PAC7 at JALT2008 Proceedings Article Data

Article title, keywords, abstract, and writer profiles

Title:
Evaluation in the Curriculum Development Process

Keywords:
evaluation, curriculum development, ESP, instructional design

Abstract:
This paper outlines the curriculum development efforts for a tertiary-level business English program, with special emphasis on evaluation methodology and findings. A brief overview of each phase of the project is presented using a generic instructional design model. After visiting both progress and obstacles in these endeavors, we go on to highlight the crucial role of both formative and summative evaluation in the overall curriculum development framework, and offer our interpretation of preliminary feedback data as well as future directions.

Writer profiles:
Brent A. Jones has been teaching and tutoring ESL/EFL for two decades, first in Hawaii and then in Japan and other parts of Asia. He has advanced degrees in Language Education and Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, School of Education. He is currently in charge of the English language program at the Hirao School of Management.

Martin Weatherby has taught EFL in Japan for over 19 years, and teaches a seminar in pragmatics and courses in communication, TOEIC preparation and extensive reading at St. Thomas University in Amagasaki, Japan. He has an M.Ed. degree from Temple University Japan and is working on a dissertation in pragmatic development in the doctoral program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at TUJ. He has recently been working on survey assessment and objective measurement using Rasch analysis.

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