Mẫu và thủ tục Nine programs were found that met the above selection criteria: Couple Commitment and Relationship Enhancement program (Couple CARE), Couple Communication Program (CC), Engaged Encounter (EE), Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills (PAIRS), Prepare/Enrich Group program, Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), Relationship Enhancement (RE), Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts (SYMBIS), and the Association for Couples in Marriage Enrichment (ACME). The developers or organization administrators were contacted in order to receive permission to examine program materials. Developers of the ACME program are currently revising the curriculum for their marriage preparation program so the ACME program was not available for review at this time. The eight available programs constituted the sample for this study. Descriptive information about these programs is available in Appendix A. An evaluation team was formed consisting of three members. The evaluation team included two graduate students with backgrounds in marriage and family studies, one of which is the author of the current study, and a university professor with over 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating family life education programs, training marriage and family life educators, teaching courses on marriage preparation and 30 enrichment in university settings as well as in Cooperative Extension programs, and who is a Certified Family Life Educator. Each team member received advanced training in evaluating family life (FLE) education program curricula, including using the Hughes model, through a graduate level FLE outreach course. This general training was then applied to the needs of this study. Specifically, team members first met together to discuss the guidelines for the evaluation process, and to review each element of the evaluation tool in order to gain a shared understanding of what was to be evaluated through the individual questions. Team members then conducted a practice evaluation of a program together. Following this tailored training, team members independently evaluated each of the selected programs for adherence to the guidelines for quality family life education as outlined by the components of the Hughes framework: content, instructional process, implementation process, and evaluation process. This was done by reviewing all materials provided in the program including instructor materials, student materials, and instructional aides such as DVDs, as well as the information available on the program’s website.
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