Posted: March 9th, 2016

Social & Developmental Psychology – LAB REPORT

our Developmental Assessment is a 2000 word lab report which will assess
the Learning Outcomes 1, 2 , 3 and 4. The assessment will involve building upon information covered in the Learning Activities, in order to design and conduct a developmental study. You will be exploring factors that which may influence literacy development in First Grade Students from schools in the United States (US), particularly focusing on the role of the environment and the child’s identity/behaviour. You will be able to apply some of the concepts and theory covered in the learning materials as well as your own background research in order to devise a research question. You will not be collecting any data. This will be provided. However you will need to identify a suitable research question that can be addressed with the data provided and you will need to conduct a suitable analysis and write up the results.
The data set that will be provided to you will include a range of information including; a normative measure of literacy development, demographic information, teacher reports on social identity/behaviour, parent reports on aspects of the home environment etc. Not all of these factors are known predictors of literacy development, so it is up to you to identify factors of interest. Please refer to the relevant folder in the attachments
Because you are not collecting any actual data for this study ethical sign off will not be needed.
Word count: 2,000