مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Evaluation Of The Views Of Education Inspectors And School Administrators About The General Inspection Of Schools

Abstract :

It is known by everyone that inspection has an important position in terms of organizations renewing and evaluating themselves constantly. Inspection is also quite important in terms of education institutions’ determining how much they can achieve their goals. Recently, there have been some changes relative to education inspection in our country. The aim of the study is carry out the evaluation about schools’ general inspection by including the views of school administrators and education inspectors. In the study, the views of 15 different school administrators from 15 different schools and 20 education inspectors from different fields of study, who work in Malatya in 2014-2015 school year, are benefited. As data collection tool; semi-structured interview form is used. Phenomenology design from qualitative data designs is used in the study.As the results of the study, when the views about whether education inspectors approve of conducting schools’ general inspection once every three years are examined, 80% of education inspectors state that the institution may experience loss of power due to such an inspection. 53.33% of school administrators express that schools’ being inspected once every three years is not suitable, that there may arise aimlessness and that it is necessary to conduct inspections with more frequent intervals.