Evaluation serves as a major means to identify the
benefits and effectiveness of a teaching program. To capture as many potential
angles as possible and investigate the opinions of stakeholders with regards to
the elements of teaching programs, researchers and program developers generally
tend to rely on quantitative survey data. To this end, program evaluation
questionnaires play a remarkable role since they ensure to gather quick and
sufficient numerical data from a considerable number of respondents. However,
the suitability, reliability, and appropriateness of questionnaires for
investigating the opinions of stakeholders regarding English language teaching
programs (ELTP, henceforth) are considered as narrow-scoped. Based on the argument, the primary concern of the
current research is to develop a program evaluation scale for exploring
opinions of language teachers by providing insights on all possible angles of
ELTP with a particular focus on objectives, content, teaching learning
process and assessment of the program. To serve this purpose, a seven-step
survey development framework was used for constructing the scale. The findings led to the development of a 33-item scale
that involved five components: (a) general overview, (b) goals, (c) content (d)
teaching and learning process (e) assessment. Moreover, the overall
results indicated Cronbach’s alpha reliability of .94 for the 33-itemed scale.
Primary Language | English |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | June 30, 2019 |
Submission Date | December 26, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 Volume: 8 Issue: 2 |