Postgraduate CUR-TESOL501-2022
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.
$2,306 $2,556
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 29 Aug 2022
QS RANKING 2022
11
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
17
Subject details
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 assessment procedures in terms of educational, cultural and social appropriateness.
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- 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.
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).
Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.
- Materials development (50%)
- Evaluation (50%)
Current study term: 28 Aug 22 to 27 Nov 22
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