Evaluating Second Language Courses

Dale T. Griffee, Greta Gorsuch

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781681235936
  9781681235943
• eBook ISBN:
  9781681235950
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Typically, books on evaluation in the second and foreign language field deal with large programs and often result from large-scale studies done by the authors. The challenge for ordinary second and foreign language classroom teachers is that they must extrapolate techniques or strategies for evaluation from a very large scale to a much smaller scale, that of the course. At the same time, classroom teachers are responsible for outcomes of their courses and need to do evaluation on a scale and for needs of their choosing. Evaluating Second Language Courses is designed for classroom teachers who are dealing with a single course, and who wish to understand and improve some aspect of their course.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Evaluating Second Language Courses
• Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
• Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: What Is Course Evaluation?
• Chapter 2: Models of Second Language Course Evaluation
• Chapter 3: Stakeholders and Outcomes, the World, and Outcomes Validation
• Chapter 4: The World, Stakeholders, and Needs Analysis
• Chapter 5: Curriculum and Outcomes, and Course Logic
• Chapter 6: Curriculum and Stakeholders, and Formative Evaluation
• Chapter 7: Curriculum and Assessment, and Instrument Validation
• Chapter 8: Curriculum and Assessment, and Data Collection Validation
• Chapter 9: Outcomes and Assessment, and Summative Evaluation
• Chapter 10: Reading and Assessing Evaluation Publications
• APPENDIX A: A Bibliography of Evaluation
• APPENDIX B: A Bibliography About Evaluation
• APPENDIX C: A Bibliography of Needs Analysis
• APPENDIX D: A Bibliography About Needs Analysis
• Glossary