Evaluating Language Learning Spaces: Developing Formative Evaluation Procedures to Enable Growth and Innovation

Autor: Katherine Thornton
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, Vol 7, Iss 4, Pp 394-397 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2185-3762
Popis: Despite the frequent presence of language learning spaces (LLSs) at institutions across the world since the 1990s, there is still no consensus on how to evaluate such centres. With the exception of Morrison (2005), we do not even have a good number of well-documented approaches or frameworks for those wishing to conduct an evaluation to draw from. The very nature of a self-access centre, with its fluid population of users pursuing a diverse variety of learning goals, makes the task considerably more challenging than a course evaluation, which usually has clearly defined objectives and a fixed group of participants. This problem has been recognised since self-access first emerged as its own field (Riley, 1996), but recent surveys of the field reveal a similar picture today (Gardner & Miller, 2015; Reinders & Lazaro, 2008).
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