Các mô hình và mục tiêu cho nghiên cứu The goal of this study is to evaluate currently available and widely used MPE curricula against the standards and criteria for a quality marriage preparation educational experience as assessed by the Hughes model. Adherence to these standards of quality will ultimately increase the beneficial effects of MPE. An increased awareness of the effectiveness of marriage preparation education has helped to make research and development funding more available and has led to a significant increase in the number of marriage preparation resources currently available. As gratifying as that may be, the large number of programs now available makes it challenging for practitioners, as well as potential participants to select quality resources (Adler-Baeder et al., 2004). The current study will serve as an aid in this selection process as well as to promote standards of quality in new resource development. The components of the Hughes framework for developing family life education were used as the basis of the evaluative model for the current study. Integrated into the content portion of this model is a means of evaluating whether program content addresses those premarital factors shown to be predictive of marital quality and stability from a comprehensive, ecological systems perspective. Provisions for a form of relationship assessment are also considered in the evaluation of the instructional process of the MPE programs reviewed. 27 According to available research, the Hughes framework has not been used for a systematic review of MPE resources. For this initial research using this framework to evaluate MPE, it was considered valuable to review resources commonly known as MPE programs because of their broad availability, and because they have most commonly been the subject of previous effectiveness research. These programs have not been systematically compared to one another according to the standards and criteria outlined by the Hughes framework (Hughes, 1994). In this study, the following research questions were addressed: 1) Of the marriage preparation educational programs currently available, and that have been previously evaluated for effectiveness, to what extent do these programs adhere to research-supported factors for a quality educational resource in areas of content, instructional process, implementation process, and resource evaluation process? 2) How do these MPE programs compare to one another along the quality assessments?
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