CONTRIBUTION OF EDUCATIONAL SUPERVISION IN IMPROVING STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF WOLKITE TOWN

Abstract

This study attempted to investigate the contribution of educational supervision in improving student academic achievement in Wolkite town of secondary schools. The specific objective of the study were to investigate the extent to which supervisory activities contribute to the improvement of student academic achievement, to identify the roles and functions of educational supervision to improve the quality of education programs and data for this study were collected from teachers, principals and supervisor. So from the total 220 teachers the researcher used 70(31.8%) of teachers by used simple random sampling techniques and from the total 6(100%) of principals the researcher used 6(100%) of principals by used availability sample and 1(100%) of supervisor was used by available sample. Design was employed for this study on the assumption it would help full to collect a large variety of data related to problem. The study employed qualitative data like questionnaire as major source and qualitative data was obtained from interview. Consequently, come out from this study were, educational supervisors attempted to investigate educational supervision in improving student academic achievement.so educational supervision over the key person for the improvement of students’ academic achievement and the major problems of educational supervision that come across while improvement educational supervision was multiple. They were excessive work load, lock of sufficient budget lack of sufficient time. Finally minimizeand it’s possible to solve the problems. The following recommendations were drawn he school management should have to work with educational supervision for their improvement of student academic achievement and the concerned bodies such as Woreda education office and school management should provide the following alternatives ways of alleviating the problems. Allocating adequate budget and available tim