Project

EIEC 1110: Continuum of Early Childhood Development

Class Project

Task Description

This assignment is designed to provide students with first hand experience collecting and analyzing substantive developmental data pertaining to two children. Course concepts will be incorporated into a final report in which a contextually sensitive description of each child’s developmental status is offered and the two children are compared.  

Students are required to collect data on two children ( one typical and one atypical) between the ages of 3 and 9 using three different types of assessment tools (one of which is an observation using a checklist posted on Canvas). The purpose of the remaining two assessments is to gather information regarding each child’s background/history, personality, interests, abilities/talents, etc. which can be effectively integrated with the developmental status data. These brief assessments will be developed by the student and should be selected from the list provided below.   

            Child interview self-report

            Child achievement records (if readily available)

            Samples of the child’s creative work (e.g., drawings or stories)

            Observation of parent-child interaction

            Observation of sibling-child interaction

            Observation of peer-child interaction

            Observation of child playing independently

            Parent questionnaire

            Sibling questionnaire

            Peer questionnaire

            Parent interview

            Sibling interview

            Peer interview

Once the data have been gathered, students will write a 3-5 double spaced paper integrating the information with course material. In the paper, students will be expected to include a discussion of the following elements: 1) content and purpose of each assessment employed, 2) pros and cons of each form of assessment, 3) each child’s current level of development with attention to contextual factors likely to have played a role, and 4) similarities and differences between the two children.

 EIEC 1110: Continuum of Childhood Development

Scoring Rubric   

I.          Data Collection

            __/5     Evidence of adequate planning and preparation for data collection

            __/5     Evidence of attention to detail in data collection

            __/5     Content of data collected is relevant to the children’s current level of

                        development 

            __/5     Evidence of objectivity in data collection

            __/5     Awareness of pros and cons of methods adopted

II.        Child Summaries

            __/8     Adequate description of first child’s current developmental status

            __/8     Adequate description of second child’s current developmental status

            __/8     Adequate description of factors likely to be related to first child’s current

                        developmental status

            __/8     Adequate description of factors likely to be related to second child’s current

                        developmental status

            __/8     Each summary conveys understanding of key course concepts

III.       Comparison

            __/8     Similarities between the two children’s developmental status are thoughtfully

                        described and at least 3 are addressed

            __/8     Differences between the two children’s developmental status are thoughtfully

                        described and at least 3 are addressed

            __/4     Comparison conveys understanding of key course concepts

IV.       Style

            __/5     Sentence structure, word usage, grammar, etc.

            __/5     Organization (within and across paragraphs)

            __/5     Clarity

Total:  __/100

                                               STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET

                          EIEC 1110 – CONTINUUM OF CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Name:  ___________________________________________________

High School Attended/what city? ______________________________

Year in College: ___________ Did you transfer? _______        

 If yes, from where? ______________________

Major:   ___________________________________________________

Address:   _________________________________________________

Telephone Number:  _________________________________________

Email address: ______________________________________________

How interested are you in child development?

            Not At All                    Somewhat                    Very                 Extremely

Please list your reasons for taking this course:

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

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Syllabus Contract:

"I have read the course syllabus for EIEC 1110, understand its implications (and have sought clarification for those parts that were unclear to me), and will abide by it."    

Signed...

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(Student signature)