Blended Language Program Evaluation
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With the ever-increasing integration of new technologies in face-to-face instructional settings, approaches to modern language education pose numerous challenges to program evaluation. Blended Language Program Evaluation introduces an argument-based approach to guide program evaluators and stakeholders through planning, conducting, and appraising evaluation projects that result in useful outcomes leading to program improvement. Written for program evaluators and language professionals alike, the book discusses theoretical underpinnings for the proposed framework and describes the specifics of its effectuation at each of the three program levels: micro, meso, and macro levels. To illustrate the utility, flexibility, and application of the framework for evaluating blended language programs, the book presents four case studies conducted in diverse international contexts.
Advocating an argument-based approach, Blended Language Program Evaluation presents a framework for planning, conducting, and appraising evaluation of blended language learning across three institutional levels, and demonstrates its utility and application in four case studies carried out in diverse international contexts.
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“This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of blended language learning, now seen as the contemporary paradigm in language education, and to the neglected art of language program evaluation. It offers a rethink of Kane’s (2006) argument-based approach, previously applied to test validation, using it as a methodological framework for evaluating the efficacy of blended language learning initiatives.” (Catherine Elder, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Finally a publication that presents a clear ontology of blended learning within an evaluation framework that is clearly exemplified with four cases of empirical validation. A must-read for everyone involved in educational engineering.” (Jozef Colpaert, Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
“Offering an innovative but practical approach, this book imaginatively reconceptualises program evaluation as a process of planning, evidence gathering, presenting and appraising an argumentthat justifies or questions the implementation of blended learning. This book should be read by all those in language education with an interest in evaluation and the quality of language provision.” (Anthony Green, Professor, University of Bedfordshire, UK)
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