Materials Evaluation and Design - Week 4 - Materials, Courses, Teachers 

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 4 of the course Materials Evaluation and Design. In this class we will review key concepts from your assigned reading regarding the use of specialized checklists to evaluate ELT textbooks. We will also analyze several published checklists and evaluate them using our own criteria for effective checklists.

Today's Goals:

• Discuss important considerations for the creation of a checklist or rubric for materials evaluation.
• Analyze a published checklist and evaluate its applicability to your current teaching context.

Guiding Questions:

• What are the features of a good checklist?
• What criteria can I propose to evaluate ELT materials?

Task 1: My Criteria 

For our warm up activity you will propose your own criteria for a lazy rainy day, a great vacation, a perfect pizza, or any other non-academic product or experience. Be ready to share your essential criteria with the class.

Click the link and find your section of the document.

• Group Checklist: CLICK HERE

Task 2: Evaluating Evaluation Checklists

There are many ways to make an evaluation checklist or rubric. Let's start by analyzing some published checklists (Jusuf, 2018) to see what they offer, how they are organized, and determine their relative strengths and weaknesses. Click the link below and go to your group's section of the document.  

• ELT Textbook Evaluation Checklist Evaluation Checklist: CLICK HERE

References:

Jusuf, H. (2018). The Models of Checklist Method in Evaluating ELT Textbooks. Journal al-Lisan, 3(2), 17-35, http://journal.iaingorontalo.ac.id/index.php/al

McGrath, I. (2016). Materials Evaluation and Design for Language Teaching (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press.