Summary: | 碩士 === 義守大學 === 工業管理學系 === 102 === Since there are various versions of text book for schools to choose from, assessing and deciding the appropriate curriculum material has becoming an important issue for schools to ponder. Although there are abundance of researches regarding on curriculum material valuation, using the appropriate criteria depend largely on the subjects and the teachers’ teaching styles. Hence, finding the right text books would set the tone for the success of the classes.
Due to the ever changing international political environment and the national security exposure, homeland security curriculum material not only need to provide the content that is friendly enough for self-learning purpose, but also require to possess the substance that is suitable for classroom lecture. Using subjective criteria for assessment in order to choose the most effective and appropriate text book has always been a difficult task for the decision makers.
Handbook for evaluating and selecting curriculum materials, Gall (1981), had categorized the curriculum material assessment into Publisher and funding、Physical Properties、Content Properties、Teaching property。Many curriculum material assessment criterions are built on these four categories coupled with subject and teaching style specific criteria.
This research will be focusing on the assessment of homeland security curriculum text book. We will be investigating the applicability of employing teaching style criterion and teaching requirement criterion in text book assessment. After locating the most accurate assessment criteria, we would then utilize AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and expert survey to determine a decision making model for school decision makers to adapt in order to seek the most appropriate curriculum materials for homeland security courses.
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