PM9108 Psychology and Early Childhood Education Assignment Brief 2026 | MIE

PM9108 Assignment Brief

Module Name: Psychology and Early Childhood Education
Module Code: PM9108
Assessment Type: Essay
Assignment Title and Brief: Drawing on relevant theory, research, and examples from practice, discuss constructivist ideas and what these might look like in practice, in an infant classroom.

Your essay should include (in roughly equal parts) material from both your Psychology and Early Childhood Education courses.

Word Count: 3000 

Submission Deadline: 1pm on Monday 24 August 2026.

Assessment Upload: Please upload the completed assessment using the Turn-It-In link on the

Re-assessment Assignment page on Moodle MIEOnline: All courses (learnonline.ie)

Please also email a soft copy of your assessment to exams@mie.ie

Additional Points:

• Please notify the module lecturer by email when you have uploaded your assignment.
• Please ensure assignment is saved and uploaded as a Word document only.

Queries: Email registrars@mie.ie

General Guidelines for Assignment

Use the following general guidelines when preparing your paper:

• Include a cover page
• Number all pages (top right-hand corner)
• Double space
• Follow APA formatting and referencing guidelines – See guidelines on Moodle and https://apastyle.apa.org/
• Include the list of informal supports used to the end of your essay.

Note: In order to ensure high standards for all degree awards at MIE and in line with the Institute’s guidelines on academic integrity, any student may be asked to attend a viva voce to discuss the content of their assignment before a final grade is assigned to their work.

Informal supports:

Please fill out this table of informal supports you used to complete this assignment. If you feel like the supports you used are not included, you can add them to the list.

This is about transparency and showing some of the tools you used to help you write your essay. For each informal support please indicate if you used it by putting Y or N into the box. Where applicable (e.g., if you used a software or webpage), name the support. In the second box, you should describe how you interacted with this support.

Before submitting your essay, be sure to familiarise yourself with MIE’s policy on plagiarism. (Here is the link: https://www.mie.ie/en/about_us/quality_assurance/policies_procedures/procedure_for_preventing_and_responding_to_cases_of_suspected_plagiarism.pdf).

There are different forms of plagiarism and to avoid them, it is important to understand what they are. The following are considered plagiarism:

• Copying the work of another student
• Quoting directly from another source without acknowledging it
• Paraphrasing work without acknowledging the source
• Submitting something that you yourself have already submitted somewhere else
• Enlisting another person or AI to complete your assignment or parts of it. You assignment needs to be your own work, which also means that you cannot use text generated by AI such as LLM (e.g., ChatGPT) or chunks of text that have been produced with the help of paraphrasing software (such as Quillbot or Wordtune).