AN EVALUATION OF ENGLISH TEACHING REFORM POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN UPPER NORTHEAST SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

This research article aimed: 1) to evaluate the policy body in terms of clarity, communication and resource allocation, 2) to evaluate school policy administration of a comprehensive project in context, input, process, product on past project and development guidelines, and 3) to extract lessons of policy implementing in schools at different levels performance in terms of similarities and differences. This study was a mixed method research using the CIPP model as a research framework. The sample group consisted of 168 schools under the Secondary Educational Service Areas Office, Areas 19-23 by stratified random sampling. Data collection used an assessment form of 974 people and the development guidelines interviewed from 10 experts. Percentages, mean, multiple regression analysis and content analysis were used. Qualitative key informants were two medium-sized schools by purposive selected from the quantitative samples. An in-depth interview, document analysis, observation, and group discussion with content analysis were used.

The results of the study were as follows: 1) The English teaching reform policy was clear, able to communicate to practitioners and resources are allocated at a high level. 2) The school policy administration was consistent in context, input, and process in overall at a high level. All factors were a high level of positive correlation with statistical significance at the .01 level. The good predictors of productivity were inputs and processes. Guidelines for input development should work in their roles with adequate budget and suitable equipment. The process must operate with the quality steps and reports results. 3) The extracting lessons of the policy implementation in outstanding and not outstanding schools were found both similarities and differences in contexts, inputs, processes, and outputs. Administrators and teachers should focus on inputs and processes in English teaching as they influence productivity in high level and apply the development guidelines in action