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.
Spring 2009
*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: “Critical issues at the interface between assessment and U.S. language education policy”
Fall 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"
Summer 2008
*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”
Spring 2008
*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
Fall 2007
* September 20-22: Second International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.tblt2007.org
Evaluation-related:
- Papers
- Colloquia
- Posters
Summer 2007
* 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
Fall 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
Summer 2006
* 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.