English Education Program Evaluation

Students’ Perspectives in an Indonesian Private University

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English education program, program evaluation, students’ perspectives

Abstract

Despite its pivotal role in the successive curriculum evaluation process, program evaluation focusing on investigating the final semester students’ voices, particularly in the Indonesian private teacher training institution contexts has been under-studied. The present study evaluated an English education program in a private university in Indonesia from the viewpoint of the final year’s students. The investigation employed a mixed-method evaluative case study design by adopting both positivistic and naturalistic philosophical approaches in collecting and analyzing the data. The data were collected from 60 participants employing questionnaires and interview. The questionnaire contained the inventory of program courses each of which was rated by the students covering three criteria. The interview asked which courses have given the most and the least benefits to the students, whether the course contents or course lecturers contribute more to students’ development, and how likely they are going to choose teaching as their future career. The findings showed that while the majority of the compulsory courses had been deemed as instrumental, students’ low interest in the institutional courses given in Bahasa Indonesia had a significant effect on how they perceived their personal and academic development. They considered the courses as having less benefit for their study and future endeavor. The results suggest revising and restructuring the curriculum by considering more courses that are instrumental rather than the ones heavily loaded with redundant theoretical contents. Unnecessary courses should be replaced with the subjects for language learning and teaching equipping students with more practical knowledge and experiences.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Uun Muhaji
AU  - Lasim Muzammil
AU  - Andy
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - English Education Program Evaluation
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 738
EP  - 744
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.117
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.117
ID  - Muhaji2020
ER  -