Criteria for selecting educational leaders from the perspective of educational supervision: Proposals and solutions

Abstract

This study aims to know the leadership crisis in educational administration from the perspective of educational supervision. The study sample consisted of (498) male and female supervisors. The researcher used the questionnaire as a tool for his study, as it consisted in its final form of (60) paragraphs distributed over five areas: leadership, planning and evaluation (15 paragraphs), human resources organization (13), administrative and financial affairs (12), curriculum and teaching (10), student affairs and school-community relations (10). Its validity and reliability have been verified.

The results of the study showed that the educational supervision perceptions of the leadership crisis in educational administration came at a reasonable level in all areas of the criteria that were addressed, and the areas were arranged as follows: leadership, planning and evaluation, curriculum and teaching, human resources organization, student affairs and school-community relations, administrative and financial affairs. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the leadership crisis in educational administration for the variables: (gender and qualification), and (gender and experience), as they showed the presence of statistically significant differences attributed to the educational qualification variable, and the presence of statistically significant differences attributed to the experience variable.