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The development and testing of a methodology for identifying reasons used to recommend curricula

University of British Columbia

This study describes the development of an instrument which would permit educators to carry out more meaningful education goal selection surveys, or "needs assessments", than is presently done. The instrument, called the Reasons Selection Questionnaire (RSQ), enables educators to identify the reasons which people used to judge the worth of educational goals, and provides information needed to select defensible goals. The-study was undertaken in the educational setting of a unique post-primary schooling program, offered in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The Reasons Selection Questionnaire was field tested using a stratified random sample of people in the community of Honiara, and all the students at the Solomon Island Teachers' College. The data obtained were interpreted to show that the RSQ successfully met appropriate validity criteria, was generally easily understood and completed by the people in the samples, and provided results which had high test-retest stability. Different analysis strategies, appropriate for the RSQ data, are explored in this study. In addition, suggestions are made for potential applications of, and for further research on the RSQ technique.

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2010-03-02

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/21353

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University of British Columbia

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