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9781626165779: A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

John McE. Davis is Evaluation Specialist at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State (Contractor with Yorktown Systems Group). 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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ISBN 10 :  1626165769 ISBN 13 :  9781626165762
Editeur : Georgetown University Press, 2018
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