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Hutchinson Community College

Course Syllabus

CC110 Observation & Assessment of Young Children

YEAR: 2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS: 3.00

PREREQUISITES: None

COREQUISITES: None

COURSE NOTES:

This course will cover different observation and assessment techniques used in early childhood settings, and how to use assessment information to guide instruction and evaluate programs.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

A study of the role of observation to assess and monitor the development of children aged birth to five, as well as learn appropriate techniques for interacting with young children.

HCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

I. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.

II. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.

III. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

IV. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.

V. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

HutchCC course outcomes are equivalent to the Kansas core outcomes.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

A - 90% - 100%

B - 80% - 89%

C - 70% - 79%

D - 60% - 69%

F - 0% - 59%

1. Participation 2. Examinations 3. Projects 4. Classroom assignments/quizzes

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Students who engage in academic dishonesty bring discredit upon Hutchinson Community College as well as themselves. HCC students are thus required to maintain honesty in their academic pursuits. The administrators and faculty at Hutchinson Community College require students to do the following:

1. Submit examinations, themes, reports, drawings, laboratory notes and other work that represent the students' best efforts without cheating, plagiarizing, or misrepresenting.

2. Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of falsification, forgery, or alteration.

3. Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.

Sanctions for violation:
Students suspected of engaging in academic dishonesty may be charged in writing by the instructor and be subject to failure of the work in question and/or failure and dismissal from the course in which the dishonesty occurs. Students failed and/or dismissed by an instructor from a course as a result of academic dishonesty will not be allowed to take a "W" for the course. Instructors may also recommend to the Vice President of Academic Affairs that such students be dismissed from the program and/or the institution.

Appeal:
Student charged with academic dishonesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process by the institution through the Academic Appeal process.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.

2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.

3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.

4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.

5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 03/18/2024

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I.	Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
II.	Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
III.	Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
IV.	Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
V.	Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

1.	Submit examinations, themes, reports, drawings, laboratory notes and other work that represent the students' best efforts without cheating, plagiarizing, or misrepresenting.
2.	Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of falsification, forgery, or alteration.
3.	Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:
1.	The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
2.	The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
3.	The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
4.	A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
5.	If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.