Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices
The current study sought to examine whether explicit instruction affects teacher evaluators in terms of a six-factor Teacher Evaluation (TE) model encompassing Perception, Method, System, Content, Purpose, and Outcome. Moreover, it explored how training of the evaluators affects their practices in a...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Asociación Mexicana de Maestros de Inglés
2020-11-01
|
| Series: | Mextesol Journal |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.mextesol.net/journal/public/files/ff7075f428ad33f31219103ab11ddbe8.pdf |
| _version_ | 1818663436163219456 |
|---|---|
| author | Mohsen Shafaghi Masoomeh Estaji |
| author_facet | Mohsen Shafaghi Masoomeh Estaji |
| author_sort | Mohsen Shafaghi |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | The current study sought to examine whether explicit instruction affects teacher evaluators in terms of a six-factor Teacher Evaluation (TE) model encompassing Perception, Method, System, Content, Purpose, and Outcome. Moreover, it explored how training of the evaluators affects their practices in actual evaluation. To this end, twenty EFL teacher-evaluators selected as the participants of the study filled out a TE questionnaire (developed by the researchers) and participated in a semi-structured interview. In addition, the evaluators’ actual practice was examined through recording of post-observation debriefing sessions between the evaluators and the teachers they supervised. Subsequently, a four-session training course on various aspects of teacher evaluation was held. After four weeks, the interviews, questionnaires, and debriefing sessions were repeated. To analyze the data, a two-way repeated measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was run and the comparison of the results showed that the training course had positively affected many aspects of evaluators’ perceptions and practices. Likewise, the content analysis of the interviews and debriefing sessions identified the features of the training course that the evaluators found most valuable such as the methods of observation, the strategies required for overcoming the evaluators’ communication problems with teachers, and managing the debriefing sessions. The results also revealed that the TE factor outcome was not affected by the training instruction course. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-17T05:16:49Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-2c8d14688c2549e9b6e8707707ca40c1 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2395-9908 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-17T05:16:49Z |
| publishDate | 2020-11-01 |
| publisher | Asociación Mexicana de Maestros de Inglés |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Mextesol Journal |
| spelling | doaj.art-2c8d14688c2549e9b6e8707707ca40c12022-12-21T22:02:05ZengAsociación Mexicana de Maestros de InglésMextesol Journal2395-99082020-11-0144421883Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and PracticesMohsen Shafaghi0Masoomeh Estaji1Allameh Tabataba Allameh Tabataba The current study sought to examine whether explicit instruction affects teacher evaluators in terms of a six-factor Teacher Evaluation (TE) model encompassing Perception, Method, System, Content, Purpose, and Outcome. Moreover, it explored how training of the evaluators affects their practices in actual evaluation. To this end, twenty EFL teacher-evaluators selected as the participants of the study filled out a TE questionnaire (developed by the researchers) and participated in a semi-structured interview. In addition, the evaluators’ actual practice was examined through recording of post-observation debriefing sessions between the evaluators and the teachers they supervised. Subsequently, a four-session training course on various aspects of teacher evaluation was held. After four weeks, the interviews, questionnaires, and debriefing sessions were repeated. To analyze the data, a two-way repeated measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was run and the comparison of the results showed that the training course had positively affected many aspects of evaluators’ perceptions and practices. Likewise, the content analysis of the interviews and debriefing sessions identified the features of the training course that the evaluators found most valuable such as the methods of observation, the strategies required for overcoming the evaluators’ communication problems with teachers, and managing the debriefing sessions. The results also revealed that the TE factor outcome was not affected by the training instruction course.http://www.mextesol.net/journal/public/files/ff7075f428ad33f31219103ab11ddbe8.pdfteacher evaluation trainingteacher evaluatorsevaluator’s perceptionsevaluator’s practicespost-observation debriefing sessions |
| spellingShingle | Mohsen Shafaghi Masoomeh Estaji Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices Mextesol Journal teacher evaluation training teacher evaluators evaluator’s perceptions evaluator’s practices post-observation debriefing sessions |
| title | Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices |
| title_full | Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices |
| title_fullStr | Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices |
| title_short | Teacher Evaluation Training and Its Effect on EFL Teacher Evaluators’ Perceptions and Practices |
| title_sort | teacher evaluation training and its effect on efl teacher evaluators perceptions and practices |
| topic | teacher evaluation training teacher evaluators evaluator’s perceptions evaluator’s practices post-observation debriefing sessions |
| url | http://www.mextesol.net/journal/public/files/ff7075f428ad33f31219103ab11ddbe8.pdf |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT mohsenshafaghi teacherevaluationtraininganditseffectoneflteacherevaluatorsperceptionsandpractices AT masoomehestaji teacherevaluationtraininganditseffectoneflteacherevaluatorsperceptionsandpractices |