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- Investigates and presents an overview of the status quo of assessment, evaluation, and testing in different countries
- Addresses evaluation, assessment, and testing in the MENA context
- Paves the way for future studies on evaluation in this context
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Teacher and Faculty Evaluation
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Front Matter
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Assessment Practices
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Front Matter
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Textbook and ICT Evaluation
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Front Matter
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Evaluation of ELT Certificates and Programs
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About this book
This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, investigating the various facets of evaluation in different parts of the MENA region and beyond. In 19 chapters, it explores cases from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, the UAE, Turkey, Iran and Morocco.
The book highlights the impact of evaluation on a range of stakeholders, arguing that it has repercussions at the individual, societal, economic, cultural and political levels, that it also has an ethical dimension, and that it is tailored to people’s needs, helping them to remain abreast of the effectiveness and efficiency of programs.
Further, the book explores controversial issues concerning different evaluation themes, such as teacher and staff evaluation, assessment practices, text genre analysis evaluation, assessment of productive skills, textbook and ICT evaluation, evaluation of ELT certificates and programs, quality assurance, ESP needs analysis, assessmentliteracy, and dynamic assessment. It addresses key challenges, such as who the “right people” to implement evaluation are, and the appropriate use of evaluation results to avoid any misuse or harm to any stakeholder. In closing, the book calls for further research venues on the relevance of evaluation, testing and assessment in the MENA context and beyond.
Editors and Affiliations
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English Language Institute, University of Jeddah , Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Sahbi Hidri
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Higher Colleges of Technology , Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Christine Coombe
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa
Editors: Sahbi Hidri, Christine Coombe
Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43234-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43233-5Published: 07 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82764-3Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43234-2Published: 27 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2193-7648
Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics