TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodological and conceptual issues confronting a cross-country Delphi study of educational program evaluation
AU - Hung, Hsin Ling
AU - Altschuld, James W.
AU - Lee, Yi Fang
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper emanated from a project on educational program evaluation in the Asia-Pacific region conducted at the Center for Research on Educational Evaluation and Development (CREED) at National Taiwan Normal University. The first author would like to thank the CREED and its director, Dr. Samuel S. Peng, for providing resources for her post-doctoral fellowship program. The authors appreciate the panelists for their contribution to the study.
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - Although the Delphi is widely used, research on certain methodological issues is somewhat limited. After a brief introduction to the strengths, limitations, and methodological challenges of the technique, we share our experiences (as well as problems encountered) with an electronic Delphi of educational program evaluation (EPE) in the Asia-Pacific region. The study is described followed by a discussion of the difficulties in participant recruitment and selection, sample size, instrumentation, data collection and analysis and attempts to resolve them. Some of these problems are generic to the Delphi whereas others related to the specifics of the investigation. What we learned should be useful for future Delphis with a similar focus.
AB - Although the Delphi is widely used, research on certain methodological issues is somewhat limited. After a brief introduction to the strengths, limitations, and methodological challenges of the technique, we share our experiences (as well as problems encountered) with an electronic Delphi of educational program evaluation (EPE) in the Asia-Pacific region. The study is described followed by a discussion of the difficulties in participant recruitment and selection, sample size, instrumentation, data collection and analysis and attempts to resolve them. Some of these problems are generic to the Delphi whereas others related to the specifics of the investigation. What we learned should be useful for future Delphis with a similar focus.
KW - Delphi method
KW - Educational program evaluation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2008.02.005
DO - 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2008.02.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 18403018
AN - SCOPUS:41949109740
SN - 0149-7189
VL - 31
SP - 191
EP - 198
JO - Evaluation and Program Planning
JF - Evaluation and Program Planning
IS - 2
ER -
