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Course Syllabus

2024/2025

Current Approaches to Course Design and Assessment

Type: Mago-Lego
Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages
When: 1, 2, 4 module
Online hours: 20
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors: Svetlana Victorovna Bogolepova
Language: English
ECTS credits: 6
Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Abstract

In the course, you will learn how test items are created and assessment criteria are designed. You will analyse existing tests, both national and international, and understand how receptive and productive skills can be assessed. We will discuss the limitations of formal testing and speak about formative and alternative assessment. You will understand how assessments are aligned with course content and objectives. You will plan a course and design assessments with psychometric characteristics in mind, trying to implement digital instruments for the purpose. To take the course, you are expected to have C1 level in the English language. The course is for students specialising in Linguistics and Teaching/ Pedagogy.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • to be able to design courses of different types
  • to be able to design teaching and learning materials
  • to be able to develop assessment tasks and rubrics
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • students will be able to use learning theories and instructional design models as frameworks for course design
  • students will be able to formulate aims and objectives correctly
  • students will be able to conduct needs analysis and account for its results when designing courses
  • students will be able to design language courses of different formats
  • students will be able to use the affordances of AI and generative models for course and materials design
  • students will realise the limitations of AI and generative models and account for them when designing materials and courses
  • students will be able to design teaching and learning materials
  • students will be able to logically sequence tasks and activities within lessons and units
  • students will be able to plan assessments and align them with course objectives
  • students will be able to conduct analysis of assessments based on their psychometric properties
  • students will be able to design assessment tasks and rubrics
  • students will be able to assess different aspects of communicative competence
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Course design
  • Materials design
  • Assessment
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Class Participation
    Professor makes a note whenever a student responds orally or in the chat.
  • non-blocking Tests
  • non-blocking Essay (evaluation of assessment)
  • non-blocking Final project (Course design)
  • non-blocking Materials design
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.25 * Class Participation + 0.2 * Essay (evaluation of assessment) + 0.25 * Final project (Course design) + 0.2 * Materials design + 0.1 * Tests
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • O’Neill, G. (2015). Curriculum Design in Higher Education: Theory to Practice. Ireland, Europe: University College Dublin. Teaching and Learning. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.7EA1CE9A

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Mukaddas Khamzayeva Fayzullayevna. (2020). The Procedures of Collecting Data for Needs Analysis. Science and Education, 1(8), 325–329.

Authors

  • Bogolepova Svetlana Viktorovna