DIPLOMA IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
CARE AND EDUCATION
ASSIGNMENTS 1 TO 3
January 2014 &
July 2014
DECE – 1: Organizing Child Care Services
DECE – 2: Child Health and Nutrition
DECE – 3: Services and Programmes for Children
School of Continuing Education
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi -110068
ASSIGNMENTS 1-3
January 2014/July 2014
Programme: DECE
Dear Learners,
You will have to do three assignments as part of the Diploma Programme. ALL THREE ARE
COMPULSORY. Each assignment has three parts—Section A, Section B and Section C. Section A comprises theoretical questions and Sections B & C comprise practical exercises. Each assignment carries
100 marks; 60 marks for each of the Sections A and 20 marks for each of the Sections B & C.
The Assignments printed in this booklet contain section A of the three assignments. The Practical
Exercises, which form section B & section C of the three Assignments, are contained in the practical manual for each course which you would have received in this dispatch. Of the exercises contained in the Practical Manuals, you are required to do two exercises from each practical manual towards the Assignments. Information about which exercises have to be done is given under section B & section C of each assignment in this booklet.
Objectives: One of the objectives of the assignments is to assess how well you have understood the concepts explained in the various Blocks of the Course. This is assessed through the questions in Section
A. Since the Diploma Programme aims to impart to you the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills, the purpose of the assignments is also to test how far you can apply the concepts in day-to-day situations.
This is assessed through the practical exercises in Sections B and C. They assess your ability to translate into practice the related knowledge and concepts, which you have studied in the Blocks.
We would advise you to actually do all the