Materials Design and Assessment

• • 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

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-TESOL501C-Materials Design and Assessment (No longer available)

You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.

• CUR-TESOL505-Language Teaching Practice

Additional requirements

No additional 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%)

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