ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD

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Course: Textbook Development-I (6552) Semester: Autumn, 2021
Level: MA/M.Ed.
Please read the following instructions for writing your assignments.
(AD, BS, BEd, MA/MSc, MEd, MPhil and PhD)
1. All questions are compulsory and carry equal marks but within a question, the marks are
distributed according to its requirements.
2. Read the question carefully and then answer it according to the requirements of the question.
3. Hand written scanned assignments are not acceptable.
4. Upload your typed (in word or PDF format) assignments on or before the due date.
5. Late assignments can't be uploaded at LMS.
6. Your own analysis and synthesis will be appreciated.
7. Avoid irrelevant discussion/information and reproducing from books, study guide or allied
material.
Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 40
Assignment No.1
(Units: 1-4)
Q.1 Highlight the gaps between 2006 curriculum and social studies textbook of secondary level.
(20)
    2006 -1
Q.2 What are the textbook management process in United States? Enlist some of its salient
features. (20)
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Q.3 Discuss textbooks reforms in publications under the effect of National curriculum 2006 in
Pakistan. (20)
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          2006   -3
Q.4 Develop criteria to analzye the contents and structure of a secondry level textbook keeping
in view the genere of textbook structure. (20)
       -4

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Q.5 Highlight some of the reforms made for textbooks in last few years. Give some examples from
textbook of History (20)
              -5

Total Marks: 100 Pass Marks: 40

Assignment No.2
(Units: 5-9)
Q.1 What are the major differences in write-up of a textbook and a non-textbook? Discuss the
whole procedural steps of write-up. (20)
       -1
Q.2 What is meant by textbook design and development procedure? Also highlight 7 steps of
design and development? (20)
      -2
Q.3 What is illustration method in textbook design? Also discuss the principles of illustration. (20)
         -3
Q.4 Discuss the scope of elaboration theory to revise a textbook? Also discuss which textbooks
can be considered appropriately published in Pakistan. (20)
            -4
Q.5 Discuss the expectation and outlines foe narrative material development. (20)
     -5
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