The Influence of External School Inspections on Enhancing Curriculum Implementation in Public Secondary Schools in Kwimba District
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The study was conducted in the southern part of Mwanza region, from February to
June 2015. The study area included public secondary schools from Kwimba district;
district secondary education offices and Zonal inspectorate office. The study
involved; Human capital theory, two factor theory; Lesson Study and Differentiated
Supervision Model. Specifically, the study assessed external school inspecting
strategies used by external school inspectors on improving teachers’ teaching,
external school inspectors’ services delivery and curriculum implementation,
challenges surrounding the whole task of inspecting schools, and means of arresting
external school inspectors’ knowledge, skills and other conditions.
The study categorized schools into two groups according to the design used, those
were inspected many times felled into ‘control group’ and those received less
inspections relied on ‘treatment group’. Again, the study used mixed research
approach, where Non-experimental design specifically static group comparison was
used. The study involved 192 respondents, questionnaires; semi-structured interview
and reviewing written documents. Field data were analyzed through SPSS, where
questionnaires’ findings were tested through T-test, Chi- square and ANOVA; and
qualitative data were analyzed through descriptive way or written words.
The findings showed that, somehow schools received more inspections benefited
than those received fewer inspections, but wonderful enough, schools’ performance
was the same in both groups. The study concluded that; the government provided
poor support to inspectorate department, strategies used by inspectors were poor, and
curriculum implementation was poor in schools. Recommendations, government
should provide adequate support to inspectors, MoEVT should establish appropriate
Models of inspection, open inspectorate offices to district, and inspectors to act as
facilitator. The study provided further investigation about the contribution of school
inspectors on students’ academic performance in public and private secondary
schools, also the impact of Models of supervision on improving teachers’ teaching.
Keywords
School Inspections: Curriculum implementation