Development of scales to evaluate courses in the liberal arts and verification of the effectiveness of the scales: towards constructing an evaluation system to improve course quality

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15K13173
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Education
Research Institution	Niigata College of Nursing (2017) Chiba University (2015-2016)
Principal Investigator	Funashima Naomi 新潟県立看護大学, 看護学部, 教授 (00229098)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	中山登志子千葉大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 教授 (60415560) 小澤弘明千葉大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (20211823) 白川優治千葉大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (50434254)
Project Period (FY)	2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	授業評価 / 授業デザイン / 授業過程 / 教養教育 / 尺度開発
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Two course evaluation scales were developed with the aim of constructing an evaluation system to improve the quality of liberal arts courses. The scales can be used to evaluate the "instructional design" and the "teaching-learning process" of courses in the liberal arts. The scales were developed in the following two phases. In the first phase, data were collected from about 1,500 students enrolled at 10 national universities all over Japan, and the criteria by which students judge whether liberal arts courses were good or not were clarified qualitatively. In the second phase, the scales were made based on the criteria, and their reliability and validity were confirmed. If a faculty evaluates a course in the liberal arts using these scales, it should lead to improvement of the course by reflecting the needs of the students. In addition, this will enhance the satisfaction of the students on liberal arts courses, and will contribute to increasing students' learning achievements.