Summative Evaluation of the Official Languages Support Programs

Office of the Chief Audit and Evaluation Executive
Evaluation Services Directorate

February 2009

Table of Contents

• Summary
  
  
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Background
  • 1.2 Structure of this report
  • 1.3 Subject of the evaluation: the OLSPs
    
    
• 2. The OLSP rationale: An outline
  • 2.1 Development of Official-Language Communities
  • 2.2 Enhancement of Official Languages
    
    
• 3. Method
  • 3.1 Summary description
  • 3.2 Limitations and challenges
    
    
• 4. Evaluation findings
  • 4.1 Rational and Relevance of the OLSPs
  • 4.2 Community Life component
  • 4.3 Minority Language Education component
  • 4.4 Promotion of Linguistic Duality component
  • 4.5 Second Language Instruction component
  • 4.6 Support functions
  • 4.7 Summary by evaluation question
    
    
• 5. Conclusions
  • 5.1 Relevance
  • 5.2 Design and implementation
  • 5.3 Success
  • 5.4 Cost-effectiveness
    
    
• 6. Recommendations and Management Response
  
  
• Appendix A Evaluation Framework
  
  
• Appendix B Student Enrolment (Minority and Second Language)
  
  
• Appendix C Excerpt from the Official Languages Act (Part VII)