This chapter situates the evaluation of technologybased programs in the context of the field of general educational program evaluation. It begins with an overview of the main evaluation approaches developed for general educational programs, including Tyler’s early conception of assessing attainment of program objectives, decision-making approaches, naturalistic evaluation, and Kirkpatrick’s fou...

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...