Online Course Evaluation Paper

English courses for level 6 from Language Center (SQU) tutorials content and assessment effectiveness (Atsloom Zaabanoot(2009 : Overview Sultan Qaboos University consist of many Collages , Social science collages and Scientific collages . Most of the Scientific collages use the English language in their teaching , Therefore , all first year students in the Scientific Collages like Collage of Science and Engineering are assessed in their level of English and then they are distributed into different levels or sections according to their level of English . In other words , according to the students rustles in the exam they are grouped in different groups each with peers with same level of English . The Language Center (LC) in the SQU is responsible for the learning of English courses in the SQU. The student are arranged in 6 levels from level one to level six . They are taught face to face in all the levels and they are provided with online course for self learning and they are also asked to take some quizzes . This evaluation paper aims to evaluate English Courses for science for level 6 which are online tutorials intending to the student to give him opportunity to practice his English skills outside the classroom . The learners view the course using the SQU site and they are enrolled in the course by their teachers and given personal passwords in order to sing in the course . The course include tutorials in listening , reading , writing and speaking skills . Moreover, the course contain exercises , quizzes and tests for assessing the students mastery of the learning activates . All the kinds of assessments taken and . submitting online : The study purpose This study aims to evaluate effectiveness of the Tutorial and assessment component ( content and exercises ) in the English for Science for Level 6 online course . The problem statement : How effective , organized and useful are the English for Science for Level 6 online course content are ?

Participants: 10 first year students from level 6 who take the level 6 courses from Language Center in the SQU . : Instrument : Study tools Questioner Interview As stated previously this study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Tutorial and assessment component of the English for Science for level 6 students online course from Language. A questioner from 11 items was distributed to the participants to evaluate the tutorials from the learners perspective who take the tutorials . Moreover , 3 learners were . interviewed in order to get detailed information The questioner was developed using Bader Al Khan evaluation checklist for E- learning evaluation in combination with the researcher . modifications : Findings The data was analyzed using SPSS software , the following table show . the data analysis

of the participants agree that the course objectives are clearly 90% . stated of the participants agree that The learning objectives help the 80% .learner to focus on learning activities of the participants agree that The content is well-organized and 60% .presented in a logical fashion of the participants agree that The content is arranged in easily 70% .understandable chunks of information Descriptive Statistics N

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std. Deviation

q1 10

1.00

2.00

1.1000

31623.

q2 10

1.00

2.00

1.2000

42164.

q3 10

1.00

2.00

1.4000

51640.

q4 10

1.00

2.00

1.3000

48305.

q5 10

1.00

2.00

1.1000

31623.

q6 10

1.00

3.00

1.6000

84327.

q7 10

1.00

3.00

2.4000

69921.

q8 10

1.00

3.00

2.2000

91894.

q9 10

1.00

2.00

1.2000

42164.

q10 10

1.00

2.00

1.1000

31623.

q11 10

1.00

3.00

2.1000

73786.

(Valid N (listwise 10

of the participants agree that The course content is correct, 90% .realistic, and up-to-date

of the participants agree that The course exercises are easy to 80% . understand , helpful in supporting instruction of the participants agree that The lesson quizzes are geared to 90% .assess mastery of the learning objectives presented in that lesson of the participants disagree that The course content is usually 50% . updated : Findings discussion The interview findings are consistent with the questioner findings that the course objectives are clearly stated and help the learner to focus on the on the learning activities , but all the interviewed students are not agreed that the content are will organized . However, all the interviewed students agree that the exercises and quizzes are helpful and assess the mastery of . the learning objectives : Summary of the findings .the English for science tutorials for level 6 include effective content the tutorial in the English for science tutorials for level 6 help the . learner to master the course objectives the tutorial in the English for science tutorials for level 6 help the . student to practice their English skills : References Al Khan , Bader . (2005) . E- learning quick checklist. George -1 . Washington University . USA http://moodle.squ.edu.om/course/view.php?id=688 -2

: Appendixes

The items

1 2

The course objectives are clearly stated and understandable to the .learner The learning objectives help the learner to focus on learning .activities

Yes

No

Not applicabl e

3 4

.The content is well-organized and presented in a logical fashion The content is arranged in easily understandable chunks of .information 5 .The course content is correct, realistic, and up-to-date The amount of text (compared to graphics and empty space) on the 6 .screen helps learners focus on what is important 7 .The scenarios presented in the course support the instruction 8 .The graphics presented in the course support the instruction 9 The course exercises are easy to understand , helpful in supporting . instruction 10 The lesson quizzes are geared to assess mastery of the learning .objectives presented in that lesson 11 . The course content is usually updated