A Few Resources

 

I use this page as a sort of ‘clearinghouse’ for important resources related to my research, teaching, and professional service activities, and I will post links as they become available. To suggest additional resources or if you encounter a bad link, e-mail me.

 

 

PAGE IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Acropolis view, Sedona

 

Language Program Evaluation

Check out the Foreign Language Program Evaluation Project web site for extensive resources that we have compiled in recent years: http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/evaluation

 

Task-Based Language Teaching

The biennial TBLT conference web sites are an excellent place to look for resources and events related to TBLT. In particular, the online proceedings pages include handouts, powerpoints, and papers from presentations at the conferences.

 

TBLT 2005 (Leuven, Belgium): http://www.tblt.org

TBLT 2007 (Honolulu, Hawaii): http://www.hawaii.edu/tblt2007/

TBLT 2009 (Lancaster, UK): http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/tblt2009/index.htm

 

Evidence-based Teaching and Education

Some related links and references, mentioned in the Dept. of Second Language Studies Brownbag presentation on 2-17-05

 

What is it?

1. The view from US Department of Education: What works and scientifically-based evidence

 

the WhatWorks web site

http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/

 

a presentation on evidence-based education

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/methods/whatworks/eb/edlite-index.html

 

definitions of scientifically-based education research

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/methods/whatworks/research/index.html

 

 

2. Another view on the role of evidence in teacher professional practice: Scholarship of teaching

 

useful website on evidence-based teaching project at Nottingham Trent University

http://education.ntu.ac.uk/research/themes/develop_pri_pract/ebt/index.html

 

Spencer Foundation

http://www.spencer.org/index.htm

 

teacher accreditation standards in the US

http://www.ncate.org

 

 

How can we do it?

 

1. Action research

 

two useful sites for finding out more about AR, connecting with other interested practitioners, etc.:

http://www.did.stu.mmu.ac.uk/carn/websites.shtml

http://www.parnet.org/

 

2. Educational design experiments

 

for starters, take a look at the special issue of Educational Researcher on the role of design in educational research:

http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=393

 

3. Program evaluation

 

the website of the American Evaluation Association is a good place to start looking for related stuff:

http://www.eval.org

 

 

A few related references

 

Hutchings, P., & Shulman, L. (1999). The scholarship of teaching: New elaborations, new developments. Change, 31(5), 10-15.

Mosteller, F., & Boruch, R. (2002). Evidence matters: Randomized trials in education research. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Ortega, L. (forthcoming, 2005). Methodology, epistemology, and ethics in instructed SLA research. Special issue of the Modern Language Journal, 89(3).

Patton, M. Q. (1997). Utilization-focused evaluation: The new century text (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.