Influence of Instructional Role of Supervisors on Students’ Academic Performance in Selected Senior High Schools in the Kwadaso Municipality

Abstract

The study focused on assessing the influence of instructional supervision on students’ academic performance in selected Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Kwadaso municipality in Ashanti Region. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. A sample of 603 respondents made up of 236 staff and 367 students were drawn from the population for the study. Questionnaire and tests were the main primary data collection instrument used to gather data for this study. These respondents were sampled using stratified random, purposive and systematic sampling methods. The data gathered were analysed using descriptive statistical tools, multiple linear regression, mean and standard deviation, ANOVA and independent sample t-test. The study found instructional supervision to have a positive statistically significant influence on students’ performance in all the four core subjects in the selected SHS. Lastly, the study revealed that developmental instructional supervision best predicts students’ academic performance. It was recommended among other things that management leadership and heads of second cycle institutions must be particularly attentive to the instructional supervision styles used in the institutions because they have serious implication for students’ academic performance.