An Evaluation of English Courses for Graduate Students of

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate two English courses for graduate students: TU 005 and TU 006 at Thammasat University in the B.E. 2553 academic year (2010). The participants included two TU 005 lecturers, fifty-one TU 005 students, five TU 006 lecturers, and eighty TU 006 students. A questionnaire was used to collect information from the lecturers and students. The questionnaire probed the lecturers’ and students’ opinions on the learning and teaching environment and equipment, course content, lecturers, textbooks and supplementary worksheets, assessment and evaluation, the benefits of the course, plus their overall satisfaction with the course, the students or lecturers, and the textbook. The results revealed that both TU 005 and TU 006 students and TU 005 lecturers responded at the high level to all aspects; however, TU 006 lecturers responded at the high level to virtually all aspects except that they were satisfied with the textbook to some extent.