The California Foreign Language Project will implement an evaluation design which will demonstrate the impact of its program on teacher and student performance. This design will be instrumental in providing necessary feedback to sites to assess the progress they are making in implementing the goals set by the project and will also provide relevant information for the CSMP evaluation process.

The project has put in place an evaluation coordinator who, with input from the sites, has designed a process and protocol which will assist sites and the central project in assessing the progress of the site in meeting stated CFLP/CSMP goals. The project has also developed assessment protocols: the Classroom Oral Competency Interview (COCI) and the Stanford Foreign Language Oral Skills Evaluation Matrix (FLOSEM) which determine students' oral competency progress), the Classroom Writing Competency Assessment (CWCA) (which determines students' progress in writing) and is in the process of developing an assessment protocol for receptive skills, the Classroom Receptive Competency Assessment (CRCA). Sites will be using these protocols with a randomly selected subset of participating teachers and their students in pre- and post-workshop time frames. The process of growth will be measured in terms of program outcomes predetermined by the site.

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