A Study of The Opinions of Stakeholders on Curriculum Management of Master of Science Program in Evaluation Methodology

Abstract

            The purposes of this research were; 1) To survey the opinions and the need for teaching and learning of existing graduates and students, graduated of the Master of Science Program in Evaluation Methodology and 2) To evaluate the satisfaction of employers towards the Master of Science Program in Evaluation Methodology. This research was qualitative research made with 27 informants consisting of 10 alumni members, 11 current students, and 6 graduate users. Data was collected using the interview. The data analysis used in the study is content analysis. The research resulted can be summarized as followed;

            Highlights of the program consisted of a variety of teaching and learning activities based on the aptitude and ability of the instructors resulting students to gain various knowledge. Therefore, teachers should be had the experience to manage and teach. Alumni recommended that should add speakers who had experience in various fields of evaluation to provide students could use to develop in their work units.

            As for online teaching, Alumni and current students had similar opinions. Teaching and learning online for lectures subjects. As for subjects that required understanding must still be discussions with friends and teachers in the classroom. For subjects that needed the practice should be managed according to the course that had already been conducted. In addition, the benefits of online course would be enable rapid learning and learners could be reviewed the lessons consistently. The pattern of overseeing student workloads and dissertation were the highlight of program to helped stimulate learning and works to be achieved according to the goals while students could be graduate within a specific time. The followed-up pattern should be made different for each student. Follow-up strategies were therefore important to teachers whether implemented by using social media, by meetings for individual counseling. As for curriculum improvement, the first important thing is the proactive publicity to allow as many students as possible to attend the study to meet the target of admission, fit the target group and the demonstration of program management that had outstanding features in developing quality students. The curriculum should be show the strength of the development for students to have quality, focused on communication skills in the workplace and provided experiences for students to have the opportunity to present their work to outsiders.

The skills that should be added in course were using statistics to analysis data, applying of various technologies in the work and for the benefit of society. The results of this research indicated that the graduates had the quality as specified by the program. That is, they have knowledge, ability and assessment skills particularly in evaluating the projects, abled to evaluate the project and also had the ability to transfer knowledge about assessments for others to understand (the information from employers), project management, systematic operation and reasonable thinking. As for soft skills, this was rather an outstanding feature of graduates in this program in which they have the ability to work as a team, a good relationship, ability to adapt to others very effectively as well as being able to make decisions in solving problems in each situation perfectly. However, what should be further developed is to use foreign languages effectively and the ability to apply technology.