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2014 INNOVATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN LANGUAGE PROGRAM EVALUATION

 

Contents, acknowledgements, abstracts, contributors

Introduction

John Norris; Nicole Mills

Articles

Evaluation capacity building in college language programs: Developing and sustaining a student exit survey project

Kimi Kondo-Brown; John McE. Davis; Yukiko Watanabe

Faculty attitudes toward institutionally mandated (or accountability driven) program evaluation demands vary along a continuum of proactive to reactive stances. …

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The development, management, and costs of a large-scale foreign language assessment program

Elizabeth Bernhardt; Monica Brilliantes

The Stanford Language Center has a 20-year history of designing, implementing, and managing an assessment program across two years of …

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Student analytics and longitudinal evaluation of language programs

Peter Ecke; Alexander Ganz

This chapter provides strategies and examples of how program administrators can monitor various important indicators and utilize technological tools and …

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Designing an embedded outcomes assessment for Spanish majors: Literary interpretation and analysis

Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro; Raychel Vasseur

The assessment of student learning outcomes comprises two stages: designing and conducting the assessment and making use of the results …

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Seat time versus proficiency: Assessment of language development in undergraduate students

Elena Shmitt

This chapter reports the results of a longitudinal study of language proficiency after three semesters of the required study of …

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From frameworks to oversight: Components to improving foreign language program efficacy

Carol Klee; Charlotte Melin; Dan Soneson

This chapter advocates the use of an aspirational framework for student-learning outcomes that aligns the intellectual content of general education …

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Promoting change in the “two-tiered” departments: An exploratory evaluation of conflict and empowerment levels among language and literature faculty

Alessandro Zannirato

This chapter documents an exploratory evaluation, carried out at the national level on the organizational effects of the “two-tiered” system …

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Foreign language course grades as prerequisites and programmatic game keepers

Alan Victor Brown

Stakeholders within and beyond the academy are eager to know to what extent FL programs are responsible for producing valuable …

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Do we speak the same language?: The iterative development of an institutionally mandated foreign language assessment program

Lindsy Myers; Nathan Lindsay

This chapter describes the development and implementation of a dynamic and resourceful assessment program within a Foreign Language Department in …

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Reframing assessment: Innovation and accountability between the global and the local

Theodore J. Cachey Jr.

This chapter highlights the roles and impact of assessment in a large multilingual department, from the experience and perspective of …

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