Program Evaluation in Language Education

✍ Scribed by Richard Kiely, Pauline Rea-Dickins (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-4
Themes and Challenges....Pages 5-16
Historical Perspectives: Focus on Design and Method....Pages 17-36
Historical Perspectives: Focus on Context and Use....Pages 37-55
Historical Perspectives: Language Program Evaluation and Applied Linguistics....Pages 56-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Introduction....Pages 75-76
Evaluating Teachers’ English Language Competence....Pages 77-98
Evaluating a Language through Science Program....Pages 99-118
Evaluating the Contribution of the Native Speaker Teacher....Pages 119-135
Evaluating Foreign Language Teaching in Primary Schools....Pages 136-149
Evaluating Program Quality in Higher Education....Pages 150-160
Evaluating the Student Experience in Higher Education....Pages 161-177
Evaluating Assessment Standards and Frameworks....Pages 178-199
Stakeholding in Evaluation....Pages 200-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Introduction....Pages 223-224
Large-scale Evaluations....Pages 225-245
Teacher-led Evaluations....Pages 246-254
Management-led Evaluation Projects....Pages 255-271
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Resources for Language Program Evaluation....Pages 275-288
Postscript....Pages 289-291
Back Matter....Pages 292-311

✦ Subjects

Language Education; International and Comparative Education; Linguistics, general; Language and Literature; Language Teaching