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FINAL PROJECT: CASE STUDY

Your case study should begin with questions you have about the identified child’s learning and

development (yes you need to select a child (preK- grade 3)—I don’t recommend to work with

your own but if you can’t find anyone, you can work with your own child). You should then

develop a plan to document the child’s learning and development and the contextual influences

on the child’s development. Lastly, your case study should include recommendations for the

child, based upon the evaluation of your assessment data.

As you develop assessments, collect data from the child and family, plan interventions and

reflect upon the processes, keep in mind appropriate ethical considerations for working with

children and families (NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct).

While each case study will be different based upon the child and the context; your outline should

follow the basic format provided:

1. Introduction 2. Description of the child and the questions which focus the case study 3. Ecological Context • Family Interview discussion

• Summary of the contextual factors which influence the child’s learning and development (includes medical history and developmental milestones as needed)

• Summary of efforts to develop partnership approach with family

4. Child’s Learning and Development Summary based on our own assessments • Cognitive Development (include academic subjects as appropriate)

• Language Development

• Social/ Emotional Development

• Physical Development

For each area of learning and development, use a meaningful mix of assessments, including

running records, anecdotal records, checklists/rating scales, work samples, more formal

assessment, and other assessment data you may have generated (refer Chapter 3 by Mindes).

Include the assessments you used and their results in the Appendices. You may consider

using some of the assessments included in your textbook if they are appropriate for your

child. Write a thorough summary of the data. Address each developmental domain. The

summary should clearly reflect the assessment data collected. Describe the assessments

chosen, why these assessments were chosen (include purpose), and how the data from the

assessment contributes to the developmental summary.

For example, you used checklist to assess a child’s physical development. Then you have to

explain why you used checklist, and how this checklist helped you and parents understand

the child’s physical development. You need to attach the checklist you have used as an

appendix. You have to do this for every single developmental domain.

5. Recommendations/Intervention Based upon your original questions and your assessment of the child’s overall development

and ecological context, what recommendations or interventions would you suggest for the

child? Why or what data supports these choices and why are these choices appropriate for

the child? What teaching strategies and approaches are appropriate for this child and why?

6. Appendices The appendices should include the original assessment forms and the data from your

assessments, including:

• Family Interview (Include health history information)

• Child Assessments For each assessment provide (as appropriate) the following:

✓ If you have used or adapted an existing assessment, the source of the assessment (full bibliographic reference)

✓ If you have created the assessment, any references you used to create the assessment

*A complete report, documenting all required components of the case study is required with due

dates as noted in the syllabus.