Abstract
The English departments in colleges and universities are the training center of professional English talents. Their teaching quality bears on the international exchanges and economic development. Through questionnaire survey, interview, and literature review, this paper designed an evaluation index system (EIS) for teaching quality assessment of English departments in colleges and universities, which consists of 19 indexes. Specifically, the collected data was computed and sorted out through factor analysis, and the common factors were extracted, forming an EIS containing 19 secondary indices and 5 primary indices. Next, a weight was assigned to each index in the EIS. Taking the English departments of 3 higher educational schools in a province for example, an empirical analysis was carried out to verify the application effect of our EIS on the teaching quality of college English education. The results demonstrated the scientific nature, reasonability, and feasibility of the proposed EIS. The research enriched the theoretical and practical evidences for the teaching quality assessment of college English education, and promotes the teaching quality assessment of college English department.
Highlights
In the context of global economic integration, China has implemented the reform and opening-up policy, and Chinese people have paid more attention to the learning of English as a lingua franca, as a result, the status of English teaching in higher education has been elevated [1]
To equip China with English talents for future global competition, colleges and universities in China have successively set up the English departments, who have cultivated a bunch of English major graduates in these years, the quality of these graduates is not satisfactory
Drawing on the relevant research results at home and abroad, this paper took the teaching quality evaluation of college English departments as the research object, and adopted factor analysis to construct an evaluation index system (EIS) for assessing the teaching quality of college English department, the paper verified the feasibility and application effect of the proposed EIS through empirical analysis
Summary
In the context of global economic integration, China has implemented the reform and opening-up policy, and Chinese people have paid more attention to the learning of English as a lingua franca, as a result, the status of English teaching in higher education has been elevated [1]. The first stage was from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s, which can be called the germination period; during this time, the teaching quality and the students’ ability are evaluated based on personal experience and subjective impressions, and there’s no standardized and objective assessment system [3]. The second stage was from the 1930s to the 1950s, which can be called the formation period, education assessment during this time is more comprehensive, more evaluation methods have been developed, including the classic "Tyler Evaluation Model" [4]. Drawing on the relevant research results at home and abroad, this paper took the teaching quality evaluation of college English departments as the research object, and adopted factor analysis to construct an EIS for assessing the teaching quality of college English department, the paper verified the feasibility and application effect of the proposed EIS through empirical analysis
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