Construction Of An Evaluation Index System For Effectiveness Of Senior Middle School English Teachers’Classroom Questioning

With the concept of effective classroom construction being proposed, how to improve effectiveness of teachers’ classroom questioning has become an important research issue. Combining the Input Hypothesis, Output Hypothesis and Social Constructivist Model, this thesis attempts to carry out the research on the evaluation index system for effectiveness of Middle school English teachers’ classroom questioning. The author aims to construct a set of index system used for experts, English teachers and the peers to evaluate the effectiveness of classroom questioning on their own and provide a reference to enhance the effectiveness of Middle school English teachers’ classroom questioning. Then the author offers some pertinent countermeasures on how to improve the effectiveness according to the research results.The paper constructs the evaluation index system for effectiveness of Middle school English teachers’ classroom questioning using the literature research method, Delphi Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The research uses the literature research method to collect the information of evaluation indexes for effectiveness of English teachers’ classroom questioning abroad and at home. Abiding by the Scientific Principle, Overall Principle, Feasibility Principle and Testability Principle, the author forms an evaluation index system for effectiveness of Middle school English teachers’ classroom questioning; The research uses the Delphi Method for the construction of the judgment matrix. The author uses the Analytic Hierarchy Process to determine the index weight. The paper calculates the weight with the Analytic Hierarchy Process of the software package MCE and the combined weighted coefficient with the software Excel, based on which the author does the quantitative screening for the evaluation indexes. Finally the author forms a relatively comprehensive, scientific, effective and operable evaluation index system for effectiveness of Middle school English teachers’ classroom questioning.The author researches the construction of the evaluation index system from two points of view, that is to say, effectiveness of teachers’ questioning strategies and effectiveness of questioning effects for students, and four aspects including questioning contents, questioning ways, responding ways and questioning effects. The evaluation index system can be divided into three grades progressively, among which the first grade index is the general objective, which is the effectiveness of English teachers’ classroom questioning; The second grade indexes are the four main factors reflecting the Middle school English teachers’classroom questioning, including questioning contents, questioning ways, responding ways and questioning effects. Not only are they the evaluation indexes for effectiveness of Middle school English teachers’classroom questioning, but also the evaluation objects of the third grade indexes; The third grade indexes are the detailed description and explanation of the second grade indexes, among of which25evaluation indexes are included. The entire evaluation system is organized in a gradual way, which is detailed and specific. The author tries her best to make the index system endowed with the features of scientific, operability and flexibility so that it can play the role of directing, diagnosing and inspiring.Each index of the evaluation index system is gifted with index weight and combined weighted coefficient, which makes it clear that the importance of each index in both each level and the entire system. In light of the degree of importance of each index, the author comes up with some pertinent suggestions. For example, English teachers should provide different evaluations for different questions, different students and different responses of students. What’s more, the positive evaluation should be more than the negative evaluation; English teachers should point out where to be praised and where to be corrected pertinently, instead of employing some simple evaluations frequently, which will play the guiding role for students; As a guide, English teachers are supposed to encourage students to query to train students’ critical thinking in classrooms consciously; The types of questions English teacher raised should be various, and higher-level questions are supposed to be more than lower-level questions so as to train students’thinking ability and so on.In brief, the design and formation of the index system will provide some guidance for Senior Middle school English teachers’classroom teaching, a relative effective reference for teachers’mutual-evaluation and self-evaluation, a case for teaching researchers to carry out further studies.