Review Article
Evaluation Research: A Comparative Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
Zanyar Nathir Ghafar
Middle East Research Journal of Linguistics and Literature; 25-32.
DOI: 10.36348/merjll.2023.v03i02.003
Researchers often use a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches drawn from various fields. It is possible to record or quantify quantitative data. Qualitative data are descriptive, linguistically related, and rely on interpretation. Quantitative data provides information such as how many, how much, or how often something occurs. On the other hand, qualitative data could assist us in comprehending the processes, causes, and occurrences of activities. Each approach has many advantages as well as some disadvantages. This research aims to evaluate the various language testing and assessment approaches and compare and contrast their benefits and drawbacks. These advantages included the opportunity to learn more about the development, administration, and interpretation of assessments and tests and the capability to research test-takers behavior, perceptions, attitudes, and understanding. The study's findings showed that the amount of time required gathering data using quantitative research techniques is much less than the amount of time required collecting data using qualitative research methods. Quantitative research methods, on the other hand, have several drawbacks, such as the difficulty of explicating what a researcher means when using a specific word and the fact that these methods can only provide an overarching comprehension of the topic being studied.
Keywords: Benefits, drawbacks, testing, evaluation, qualitative, quantitative.
Review Article
A Critical Evaluation of Grade Twelve Textbook, English for Ethiopia (2023)
Abebe Tewachew
Middle East Research Journal of Linguistics and Literature; 33-38.
DOI: 10.36348/merjll.2023.v03i02.004
In educational arena, teachers shouldn’t be considered as the end uses of the curriculum; they have to take part in setting of educational policies, programs, and in the syllabus developments. In Ethiopia, the involvement of experts, teachers were ignored in such activates. Teaching materials, textbooks were prepared by top managers; those materials should be critically reviewed. Therefore, the researcher tried to evaluate the textbook of grade twelve, unite nine: English for Ethiopia. The evaluation criteria revealed that aims and objectives of the unit, design and organization of the unit, language content of the unit, topics of the unit, methodology used in the unit, social and cultural context in the unit, exercises and activities in the unit were seemed good; however, the activities portrayed in the unit didn’t go in line with language skills. Even the methodologies to be used in the unit didn’t invite teachers to employ appropriate teaching aids. Furthermore, the instructions in the unit were not telling students to comprehend better. Accordingly, the involvement of teachers in educational policies ratification, designing curriculum, and syllabus development should be up turned so as to bring quality education.
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