The following events provide opportunities of direct relevance for college foreign language educators who want to learn more about program evaluation. Personnel from the Foreign Language Program Evaluation Project will be in attendance at all of these events. Additional details and contact information will be posted as available.
2009
*September 13-16: 3rd International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, Lancaster, UK. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/tblt2009/
Evaluation-related:
-Colloquium: “Evaluating Task-Based Language Programs” (John Norris)
*July 9-12: AATSP 91st Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. http://www.aatsp.org
Evaluation related
- Colloquium: "How to put evaluation to work for you," (Margo Milleret)
*April 23-26: 12th NCOLCTL Conference & 13th ALTA Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. http://www.councilnet.org/conf/conf2009/Draft%202009%20NCOLCTL%20Program3.pdf
Evaluation-related:
- Colloquium (April 24): "New Paradigms in evaluation and program development for LCTLs," (Margo Milleret, Seungja Choi, Dany Doueiri, Sachiko Matsunaga, Martha Schulte-Nafeh, Summer Loomis)
- Colloquium (April 24): "Shifting Paradigms in Assessment and Evaluation of Short-Term LCTL Programs," (Margaret E. Malone, Elizabeth Veatch, Megan Montee, Julia Sylla, Julie Sugarman)
*April 17-19: "Setting and Evaluating Learning Expectations," Multi-Language Western Consortium Workshop, University of Texas at Austin.
- John Norris keynote presentation (April 17), "Prioritizing the use and usefulness of evaluation in understanding and improving student learning"
- Workshop by Yukiko Watanabe & John Davis (April 17), "A utilization-focused approach to stating and evaluating student learning outcomes"
- Presentation by John Davis & Yukiko Watanabe (April 17),"Lessons learned from a college-wide student learning outcomes evaluation project: Balancing external and internal impetuses."
*April 3: 2nd Annual Spring Second Language Studies Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. http://sls.msu.edu/documents/SpringSymposiumFlyer.pdf
Evaluation-related:
- John Norris plenary, "Assessment and evaluation: Alternatives for inquiry into language learning and teaching"
*March 21-24: Annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Denver, Colorado. http://www.aaal.org
Evaluation-related:
-Invited colloquium, organized by John Norris (March 22): “Critical issues at the interface between assessment and U.S. language education policy”
2008
*November 21-23: Annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Orlando, Florida. http://www.actfl.org
Evaluation-related:
- Panel presentation by University of Evansville case study participants (Antonio Grau-Sempere, Chris Mohn, Roger Pieroni): “Understanding the educational effectiveness of the UE DFL in terms of student learning outcomes”
- Presentation by Duke University Summer Institute participants (Ingebor Walther, Carolyn Lee) on "Evaluating the FL Requirement at Duke" (Friday afternoon, 11-21, 3:15-4:30)
*October 9-11: Annual conference of the American Portuguese Studies Association, Yale University.
Evaluation-related:
- Panel presentation by University of New Mexico case study participants Margo Milleret and Agripino Silveira on "You Lead, I'll Follow: The Dance of Program Evaluation and Development"
*August 24-29: International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) conference, Essen, Germany. http://www.aila2008.org
Evaluation-related:
- John Norris presentation: “Evaluating task-based language teaching and learning (research) from an educational programs perspective”
*March 13-15: Foreign Language Program Evaluation Summit, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Workshops on evaluation techniques
- Presentations by foreign language case study participants
- Working sessions on sustaining evaluation efforts
2007
* September 20-22: Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.tblt2007.org
Evaluation-related:
- Papers
- Colloquia
- Posters
* May 28- June 6: National Foreign Language Resource Center, residential Summer Institute on Foreign Language Program Evaluation, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d/
Workshop highlights:
- Hands-on evaluation development
- Individualized tutorials
- Expert guest speakers
- Social events
* June 6 - 10: Summer Seminar West of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. http://www.adfl.org
Evaluation-related:
- Plenary Session
- Discussion Groups
- Open house of the summer institute on program evaluation
2006
* September 8: Inaugural conference of the Hawaii-Pacific Evaluation Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Featured Sessions:
- Panel discussion on What's happening in Hawaii-Pacific evaluation?
- Poster sessions
- Conversation tables
* November 16-19: Annual convention of the American
Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Nashville, Tennessee. http://www.actfl.org
ACTF Session: "Program Evaluation in College Foreign
Language Education: Need, Capacity, Development".
* Evaluation-related:
- AATG Symposium. The outcomes of collegiate FL programs: Specifications,
Curricular Implementations, Assessment
- National Foreign Language Resource Center publications exhibit
* June 29-July 1: Summer Seminar West of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, University of Wisconsin, Madison. http://www.adfl.org/seminars/index.htm
* Plenary Session: Assessing Student Competencies, the Curriculum, and Faculty Members in New Research Areas.