Evaluating Foreign Language Programs
Title | Evaluating Foreign Language Programs PDF eBook |
Author | Diane W. Birckbichler |
Publisher | Foreign Language Publications & Services |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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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
Title | Toward Useful Program Evaluation in College Foreign Language Education PDF eBook |
Author | John Marvin Norris |
Publisher | Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0980045932 |
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.
A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs
Title | A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs PDF eBook |
Author | John McE. Davis |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1626165777 |
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.
Program Evaluation in Language Education
Title | Program Evaluation in Language Education PDF eBook |
Author | R. Kiely |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2005-07-26 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0230511228 |
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.
Evaluating Second Language Education
Title | Evaluating Second Language Education PDF eBook |
Author | J. Charles Alderson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1992-02-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780521422697 |
"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.
Evaluating Second Language Courses
Title | Evaluating Second Language Courses PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Griffee |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1681235951 |
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.
Language Program Evaluation
Title | Language Program Evaluation PDF eBook |
Author | Brian K. Lynch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0521481910 |
Combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to second language program evaluation.