A Guide to Useful Evaluation of Language Programs

"Davis and McKay have created a user-friendly book that is well organized, clearly written, and full of examples—a book that provides a step-by-step guide for people who want to do useful language program evaluation that will truly be used to improve their program because the entire process focuses on stakeholder ownership. "

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.