EVALUATION OF SELF-LEARNING WRITTEN MATERIALS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION

Abstract

The value of self-learning written material on Distance Education is based on its
pedagogic quality necessary to achieve a meaningful learning. Objective. To design both a model and a reliable valid instrument to evaluate the pedagogic quality of the self-learning written materials. Methodology. The search was carried out at Universidad Industrial de Santander (Bucaramanga, Colombia). Firstly, a model was designed for evaluating the materials mentioned above. Thereafter, the instrument was elaborated and it was defined the concept of pedagogical quality of the self-learning written materials. They were also analyzed the validity of content (Factorial analysis), the facial validity and confidentiality of the alpha coefficient of Cronbrach instrument). Results. It was obtained an agile evaluation model and an instrument composed by 28 items, all constituted into one only factor; alpha coefficient of Cronbrach of 0.96 and a power to recognize the differences between the pedagogic elements of a self-learning written constituted from the inductive approach and another from the constructivism approach.