المعايير اللازمة لتحقيق جودة تقويم تعلم الطلبة من وجهة نظر الخبراء التربويين في سلطنة عمان

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This study aimed to identify the viewpoints of educational experts in the Sultanate of Oman on the necessary standards to achieve the quality of evaluating student learning, and to examine the differences in the viewpoints according to gender, job role, and academic qualification.

In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive research approach was employed, whereby a questionnaire consisting of (37) items was constructed according to a five-point scale and distributed into (6) dimensions: clarity of the purpose of the evaluation, the relationship of the evaluation with clear learning outcomes, a good design of the evaluation method, the participation of students in the evaluation process, fairness and objectivity of the evaluation, and diversity in the evaluation.

The psychometric properties of the questionnaire were verified in terms of validity and reliability.

The questionnaire was applied to a sample of (135) academics specialized in the field of teacher preparation in the College of Education at Sultan Qaboos University, supervisors of study subjects, and exams supervisors at the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman.

The results of the study showed that the sample members believed in the importance of the availability of all standards (clarity of the purpose of evaluation, relationship of evaluation with clear learning outcomes, good design of the evaluation method, participation of students in the evaluation process, fairness and objectivity of evaluation, and diversity in evaluation) with a high degree to achieve the quality of evaluating student learning.

The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the educational experts in the degree of importance of the availability of standards attributable to gender, job role, and academic qualification.

The study concluded on the importance of making use of the list of standards when implementing the educational evaluation in the educational process and conducting more studies related to the quality of the educational evaluation