Saturday, June 29, 2013

Blog Assignment Week 8 Angie Woods: When I Think of Research

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Blog Assignment Week 8: When I Think of Research
Student: Ms. Angie Woods
EDUC-6163-3 Building Research Competency
Instructor: Jan Ferrari
Walden University












Blog 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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