The increasing rates of infected patients with COVID-19 in the Philippines prompted the government to implement community quarantine protocols and order its agencies, including the Department of Education, to temporarily discontinue face-to-face supervision to teachers. It resulted in the birth of e-supervision as an alternative for program supervisors in providing technical assistance to teachers in articulating the basic education curriculum, which this study focused on. Its general objective was to determine the degrees of challenge in performing e-supervision and the significance of differences based on work setting and seniority or job tenure. Overall, 20 program supervisors from two school divisions completed the 25-item questionnaire and responded to the written interview questions. Using the mixed methods design, it was found that supervisors are moderately challenged in executing e-supervisory duties and responsibilities. The Mann-Whitney U Test revealed that there are no significant differences in the degrees of challenges faced by the respondents when grouped according to their respective school divisions (U=45.000, p=.705, SD=.59507) and years in service (U=24.000, p=.88, SD=.59507). These quantitative findings were further supported through the narratives of the respondents. Considering the pluses and deltas attached to e-supervision, these can even substantiate the middling or in-between mark of difficulties encountered.
Keywords: technology, web-based, online supervision, mixed methods, data-validation variantAlBar, A. M. (2012). An electronic supervision system architecture in education environments. European Journal of Business and Management, 4(8), 140-148.
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