Research Article
Secondary Data Analyses of Subjective Outcome Evaluation Data Based on Nine Databases
Table 5
Difficulties highlighted by the respondents in different cohorts.
| Grade | Year | | Top three responses |
| S1 | 2005/06 | 21 | Too much content led to overrun (5) | Overlapping of content material (2) | Time constraint (2) | 2006/07 | 62 | Too much content (11) | Time constraint (14) | Could not match students’ abilities/needs/interests (9) | Difficult to maintain students’ discipline while teaching (9) | 2007/08 | 28 | Students’ problem (7) | School administration (5) | Difficulties in classroom management (5) | 2008/09 | 55 | Time constraints (18) | Students’ problem (9) | Difficulties related to program content (6) | S2 | 2006/07 | 12 | Too much content (3) | Limited time (3) | Students lack interest in the program (2) | 2007/08 | 25 | Students’ problem (10) | School administration (4) | High instructor-student ratio affected program effectiveness (2) | 2008/09 | 59 | Time constraints (24) | Had difficulties in preparing/implementing the lessons (9) | Students’ problem (7) | S3 | 2007/08 | 0 | No difficulty was mentioned in this unit | 2008/09 | 48 | Time constraints (21) | Students’ problem (6) | Had difficulties in preparing/implementing the lessons (4) |
| Total number of meaningful units | 310 | |
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