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Program evaluation in language education / Richard Kiely and Pauline Rea-Dickins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Research and practice in applied linguisticsPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xii, 311 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1403945705
  • 9781403945709
  • 1403945713
  • 9781403945716
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 418.0076 22
LOC classification:
  • P53.63 .K54 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Pt. 1. Departure points -- 1. Themes and challenges -- 2. Historical perspectives : focus on design and method -- 3. Historical perspectives : focus on context and use -- 4. Historical perspectives : language program evaluation and applied linguistics -- Pt. 2. Cases and issues -- 5. Evaluating teachers' English language competence -- 6. Evaluating a language through science program -- 7. Evaluating the contribution of the native speaker teacher -- 8. Evaluating foreign language teaching in primary schools -- 9. Evaluating program quality in higher education -- 10. Evaluating the student experience in higher education -- 11. Evaluating assessment standards and frameworks -- 12. Stakeholding in evaluation -- Pt. 3. Evaluation practice and research -- 13. Large-scale evaluations -- 14. Teacher-led evaluations -- 15. Management-led evaluation projects -- Pt. 4. Resources -- 16. Resources for language program evaluation.
Summary: "Evaluation is 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."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Departure points -- 1. Themes and challenges -- 2. Historical perspectives : focus on design and method -- 3. Historical perspectives : focus on context and use -- 4. Historical perspectives : language program evaluation and applied linguistics -- Pt. 2. Cases and issues -- 5. Evaluating teachers' English language competence -- 6. Evaluating a language through science program -- 7. Evaluating the contribution of the native speaker teacher -- 8. Evaluating foreign language teaching in primary schools -- 9. Evaluating program quality in higher education -- 10. Evaluating the student experience in higher education -- 11. Evaluating assessment standards and frameworks -- 12. Stakeholding in evaluation -- Pt. 3. Evaluation practice and research -- 13. Large-scale evaluations -- 14. Teacher-led evaluations -- 15. Management-led evaluation projects -- Pt. 4. Resources -- 16. Resources for language program evaluation.

"Evaluation is 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."--Publisher description.

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