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| Title | Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs |
| Body | From http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d 2007 NFLRC Summer Institute Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI May 28 - June 6, 2007 This NFLRC Summer Institute is designed to help college foreign language administrators and teachers engage in useful, practical, and effective program evaluations to meet a variety of purposes. It takes seriously the values, goals, and constraints that characterize college language programs and will provide language educators with a user-oriented approach to developing evaluations that maximize benefits for language learners and teachers, while minimizing potential negative consequences. It will also provide participants with tools and strategies for making program evaluation a systematic and consistently useful component of their FL departments. The Institute will be run by Dr. John M. Norris (UH Dept. of Second Language Studies), an expert in language program evaluation and assessment. Activities over the 9-day institute will include lectures and demonstrations, in-depth analyses of practical evaluation examples, invited guest speakers (language evaluation experts), social events, and extensive hands-on development and discussion of evaluation plans, procedures, and instruments for immediate use in the participants’ specific program settings. This workshop is intended for foreign language administrators and teachers who are directly responsible for program evaluations in their foreign language departments. It assumes no prior grounding in program evaluation theory or practice, but it requires a willingness to help increase evaluation capacity in college FL education. In order to maximize the impact of this event across U.S. colleges, participants will be purposefully selected to represent diverse FL program types, based on size, languages taught, geography, and institutional status. Some financial support is available to all participants in the NFLRC Summer Institute, on a competitive and space-limited basis. Summer Institute participants will be expected to participate in the 2007 ADFL Summer Seminar West, which will directly follow the workshop on the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. For more information, visit our website at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d . |
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| Inputdate | 2007-02-25 10:08:33 |
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| Expdate | 2007-06-30 00:00:00 |
| Publishdate | 2007-03-01 00:00:00 |
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