Types of Assessments

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Assignment #1 individual assignment
Conduct research on family practices and context in your own location.  

1. Identify a family in your community to interview.

2. Get the interviewee to fill out the consent form. Confidentiality/anonymity of your interviewee should be maintained. No one should know whom you have interviewed. 

3. Based on the guidelines provided and using the questions in the guidelines, conduct the interview.

4. Post your findings in the discussion forum of your small group and upload the document in the documents space of your small group (Team1,2, 3 or 4 in the Workgroups section).

 Submission Date: class on Monday August 31, 2009

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Assignment#2 Chat online in google chat

26 August 2009

Assignment #3

 Create a data set. Identify differences (e.g. social location) that impact family practices across geographical locations.                                                                          
1. Read and analyse ALL of the postings on research conducted by your team mates.

2. Write a summary of the similarities and differences you see in the postings. 

Submission Date: 7 September 2009. 

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Assignment #4 individual assignment

a) Read information on assigned readings about family practices in the contents or course documents section. Choose three readings and write a summary of all three thinking about

i) what each reading says

ii) how it compares and contrasts with the other two readings.

Post this on the discussion forum. (due in on 18 September 2009)

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Assignment #5.  team assignment

You need to meet with your team members and have a conversation with them on Google Chat introducing yourself and discussing your own experiences of various issues in your families.

In your chat you also need to plan your future working together

1. meet online on google chat with your team members.

2. Identify tasks for each member of the group

3. Identify  timelines for each portion of the project

3. Identify modes of communication to be used among group members. (Be sure everyone has your email and you have everyone else’s).

4. Post your plan on the discussion forum by 25 September 2009

Chat should occur on 25  September 2009. 

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 Assignment #6 Team assignment. Prepare on google docs and post on the discussion forum of your small group the final group project which should cover the following areas (see specific parameters in full assignment)

1. a title for your project and the names, affiliations and emails of the team members as w

2.  introduction which describes the central focus of the research and explains why it is important

3.  literature review which should have the Assignment 3s by each team member

4. results and analysis with Assignment 6 posted on it.

5. conclusion with the following subsections:     

• General (global) situation with specific reference to research themes and family practices.
• Each group members' local situation with regard to the research themes and family practices;
• Emerging issues raised by the research in the global and local context.
• Local and global policy implications and recommendations with regard to the topic.
• Further research that needs to be conducted on the topic
• a page called bibliography with the citations your team members used for assignment 3
• a page called appendix with
• Appendix A: letter of consent you wrote for your participants
• Appendix B: the list of questions you used for your interviews.
• Appendix C: transcripts of data

Share this document with your facilitator and other groups  by 21 October 2009.

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 Assignment #7a #7b
Project Evaluation/Reflection paper

This assignment is composed of two parts: 

a. An individual reflective paper/reflective exercise to evaluate your learning experiences as well as the course module as a whole

b. an online posting to share your evaluation of the projects produced by the other groups in the course. Your overall participation in the module will also be assessed, as will the outcomes which you have achieved. 
Submission Date: 23 October 2009

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