Abstract:
The purposes of the research were to study the problems of health education supervision at the secondary education level, and to compare the opinions of the supervisors who had different years of working experience concerning the problems of health education supervision. Questionnaires were sent to the population which were 159 health education supervisors who worked in the central, regional, and the provincial offices of the Department of Physical Education and the Department of General Education, Ministry of Education. One hundred and fifty five questionnaires accounted for 97.48 percent, were returned. The data were then analyzed to obtain percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviations, and One-Way Analysis of Variance using the SPSSX computer program. The findings were : most supervisors were males, 30-40 years of age with a bachelor of education in physical education. It was found that the supervisor had moderate problems in supervising health education as a whole area was also examined; it was found that most supervisors had moderate problem in the areas which were the curriculum and contents, teaching methods and teaching-learning activities, teaching materials, evaluation, school visiting, administration, and others, except the supervisor's personal problem area was low. The high level problems which the supervisor faced were: the insufficient time for health education supervision because of over work on other tasks which assigned by the upper authorities; the stated duties were too broad and hard to accomplish; insufficient time of school visiting for health education supervision; insufficient budget for health education supervision; and schools were situated in remote areas and scattering. The comparison of the supervisors years of working experience showed that there was no significant difference at the level of .05 among those who had worked less than 5 year, 5-10 years, and over 10 years, both in all areas.