Evaluating a CALL Initiative*

Program Evaluation:

An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms (US Department of Education)
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/

Basic Guide to Program Evaluation
http://www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/fnl_eval.htm

Electronic Resources for Evaluators
http://it.usu.edu/itrs/AEA/index.html

Guiding Principles for Evaluators
http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/aeaprin6.html

The Program Evaluation Standards. (ERIC/AE Digest)
http://ericae.net/db/edo/ED385612.htm

The Program Evaluation Standards (American Evaluation Association )
http://www.eval.org/EvaluationDocuments/progeval.html

Program Evaluation Practice in the Nonprofit Sector
http://www.innonet.org/resources/overview.cfm

Promoting Effective Program Evaluation
http://www.faseb.org/aps/educatn/promote.htm

Bibliography for Program Evaluation
http://ericae.net/bstore/docs/rprogr.htm

Examples

Example of a project evaluation of a multimedia project (Manitoba Education and Training School Programs Division)
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/metks4/tech/currtech/imym/evaluat.html

TELL Consortium Project Evaluation (Thanks to Graham Davies for telling us about this important resource.)
http://www.cti.hull.ac.uk/eval.htm

CALL Software Evaluation:

On-line:

Bibliography of CALL Evaluation
http://nts.lll.hawaii.edu/flmedia/evaluation/callbib.htm

CALL Software Evaluation Guide
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling417/guide.html

Criteria for Selecting Language Software
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/sprenger.html

In Print:

Bradin, C. (1999). CALL issues: Instructional aspects of software evaluation. In E. Hanson-Smith and J. Egbert (Eds.), CALL environments: Research, Practice, and critical issues. Alexandria: TESOL.

Hubbard, P. (1987). Language teaching approaches, the evaluation of CALL software, and design implications. In W. Smith (Ed.), Modern media in foreign language education: Theory and implementation. Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company.

______. (1988). An integrated framework for CALL courseware evaluation. CALICO Journal, 6 (2), 51-74.

______ (1992). A methodological framework for CALL courseware development. In M. Pennington and V. Stevens (Eds.) Computers in applied linguistics. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

______. (1996). Elements of CALL methodology: Developmenjt, evaluation, and implementation. In M. Pennington (Ed.), The power of CALL. Houston: Ahtelstan.

Website Evaluation

Rubric for Evaluating Websites
http://edtech.sandi.net/rubric/

Evaluating Web Resources
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm

Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/instruct/critical.htm

*Note: The information on this page was assembled to accompany a paper, "How Do We Know If It Worked? Evaluating a CALL Initiative," scheduled for the CALICO '99 Symposium.
Presenters were Ana Pérez Gironés and Claire Bradin Siskin.

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