NUÑEZ AND BODEGAS

Evaluation

Purposes

To decide whether a programme has had the intended effect

To identify what effect a programme has had

To justify future courses of action

To identify areas for improvement in an ongoing programme

Materials

The decisions regarding approaches,syllabuses,techniques and exercises should always be left up to the individuals who are on site and know the situation best

Language Testing

Norm-referenced

The ones intended to compare the relative performance of students to each other

Criterion-reference texts

Intended to measure the amount of course material that each student has learned

What stages are followed in desisning a course?

Structural

Situational

Topical

Functional

Notional

Skills

Task

Subtopic

Selecting the shape of the syllabus

The linear format

The modular format

The cyclical format

The matrix format

The story-line format

Subtopic

Organizing the course

Identifying the course units based on tehe organizing principle(s)

Determining unit content

Organizing unit content

Sequencing the units

Determining the organizing principle(s)