Design and validation of educational supervision and guidance (supervision) trainingpackage for school principals

 The purpose of this study is to design and validate an educational supervisory training package for school principals.

 The method of the present research is qualitative and the method of content analysis has been used. In this regard, using a purposeful approach and applying the theoretical saturation criterion, an attempt was made to use the semi-structured in-depth interview technique, the experiences of 14 experts (faculty members of educational management, educational science experts, school principals and deputies) as criteria. The focus of the qualitative section of the semi-structured interviews is exploratory. To analyze the data, in the qualitative part, the systematic coding method was used using MAXQDA software. After implementing the interviews and in-depth analysis of the data, the categories and semantic concepts were categorized and classified into categories using re-selective conceptual coding. . Four main concepts were identified, including "educational quality", "teaching and learning", "research-oriented" and "social support".

 In the discussion of the validity of the research, in order to ensure the accuracy of the findings in the opinion of professors and academic experts who have been credible in this field, the method of thematic intra-group agreement was used which 70% reliability was calculated.

In the current study, the reliability of the retest and the method of agreement within the subject have been used to calculate the reliability of the interviews.