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--- Forwarded Message from National Foreign Language Resource Center <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:01:39 -1000 (HST) >From: National Foreign Language Resource Center <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: "Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs" (NFLRC Summer Institute) - application deadline February 15 >To: [log in to unmask] Our apologies for any cross-postings . . . The National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is pleased to announce its 2007 Summer Institute workshop: "Developing Useful Evaluation Practices in College Foreign Language Programs" University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI May 28 - June 6, 2007 http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d/ SUMMARY: This NFLRC Summer Institute is designed to help college foreign language administrators and teachers engage in useful, practical, and effective program evaluations to meet a variety of purposes. It takes seriously the values, goals, and constraints that characterize college language programs and will provide language educators with a user-oriented approach to developing evaluations that maximize benefits for language learners and teachers, while minimizing potential negative consequences. It will also provide participants with tools and strategies for making program evaluation a systematic and consistently useful component of their FL departments. ACTIVITIES: The Institute will be run by DR. JOHN M. NORRIS (UH Dept. of Second Language Studies), an expert in language program evaluation and assessment. Activities over the 9-day institute will include lectures and demonstrations, in-depth analyses of practical evaluation examples, invited guest speakers (language evaluation experts), social events, and extensive hands-on development and discussion of evaluation plans, procedures, and instruments for immediate use in the participants specific program settings. PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITY: This workshop is intended for U.S. foreign language administrators and teachers who are directly responsible for program evaluations in their foreign language departments. It assumes no prior grounding in program evaluation theory or practice, but it requires a willingness to help increase evaluation capacity in college FL education. In order to maximize the impact of this event across U.S. colleges, participants will be purposefully selected to represent diverse FL program types, based on size, languages taught, geography, and institutional status. PARTIAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT is available to all participants in the NFLRC Summer Institute, on a competitive and space-limited basis. Summer Institute participants are also highly encouraged to participate in the ADFL SUMMER SEMINAR WEST (directly following the Summer Institute in Hawaii), where they will have opportunities to share their program evaluation work. APPLY TODAY! For more details about the Summer Institute (including information about affordable lodging options, fees, and more) or for the online application form, visit our website at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si07d/ ONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE - FEBRUARY 15, 2007 ************************************************************************* N National Foreign Language Resource Center F University of Hawai'i L 1859 East-West Road, #106 R Honolulu HI 96822 C voice: (808) 956-9424, fax: (808) 956-5983 email: [log in to unmask] VISIT OUR WEBSITE! http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu ************************************************************************* *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************