The purpose of this study was to develop the evaluation criteria set in order to evaluate properly the education programs of beginning teachers of church school and thereupon to develop the evaluation criteria set through validation process. In order ...
The purpose of this study was to develop the evaluation criteria set in order to evaluate properly the education programs of beginning teachers of church school and thereupon to develop the evaluation criteria set through validation process. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, following problems were constructed:
First, to research the evaluative basis of the education programs for beginning teachers of church school.
Second, to research the development logic of the evaluation criteria set in the education programs for beginning teachers of church school.
Third, to inquire into the development and validation process of the evaluation criteria set.
By using qualitative study methodology, 4 domains and 41 evaluation criteria were conceptualized as purpose, content, method and evaluation of education, among which content and method were specialized into 5 sub-domains. In order to validate the developed evaluation criteria, the self-administered questionnaires were filled out by 830 sampled persons, but returned from 684 respondents. Among them only 639 questionnaires were used.
The following conclusions are derived:
1. The evaluation criteria which were set up by making much of the basic logic of program evaluation can be called a reliable and proper tool verified by various groups concerned. Hence, the evaluation criteria established in this study can be used as a proper tool in order to evaluate the education programs for beginning teachers of church school.
2. The evaluation criteria also can function as general criteria when church tries to evaluate the education programs for beginning teachers of church school.
3. The evaluation criteria can give a concrete help to any church leader who wants to develop more qualitatively improved education programs for beginning teachers of church school than any previous, existing program.