Developing a Practical Guideline for Key Stakeholders to Improve Spanish Curriculum Applying Developmental Evaluation and Case Study

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the Spanish curriculum implementation in school and to develop practical guidelines for key stakeholders to improve the Spanish curriculum in school applying developmental evaluation and case study. The target groups in this research are key stakeholders consist of school administrator, head of foreign languages department, teachers, students who study Spanish and experts of Spanish curriculum.  The target groups are selected by purposive samplin The research instruments are questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussion. The data    are analyzed using percentage, mean, standard deviation and content analysis.

 The research results are as follows: 1) the opinions of school administrator, head of foreign languages department and teacher regard the Spanish curriculum are the highest level in overall. The opinions of students regard the Spanish curriculum are the highest level in output aspect, and the high level in three aspects, which are process, input, and context. The 5 problem issues regard the Spanish curriculum that ranked by key stakeholders are: (1) learning instruction and assessment, (2) curriculum planning and implementation, (3) budget and resource allocation, (4) student activities and (5) teacher skill development. 2) Practical guidelines for key stakeholders to improve  the Spanish curriculum in the case study consist of 5 problem issues, 20 guidelines for schooladministrator and head of foreign languages department, 32 guidelines for teacher and 18 guidelines for students.