ERIC ED113969: Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency pdf

ERIC ED113969: Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency

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In the spirit of the new, sober eclecticism in foreign language teaching methodology, the effectiveness/efficiency dimensions become the criteria for decision-making in educational planning. The points are raised that: (1) there are no universally applicable methods; (2) teachers should not accept educational dogma without empirical evidence; (3) the classroom teacher is in a very good position to conduct research which is meaningful and, in all likelihood, more valid for his situation than that carried out in broad comparisons or artificial lab situations; and (4) the effectiveness-efficiency dimension provides a useful conceptual framework for such action research. The main argument is then applied to representative analyses of the effectiveness/efficiency of some major instructional strategies. (Author

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1975-02
• Year: 1975
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Audiolingual Methods, Classroom Research, Course Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies, Evaluation Criteria, German, Language Instruction, Methods Research, Second Language Learning, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods

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