Evaluating Foreign Language Programs
Evaluating Foreign Language Programs

Author: Diane W. Birckbichler

Publisher: Foreign Language Publications & Services

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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This volume is designed as a practical handbook that provides guidelines for teams of evaluators investigating a department or language program or individual teachers or language program directors seeking to better understand the content and context of their programs or courses. Although the volume focuses on postsecondary foreign language programs, readers who teach at the secondary levels will be able to easily adapt the guidelines and procedures to their own contexts. The book is divided into three parts: (1) Framing the Evaluation; (2) Asking the Right Questions; and (3) Reporting for Change.

Toward Useful Program Evaluation in College Foreign Language Education
Toward Useful Program Evaluation in College Foreign Language Education

Author: John Marvin Norris

Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0980045932

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This volume reports on innovative, useful evaluation work conducted within U.S. college foreign language programs. Each case is reported by program-internal educators, who walk readers through critical steps, from identifying evaluation uses, users, and questions, to designing methods, interpreting findings, and taking actions.

Program Evaluation in Language Education
Program Evaluation in Language Education

Author: R. Kiely

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-07-26

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0230511228

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The authors describe evaluation as a way of understanding and developing language programs: the thematic and background section sets out the decision-making, quality management, and learning functions of evaluation. Case studies illustrate the diversity of evaluation contexts, functions and approaches, documenting the ways in which evaluation processes and outcomes inform and facilitate program development, and contribute to explaining how language and teacher education programs constitute opportunities for learning. The ways in which evaluation practice can be researched and developed to maximize policy, institutional and program effectiveness is included, and a comprehensive set of resources for those commissioning, undertaking or researching language program evaluations concludes the text.

A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs
A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs

Author: John McE. Davis

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1626165777

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This guide, designed to help language educators meet the needs of program evaluation and assessment often requested by their institutions, provides step-by-step advice to help educators conduct evaluation and assessment and to show how it can lead to meaningful programmatic change and provide useful data on which to base curricular decisions.

Evaluating Second Language Courses
Evaluating Second Language Courses

Author: Dale Griffee

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1681235951

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Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large?scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation from a very large scale to a much smaller scale, that of the course. At the same time, classroom teachers are responsible for outcomes of their courses and need to do evaluation on a scale and for needs of their choosing. Evaluating Second Language Courses is designed for classroom teachers who are dealing with a single course, and who wish to understand and improve some aspect of their course.

Evaluating Second Language Education
Evaluating Second Language Education

Author: J. Charles Alderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-27

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780521422697

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"Counter Responsibility for planning language teaching programs now carries with it a strong element of accountability. Evaluation of the whole process of course design, development, and implementation is therefore a necessary area of activity for course designers, language planners, and researchers. This book brings together accounts of recent work in this increasingly important field and will be a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training. Part One presents a review of the literature, covering past developments in the wider field of educational evaluation, as well as specifically in second language education. Part Two contains a series of eight original case-studies, written by scholars involved in evaluations in widely divergent settings. The focus in each case is on how the evaluator addresses the difficulties central to each study, and the findings are also included. The final Part Three provides practical guidance for evaluators, offering suggestions about how to set up and carry out evaluations in any given setting."--Publisher's website.

Language Program Evaluation
Language Program Evaluation

Author: Brian K. Lynch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0521481910

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Combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to second language program evaluation.

Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education
Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education

Author: John McE. Davis

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1626165416

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The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts. Divided into three parts, this volume first examines theoretical considerations and practical implementations of assessment conducted for the purpose of enhancing and developing language learning. Part 2 addresses novel assessment development and implementation projects, such as the formative use of task-based assessments, technology-mediated language performance assessment, validation of educational placement tests for immigrant learners, and the use of assessment to help identify neurolinguistic correlates of proficiency. The final section of the book highlights examples of argument-based approaches to assessment and evaluation validation, extending this critical framework to quality assurance efforts in new domains. Adding to research on traditional and conventional uses of testing and evaluation in language education, this volume captures innovative trends in assessment and evaluation practice that explicitly aim to better inform and enhance language teaching and learning.

Evaluating Second Language Education
Evaluating Second Language Education

Author: J. Charles Alderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-27

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0521410673

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"Counter Responsibility for planning language teaching programs now carries with it a strong element of accountability. Evaluation of the whole process of course design, development, and implementation is therefore a necessary area of activity for course designers, language planners, and researchers. This book brings together accounts of recent work in this increasingly important field and will be a valuable resource both for those already engaged in evaluation and for those in training. Part One presents a review of the literature, covering past developments in the wider field of educational evaluation, as well as specifically in second language education. Part Two contains a series of eight original case-studies, written by scholars involved in evaluations in widely divergent settings. The focus in each case is on how the evaluator addresses the difficulties central to each study, and the findings are also included. The final Part Three provides practical guidance for evaluators, offering suggestions about how to set up and carry out evaluations in any given setting."--Publisher's website.