Nvq Unit 331 Task C Understanding Child and Young Person Develpoment
Assignment 331 Understanding child and young person development
Task C Report
There are many different methods of monitoring/observing and recording children and young people behaviour and performance.
There are two types of assessment formative and summative
Formative assessment:
There are many observations and assessment methods that we use to record children’s development and they will be on going. This is what is called formative assessment, which means even though you get to know a child’s strengths and areas that they may need more support in you will plan for them to carry on and will continue to observe them. With Formative assessment there are many different methods that can be used such as target child, tick box/checklists, free description, time sampling methods.....all would be used in different settings and for different purposes by different people
Summative assessment:
Every now and again you may need to do a report on a child’s development so that the child’s parents can see how that child progressing in their development, these sorts of reports can also be used to pass information between from one professional to another like teachers do these sorts of reports at the end of the school year so the children’s next teacher can see how their developing. When you do formative observations you mainly use free description/snapshot observations so we observe that child when doing certain activities these types of observations are good as it paints a picture of what the child is doing at that point in time.
There are a number of factors that affect the growth and development of children and young people. Children and young people are influenced by physical factors, environmental factors, social and emotional factors, economical factors.
Social and Emotional: Family is a big influence in a child’s development. Parents play a big role by providing care and guidance for their development .Unfortunately some families cannot promote the
Task C Report
There are many different methods of monitoring/observing and recording children and young people behaviour and performance.
There are two types of assessment formative and summative
Formative assessment:
There are many observations and assessment methods that we use to record children’s development and they will be on going. This is what is called formative assessment, which means even though you get to know a child’s strengths and areas that they may need more support in you will plan for them to carry on and will continue to observe them. With Formative assessment there are many different methods that can be used such as target child, tick box/checklists, free description, time sampling methods.....all would be used in different settings and for different purposes by different people
Summative assessment:
Every now and again you may need to do a report on a child’s development so that the child’s parents can see how that child progressing in their development, these sorts of reports can also be used to pass information between from one professional to another like teachers do these sorts of reports at the end of the school year so the children’s next teacher can see how their developing. When you do formative observations you mainly use free description/snapshot observations so we observe that child when doing certain activities these types of observations are good as it paints a picture of what the child is doing at that point in time.
There are a number of factors that affect the growth and development of children and young people. Children and young people are influenced by physical factors, environmental factors, social and emotional factors, economical factors.
Social and Emotional: Family is a big influence in a child’s development. Parents play a big role by providing care and guidance for their development .Unfortunately some families cannot promote the