List of Illustrations Preface John McE. Davis Chapter 1. An Introduction to Useful and Used Evaluation in Language Education John McE. Davis Chapter 2. Best Practices for Langauge Program Evaluation Success John McE. Davis Chapter 3. Planning for Useful Evaluation: Users, Uses, Questions Todd H. McKay and John McE. Davis Chapter 4. Indentifying Indicators for Evaluation Data CollectionFrancesca Venezia Chapter 5. Selecting Methods and Collecting Data for Evaluation Todd H. McKay and John McE. Davis Chapter 6. Conducting Focus Groups for Evaluation Lara Bryfonski Chapter 7. Conducting Evaluation Interviews Jorge Mendez Seijas, Janire Zalbidea, and Cristi Vallejos Chapter 8. Questionnaires for Evaluation Amy I. Kim and John McE. Davis Chapter 9. Analyzing Evaluation Data John McE. Davis Chapter 10. Key Points to Remember for Useful Evaluation John McE. Davis Chapter 11. Example Evaluation Plan Todd H. McKay References List of Contributors
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.