Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

6.1 Analysis of the pre-test interview 6 INTERVIEW EVALUATION
6.1.1 Personal details
Following the Data Protection Act [183], no personal data will be published in
this thesis. However, what can be said at this point of the analysis is that nine
candidates took part in the evaluation. The age of the candidates was between
27 and 48 years and every single person had at least some part-time teaching
experience. Furthermore, it was possible to have test candidates of three different
nationalities: British (66%), German (22%) and French (11%) (cf. table 10 on
page 247). This international aspect gives additional insight into the application
of the 3-Layer-Model in different educational systems.
6.1.2 Educational task and level of teaching
Another important aspect that has to be considered when building an objective
test field was the educational task of the test candidates and the level at which
the test candidates teach. One aim of the study was to cover a range of different
teachers from different institutions as well as different teaching subjects. 66%
of the evaluation candidates were teaching at university level whereas 33% were
teaching at college or secondary school level (cf. table 13 on page 247). Such
a broad range of teaching experience should provide some test results that are
relatively representative of teachers in general and not only of one special group,
for example university lecturers in computing science for final year students.
66% of the test candidates were full-time teachers either at university or college
level, the rest of the participiants were part-time teachers at university level (cf.
table 11 on page 247). The teaching subjects of the candidates include software-
engineering, criminology, English, French, history, operating systems, program-
ming and social sciences. This broad field of subjects will allow some conclusions
about the generic usefulness of the 3-Layer-Model.
Altogether, the selected group of test candidates covers a big range of different
subject areas in different educational systems in different countries and different
age-levels. An objective analysis of the 3-Layer-Model and the HEAT should
therefore be feasible.
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