Research and Observation in the Associated Students Child Development Lab

Community Participation

The ASCDL welcomes community participation in their lab school. Click here for an application to become involved.

Thank you for your interest in the Associated Students Child Development Laboratory (ASCDL). We welcome your participation in this nationally accredited and state licensed laboratory school. This program consists of administration facilities and four classrooms: one each for infants, toddlers, three year olds, and four year olds, as well as an observation room attached to the four year old classroom. Please visit the introduction page on our main page for a complete description of the ASCDL.

If you would like to make arrangements for yourself or your staff to observe children or participate with children and/or adults in this program, please

• download the attached application
• complete the attached application as a Word document, and
• send the completed application attachment to Cindy Ratekin
  
  
  Along with the completed application, please also attach
• An agency description
• A description of the objective to be completed in the ASCDL

When your completed application is received, Cindy Ratekin will be in contact with you. If your course receives approval to participate, the syllabus and assignment for your course will be posted on the ASCDL Web site.

Before participation can begin for a specific agency, the person requesting participation is responsible for covering information with staff participants in two areas

• Professional, confidential, and ethical behavior within a community setting
  To assist faculty with specific expectations in this area, please refer to the NAEYC code of ethical behavior.
• Expectations regarding behavior in the ASCDL facilities. Available to faculty as a resource for this area on the ASCDL Web site are the
  • ASCDL observation guidelines
  • ASCDL orientation quiz (faculty will be sent the correct quiz responses)

The content contained in the orientation handout can be transferred to staff in multiple ways. You may chose to have staff review the information on their own at the ASCDL Web page, download and take the quiz, and turn it in to be reviewed. The content can also be the focus of a staff meeting or staff presentation. The person requesting participation is responsible to ensure that all staff from their agency who will be accessing the ASCDL facility have been oriented in the two areas above.

If you have any questions or would like to make arrangements for ASCDL faculty to orient your staff during scheduled course time, please contact Cindy Ratekin, 898-4934, Zip 220.

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