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Management by Supervision: A Strategy for Quality Oriented School Management

Supervision and inspection are considered to be the major planks of the strategy to improve the quality of school education. Several countries have started transforming school supervision into a genuine quality improvement mechanism. Research found that the quality of schools directly relates to the quality of monitoring. This paper- an integral part of the doctoral dissertation – ‘A study of Management Practices of Secondary Schools’, attempts to explore the status of school supervision as a strategic tool for quality improvement in Indian schools. A sample of 188 heads of schools – about 34% of the population in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh in India, was selected through stratified sampling. The collected data is analyzed with Chi Square test with the help of SPSS-19. The findings reveal that the external supervision is very weak and failed to serve as quality improvement tool while there are many constraints to exercise internal supervision efficiently.