The Application Of S-P Chart In Teaching Evaluation And A Related Computer Program

The latest Curriculum Reform, which has a profound impact on the improvement of the effect of teaching and education, has proposed some new requirements on how to evaluate the teaching process more scientifically. Based on Formative Evaluation, and combined with qualitative and quantitative methods, the S-P Chart Evaluation gives the results of an examination a fair objective comprehensive assessment, which fully meets the new curriculum reform's demands on teaching evaluation. However, some issues in understanding and using the S-P Chart for teaching evaluation, such as the complex operation and the parameters that are not precise enough, are dissatisfactory. In order to solve these problems, also in order to make it easier for the frontline educate workers to apply such evaluation method, some attempts on the assessment of the effectiveness of S-P Chart and automatic processing of teaching evaluation by computers have been made.The whole paper mainly includes three parts.For the first part, we made a detailed analysis, research and discussion on classic theory of S-P Chart Evaluation. S-P Charts were classified by the characteristic of their graphs, and some parameters were cleared on definition.For the second part, an evaluation method using the evaluation of contingency table was proposed to evaluate S-P Chart itself, which partly guarantees the effectiveness of S-P Chart. Such method is named the meta-evaluation of S-P Chart. After that, a computer program, which provides an automatic assessment, was given in order to lower the technical threshold for the educators using S-P Chart to do some evaluation.For the third part, there was an application of S-P Chart evaluation. By using our assess program and combined the theory of S-P Chart, we made a detailed, both automated and manually, analysis on the result of the mid-term examination in the first semester of 2007 - 2008 school year of grade 2 class 1 of No. 1 Middle School Attached to CCNU, from which we gained some sufficient and logical results. All this efforts provide some examples for applying the S-P Chart Evaluation and using our program.What we have done in this paper includes: perfected some parameters given by S-P Chart theory, completed a method to evaluate S-P Chart itself and compiled an evaluation computer program based on the S-P Chart. The ultimate aim of this paper is to provide a fully automated and reliable evaluation instruments for educators, and hope that these efforts may have some contributes on advancing the reform of teaching evaluation.