ASGMT TEXTBOOK

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING)

EDT 1303
(Introduction to Instructional Technology)

SEMESTER 1, 2008/2009

Topic:
EVALUATION CHECK LIST

Prepared by:
Nor Aslinawati Binti Nawawi 0726078
Siti Quraishah Binti Sapian 0724272

Prepared for:
Madam Sharifah Sariah
Date:7 August 2008

Name of Book: Mathematics Textbook for Year 1
By: Wan Yusof Bin Wan Ngah, Fezarudin Bin Mahamudin, Mohd Marzuki Bin Maulud

Publisher: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur

Organization

After doing discussion and evaluation, we had identified and determine organization of the textbook that we had chosen are good and suitable for students in Year 1 use it. Firstly, the textbook provide a useful table of contents and glossary. This table is useful to the students refer the pages that they want to open. For this age, students may have difficulty in order to understand English and glossary are very important to make the student understand the meaning of the word. Moreover, the process of learning will be continuing at home even though there are no teachers to teach them. However, there is no index because young students do not need and know how to use it. Besides that, table of contents show a logical arrangement and development of subject. By this arrangement, the students can easily find the topic and related information about it.
Secondly, the textbook are also uniform in appearance and content layout throughout the book as well as within each chapter. It is going continuously and synchronization in each chapter. This is good for young children to understand the information step by step. The advantages of the textbooks are in every chapter, they are briefly provided some introductions at the front topic and summaries at the last page of all each topic. It is clear and comprehensive in order to make the students know what they want to learn and what they had learned.

Other than that, all the pages in the textbooks are numbered. When the teacher asks them to open certain page, students will refer to the number of page easily and quickly. They don’t have to count it by open the page one by one and at the same time they also learn the subject which is mathematic. However, the textbook doesn’t contain any references, bibliographic and other resources. Usually, students in secondary school will use this in order to get more information in understanding the related topic. But for Year 1 students, it is not necessary and important to them. They still don’t how to use it yet.

Content

For the content of this textbook, it meet local and national standards. This textbook is using English languages because Malaysian government wanted sciences and mathematics teaching in English. So, the textbook can be use either in local or national school. Besides that, the content of the book is accurate and up-to date. This edition is the latest which had been published by Ministry of Education with association by Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka. The authors of this book had been chosen because of their knowledge and experience in teaching and publishing book. The content in the textbook are not supported by other textbooks that students have or will use. All the information given in this textbook is complete, good and doesn’t need any extra information to understand the topic. For students in Year One, there will be difficult for them in understand the language. They are not familiar with English language in their life. This will be new experience for them to understand the new language. So, to fulfill the needed of the Ministry in order to teach sciences and mathematics in English, the author use the simple and appropriate language that is clear and grammatically correct in the contents. Student can easily learn and use it. Moreover, the textbook contain age appropriate reading level.

After completing one topic, there will be some exercise or quizzes at the end of the topic. The purpose is to make sure the students understand what their have learn and make them more understand. If they can easily answer the question correctly, that mean they had really understand about the topic and what their teacher had taught them. The lessons linked to other subject area like sciences. As we learn or study sciences, the students also using mathematics application like plus, subtract, multiply, divided and many more. Other than that, the using of the textbook will engage students in active learning because there are some activities like singing, work in a group and many more which need the students to move or doing something else besides writing and also appealing to a wide range of abilities and interests. However, the lessons didn’t encourage higher level thinking because the users of the textbook are only in Standard One. Last but not least, the textbook can be used for several years as long as the contents are fulfilling the need of students in teaching and learning process in Standard One.

Physical Aspects

The textbook that we had chosen had been divided into two parts which are Mathematics Part 1 and Mathematics Part 2. The size is only 25cm x 19cm and it is light which is easy for students in young age to carry it. The textbook are full with illustrations, tables, figures and pictures that will encourage and attract the young children to read and learn it. The colors and fonts chosen are good enough to attract and grab the student’s attention. Besides that, the fonts are clear and the size that had been use is suitable for students in Standard One. Moreover, the textbook are appealing to the students need and all the illustrations that are used in the book are representing all of ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic and many more. Other than that, all the illustrations, tables, figures and many more are functional because it makes the process of learning and understanding more easy and fun. However, the binding, pages and cover are not really durable because it can easily tatter.