At the beginning of my "Building Research Competencies" course, my knowledge about research was very limited. But now at the end of the course, I consider it to be something feasible because I gained the knowledge that quality research requires skills and experience, with the ability to use it as a tool which can answer the questions one has set out to address (Mac
Naughton, Rolfe & Siraj-Blatchford pp. 108. 2010).
My ideas about the nature of doing research have changed because I learned about the steps to undertake in conducting a research, as of changing a research question into a hypothesis, designing the research which consists of making decisions about how the study will be executed, the sampling, deciding which method will be used as of quantitative or qualitative research. Quantitative research approach is interested in the understanding of non- numeric data rather than the logical side of it. Qualitative research approach, is done with numeric data step by step with the drive to control every detail (Mac Naughton, Rolfe & Siraj-Blatchford pp. 13. 2010).
Now I know that quantitative research will produce facts and figures, qualitative research will produce meanings and understandings and that it is possible to mix methods for a full outcome.
What I consider to be of a great value for me, is the ethical side of the research because it is based on the informed consent- after many cases of harm with children- which is the ethical view that all humans have the right to autonomy, the right to determine what is in their own interests, to monitor children during the study and most importantly, the right to withdraw when it is necessary (Mac Naughton, Rolfe & Siraj-Blatchford pp. 74-75. 2010).
Reference
Mac Naughton, G., Rolfe, S.A., & Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010). Doing early childhood research: International perspectives on theory and practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
My ideas about the nature of doing research have changed because I learned about the steps to undertake in conducting a research, as of changing a research question into a hypothesis, designing the research which consists of making decisions about how the study will be executed, the sampling, deciding which method will be used as of quantitative or qualitative research. Quantitative research approach is interested in the understanding of non- numeric data rather than the logical side of it. Qualitative research approach, is done with numeric data step by step with the drive to control every detail (Mac Naughton, Rolfe & Siraj-Blatchford pp. 13. 2010).
Now I know that quantitative research will produce facts and figures, qualitative research will produce meanings and understandings and that it is possible to mix methods for a full outcome.
What I consider to be of a great value for me, is the ethical side of the research because it is based on the informed consent- after many cases of harm with children- which is the ethical view that all humans have the right to autonomy, the right to determine what is in their own interests, to monitor children during the study and most importantly, the right to withdraw when it is necessary (Mac Naughton, Rolfe & Siraj-Blatchford pp. 74-75. 2010).
Reference
Mac Naughton, G., Rolfe, S.A., & Siraj-Blatchford, I. (2010). Doing early childhood research: International perspectives on theory and practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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