School Heads Supervisory Roles and Quality Assurance in Public Elementary Schools in the City Schools Division in Laguna

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Quality assurance in education is the efficient management, monitoring, evaluation and reviews of the resource inputs and transformation process (teaching and learning) to produce quality outputs (students) that meet set standards and expectations of the society. Quality assurance is achieved in schools that have strong principals who devote considerable time to coordinating and managing instruction; such principals are highly visible in the school and stay close to the instructional process. In many instances, effective principals adopt continuous and consistent classroom visitation to ensure adequate teaching and learning processes. At the same time, instructional leadership is in many ways a shared responsibility.

METHODS

The descriptive research design was employed in this study. Quantitative Method is a type of descriptive research that involves making careful descriptions of educational phenomena (Gall, Gall & Borg, 2007). Quantitative research is a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical data are used to obtain information. The descriptive research design will be employed in this study. This will be utilized to describe variables; to examine relationships among variables; to determine cause-and-effect interactions between variables (Burns and Grove, 2005). The study attempts to determine if there is significant relationship between principals' supervisory roles and quality assurance.

RESULTS

The hypothesis stating that the school heads performance of supervisory roles does not, singly or in combination, predict the quality assurance in education in terms of SBM PASBE result is partially upheld.The hypothesis stating that there is no significant relationship between school head's performance of supervisory roles and their supervision of teacher's skills/abilities is partially upheld.

The hypothesis stating that there is no significant relationship between the School head's supervision of teacher's skills/abilities and quality assurance in education in terms of SBM result is rejected.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the findings of the study, the following are recommended: School heads may sustain the following roles, collegiality and collaboration, teacher action research, ethical teaching and inquiry, and reflective teaching. The schools on advanced level of performance and there is a need to continue their best practices in doing their sharing of expertise in other schools with maturing level.