PSY207 End-of-Course Assessment 2026

Learning Outcome

INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS

1. This End-of-Course Assessment paper contains TWO (2) questions and comprises SIX (6) pages (including the cover page).
2. You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the ECA, SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date.
3. Ensure that you submit your End-of-Course Assessment by the deadline. After the 12-hour grace period, 10% of the total End-of-Course Assessment mark will be deducted for each 24-hour block or part thereof by which your submission is late. Submissions with more than 50 marks deducted will be awarded 0 marks.
4. You are allowed multiple submissions to Turnitin before the deadline. After the deadline, only one submission is allowed, and only if you have not already made a prior submission.
5. If you fail to submit your End-of-Course Assessment, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course.

IMPORTANT NOTE

Please read this information before you start working on your ECA.

This ECA carries 60% of the course marks and is a compulsory component.  It is to be done individually and not collaboratively with other students.  You must submit it on time.

Submission

You are to submit the end-of-course assignment (ECA) in exactly the same manner as your tutor-marked assignments (TMA), i.e., using Canvas. Submission in any other manner such as hardcopy or any other means will not be accepted. Ensure that you submit your ECA by the deadline. After the 12-hour grace period, 10% of the total ECA mark will be deducted for every 24-hour block or part thereof by which your submission is late. Submissions with more than 50 marks deducted will be awarded 0 marks. You are allowed multiple submissions to Turnitin before the deadline, after which only one submission is allowed, and only if you have not already previously submitted. If you fail to submit your ECA, you will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course.

You are reminded that electronic transmission is not always immediate.  It is possible that network traffic may be particularly heavy on the cut-off date, and connections to the system cannot be guaranteed.  Hence, you are advised to submit your work no later than the day before the cut-off date in order to make sure that the submission is accepted and in good time.

Once you have submitted your ECA, the status is displayed on the computer screen.  You will receive a digital acknowledgement message.  Please note that it is the digital time-stamp—and not the acknowledgement message—that indicates that you have submitted your ECA.  To ensure a timely submission and to have your ECAs marked, you should therefore not jeopardise your course result by submitting your ECA at the last minute.

Do ensure that you have the correct files for submission. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have uploaded your file(s) completely and accurately to the correct submission link. All inaccurate submissions will be treated as a null submission. Any submission, extra files, missing appendices or corrections received separately after the submission of the ECA will not be considered in the grading of your ECA assignment.

Plagiarism and Collusion

The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism (passing off someone else’s ideas as your own; recycling of contents from your own earlier marked TMA from the same course or another course; or passing off AI-generated content as your own) and collusion (submitting an assignment which is the same or very similar to another student’s). Both are forms of cheating, and neither is acceptable in any form in a student’s work, including this ECA assignment.

Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words and ensure that you provide appropriate references when necessary. If AI is used, ensure that the AI tool is properly cited, and ensure that you write your response entirely using your own words. Even when paraphrased slightly, AI-generated text can still be flagged as plagiarism. You can avoid collusion by ensuring that your submission is based on your own individual effort.

Penalties for plagiarism and collusion are severe. Serious cases will normally result in the student being referred to SUSS’s Student Disciplinary Group. For other cases, significant marking penalties or expulsion from the course may be imposed. For more information about the University’s policies on plagiarism and collusion, refer to the Student Handbook (Section 5.2, paragraph 1.3).

ECA Submission Guidelines

There are two parts to this ECA:

• Part 1: Infographic
• Part 2: Essay

If you have references for both the infographic and essay, please keep the References list separate. Please also start References pages on a fresh page. So the final layout of your final submission can be:

1. Infographic
2. Reference list for infographic
3. Essay
4. Reference list for Essay

Submit your ECA with your cover page, in a single file (saved as MS word file), to the submission link titled ECA.     

Part 1: Infographic

For this part of the ECA, you will curate a resource centre in the form of a one-page infographic. You have been invited by your secondary school principal to give a taster workshop on what they can expect in a Psychology course in tertiary education. In the infographic, you need to explain to secondary school students (aged 13 to 17 years old) how they can apply Baltes’ modern lifespan perspective to their everyday lives. Select any FIVE of the assumptions and explain them with real-life examples that secondary school students can relate to so that they can better understand the concepts.

Your content should be pitched at an appropriate level for your target audience (you have to include the technical jargon but also explain the technical jargon in layperson terms), and should be easy for them to understand. Your infographic should also be aesthetically pleasing. An example has been uploaded onto Canvas. For the infographic, you may use your preferred tool, e.g., PowerPoint, Paint, Illustrator, Photoshop, Canva, etc.

If you use images in your infographic, please provide links to the images and make sure that they have a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/) that allows reuse by others for non-commercial purposes as long as there is proper credit given. Refer to https://apastyle.apa.org/style–grammar-guidelines/references/examples/clip-artreferences on how to cite images. A discretionary 5-mark penalty will be imposed for use of images that are not cited or that do not have a license that allows reuse.  

If you have references in your infographic, the references should be on a separate page on the Word document itself so you do not clutter up the infographic. Keep the infographic references separate from the essay references. See ‘Submission Guidelines’ section above.

Your infographic must fit into a single A4 page, saved as a JPEG/PNG image file with at least 300 dpi resolution. The key here is to convey necessary information in an appealing, concise, and fun way. Important: Insert the infographic as an image (not as an external file attachment) into the Word document in the same document as the essay in Part 2 below.

Your work will be assessed based on the following components:

• Content (reliable sources, relevant, comprehensive)
• Cohesiveness (logical, well-organised)
• Creativity (aesthetically pleasing design and layout)

(30 marks)           

Part 2: Essay

[Word limit = 1000]

Please answer both questions.

1. Language attrition refers to the process of losing a language or declining in proficiency of a language. Discuss and examine the literature on first language attrition in bilinguals with reference to two areas of study* in diverse groups of bilinguals^. Support your answer using empirical findings from a minimum of five academic sources (from the last 20 years). From your article selection, evaluate which one of the two areas of study you chose seems to show worse language attrition than the other and explain your reasoning.

^*Two areas of study can include but are not limited to: vocabulary development, picture naming, speech perception, reading comprehension, speech production, idiom recall, accent, tone production etc. Hint: try to find areas of study that you can understand, so if you come across ‘nominative case marking’ and you do not understand any of it, do not use the article.

^{^}Diverse groups of bilinguals means that your articles should not all be about EnglishGerman, English-French and English-Turkish bilinguals etc.; instead, there should be at least three groups of non-overlapping bilingual pairs, e.g., English-French, Portuguese-Spanish, Mandarin-Korean etc.

2. Reflect on the insights you have gained in the course with reference to the theme of continuity/discontinuity. Illustrate this using two concepts (excluding language) covered in the course (i.e., during the seminars) and apply it to instances in your everyday life. You should first define the theme of continuity/discontinuity. Your reflection must be original and illustrated with specific examples. It is not necessary to define the individual concepts, but it should be clear in your response what the relevant concepts are.

(65 marks)

Per the university’s policy, you are allowed to make use of AI tools but you must include an acknowledgement of the use, insert the name of the tool used and what it was used for. Furthermore, you must also describe how the information was generated by you (include the prompts you used), the output obtained and how you changed the output to suit your purposes. For example:

• I acknowledge the use of [name of AI tool, provide a link] to generate materials for background research in the writing of this assignment.
• The following prompts were submitted into [name of AI tool] with the following prompts: [insert prompts]
• The output obtained was: [paste the output generated by the AI tool]
• The output was changed by me in the following ways: [explain what you did]       

References (5 marks)

The References lists the full reference of all sources cited or referred to in your assignment. Intext citations also need to be presented accurately in APA format.

Note: Valid academic sources include peer-reviewed academic journal articles, academic books and book chapters. The iStudyGuide, student theses, and online websites, blog posts, or videos are NOT considered valid academic sources.

5 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format with no errors.

None of the sources cited in-text are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 valid academic sources are cited.

4 marks:  In-text citations and the reference list are presented in APA format but there may be one or two minor stylistic errors. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 valid academic sources are cited.

3 marks: Formatting errors are evident in the in-text citations and/or the reference list. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and vice-versa. A minimum of 5 valid academic sources are cited.

2 marks: Major formatting errors are evident in the in-text citations and/or the reference list. There may be sources cited in-text that are missing from the reference list and viceversa.

1 mark:  Effort was made to present a reference list even though there may only be one item listed and it contains formatting errors; in-text citations may be missing.

0 marks: In-text citations and the reference list are missing.

English competency (Deduct up to 5 marks)

No marks are allocated to English competency, but a penalty of up to 5 marks will apply for errors.

1–2 mark penalty: Minor errors present, such as typos and spelling or punctuation mistakes.

3–5 mark penalty: Major errors or a fair number of minor errors present, such as spelling or punctuation mistakes, or use of colloquial and/or non-academic writing style.

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