Departments and language programs often are asked to evaluate the efficacy of their own programs and make curricular decisions on the basis of evidence. This guide designed to help language educators meet the needs of program evaluation and assessment often requested by their institutions provides stepbystep advice to help language educators conduct evaluation and assessment and to show how it can lead to meaningful programmatic decisions and change. With discussions about evaluation planning advice for selecting datacollection tools explanations for data analysis examples based on actual evaluations and more this book provides everything you need to complete a successful language program evaluation that will give educators useful data on which to base curricular decisions.