Wednesday, April 18, 2012

When I Think of Research...

Since taking this course, I have gained and immense amount of knowledge regarding research. While I was extremely overwhelmed when learning of the content in this course, I am extremely pleased with the outcome and with all I have learned and am still learning.

I have a completely changed idea regarding the nature of research. While the term research seems tedious and exhausting, I have learned that it is indeed complex however, worth putting in the work and the effort.

I have learned detailed descriptions of research designs and planning and implementation. I have learned to always keep ethical issues as a priority of what to avoid.  

Throughout the duration of this course, I struggled with my applications and getting my content to meet the criteria of our professor.

As a result of this course, I have a lot more respect for research in the early childhood field. It was not until this course that I realized the amount of work and effort that goes into research studies.

I want to take the time to thank all of my peers for supporting me throughout this course. I was very overwhelming for me and the support, comments and feedback has been a great help! I look forward to working with you all again.

3 comments:

  1. Thank you for describing the difficulties, it was a difficult course for me. I also learned much about research and appreciate what has to go into the process before starting to gather the data.
    Thank you for your post.
    Barbara

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  2. I agree with you is tedious and exhausting but at the same time interesting. One of my favorite topics and I will say the most important that I learned was ethical issues since I didn't have the change to discuss in detail in any other class before. Good luck !!!

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  3. Amanda,
    I am so happy we were in same group again during this class. You have been so supportive, and I appreciate all your positive encouragement. I hope we will be in the same group again during our next class!

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