Evaluation of the design of the AEdEm Programme for Emotional Education in Secondary Education

Authors

  • Laura Sánchez-Calleja University of Cadiz
  • Eduardo García-Jiménez University of Sevilla
  • Gregorio Rodríguez-Gómez University of Cadiz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.22.2.9422

Keywords:

Programme design, secondary education, emotional intelligence, emotional development, programme evaluation

Abstract

Systematic interventions in the field of emotional education are increasingly used to facilitate the acquisition of emotional skills among adolescents. The evaluation of such interventions in this study shows that most of them take the form of expert programmes, without their activities being integrated within the school curriculum.

This paper presents an evaluation of the design of the Emotional Education course - AEdEm - (Sánchez Román & Sánchez Calleja, 2015), delivered as part of the 1st and 2nd year Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) programme in a High School in Spain. The programme aims to develop emotional skills as defined in the work of authors such as Bisquerra & Pérez-Escoda (2007) and Goleman (1995).

The evaluation was carried out using the process of validation by expert judges. We involved 10 lecturers from different Spanish universities all specializing in this field, with the aim of substantiating the rationality of the proposal and the coherence of its components. In accordance with the conclusions of Osuna (2000) we applied the criteria of: importance, relevance, appropriateness, usefulness and viability. The instruments we used for these criteria were an evaluation scale for the first four and bottleneck analysis for the final criterion. The results show that the design of the programme is valid, and experts say the programme is very appropriate and quite important, relevant and useful

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Author Biographies

Laura Sánchez-Calleja, University of Cadiz

Graduate in Education from the University of Málaga. Lecturer at the Department of Teaching at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Cádiz. Currently she is pursuing her doctoral studies at the University of Cadiz. Member of the research group EVALfor (SEJ-509)

Eduardo García-Jiménez, University of Sevilla

Chair of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education at the University of Sevilla. His research profile focuses on the evaluation of training programmes. Member of the research group EVALfor (SEJ-509).

Gregorio Rodríguez-Gómez, University of Cadiz

Professor of Research Methods and Diagnosis in Education at the University of Cádiz. His main areas of research are qualitative methodology and educational evaluation. Member of the research group EVALfor (SEJ-509).

Published

2016-12-19

How to Cite

Sánchez-Calleja, L., García-Jiménez, E., & Rodríguez-Gómez, G. (2016). Evaluation of the design of the AEdEm Programme for Emotional Education in Secondary Education. RELIEVE – Electronic Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.22.2.9422

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Research Articles