Application of the educational total quality standards in teaching performance from the viewpoint of teachers and supervisors of secondary school level in South of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The study aimed at highlighting the extent of practicing and implementing total quality standards in teaching performance by secondary school teachers in south Saudi Arabia from the perspective of educational supervisors and teachers working in that area. The researcher utilized the descriptive survey approach that relies on studying the reality and precisely describes it and presents it quantitatively and qualitatively. The researcher used the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software for determining the mean, the standard deviation and the weight percentile to identify the extent of applying total quality standards by supervisors and teachers in the teaching performance relevant to personal, educational, academic, and social aspects. The study population consists of nine educational directorates in south Saudi Arabia where 1172 supervisors and 34983 teachers work. The study sample consisted of 100 supervisors and 265 teachers affiliated with three directorates from a total of nine directorates which represent the various directorates. For answering the main question and the secondary questions, the researcher prepared a questionnaire that consisted of 109 points covering all aspects to be examined. The study resulted in several findings of which some of the most important was that the reality of applying total quality standards in the teaching performance by members of the study sample pertaining to personal, academic, and social aspects varied between “very high” and “high” except for some points of which the item about attention to modern technologies was found to be one of the key items where the level of practice was weak. The study presented some suggestions, some of the most significant are organizing training courses in general, and courses related to modern technologies in particular.