A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626165777 ISBN 13: 9781626165779

Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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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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. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626165777
• ISBN 13: 9781626165779
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 132
• Herausgeber: Davis John McE., McKay Todd H.
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