1- Measuring the Quality of Instruction in Direct and Online Classrooms.
2- ISBN: 978-9933-532-85-7
3- Author: Mohamed Ziad Hamdan Damascus (2015)
5- Language: Arabic
6- Pages: 198 pp.
7- Price: $14
ABSTRACT
Societies advance their ambitious goals for life and the future with the quality of their thought, values, achievements and civilizational orientations. Thus was the golden age known to the Arabs during the seventh to fourteenth centuries, when institutions, schools, universities and cultural centers flourished in Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo and the Andalusian cities of Granada, Cordoba, Seville, Toledo and Barcelona, beacons of knowledge and references for scientific and academic research open to various researchers, orientalists and European scholars.
The quality of Arab educational and cultural institutions was the main factor influencing the production of the European Renaissance, geographical discoveries, automatic printing, the spread of educational institutions, the emergence of nation states, industrial and commercial progress, and finally educational and scientific innovations, space exploration, and the rapid developments in digital information technology these days.
But when the Arabs abandoned the standards and customs of quality that they excelled in for seven centuries in the Golden Age, due to negative internal and external pressure factors, the most important of which were the Frankish invasion of the Arab East, the fall of Andalusia, and the official internal disputes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries… their thought and creativity retreated, their condition deteriorated, and they were colonized by various devious methods and old-new greedy arguments, and they continue to do so to this day!
There is no way for the Arabs to be freed from this current civilizational inferiority except by an enlightened return to practicing the standards and customs of quality in their thought and institutions, first and foremost education, whose quality is determined primarily by the quality of the individual, institutions, and society. This book is an objective contribution to raise public awareness of the importance of quality culture and customs in Arab educational institutions, and to enhance the cultivation of its concepts and applications in various areas of school work, including teaching.
The book presents the following five chapters in 198 pages:
1- A summary of the concepts, standards and models for measuring teaching quality
2- Measuring teaching quality using targeted data and observation methods
3- Measuring teaching quality using statistical means
4- Judging teaching quality and reporting results to relevant parties
5- Developing teachers/teaching using quality measurement results.