CARLA-ACTFL Presentation: Practical Program Evaluation Toolkit for Educators

This presentation will provide an overview of the new Practical Program Evaluation Toolkit for Educators. The toolkit includes three sections designed to guide language educators through the process of conducting a language program evaluation: planning, gathering data, and reporting. By the end of the presentation, participants will be familiar with the resources and have ideas for ways to use them in their program or instructional contexts.

Presenters
Meg Malone (Ph.D., Georgetown University) is Director of Assessment and Research at ACTFL. Her current research includes a national study of why college students do and do not study world languages in college and teachers’ understanding of language program evaluation.
Reuben Vyn (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an Assessment Manager at ACTFL. A former high school French teacher and quality assurance advisor for a national test of French, his research has focused on the washback effect of assessments on instruction.

This presentation stems from the joint CARLA-ACTFL initiative on Practical Program Evaluation.