DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

PS2803 - Developmental Psychology

FORMATIVE ASSESSENT CODING SCHEME

Name of students: Reety Pun, Aleksa Nikolova, Joseph Simmons, Anastasiia Startseva, Sofiia Sharapa.

Research question: Exploring sex differences in playing behaviour during block play.

Table of coding scheme:

Code/Category Definition Example

Code 1 Parallel Play
Code 2 Cooperative Play
Code 3 Associative Play
Code 4 Disruptive Play
Code 5 Other
The child is playing
independently, sitting next to
another child during the same
game.
The child is playing with
another child towards a shared
goal.
The child is involved in block
play like another child with
some interaction between
each other, but they are
playing towards their unique
goals.
The child is intentionally
disrupting another child’s play.
The child is not engaged in a
process of playing with blocks.
The child is building a block
tower by themselves.
The child is building the tower
with another child.
The child is swapping
materials, communicating, and
observing each other’s play.
The child is destroying another
child’s tower.
The child is distracted with the
camera.