Materials Design and Assessment

• • 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
    • Discussion forum/Discussion Board
    • Embedded Multimedia
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Lecture capture
    • Standard Media
    • Web links

  • Online materials

    • Printable format materials
    • Online Assessment
    • Audio-Video streaming

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-TES-GCE-2019

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2019
• UNE-PRO-GCE-2019

Special requirements

No special requirements

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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• Materials development (50%)
• Evaluation (50%)