ECED 641 - Child Development and Assessment in Early Education

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

This course assists graduate teacher education students in developing their awareness of major theories of child development, current child development research, methods of child assessment, and implications of child development theories and research for early education. Students will gain a deeper understanding of research on the physical, perceptual, cognitive, language, affective, and social development of your children (birth to 8 years). Various perspectives and methods for studying young children will be examined. Students will design and implement a mini-research study related to child development.