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In addition, the studies purposes, participants, data collection tools, results andrecommendations are thoroughly presented and discussed. Finally, it is worthy to note that allthe reviewed studies are of ELT or EFL concern except for the nine Palestinian studies as willbe illustrated later.1. Evaluative Studies Related to Teachers ReactionsJudging the effectiveness of INSET programmes through teachers‟ reactions seems to be themost common trend within the evaluation literature. These studies aimed to evaluateprogrammes effectiveness through participants teachers' point of views, attitudes, degrees ofsatisfaction, and whether the programmes have met their real needs, expectations andperceptions or not. This investigation is mainly done through using descriptive analyticresearch designs employing questionnaires and interviews as main data collection tools.An example of such studies is the one conducted by Kucksuleymonoglu (2006). Theresearcher aimed to describe and examine Turkish EFL teachers' views of the inservicetraining programmes organized by the Ministry of Education from, 2003-2005. A sample of186 EFL teachers and five instructors was randomly chosen; data collection tools involvedstructured interviews along with 18-item questionnaire. Results of data analysis showed thatthe INSET programmes were carried out in a centralized fashion. Teachers were not satisfiedsince their needs were not taken into consideration. The number of these programmes wasinsufficient with unsatisfactory content as well. The researcher suggested increasing thenumber of these programmes, performing need analysis, addressing new ELT topics, andfinally enhancing co-operative efforts between the ministry of education and universities.Similar unsatisfactory responses were maintained through Alwan's study (2000) in theUnited Arab of Emirates. In this study, the researcher attempted to investigate theeffectiveness of the current INSET programmes available to English language teachers inUAE through teachers and supervisors‟ views. It also sought to examine the possibility of- 57 -