The Study of Evaluation Criteria for Social Textbook in Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Hung-Yin Yeh, 葉虹吟
• Other Authors: Ying-Sheng Ou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23814683084285511639

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士班 === 94 === The research aims at exploring and constructing a complete set of evaluation criteria and weights for social study textbook in elementary schools and providing suggestions for the reference of related authorities and personnel to improve the evaluation of textbook audit. To reach the purposes of the research, the research are designed as follows: 1.Adopting literature review to explore the textbook compilation system in other countries and the properties, meanings and origins of textbook evaluation. 2.Exploring the constructive principles, procedures, strategies, content analysis, scoring, weights and classification of textbook evaluation criteria by using theory analysis method. 3.Employing Delphi to establish practicable evaluation criteria by consulting experts about the evaluation criteria for social study textbook. 4.Using AHP to explore the weights of evaluation criteria for social study textbook in elementary school. Conclusion: 1.The social study textbook in elementary schools can be evaluated by 4 first- grade criteria, 25 second-grade criteria. 2.The study adopted Delphi technique ＆ Analytic Hierarchy Process to explore and construct a complete set of evaluation criteria. 3.The established evaluation criteria of the textbook of the social study in elementary schools, from the study process and result, were proved to be highly feasible. Suggestion: In addition, the research makes up one set of evaluation checking lists for social study textbook in elementary schools according to research findings. Also, the research provides administration authorities and personnel in related fields with eleven items of suggestions for the reference in practical application and the further research. 1.On the aspect of research results application: (1)To apply the evaluation criteria of this research sufficiently, and carry out the textbook evaluation of social study. (2)To seize the important characteristics of content’s organization of social study and promote the whole quality of textbook. (3)To think about the importance of social culture attribute in the diversity society, and reflect it in the textbook of society study. (4)To held the evaluation workshop to enhance the evaluation knowledge of evaluators. （5)To promote the teacher evaluation and teachers’ ability of choosing textbooks. 2.On the aspect of further study: （1）To strengthen the researches of the theoretical foundation of textbook evaluation criteria. (2)To increase the experimental research procedure of evaluation criteria. (3) To apply other statistics methods in constructing the weight of textbook evaluation criteria. （4)To construct evaluation criteria of teacher’s guidance, student’s work and instructional media. (5) To construct the evaluation criteria of social study textbook in elementary schools systematically according to different learning stages. （6）Academic institutions can construct the evaluation criteria according to individual needs of evaluation, such as adjusting, examining and choosing textbook.