The attitude of school supervisors in a school district in northeast Puerto Rico toward the evaluation process as related to the clinical supervision process

The evaluation of the teacher is one of the first steps in the evaluation of the learning process. This evaluation can be of great help to educational systems if it is understood as cooperative and if it is collaboratively planned. It can help to motivate, give satisfaction, reveal a teacher\u27s weak and strong points, make better use of every teacher\u27s potential, and keep open lines of communication and common effort. The modern conception of the word evaluation and the necessary data should determine the alternatives that will serve as a guide in making decisions about education. In this exploratory study, the main objective was to analyze the attitudes of school supervisors from a target public school district in the northeastern part of Puerto Rico toward the evaluation process as related to the clinical supervision process. The target population was 45 school supervisors, of whom 35 responded--25 (71%) female and 10 (28.6%) male. Their ages ranged between 20 and 50 years. The independent variable in this study was the evaluation process as based on clinical supervision. The dependent variable was the attitude of the school supervisors targeted concerning fairness, flexibility, moral support, efficiency, simplicity, patience, cordiality, autonomy, and self-evaluation. The general null hypothesis was rejected. This hypothesis claimed that the percentage of supervisors having a positive attitude towards the focus of the clinical supervision process is not significantly higher than theoretically expected. It was expected that only 50% would show a positive attitude. The design used in this study is descriptive. The objective is to describe what exists with reference to the variations and conditions of a situation. A questionnaire divided into six parts was used, composed primarily of Yes/No questions plus an intensity scale following the Likert model. In order to analyze statistically the results of the findings, the average frequency and percentages were used and expressed in tables and figures. To summarize, the population made up of the school supervisors showed a very positive attitude toward the clinical supervision process since, in each premise, when it is expressed in percentages, more than 80% of the population showed a positive attitude toward the evaluation process as related to clinical supervision