“The Availability Degree of Supervisory Competencies of the Educational Supervisors and its Relationship with Outstanding Performance from Principals’ Point of View in the Northern Governorates of Palestine”

Abstract

This study aimed at identifying the availability degree of supervisory competencies of the educational supervisors and its relationship with the outstanding performance from principals’ point of view in the Northern Governorates of Palestine in the light of having independent variables (gender, academic qualification, directorate of education, specialization and years of administrative experiences). The researcher has used the descriptive associative approach where the sample comprised of 319 state principals during the academic year 2020/2021. The northern governorates have been divided into three districts (North, Middle and South). Two directorates of education were randomly selected from each district and the sample size was calculated by using the equation of Robert Wason. The questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting data related to the study problem where it has been designed to compose of two scales, namely: this Supervisory Competencies and Outstanding Performance. The scale of supervisory competencies has been distributed over four aspects: Knowledge Competencies which included 8 paragraphs, Performance Competencies which included 12 paragraphs, Affective and Humanitarian Competencies included 9 paragraphs and Research, innovation and creativity Competencies included 7 paragraphs. The scale of outstanding performance included 35 paragraphs. The results of this study demonstrated, from principals of Northern Governorates’ point of view, that the availability degree of supervisory competencies of the educational supervisors was medium as evidenced by the Mean which accounted for 3.63 while the availability degree of knowledge competencies of the educational supervisors was high. Therefore, the results of this study demonstrated, from principals of Northern Governorates’ point of view, that the availability degree of outstanding performance competencies was also high and there was no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α<.05) within the means of availability degree of supervisory competencies of the educational supervisors from principals of Northern Governorates’ point of view in Palestine. The study indicated that there was no positive and strong linear relationship between availability degree of supervisory competencies of the educational supervisors and the level of outstanding performance from principals of Northern Governorates’ point of view in Palestine. However, the correlation coefficient between them was (.78) which indicates that the more availability degree of supervisory competencies of the educational supervisors, the greater is their outstanding performance vice versa. Based on the results, this study recommends officials of the Ministry of Education to focus on knowledge reflection the supervisors acquire over their supervisory performance which in need for follow-up through field visits by the supervisors at their working places in order to achieve the desired objectives.