Universiti Teknologi MARA

Faculty of Education
EDU555 CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES

Overall Assessment & Weightage

Individual Assignment
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Test
Article Review
Microteaching
e-Portfolio

30%
10%
30%
10%

Group Assignment
i.
Course Design
20%
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TOTAL
100%

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
1) TEST

Test 1 (15%)
Test 1 will cover topic from Week 1 to Week 5.

Test 2 (15%)
Test 2 will cover topic from Week 6 to Week 10.

2) ARTICLE REVIEW

Written Review (5%)

In this assignment, students are required to read an article that they have chosen
relating to Curriculum and Instruction. After reading and understanding the contents
of the article, students are required to write a review of the article.

The written review should include:

Reference information namely the author, year of publication, title, name of
journal, etc.
Summary of the article (maximum 1 page)
Opinion/comments regarding the contents of the article in relation to this
course
Conclusion regarding the contents
The article review should be typed, double spaced, and paginated. The pages are to be
stapled together (do not bind).
The article review must have a cover page which should include the following details:
Students name
Students ID
The instructors name (correctly spelled).
The assignment must be edited for grammatical and typographical errors.

Oral Presentation (5%)

Students are to present the article review for sharing and discussion.
For the presentation, students need to prepare PowerPoint slides of not more than 10
slides, which include the summary of the article, comments and conclusion.
Students also require to upload the slides that they have presented in class on i-Learn
for the purpose of Blended Learning. All students need to participate for the
discussion on the content highlighted that being uploaded by their friends.

3) MICROTEACHING

Written Lesson Plan (10%)

Students will prepare and submit a complete lesson plan for a one or double-period on
a topic chosen from the school syllabus according to the format given.

Micro-teaching (20%)
Students will conduct a micro-teaching session, lasting about 15-20 minutes. Students
are to submit the written lesson plan together with handouts and/or other instructional
materials used during the micro-teaching session.

4) e-PORTFOLIO

Students will collaborate for individual e-portfolio website containing notes, handouts,
sample of their own assignments and friends assignments (selected), sample of their
own lesson plan; additional information and resources related to the course. They have
to complete the website by Week 13.

Students can use any available tools or software on Web 2.0 and creatively develop
this technology based portfolio and apply the knowledge that they gained during
Instructional Technology (EDU450) course. The example of free tools and platform
that currently available and can be used includes;
i) http://www.weebly.com/
ii) http://www.wix.com/
iii) http://www.webs.com/
iv) https://www.yola.com/

These are examples of the best e-portfolio created by the students specifically for this
course. Students may use this e-portfolio as their guideline to develop their own eportfolio.
i) http://kpsharifah90.wix.com/sharifahmaisurah90
ii) http://teachermisbahulhannan.weebly.com/

The link for each e-portfolio created by the students must be uploaded on i-Learn for
the purpose of Blended Learning.

GROUP ASSIGNMENT
1) COURSE DESIGN

Students are to work in group of between four to six students to design a course for a
specific target group. Students need to use the knowledge that they gained in this
course in designing the course intended. Students are require to present their course
design during week 13-14.