INVESTIGATING STUDENT TEACHING SUPERVISION: A CASE STUDY AT FACULTY OF EDUCATION, BURAPHA UNIVERSITY

This case study action research investigated student teaching supervision at Burapha University’s Faculty of Education. It had three phases. In Phase I, the researcher used quantitative methodology- surveys – to reach 155 student teachers (ST), 147 school (SCHS) and 56 university (BUUS) supervisors to gauge perceptions of issues in student teaching supervision during the university’s teaching practice program between November 2003 and February 2004. The overall response rate was 61.17 percent. Survey data were reported as descriptive case studies for each population separately and for respondents as a whole. In Phase II, a small group of volunteer SCHS and BUUS, who were majors in English deliberated on these data in workshops and drafted a supervision guideline to address issues. The researcher facilitated this development, documenting it as a case study of ‘participative action research (PAR)’. Facilitation continued in Phase III with the researcher arranging to trial the guideline at three separate school sites between November 2004 an