Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Phd student,Department of Educational management, Educational management group, College of social and humanities sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandag, Iran.

2 - Associate professor faculty of educational science, College of social and humanities sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandag, Iran.

3 professor faculty of educational science, College of social and humanities sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandag, Iran.

10.22054/jrlat.2025.80220.1755

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the ethical foundations of supervising teachers in virtual education. In terms of the purpose of this research, it was development-applied and in terms of method, it was mixed with a sequential exploratory approach. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part included 22 school principals and university professors knowledgeable in the field of monitoring virtual education, who were selected by the snowball method and at the theoretical saturation level. The statistical population of the research in the quantitative part was the principals of elementary and secondary schools in Bukan city, 120 people were randomly selected as a sample using Morgan's sample size method. The interviews were analyzed by theme analysis (theme, category and concept coding). According to Goba and Lincoln (2000), the validity of the qualitative part was examined with four criteria of validity, transferability, reliability and confirmability, and to evaluate the reliability of the interview protocol, the method of percentage agreement between two coders was used. In the quantitative part, the reliability of the components was checked using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and the coefficient of all components was reported to be more than 0.7, and its divergent and convergent validity were also confirmed. Based on the findings of the research, managers' supervision of teachers' virtual activities is subject to three main themes: personal character,, and spiritual-social ethics of the teacher in the form of five primary themes: monitoring behavior, monitoring educational content, professional ethics, monitoring relationships, and monitoring attitudes.

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