Influence of Teachers' Educational Qualification on Their Attitude towards Supervision in Keiyo North Sub County, Kenya

Abstract

The Ministry of Education tasked the Quality Assurance and Standard Officers to carry out supervision in Kenya's learning institutions to guarantee that quality training is being undertaken. However, there have been reports of negative attitudes towards the work of quality assurance practitioners, especially among instructors. Therefore, the study was conducted to investigate the influence of teachers' educational qualification on their attitude towards supervision in selected public secondary schools in Keiyo North Sub-County, Kenya. The study sought to answer influence of teachers' educational qualification and their attitudes towards supervision. The investigation took on the correlation research strategy. The target population of the study included 455 registered teachers in public secondary schools in Keiyo North Sub-County. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select 137 teachers to participate in the study. Questionnaire was employed as data collection instrument. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics included frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation. Chi-square was appropriated in treating variables to prove or disprove the proposed hypotheses. The study established that teachers' educational qualifications had a positive and significant relationship with their attitudes towards supervision