This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context
investigating the various facets of evaluation in different parts of the MENA region and
beyond. In 19 chapters it explores cases from Tunisia Saudi Arabia Egypt Sudan Syria the
UAE Turkey Iran and Morocco.The book highlights the impact of evaluation on a range of
stakeholders arguing that it has repercussions at the individual societal economic cultural
and political levels that it also has an ethical dimension and that it is tailored to
people's needs helping them to remain abreast of the effectiveness and efficiency of
programs.Further the book explores controversial issues concerning different evaluation themes
such as teacher and staff evaluation assessment practices text genre analysis evaluation
assessment of productive skills textbook and ICT evaluation evaluation of ELT certificates
and programs quality assurance ESP needs analysis assessment literacy and dynamic
assessment. It addresses key challenges such as who the right people to implement evaluation
are and the appropriate use of evaluation results to avoid any misuse or harm to any
stakeholder. In closing the book calls for further research venues on the relevance of
evaluation testing and assessment in the MENA context and beyond.
