Materials Design and Assessment

Reflect on your personal practice and examine contemporary approaches to materials design and evaluation in TESOL. Look at needs analysis, lesson objectives, validity, reliability, preparing learners for testing and divergent digital approaches.

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Duration

13 weeks

Student rating

N/A

Study method

100% online

Available loans

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Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

26 Feb 2018

Curtin University, the largest university in Western Australia, is a world-class leader in education and research. With an international focus and 52,000 students across 16 locations, including Sydney, Malaysia and Singapore, Curtin ensures its graduates are skilled and prepared to make a positive contribution in the global environment. Open Universities Australia is proud to offer their degrees and subjects online.

University ranking

2018

Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

reflect on personal practices and examine contemporary approaches to materials design and evaluation in TESOL
integrate knowledge of current and emerging sources in evaluating and developing learning materials, and assessing language ability
adapt and prepare materials and assessment items
evaluate learning materials and evaluation procedures in terms of educational, cultural and social appropriateness.

Topics covered

Topics
- Unit introduction & Materials Design Overview
- Assessment Overview: Terminology and contemporary approaches
- Product and Process aspects of materials provision
- Approaches to materials design in a digital age
- Impact and backwash in assessment
- Needs analysis in materials design
- Relating classroom materials to lesson objectives
- Validity and Reliability
- Practicality, Authenticity and Interactiveness in assessment
- Preparing learners for external tests
- Emerging and diverging approaches to assessment
- Unit Review
Study resources
- Instructional Methods
  - Audio/Video conferencing
  - Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
  - Embedded Multimedia
  - Online Quizzes/Tests
  - Online assignment submission
  - Podcasting/Leacture capture
  - Standard Media
  - Streaming Multimedia
  - Web links
- Online Materials
  - Printable format materials
  - Online Assessment
  - Audio-Video streaming
  - Quizzes

Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

This subject enables students to reflect on personal practice in the light of approaches to materials design in a digital age and emerging and diverging approaches to evaluation in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).

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Assessments

Assignment 1 - Materials development (50%)
Assignment 2 - Evaluation (50%)

Textbooks

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.

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