Role of Primary School Principals from the Teachers' Point of View

Abstract

        The aim of the current research is to evaluate the supervisory role of school principals from the teachers' point of view and to identify the strengths and weaknesses in the supervisory role of school principals. The researcher used a questionnaire as a tool for the current research. It consisted of (64) items within (9) main domains, and the results were figured out by appropriate statistical means. The research sample composed of (588) male and female teachers, and the study reached the following results:

1- The results showed that all domains of the supervisory role had a higher rate than the adopted standard of (3) a weighted mean with the difference among the fields in percentages.

2- The arithmetic mean value of the domains as a whole was (3.55), and the weight percentile was (71).

3- The domain of school organization ranked first with a weighted mean of (3.92) and a weight percentile of (78.4).

4- The domain of relationship with the local community ranked last with a weighted mean of (3.36) and weight percentile (67.2