When I started this course I was terrified. Just the word “research” scared me. I took my fear and opened my mind to all the new information I was going to learn. The one insight that I have gained from taking this course was learning new information. Qualitative design and quantitative design are concepts that I was unfamiliar with and now I have a better understanding.
The nature of doing research has changed dramatically. Doing the outline has opened my eyes to how research should actually take place and how it should be presented to the reader.
The lessons that I learned about planning was that it is important that you have consent before conducting the research. I learned with designing that it is important to have a well-planned research so that designing the research will be easier. I learned that if the plan and the design are executed well that conducting the research will fall into place.
The challenges that I encountered, were the extraneous variables that are involved in a research study.
I believe that early childhood professionals need to be taken more seriously. Our profession is a challenging profession that politicians, parents take for granted
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