7PE617 Principles of English Language Teaching Assessment 2026 | University of Derby

7PE617 Assessment Brief

Module Leader
Kim Muir
K.muir@derby.ac.uk

Key Dates and Details

Description of the Assessment

Assessment will be through a written assignment.

To design, implement and evaluate a workshop in order to make recommendations for the education profession.

OR:

To observe and reflect on a workshop in order to make recommendations for the education profession.

All assessments will be marked using your student number, following the Anonymous Marking Policy. This will ensure that even if the work can be recognised by the initial marker, the anonymity of the student is preserved during second marking/internal moderation and external validation.

Relationship to Programme Assessment Strategy

This module forms part of the Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) pathway and is a core component. It can also be taken as a stand-alone module.  It examines the theoretical approaches and overarching philosophies that underpin TESOL methodology, principles, and classroom practice. It aims to prepare students for the field of English Language Teaching by enabling them to make sound pedagogical choices in their practice, and fostering the development of a global, future-focused practitioner.

Formative Assessment: Week 6 (0% weighting;)

The formative assessment is designed to help you with your summative assessment and is not graded. You will submit your plan for peer and tutor feedback in week 6. Detailed instructions and guidance can be found in Unit 6 of the course materials.

Attributes and Skills

Assessment Content

Assignment Task:

To design, implement and evaluate a workshop (scenario A) OR observe and reflect on a workshop (scenario B) in order to make recommendations for the education profession.

You can tailor this to your professional interests or to the context in which you are employed.

SCENARIO A

You need to design, implement, and evaluate a workshop in order to make recommendations for the education profession. You are asked to plan and run the workshop in your place of work and then to produce a report discussing the planning process, evaluating the effectiveness of the workshop, and suggesting an appropriate action plan to discuss the implications of the evaluation for future practice.

You will:

• Devise a workshop/teaching session based around a (range of) theoretical approach(es) and teaching methods used in the language classroom (LO1)
• Include your lesson plan in your assignment, although this is not marked.
• Articulate why (or why not) you have chosen to focus on a particular approach or method. (LO1)
• Give a justification/rationale underpinned with literature. (LO1)
• Evaluate the impact of the workshop, identifying key strengths and weaknesses and drawing on theories and approaches to guide recommendations for future implementation (LO2).
  OR

SCENARIO B

You need to observe and reflect on a workshop in order to make recommendations for the education profession. This could be a recording of someone else’s workshop or you could be observing online while someone else teaches face-to-face. You are asked to observe the workshop using an observation template that you have designed. You will subsequently produce a report evaluating the effectiveness of the workshop and suggesting an appropriate action plan to discuss the implications of the evaluation for future practice.

You will:

• Devise a template to observe a teaching session. You will need to include your template in your assignment, although this is not marked.
  Critically articulate which approaches, methods, and techniques you have observed in the workshop (LO1)
• Explore and justify why these were selected. Underpin with literature. (LO1)
• evaluate the impact of the observation, identifying key strengths and weaknesses and drawing on theories and approaches to guide recommendations for future implementation (LO2).

Assessment AI-Assistance

In this assessment AI-assistance is permitted in the following ways:

To brainstorm ideas and to help identify material for inclusion in your assessment.
Help create drafts and suggest improvements to your work.

In this assessment AI-assistance should not be used for:

• You MAY NOT include invented references, such as those created by generative AI tools.
• You MAY NOT use AI Tools to produce the final version of your work or make inferences in your work.
• You MAY NOT use AI Tools to generate visualisations of your data (e.g., graphs).
• It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check ALL information generated by generative AI tools. Any misuse of generative AI tools could be considered ethical academic misconduct (as per Academic Regulations, Academic Misconduct, Section J2). If in doubt, please consult your module leader.

Anonymous Marking

Submissions in Turnitin and Blackboard

You must submit your work using your student number to identify yourself, not your name. You must not use your name in the text of the work at any point. When you submit your work in Turnitin you must submit your student number within the assignment document and in the Submission title field in Turnitin. Guidance is available showing how to do this.

Assessment Regulations

The University’s regulations, policies and procedures for students define the framework within which teaching and assessment are conducted. Please make sure you are familiar with these regulations, policies and procedures.

7PE617 Assessment Rubric