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Assignment Week 8: When I Think of Research
Student:
Ms. Angie Woods
EDUC-6163-3
Building Research Competency
Instructor:
Jan Ferrari
Walden
University
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Assignment Week 8: When I Think of Research
Student:
Ms. Angie Woods
What insights have I gained about research
from taking this course? The insights I have gained about research
were the different ways in designing a research. I have gained insights on
qualitative and quantitative designs by analysis research. There is a
difference in both of the designs learning that quantitative design in early
childhood education has a more usefulness in addresses a range of many questions
in the field. Also learning more with qualitative design has a process of
demands of researcher like more of access to the web. I learned that the qualitative
design when collecting data information by using this design helps me to get
the best information that is available to my knowledge in working a case. As
the author says, “Case study researchers therefore aim at low-intrusion data-
collection methods so they can do justice to the story the case is telling.” By
me gaining information from this type of research in my field of early childhood
using this design, I understand more in doing a research study.
In
what ways have my ideas about the nature of doing research changed? My ideas
about the nature of doing a research study have changed it completely. I only
thought that doing the research was looking for whatever the topic may be. But
coming to learn more about research it’s not all about finding whatever the
topic maybe. Doing research has changed my way of thinking how research is all
about. I have gained a better understanding in how to analysis a research by
asking the right questions to collect the data collecting information, by
having a successful research going by the right way in doing the correct steps
in designs.
What lessons about planning, designing,
and conducting research in early childhood did I learn? It’s
not as easy said and done when hearing the word research. I have learned by
planning finding the right design when conducting a research. By being in the
field of early childhood the lessons, I have gained in order to conduct a reach
in early childhood I have learned. Early childhood has a great aspect of
everything plus research comes with asking the right questions for clear understanding
in doing any type if research.
What were some of the challenges I encountered
and in what ways did I meet them? My great’s challenges were
doing the stimulation chart when gathering information on the chart. I think
that was my biggest encountered of data collecting information. The charts were
more of putting on information from learning from the different designs. In using
the research designs that I have learned how to analyze when doing a research
there is many steps. Not just focusing on the topic but understanding what I have
did the research on or about more to my own understanding.
What are some of the ways I perceptions of
an early childhood professional have been modified as a result of this course? My perception
as an early childhood professional the things I have modified in resulting in
this course. This course has made look at research in a more understanding way
on how to do a research. Learning to ask the right questions just as well as
analysis the information, plus finding the right designs before starting the
research in data collecting before I can analyses my information. This course
has improved my entire way as an upgrade in how to do my researches.
Reference List
1. Doing
Early Childhood Research /International Perspectives on Theory & Practice
by Glenda Mac Naughton Sharne A. Rolfe Iram Siraj- Blatchford 2nd
Edition
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