Investigating the Challenges and Solutions for Doing an Effective Evaluation of Primary School Students by New Teachers in Shad Software

The purpose of this study was to investigate the challenges and solutions for an effective evaluation of Primary School students by new teachers, who were graduated from Farhangian University, in Shad Software. This study was conducted via qualitative approach using phenomenological method. Participants were selected by two methods of snowball and Criterion sampling to theoretical saturation boundary, 17 new teachers who were freshman at Farhangian University, in academic year 2012-2013. The participant who are new teachers in Mashhad were subjected to semi-structured interviews, in 2021. Transcribed interviews were analyzed via thematic coding. Lincoln and Guba criteria were also used to determine the reliability of the research. Findings revealed that there were 2 inclusive themes, 6 organizing themes and 14 basic themes, based on main challenges for doing an effective evaluation in primary schools by new teachers. Also main solutions for overcoming to these challenges can be categorize in 4 inclusive themes, 10 organizing themes and 27 basic themes. The results indicate that doing evaluation in Shad Software is one of the most difficult tasks carried out by new teachers. In a way that some of the evaluation challenges were so serious and new teachers didn’t have any idea or successful solutions, despite their best effort, to overcome them. But in the face of other challenges, by spending a lot of time and tolerating some work pressure, relatively they succeeded to perform a valid evaluation.