Impact Theory and Practice
Subtitle: Studies of the IELTS test and Progetto Lingue 2000 (Studies in Language Testing)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 17, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521680974
Subjects: Applied linguistics for ELT; Language; Foreign Language Study; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; English; English as a Second Language; Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; International English Language Testing System (IELTS); Ability testing; English language; Foreign speakers; Language acquisition; Language and languages; Study and teaching; Testing
First sentence: Taking an educational evaluation viewpoint, Weiss defines impact as 'the net effects of a programme (i.e. the gain in outcomes for program participants minus the gain for an equivalent group of non-participants)' (1998: 331).