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- Title
Language Teachers' Perceptions of Evaluation Criteria in Iran.
- Authors
Namaghi, Seyyed Ali Ostovar
- Abstract
The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) uncovering the local criteria for evaluating language-teaching performance, and (2) unraveling and conceptualizing language teachers' perception of these criteria. To this end, the study used grounded theory to iteratively collect and analyze interview data from twelve experienced language teachers who were willing to share their perception of evaluation criteria with the researcher. Instead of starting with a prespecified statistical sample of subjects, the study started with a general question and sampled theoretically relevant concepts, and stopped data collection when the core category and its related concepts and categories were saturated. Since the concerns of the teachers were a recurrent theme, in reporting the results each criterion was juxtaposed with language teachers' concerns related to that criterion. The results can help supervisors make more informed decisions concerning the evaluation of language-teaching performance, and add a series of data-driven, context-sensitive propositions to the knowledge base of language-teacher evaluation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOREIGN language education in universities &; colleges; LANGUAGE teachers; SCHOOL supervision; SCHOOL supervisors; GROUNDED theory
- Publication
Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1533-242X
- Publication type
Article