Departments and language programs often are asked to evaluate the efficacy of their own programs and make curricular decisions on the basis of evidence. 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 language educators conduct evaluation and assessment and to show how it can lead to meaningful programmatic decisions and change. With discussions about evaluation planning, advice for selecting data-collection tools, explanations for data analysis, examples based on actual evaluations, and more, this book provides everything you need to complete a successful language program evaluation that will give educators useful data on which to base curricular decisions. This short book is practical and timely and will find an audience in instructors of all languages and all levels.
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"Davis and McKay have created a user-friendly book that is well organized, clearly written, and full of examplesa book that provides a step-by-step guide for people who want to do useful language program evaluation that will truly be used to improve their program because the entire process focuses on stakeholder ownership. " JD Brown, Professor, University of Hawaii -- JD Brown, Professor, University of Hawaii
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Chapter 1 An Introduction to Useful and Used Evaluation in Language Education |
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Chapter 2 Best Practices for Language Program Evaluation Success |
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Chapter 3 Planning for Useful Evaluation: Users, Uses, Questions |
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Chapter 4 Identifying Indicators for Evaluation Data Collection |
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Chapter 5 Selecting Methods and Collecting Data for Evaluation |
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Chapter 6 Conducting Focus Groups for Evaluation |
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Chapter 7 Conducting Evaluation Interviews |
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Chapter 8 Questionnaires for Evaluation |
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Chapter 9 Analyzing Evaluation Data |
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Chapter 10 Key Points to Remember for Useful Evaluation |
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Chapter 11 Example Evaluation Plan |
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John McE. Davis is John McE. Davis is Research Scientist at the Center for English Language Learning and Assessment at the Educational Testing Service, USA. His research interests include language program evaluation, language assessment, and questionnaire research methods.
Todd H. McKay is a Ph.D. candidate in applied linguistics and research assistant with the Assessment and Evaluation Language Resource Center at Georgetown University. His research interests include language assessment, language program evaluation, and applied measurement, with emphases on the less commonly taught languages and language programs in South Asia.
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