Designing and validating evaluation instrument of in-service teachers curriculum emphasizing on high order documents

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• N farsi aliabad ¹
• F Nateqi ²
• M Seifi ³

¹ iau-arak.ac.ir

² professor arak islamic azad university

³ professor of arak islamic Azad university

Abstract

This research was conducted to design and validating evaluation instrument of in-service teachers' curriculum emphasizing on high order documents by mixed method. In order to design, compile and construct the instrument, evaluation benchmarks and then indicators were first determined by qualitative analysis of high order documents based on which a 106-question questionnaire was regulated. Content and apparent validity of the instrument were approved by experts' ideas; and in order to evaluate structure's validity and instrument's reliability, this instrument was used to evaluate in-service courses curriculums of teachers in Rafsanjan. So, evaluating goals of designed and compiled in-service courses' curriculums, trainers of these courses(totally 21 people)  regarding more knowledge of them with goals of curriculums and teachers participated in these courses(totally 321 people) as experts supervising facts of performing curriculums relating to other elements were asked. Measuring validity and reliability of instrument was based on analyzing data resulted from evaluating curriculums by designed instrument.Therefore, CFI, AGFI and GFI in content component were  estimated 0.942, 0.909 and 0.982 learning activity 0.929, 0.938 and 0.902educational materials 0.989, 0.945 and 0.962 teaching-learning strategy 0.926, 0.932 and 0.823 time 0.989, 0.945 and 0.962 space 0.969, 0.925  and 0.998 grouping 0.889, 0.926 and 0.910  and in evaluation component 0.919, 0.925 and 0.902 which all show suitable and fitness of instruments. In this research, reliability of 74-question questionnaire instrument using Cronbache's Alpha is totally equal to 0.968 and for every components of content, learning activities, educational materials, teaching-learning strategies, time, space, grouping and evaluation respectively equal to 0.916, 0.819, 0.874, 0.913, 0.860, 0.869, 0.879, 0.876 and for 32-question questionnaire  totally equal to 0.923 and regarding every components of  cognitive, emotional and skill goals, it was respectively estimated equal to 0.876, 0.877 and 0.865 showing high reliability of designed instrument.

Keywords

• designing
• validation
• evaluation instrument
• high order documents

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