The developmental review allows you to integrate knowledge obtained in your text and course material with real life situations. Once you have read through your text, the supplemental chapter power points and watched lecture videos, you will interview someone in your life within one of these three developmental stages: adolescence, young adulthood and middle adulthood. The interview is designed for you to gain a deeper understanding of that developmental stage. You will generate the interview questions based on: your own understanding of the course material, what you are curious to learn more about, what you were surprised to learn and want to discuss further, and perhaps given what you already know about the person- if you are interviewing someone well known to you. There are example questions included as a support, but you will need to generate a deeper and more thorough set of questions, while also being prepared to add questions during the actual interview.
Once you have completed your interview, answer the questions on the Developmental Review Worksheet. This form will be submitted to Blackboard. Each section does not include a strict minimum or maximum word requirement. However, it is unlikely you will be able to provide a thoughtful and thorough answer in fewer than 200 words. Additionally, it is important to be intentional with your reply and to strive to limit your answers to not more than 400 words.
Your answers should reflect your personal integration of knowledge from course material in connection to what you learned in the interview. Your answers should not consist only of direct quotes from the text or only relaying what was shared by the interviewee. The interview does not need to be recorded.
