Discussion Assignment Week 4 Angie Woods: Research Question to Research Hypothesis

Discussion Assignment Week 4:  Research Question to Research Hypothesis                          1     

Discussion Assignment Week 4:  Research Question to Research Hypothesis

Student Name: Angie Woods

Dr. Jan Ricketts Ferrari

Building Research Competencies EDUC 6163-3

Walden University

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Discussion Assignment Week 4:  Research Question to Research Hypothesis         

Student Name: Angie Woods

One research question from the list above that in my opinion lends itself to being stated as a hypothesis. Research Question 6: Do mothers and fathers interact with infants in the same way? I just believe to me that mother and fathers does not interact with infants the same. A mother is more caring plus more protective of any danger of an infant and also tends more to the infant. When to me fathers are more laid back in tending to the infants they protect the infants but it’s not like how a mother would. If you are mother to an infant if seeing another baby in need a natural reaction will the mother have for caring for an infant? Which the father can have an infant but see another infant will not react toward any other infant as fast as a mother would do or show. So my answer would be no fathers and mothers have different ways interacting with an infant.

A hypothesis developed from the research question I identified? A father does not change or clean the infant and change the infant pamper easily as how the mother changes or clean the infant better. As the author say in the research article Mothers and Infants around the World: A Report of the Cross-Cultural Data Collection at Five Months, Early maternal care is more common than paternal care, and mothers and fathers do not share the same parenting investment strategies. Cross-cultural surveys also attest to the central role that mothers play in human infant development. For these reasons, theorists, researchers, and clinicians of childrearing and child development have historically concerned themselves primarily with mothering. Mothers participate in childrearing activities at significantly higher rates than do fathers (or other infant caregivers), and mothers generally have more opportunities to acquire and practice skills that are central to infant caregiving than do fathers. On average, mothers spend between 65 and 80 percent more time than fathers do in direct one-to-one interaction with their babies. This is not to deny or minimize the considerable contributions to infant care made by fathers and other caregivers in and outside of the family.

One research question from the list above that in my opinion does not lend itself to being stated in the form of a hypothesis? Research Question 5: When a young child learns two languages at the same time, does that create problems for learning any of the two languages well?

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A brief explanation why this research question does not lend itself clearly to being stated in the form of a hypothesis? Because its many Mexican mothers I have seen they don’t speak English well at all. But their children can speak both Spanish and English language I don’t see any problems for learning any two languages well. If I am going to live somewhere at least I would need to understand what someone is trying to say to me or do. I would want to know the meaning of what’s going on around me how plus what’s good or not with any language I may be living around.

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                                                 Reference Lists 

1.      http://cfr.nichd.nih.gov/report1.html

2.      Bornstein, M. (2004a). Child and Family Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective.

3.      Bornstein, M. Hahn, C. Suwalsky, J. and Haynes, O. (2004b). The Nature and Structure of Human Parenting.

Blog Assignment: Research that Benefits Children and Families Uplifting Stories             1                                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                            

                                              

Blog Assignment Week 3: Research that Benefits Children and Families Uplifting Stories

Student: Ms. Angie Woods

EDUC- 6163 - 3 Building Research Competencies

Instructor: Jan Ferrari

Walden University

Blog Assignment Week 3: Research that Benefits Children and Families Uplifting Stories

Student: Ms. Angie Woods

Option 1: Share a positive example of the effects of research on children and/or families: Perhaps you can provide real-life examples of research benefits to children and/or families; maybe you are familiar with stories of people who have been positively affected by research; or you came across a published research article concerning children or families which you find exciting and would like to share with your colleagues.

If by all means I would do a research that benefits children and families, I would choose Parenting. I can say this in the area where I live at majority of the parents just don’t know how to be a good parent. I remember as when I was growing up as a child young or older children had to be in house when the street light came on. Not outside but inside the house I look at how time has changed so much. I just don’t understand why children can do more of what they want to do at a young age. It’s not all on the children because they only do what their parents allow them to do which most children think it’s great. But how I see how most parents are laughing at their children when they use profanity words at the age 5 and 6yr old. Never correct what the child is doing is wrong and that it’s not nice to talk like that using profanity words. There are so many parents’ that are too relax and with the lack of being a parent. Most parents are not teaching their children structure, respect others and yourself, plus values of an education.  When I was a reading tutor at a school here in Cleveland MS it was a 5^th grade boy who I was trying to encourage him to do his work so that he can pass out of 5^th grade. The little boy looked up at me and then said if he don’t care about his grades or promote to the 6^th grade. Why should I care it’s not like the school is paying me any money. I was amazed from hearing what that little boy had told me but it all come from good parenting he had let me known so much in saying that. Most parents mix the relationship up of being a parent and more of being a child friend to be cool with the children or child. But I am happy I came up the old way I value everything in how I was raised from a child into an adult. I would love to do the research in parenting to give many parents who don’t know how to be a parents also for the parents who lax in the area. By me doing this research I hope to gain skill on trying to give those parents who lax in parent resources to improve in parenting skills.

Application Assignment Part 2: Ethical Considerations for Your Selected Subtopic Week 3:       1 Research Simulation                                                                                                                       

                                   

Application Assignment Part 2: Ethical Considerations for Your Selected Subtopic Week 3:

                                                              Research Simulation       

Student: Ms. Angie Woods

EDUC- 6163 - 3 Building Research Competencies Instructions and Sample Entries for Your “Understanding Research Chart”

Instructor: Jan Ferrari

Walden University

Application Assignment Week 3: Research Simulation Part 2: Ethical Considerations for Your Selected Subtopic: Risk/benefit considerations

Student Name: Angie Woods

My subtopic I selected was risk/benefit considerations I look at how the way things are so good for to have with the help of me having baby shots. An advantage in benefit from things and also a risk consideration from what may I have benefit from getting my vaccinations shots. There are so many benefits that the United States has to offer to help people benefit from, just as well as many programs out here to help low income people or people who need health care. I have known programs like Head Start has help many people and families. In the local area where I live at here in Cleveland Mississippi the help in making sure children receive all vaccination shots. The health benefit the United States has proved a vaccination for childhood immunization since I have been a child and before I was born into the world for amount of time. Which the vaccination help to cut out more of the sickness of children from small poxes, yellow fever, measles, diphtheria, tetanus and chicken pox’s, Vaccine that’s offer for our children here in the United States are free through at least Medicaid for low income, So even people who have a very low income can receive some vaccination so that the body can fight off different infectious diseases.

Which many programs the United States  have for people health benefits to have a less risk of consideration of any infectious disease want have the country infected. With as many of vaccine recommended for people health, I think the risks would be in consideration of people health infectious disease not so good without having the vaccinations offer to people. As I look at some other countries the risk for children being healthy is limited due to the lack of benefits to prove more help in need of having vaccines, food, shelter and programs for families.

In part of my research simulation  from my subtopic an article “Statement on Risk vs. Benefit of Vaccinations” by David Satcher, M.D., PH.D.As the  author says for benefits of vaccines they prevent a vaccinated individual from developing a potentially serious disease, vaccines routinely recommended for children also help protect the entire community by reducing the spread of infectious agents. Under childhood immunization initiative, a wide range of efforts, such as outreach campaigns, disease monitoring and vaccine research, have been enhanced. Overall, immunization coverage among children in the United States is higher today than ever before. These high immunization coverage levels translate into record, or near record, low levels of vaccine-preventable diseases. I just think if we didn’t have the vaccination to help reduce the infectious diseases it would be a big risk for many United States people. So there is a risk/benefit consideration for vaccination is great for the people health in the United States.

                                                                                                                              

Reference Lists

1.     http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t990803a.html

2.      Risk vs Benefit of Vaccinations... necessary to make a risk/benefit assessment and ... date from the early 1800s, when ... will hopefully receive expeditious and favorable consideration.

                                                                                                     

APPLICATION PART 1 WEEK 3 / “UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH CHART

Application Part 1 Week 3 / “Understanding Research Chart”                                  1

Application Part 1 Week 3 / “Understanding Research Chart” Student: Ms. Angie Woods EDUC- 6163 - 3 Building Research Competencies Instructions and Sample Entries for Your “Understanding Research Chart”

Instructor: Jan Ferrari Walden University

“Understanding Research Chart” is divided into the following sections:

                                                                                                                                                  

SECTION 1: KEY TERMS

WEEK 3 (Chapter 5: Ethics in EC Research)	TERMS USED	DEFINITION OF TERMS
	Aboriginal sovereignty	Is the power inherent in the rights of Aboriginal people as the First people of a particular country and inherent in the relatedness of Aboriginal people to all things in this country of past, present and future.
	Ethics	Refers to a consideration of the effects of the research on the rights and well-being of all those who may be affected by the research by the research.
	Feminism(s)	Is a range of theories critiquing patriarchal structures and highlighting the inability of existing social texts to represent lived experience.

SECTION 2: LEARNING RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTS

TOPIC - WEEK 3	TOPIC SUMMARY	PERSONAL COMMENT
Ethics in early childhood research	In chapter 5 on page 74 the nature of research the learning resource highlights. As the author say, the researcher may well be interested in benefiting the participants and finding important data for social good, but inevitably part of the motivation of the researcher is in furthering career and status. The nature of research which informed consent is the key to ethical research. As the author would say, the idea of informed consent is based on the ethical view that humans have the right to autonomy that is the right to determine what is in best interests. The ethics in early childhood research in chapter 5 on page 75 as the author say under children and consent. Not all early all early childhood research involves using as participants, as the various. Early childhood research focuses on the early childhood staff, or parents, or some other adults. But much important research does involve children as participants. As the author say on page77confidentiality and privacy, professionals working in the early childhood area are well aware of the need for maintaining confidentiality about children and families. Also out of respect for the privacy of the participants, confidentiality is also promised in most consent forms for research.	My personal comment about the topic ethics in early childhood research of week three. Is that in chapter 5 it examined how different research is not neutral, When all research in useful in various point and particular assumptions in a way viewing by the world. Everyone doesn’t look at research the same way in chapter 5 it involves Aboriginal people as the author say is complex because it requires working within multiple contexts where the power differentials are not just doubled, they are multiplied. Any research that involves Aboriginal people as the author say must make conscious and purposefully act on changing the power dynamics to deliver equity and achieve equality. Which there is a very powerful inherently remains in the ethics in early childhood research there is an aspect of many research in early childhood. Because no matter what everyone in untitled to their own way of being guided their source of research. Still it’s good to know the correct early childhood research ethics. In order to help children and families with knowing the guidelines that covers a range ethics in early childhood research.

SECTION 3: REFLECTION

Week 3, Chapter 5: What kind of benefits could ethically justify subjecting a child to some risk in research.

The ethically justify subjecting a child to some risk in research is child abuse. Researcher might come across evidence of a child that may is being abused. Researcher may continue to research and justify the subjecting. I just think the more research the researcher try to prove the help for the child. If that child is still in the abuse area while the researcher is researching more evidence. To try to remove the child I just think that the researcher is putting the child in a greater risk. Cause by the abuse is more aware of the researcher the child is in a high risk of being more harm and more afraid to tell what the abuser is doing to the child.

Discussion Assignment Week 3: The Question of Justifiable Risk Angie Woods

Discussion Assignment Week 3: The Question of Justifiable Risk

Student Name: Angie Woods

Are there ever any societal benefits from subjecting children to greater than minimal risk(s) (as defined by the OHRP) in research? Explain my reasoning by identifying the benefits and the risks that form the basis of my response and citing the appropriate resources to validate your thinking. I would say, Yes because in everything thing that people may do or may want to know about it all comes from some type of way in reaching to find out the reason to something to benefit  from gaining a better guide decision making. As the author states in the book on page 78 in our text book “Doing Early Childhood Research,” In approving a research project, an important factor to guide decision- making about its ethics is the risk/benefit equation. The idea that’s the greater benefit to be gained from a piece of research, the risks are acceptable. So actually all researches are a risk but which anyone that I may gain from can may be benefiting to me.

That’s just like if I may have a bad cold but there is so many cold medications out there so I go and try one. The first three may not have help me so I go and try another type of medication but that one helped me out the most. Also made me feel a whole lot better than what I started out with trying.  Once again the author stated in the text book “Doing Early Childhood Research,” on page 78, Risk of research on children. Can include psychological risk, ranging from a feeling of temporary worry to longer lasting emotional disturbance, and include upsetting relationships within a family. I just feel when working with children, it is best to establish a good relationship with families to have a better benefit. So that their want be too many risk. As I try to have the important factors to gain in decision making about any ethics in the risk/benefit equation.

                                                           

References List

1.      Doing Early Childhood Research International Perspective on Theory & Practice author: Glenda Mac Naughton Sharne A. Rolfe Iram Siraj-Blatchford..

Blog Assignment Week 2: Your Personal Research Journey

Student Name: Angie Woods

The topic I chose to research is social cognition because I see children so much at work with less social cognition skills among their peers and other people. Children with less social cognition act out in the classroom just as well as on the playground outside. I feel that teachers have the lack of the helping the children build up social cognition. Because in most homes some parents does teach their children good social cognition.

Children’s social cognitions about their peers also become increasingly important understanding peer relationships in early, middle and late childhood. I was at work a boy accidentally trips and knock another child’s soft drink out of his hand. The child misinterprets the encounter as hostile, which leads him to retaliate aggressively against the boy. Through repeated encounters this kind, other children came to perceive the aggressive boy as habitually acting in inappropriate way.

Then my last current situation in the classroom was when my class came back from specials it was two little girls both girls do good in coloring but one little girl always color neat all the times. So the other little girl was already mad at the other little girl because she was doing her paper neat. So the other little girl came in the classroom before she made it back in then and got a dark color and scribble all over her neat work. Then when the other little girl mad it back to her paper she came to me and was in tears but other little girl did it because she got jealous of the other little girl because everything be neat all the time from her. Plus she didn’t want her paper neater then her paper. I would like to go feather in knowing more about social cognition. How as a teacher I can address social cognition in my classroom or a part of my daily teaching. Even though children play with other children but how today generation is with so many young mothers with children. I would love to have research on social cognition.

Application Assignment Week 2 part 2: Research Simulation

Application Assignment Week 2 part 2: Research Simulation

Student Name: Angie Woods

The chosen topic for my  research simulation from  last week  was  a debt of a more understanding of the  two fields of  early childhood education and elementary as I discovered that both fields are benefited to  children in aspect of developing learning skills . The subtopic I chose this week is Effective Facets of a Field Experience That Contributed to Eight Preservice Teachers’ Developing Understandings about Culturally Responsive Teaching is related to my research simulation in effective aspects of the field experience, which facilitated preserve teacher’s development of a deeper understanding about culturally responsive.

In the research simulation assignment, the first step in narrowing down to the three sub-topics to give me an interesting thought.  I feel that culturally responsive teaching with teacher’s ability can connect on deeper levels with each students and the aspect of a more understanding of individual of every student as a person. Such an important point of information from the article was about culturally responsive teachers embrace an attitude to support diversity, knowledge and skills to incorporate content with culture relevant to individual students to facilitate learning teachers is that they recognize conceptions of self and others understand the significance of social interaction and promote social engagement in the classroom. Teachers consider the conception of knowledge. Which I also think that teachers hold a value important part involvement in supporting diversity , knowledge with the skills of social interaction and promoting social engagement in  the classroom.

As I still gain more understanding with and about this course working forward to build up my research skills some things I has been beneficial to me.  The research has always been like working a jigsaw puzzle to me, as I continue to go forth in this course I do want to at least reach to a great exception from starting all the way to the end.  I think the middle is more crucial to read and follow along on the right way. As I was gathering the information into the chart it was able to help me gain a little understanding, in how to look at the article and get the most important information from it to my understanding in how the research skills can benefit my knowledge of understanding the concept.

In this course I hope and pray that my progresses will improve with the knowledge and understanding of my research skills gain, I it may seem easy because it’s reading and understanding the articles of research but the concept of doing it right when some information I know little of or about so I know this course will bring all the weak points. Out of me that I never knew the lack that I knew about research skills. Like the old saying everything that looks easy is not and I sure do see that now, In order for me to become a better educator.  I have to find the interest in to know what processes I need to learn. In my subtopic I chose was the effective facets of a field experience that contributed to eight preservice teachers’ developing understandings about culturally. I can understand the effective facets of my field experience. Field experiences benefit preservice teachers’ professional growth and enhance my learning skills and abilities in the field of early childhood education.

References Lists

1.     http://uex.sagepub.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org

2.     http://uex.sagepub.com/content/48/3/380

3.     http://uex.sagepub.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/content/48/3/380.full.pdf+html

EDUC 6163: Building Research Competencies “Understanding Research” Chart—Week 2

Your “Understanding Research” Chart is divided into the following sections:

·         Section 1: Key Terms

·         Section 2: Learning Resource Highlights

·         Section 3: Reflection

Use the instructions document to help you complete this chart.

SECTION 1: KEY TERMS

WEEK 2 (Chapter 2: The Research Process)	TERMS USED	DEFINITION OF TERMS
	1.     Deductive Research Methodology	Like detectives, researchers have different ideas about the best way to do their work. Researchers pursue their research in a linear, logical and step- by-step way. In more technical terms, this is referred to as a deductive research methodology. It is associated with positivist paradigms and often uses quantitative approaches to data. Researchers who approach their work in this way generally wait until all their data are in before beginning to analyses and draw conclusions. They usually set out to test hypotheses based on theory and research already completed and carefully design their studies with this intention.
	2.Inductive research methodology	Other researchers have a more fluid and intuitive approach to their research. The technical terms, they engage in what is referred to as inductive research methodology, often associated with interpretivist and postmodern paradigms, and frequently using qualitative approaches to data. The researcher generally tries to avoid too many preconceptions about what will be discovered, and is keen to stay close to and analyse the data, looking at the theory emerging from it and perhaps even modifying the line of inquiry in response to developing understanding.
	3.Triagulation	The approaches are not mutually exclusive and many researchers use a combination to gain a more complete picture of what they are interested in. The use of different methods within the same study triangulation. Regardless of the approach taken, at some point in the research process most researchers find that they need to complete the following steps if they need to complete the following steps if they want to generate research that is informative, ethical, meaningful, persuasive and significant.

SECTION 2: LEARNING RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTS

TOPIC - WEEK 2	TOPIC SUMMARY	PERSONAL COMMENT
(name the topic here)	I have learned more on design research, by careful design of research takes time, and am again time well spent. How good design will ensure that research provides me with data that enable me to achieve what I am set out to achieve whether it is to describe, understand or explain what interests me the most. To change the plan halfway would risk serious breaches of the control needed in the sort of research. Researchers may use deductive or inductive research methodologies, positivist, interpretivist or postmodern paradigms, and quantitative or qualitative data approaches depending on the questions they are interested in.	The importance of carefully refining a research topic along with the practicalities of deciding what is a workable research question. Then it all depends on the kind of research you doing to see which is best because to me all research data is helpful and useful in many ways. But it’s good that I learned more about the design research in how good it ensure research in a risk serious breaches. In the control needed in the sort of research use to deductive or inductive.

Chapter 2: (state the chosen reflection question here)

My reflection question I chose Which step(s) would I enjoy the most? It will be the process/analyses data once the data collection is finished, the phase of data processing and analysis can begin. It is important to draw on literature review to develop a conceptual/ theoretical framework for analyzing the data. The framework is made up of concepts, built from the literature that will apply to organization and selection of data as well the analysis.

 SECTION 3: REFLECTION

Discussion Assignment Week 2: Checking Quality Criteria

Student Name: Angie Woods

There is a great aspect of many different varieties of resources of information about early childhood field with many standards/ guidelines of having the quality of many researches information. The source I chose was High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison Study the in a nursery program. The resources quality criteria clearly states about the compares in High Scope active learning preschool model with two other preschool models. The children were in three groups and were all living in poverty at high risk of school failure. Now the three models was direct instruction model, a traditional nursery school model with the High Scope model. All three model groups have had significantly fewer felony arrests of various kinds and just about fewer years of special education for emotional impairment. Mainly just a different effect from different preschools but the best model was the direct instruction approach. It focuses on academics and requires young children to respond to rapid harder questions pose by teachers.  In the High Scope group aspires to complete a higher level of school in the direct instruction. The preschool programs it promotes children initiated activities.

I had gain out of this information was that some preschools are not on the same curriculum that High Scope is more like a Nursery School programs. Plus the curriculum that I am more firmly with is the NAEYC Accreditation Standards and Criteria. I feel that the quality of children’s is more on a daily experience in early childhood programs. That promotes positive child out comes goals in the ten NAEYC early childhood program standards and accreditation criteria. In the resource that I discover about High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison it compares active learning preschool model. I really don’t see that much guidelines in academics standards skill in High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison. So what I did learn from the article was out of the three models the Direct Instruction. Is the high level in the High Scope Preschool Curriculum and that it is also part of the preschool programs that promote child- initiated activities the High Scope Nursery school programs. So that was something new to me because I didn’t know that nursery have or go by a curriculum of a different program from NAEYC.

                                                                                               

References List

1.      High Scope Curriculum - Plan 4 Preschool High Scope Curriculum. The High Scope model has undergone extensive research validation. This model is based on the principle that children learn best through hand plan 4preschool. org/curriculum /high_scope_curriculum– Cached

2.      Schweinhart, L. J., & Weikart, D. P. (1997). Lasting differences: The High Scope Preschool Curriculum Comparison study through age 23 (Monographs of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation, 12). Ypsilanti, MI: High Scope Press.

3.      Schweinhart, L. J., Weikart, D. P., & Larner, M. B. (1986). Consequences of the three preschool curriculum models through age 15. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1: 15–45.

4.      Weikart, D. P., Epstein, A. S., Schweinhart, L. J., & Bond, J. T. (1978). The Ypsilanti Preschool Curriculum Demonstration Project: Preschool years and longitudinal results (Monographs of the High Scope Educational Research Foundation, 4). Ypsilanti: High Scope Press.

5.      http://www.naeyc.org/