Assessment should include

• analyzing short-term and long-term outcomes of guidance, discipline, and/or punishment for children, families, and society
• examining, using case studies, how a child’s misbehavior can be corrected through guidance, discipline, and/or punishment
• evaluating each method as to whether it encourages appropriate behavior and positive long-term characteristics in children. 

Process/Skill Questions

Thinking

• What characteristics would you want your children to develop? How do you think you could control this?
• Which do you think is a greater influence: a child’s inherent personality or the child's environment, including methods of parental guidance? Why?
• What factors influence guidance methods used by parents?

Communication

• Where do individuals acquire beliefs and attitudes about guidance, discipline, and punishment?
• What messages do parents send to children when they punish them for misbehavior? What are the short-term effects of punishment on a child? On parents? On society? What are the long-term effects on each?
• What communication skills do parents and children need for guidance and discipline to be effective?

Leadership

• What leadership skills do parents need to provide guidance and discipline to children?
• What parental actions reflect leadership skills?
• What resources are available for parents to learn about parenting styles?

Management

• What factors might influence parents to change their methods of child guidance?
• What resources might parents use to change their methods of child guidance? What factors might prevent parents from changing?