EDUCATIONALSUPERVISION SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF PERFORMANCE IN CATIONALSUPERVISION AND SCHOOL PERFORMAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF HORO GUDURU WOLLEGA ZONE

MAJOR ADVISOR: OLANA DEBEL (PHD. CANDIDATE) CO-ADVISOR: YADATA OBSA (MA) ADVISOR: YADATA OBSA (MA) The purpose of this study was to assess educational supervision and school performance in secondary schools of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone, Oromia National Regional State. The study treated educational supervision and school performance . To this end, the study employed mixed method, which involves both quantitative and qualitative data gathering tools. Accordingly, the study was conducted in six government secondary schools of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone through cluster sampling. Then, 163 teachers and 6 school supervisors were selected as respondents for the study. Teachers were selected by simple random sampling while school supervisors were selected by purposive sampling. In order to collect relevant data, the study utilized questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire was the main data gathering tool, while the interview was used to supplement and triangulate the data gained through the questionnaire. To analyze the quantitative data, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation and regression were used while qualitative data were analyzed through narration. Hence, the result revealed that some educational supervision sub factors were weakly practiced and not sufficient to promote school performance. The descriptive finding shows that teachers were not pleased to the existing practice of arranging inter school visit to share best practices of other model school and they were not satisfied with the assistance they get in selecting the right teaching techniques, the school practices of classroom observation communication to them in secondary schools under study. The inferential finding indicates that there was positive strong and significant relationship between the educational supervision and school performance, (r=.766**, N=163, P<0.01, 2-tailed). The school based supervision also significantly predicted school performance (F=228.458) at 0.01 level of significance. According to this finding the educational supervision is more significantly associated and impactful on school performance in the study area. Therefore, each secondary school under study has been suggested that best education supervisory practices will better improve school performance. The concerned administrative bodies of secondary schools are advised to improve education supervisory practices so as to increase school performance in secondary schools . It was accordingly recommended that school principals, supervisors and teachers need to work in collaboration on school related issues.