| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 工業教育學系 === 97 === This study aims to probe how to improve the evaluation process in order to ensure educational quality after the enlargement of higher educational institutions which leads to the popularization of higher education in Taiwan. The objectives are: 1. to develop meta-evaluation criteria for comprehensive evaluation of institutes of technology, 2. to analyze the implementation of comprehensive evaluation based on the meta-evaluation criteria through questionnaire survey, 3. to understand the viewpoints of meta-evaluation in the evaluators and the staff of the institutions evaluated, 4. to compare the differences in the opinions on meta-evaluation among evaluators and institution staff with different background, 5. to interview scholars and experts in the related fields of technological education & evaluation in order to understand their viewpoints about the implementation of evaluation on technological institutions, 6. to propose suggestions for educational administration authority based on the synthesized findings of questionnaire survey and interviews of this study.
Questionnaire survey and interview were adopted in this study. The major groups of stakeholders involved in the process of this study were: evaluators and the randomly chosen faculty members of schools which were evaluated by the Ministry of Education in 2006 & 2007, the representatives of educational administration authority and scholars in the field of technological education. ‘The Questionnaire of the Comprehensive Evaluation of Institutions of Technology’ & interview outlines were developed by the author as research tools.
The major results of this study are as follows:
1. The criteria of meta-evaluation consist of 4 domains (utility , feasibility , propriety, accuracy), 21 dimensions and 72 items. 2. Based on the meta-evaluation criteria adopting a five-point Likert scale, the result indicates that the approval rating on the 4-domain components of meta-evaluation criteria was slightly higher than the average level in comprehensive evaluation. 3. The differences in opinions on meta-evaluation among those people with different background are discussed. 4. After the verification of the result of questionnaire survey and interview, the major findings are: (1) the evaluation can help schools achieve the goals of discovering problems, improving the current system, and upgrading educational quality, (2) the comprehensive evaluation is fair and objective that can reflect the real situation how schools operate; (3) the evaluative criteria are able to manifest the characteristics of technological education if they can be precisely interpreted; (4) it is suggested that the evaluators require the abilities in the fields of occupational specialty, technological education and evaluation; (5) school self-evaluation mechanism needs to be improved; (6) interviews with faculties and students during the evaluation process help to verify the school implementation system of educational plans, and to understand the teaching results; (7) it is proper to adopt grading system for comprehensive evaluation at the current stage; (8) the result of grading of comprehensive evaluation was considered reasonable to some extent; (9) it is agreed that the government’s administrative measures and distribution of subsidies were, to some degree, based on the result of evaluation;(10) the executive organization responsible for the evaluation project in schools can carry out the process smoothly; (11) most of the evaluators were able to keep to the evaluative ethics and advantage-taking avoidance principle; (12) the rights and interests of schools have been taken into full consideration; (13) the result of comprehensive evaluation of institutes of technology meets the expectation of the public to some extent. Finally, suggestions for short- , medium- & long-term development and the directions of further research are proposed.
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