Evaluation of Vision 1, The New High School English Textbook

The importance of textbook evaluation in our educational system has been reinforced through many studies done in this regard. However, none of them has focused on Vision 1, the new tenth grade high school English course book. In addition, the studies done had different orientations in their evaluation, but evaluation based on authors’ mentioned objectives is missing. To fill the gap, the present study attempted to investigate whether Vision1 has fulfilled the authors’ objectives or not. To this end, 1000 high school students and 100 school English teachers filled in two questionnaires. The results of the questionnaire data were triangulated by student interviews. The results showed that the course book received almost a mid-point evaluation both by the teachers and students. The student interviews also supported the results.