Colleagues,

What is the IALLT Language Center Assessment Toolkit?  Find out by
attending the next IALLT webinar.

Date:  Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Time: 3:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. MT / 5:00 p.m. CT / 6:00 p.m. ET
To register:  http://www.iallt.org/webinars

Please remember that IALLT webinars are open to all, so please share this
information with anyone who may be interested.  This webinar may be of
particular interest to department chairs, deans, and IT personnel who are
responsible for evaluating language centers.

In this session, the IALLT Assessment Committee will present elements
of the Language Center Assessment Toolkit they created over the course
of the 2014-2015 academic year. The purpose of the toolkit is to provide
institutions of higher education with a customizable set of tools to assist
with the internal evaluation of their language centers. The toolkit
includes 1) a short paper on “Recommendations for Assembling an Evaluation
Committee,” 2) a collaborative paper on what a language center is and how
to evaluate it, 3) a center
self-evaluation form, 4) a list of descriptors organized in categories (student
services, resources, etc.), and 5) a set of surveys (for faculty, center
staff, and student staff). The presenters will introduce the toolkit and
present the self-evaluation form and descriptor list in detail. Throughout,
the presenters will discuss the challenges they encountered when designing
a toolkit that is useful and relevant when evaluating a wide variety of
language centers. They will then ask the audience for feedback and
suggestions on how to improve this toolkit.

We're looking forward to your participation!
Sharon Scinicariello
Programs Director, IALLT