The Effect of an Evaluation of Teaching English Curricula Used Students’ Two Faculties in Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakorn
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate students in the Technical English course including 9 dimensions and 29 aspects, and to evaluate the contingency factors of context, input, process and product and compared it with the evaluation of the Technical English course based on CIPP model from two faculties – Engineering and Science and Technology.
The 120 samples used in this study were students registered in Technical English in the first semester of 2015 academic year from two faculties of RMUTP students. The research instrument was a questionnaire through descriptive statistics. The findings can be summarized as follows: there were 9 dimensions which included the following aspects: The result of this study revealed that there were 9 dimensions. The 8 dimensions were rather high. However, dimension 4 was rather high, and even higher for students of Science and Technology. The contingency of context, input, process and product factors of the course were all rather high. The four dimensions were appropriated in terms of context, input, process and output at a high level. The evaluation in this course from the two faculties’ students appropriated context, input, process and output at a high rate and increasing the sum total of learning.
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