Evaluation of school students’ Progress Magazine from perspectives of experts, teachers and students

The objective behind this study has been evaluation of school students’ Progress Magazine (Roshd) from perspectives of experts, teachers and students. This research work is based on descriptive survey and its statistical population includes three groups of education and Progress Magazines experts, teachers and students of grade 6 of elementary school. The statistic population consists of 25 experts, 38 teachers and 880 students of grade 6. The study is carried out by using Cochran Formula and multi-stage random sampling from 6 provinces of Isfahan, East Azerbaijan, Khorasan Razavi, Khozestan, Mazandaran and Tehran. For data gathering 3 different semi structural interview forms for students, teachers and experts have been designed. The validity of the evaluation tool has been carried out by pretest and calculation of Cohen’s kappa coefficient and the obtained figure was 0.7. For analysis of the collected data the T test of single variable and z test have been used. The results showed that 70 percent of students who took part in the survey believed that topics discussed at the Progress Magazine have contributed to their knowledge and learning capability. Among the educational experts 84.21 percent have said that the said magazine have somehow influenced the learning motivation and studying of students. Two third of the experts believed the magazine is in line with the needs of the students of grade 6 and meets their scientific, life skills needs and encourage their learning motivation.
Teachers, experts and students say that the magazine meets the needs of students and is in line with their education requirements.