Professional Documents
Culture Documents
MATERIALS
GROUP 7:
EVALUATION
Nguyễn Minh Yến
Nguyễn Phương Anh
Ngô Vũ Hoàng Minh
Phạm Thị Thu Thảo
Lê Hải Phong
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Teachers’ Researchers
professional in language
development teaching
Teachers’ needs
from materials
Presenter: Ngô Vũ Hoàng Minh
03
Sources
• Professional traits (e.g.
• Personal traits (e.g. language proficiency,
age, sex, cultural knowledge of the target
background language & culture length
educational & types of teaching
experience areas & levels
background interests
of expertise quality &
belief) amount of teacher
training received)
Types of needs
• Self-perceived needs
• Needs perceived by others
• Objectively measured needs
Influences
• teachers’ perception of administrative needs
• measured learners’ needs
• teachers’ perception of learners’ needs
• teachers’ wants
Theoretical model of course
design
Actual model of course design
Teachers’ empowerment
• Objective measurements of coursebooks
• Strict & systematic selection procedures
• Methods & feedback routes of users’
evaluation
• Wider perspectives in teacher development
• Acknowledgement of teachers’ non-teaching
expertise and workload
Teachers’ forums (by publishers)
• Evaluation meetings
• ‘take your pick’ sampling meetings
• Users meet to become producers
Production stage
In usage
In usage
In usage
Macro and Micro
evaluations of Task-based
teaching
04
Presenter: Phạm Thị Thu Thảo
Macro- evaluations of
Task-based teaching
Questions
Vs
05
Key ideas of micro-evaluations
- Student-based evaluation
- A response based evaluation
- Learning based evaluation
Elis (1998)
1. describing a task in terms of its objectives.
2. planning the evaluation by deciding on:
- the objectives and purpose
- the scope of the evaluation
- who will conduct the evaluation
- the timing
- the types of information
3. collecting the data for the evaluation
4. analysing the data
5. conclusion and recommendation need to be made
Simons(1997): an unfocused information- gap task.
Simons’ aim: whether the task was successful in eliciting meaningful
communication.
→ Findings:
+ Two maps were not identical
+ They created a number referential difference.
Five general categories were identified:
1. Telling
2. Questioning
3. Acknowledging
4. Responding
5. Miscellaneous
05
Presenter: Lê Hải Phong
How?
- Piloting
- Reviewing
- Focus group
- Questionnaires
- Expert panels
- Cooperation with academics and materials
developers on research projects
- Desk research & competitor analysis
5.1. Piloting
Why?
- Test the material in real-life contexts
- Engage in-house staff
- Promote the products
- Build trust
5.1. Piloting
● Receive materials
01 Piloters ● Comments (diary,
annotations)
02
03
5.1. Piloting
Pilots comments on:
- What went right or wrong
- Ordering of the activities
- Achievement of the objectives
- Students’ questions
- Time appropriateness
- ...
5.1. Piloting
● Receive materials
01 Piloters ● Comments (diary,
annotations)
● Compile feedback
02 Editorial team
● Analyze
03
5.1. Piloting
Editorial team:
- Collate comments into a single report
- Compare and analyze reports in different pilot
centers
- Conduct cross-referencing against other
evaluation forms
- Decide on final reports for authors
5.1. Piloting
● Receive materials
01 Piloters ● Comments (diary,
annotations)
● Compile feedback
02 Editorial team
● Analyze
● Receive the final
03 Authors feedback
● Revise
5.2. Reviewing
Who?
- Experienced teachers
⇒ objective perspective
5.2. Reviewing
How? Reviewers:
- Receive materials
- Answer a review sheet
5.2. Reviewing
Review sheet for Unit 1 (Messages Student’s Book, Level 1) (Goodey and Goodey
2005)
5.3. Other forms:
- Focus group
- Questionnaires
- Expert panels
- Cooperation with academics and materials
developers on research projects
- Desk research & competitor analysis
References
● Tomlinson, B. (Ed.). (2011). Materials development in language
teaching (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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