Internal Code: 1GGBD
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The purpose of this assignment is to help you to set up a coherent and well-researched plan for your observation project. Please ensure that you submit this with enough time to receive and act on feedback from your marker. This feedback will inform the quality and accuracy of your final assessment. Please review the marking rubric to see marks allocations/weightings for the various elements of the assignment.
Your observation plan is a tool that will help you to prepare for your final report. It requires you to complete parts 1 and 2 of the project (above) and write a plan that follows the structure below. Please follow this structure and instructions exactly.
Structure and Content of Observation Plan
1) Background
This should provide detailed information about the child: socio-economic status, cultural background, composition of the family, any relevant health issues etc. This could also include information about parental concerns about the child, and any other contextual information that you may draw on in your analysis/observations. This should be based on information from an initial meeting with the parents of the child, in which consent is also gained and the consent form signed.
2) Area of interest and observational questions
In this section you will need to:
1. provide a definition of your area of interest/concern and operationally define behaviours which you will target - this section requires references
2. provide a list of 4 observational questions and explain their relationship to the area of concern or interest. Write a short para explaining each question.
3. Write a plan for when and where you will conduct observations that will allow you to ‘answer’ these questions and why you have chosen these places/times (i.e. does it allow interactions with different children, other caregivers, solo play, responses to new environments and so on)
3) Method - this section requires references
This section should provide a comprehensive discussion of the techniques chosen to carry out your observations, your reason for selecting them and their relative strengths and weaknesses. Make sure that your techniques are clearly linked to your observational questions. For example if your question relates to the frequency of behaviour, then you should use a frequency count rather than a duration record. Your techniques must include
both qualitative (e.g. anecdotes, running records or narrative event samples) as well as quantitative techniques (e.g. duration records, frequency counts etc…). You can use more than one method to address one question, or the same method to address multiple questions.