Group Profile and Initial Assessment Ideas

Section 2: Initial Assessment

1.1 Group Profile/Profile of individual learners

This is a Manicure and pedicure Course, which runs from September 2010 – January 2011. The course is runs for about 3 months. It has 18 students from different ethnic backgrounds all are female students and are taught using a variety of theory and practical assignments.

The student group consists of:

|Category                                 |Profile                                   |Possible issues / Impact on learning     |
|Class Size                               |18 Adults.                               |Students need to allocate about 2 hours   |
|                                         |                                         |per week in order to meet the study       |
|                                         |                                         |requirements.                             |
|Age Group                                 |Clients ages ranging from 18 to 50 years |The learning styles between younger       |
|                                         |of age.                                   |students and older differ quite a bit.   |
|                                         |                                         |The younger students seem more confident.|
|Sex                                       |18 Females                               |Equal opportunities information and       |
|                                         |                                         |guidelines are distributed to all new     |
|                                         |                                         |students.                                 |
|Employment Status                         |Employed –14                             |The employed students wont have as much   |
|                                         |Self-Employed – 2                         |time available to study as the unemployed|
|                                         |Student – 1...