林奇著的《语言课程评估：理论与实践》一书从宏观上探讨了语言课程的评估方法，填补了应用语言学论著在这方面的空白，向教师、语言研究人员和教育管理人员全面地介绍了课程评估的各种定性和定量分析的方法。作者将理论研究和教学实践有机地结合，从而提出了一个为语言教育课程度身定制的课程评估方法。该方法可以根据不同的情况进行调整，同时也可以随着教与学的变化与‘发展而逐步完善。

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Preface

1 Introduction

 Definitions: Applied linguistics, evaluation, program

 Critical issues

 Program evaluation and applied linguistics research

2 Historical background

 The paradigm dialog

 Evaluation of language education programs in the 1960s and 1970s

 More recent developments in the evaluation of language education programs

 Summary

3 Validity

 Validity from the positivistic perspective

 Validity from the naturalistic perspective

 Conclusions: Validity from the two perspectives

4 Positivistic designs

 True experimental designs

 Quasi-experimental designs

5 Naturalistic designs

 The responsive model

 The illumination model

 Goal-free evaluation

 The judicial model

 The connoisseurship model

 Other metaphors for naturalistic evaluation

6 Quantitative data gathering and analysis

 Data gathering

 Data analysis

 Conclusion

7 Qualitative data gathering and analysis

 Overview

 Data gathering

 Data analysis

8 Combining positivistic and naturalistic program evaluation

 Compatibilist versus incompatibilist perspectives

 Mixed strategies

 Multiple strategies

 Mixed designs

 Mixed designs and strategies over time

 Conclusions

 CAM step 1 (audience and goals): Determine the purpose of the evaluation

 CAM steps 2 and 3 (context inventory and preliminary thematic framework): Determine what is being evaluated

 CAM steps 4 and 5 (evaluation design and data collection): Select a design and collect the data

 CAM step 6 (data analysis): Analyze and interpret your findings

 CAM step 7 (evaluation report): Communicating the evaluation findings

 The role of program evaluation in applied linguistics research

References

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Subject index