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Postgraduate CUR-TESOL501-2021

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.

From

$2,250 $2,500

Your upfront cost: $0

International student?

Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 01 Mar 2021
  • 31 May 2021
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QS RANKING 2021

13

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

13

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

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

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

Equivalent subjects

You cannot 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

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-Planning, Execution and Evaluation of TESOL

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).

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.

Assessments

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

Current study term: 28 Feb 21 to 30 May 21)

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

Next study term: 30 May 21 to 29 Aug 21

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

Related degrees

Postgraduate OUA-PSU-GCE-2021

Postgraduate Single Subjects

Postgraduate CUR-TES-GCE-2021

Graduate Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages TESOL

Postgraduate UNE-PRO-GCE-2021

Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice

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