Flipped Classroom's Validity, Applicability, and Reliability According to University and Private Sector Scholars' Perspectives in the Palestinian Context

Ahmed Awad Amin Raba'

doi:10.5430/wjel.v10n2p46

Abstract

Teaching effectively produces the change for a better life, thus, the researcher conducted this study to figure out and analyze the potentiality of teaching via flipped classroom instructional method, according to senior lecturers of different Palestinian University perceptions along with the private sector scholars' perceptions. The researcher tried to detect the trend's reliability, validity, and applicability in the Palestinian context. The researcher conducted face-to-face interviews with 10 distinguished scholars in four Palestinian Universities who teach Methods of teaching EFL, applied linguistics and IT courses for master's degree graduates and others from the private sector local and international ones. The sample was predetermined from the private sector and the universities in Palestine. The researcher used qualitative research tools to analyze the collected data. The questions of the interview were designed as the consistency of its previous literature. The results of the analysis showed a significant weight for the flipped classroom model's validity, reliability and it also showed insignificance in the matter of applicability in the Palestinian Context. Further research will be of a great educational impact if similar research is conducted on a larger scale that will cover all the government and private schools.

Highlights

The results of the analysis showed a significant weight for the flipped classroom model's validity, reliability and it showed insignificance in the matter of applicability in the Palestinian Context
As technology witnessed a marginal development spread all over the world, this technology access has almost become reachable for all blended learning, active learning, gamification, and flipped classrooms turn to be the future of teaching-learning approaches over the traditional ones
The researcher designed six questions to be asked to 10 University's MA Professors from various Palestinian Universities, 5 of them are professors of applied linguistics of English language and TEFL, one is a former vice president of Kansas University and international educational aid employer, three IT professors and one private-sector scholar working in educational affairs

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Introduction

As technology witnessed a marginal development spread all over the world, this technology access has almost become reachable for all blended learning, active learning, gamification, and flipped classrooms turn to be the future of teaching-learning approaches over the traditional ones. Those still seem to be utilized individually by teachers in our Palestinian schools and even roughly in local universities Raba and Herzallah (2015), Heinerichs et al, (2016) and Dweikat and Raba' (2019). The researcher is curious about the perspectives of the Palestinian local universities' lecturers and Private Sector Lecturers and organizers of advanced educational programs for pre and postgraduates

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