I have learned different types of research designs. I have
also gained insight on ethics that revolve around research that involves
children. One must take into consideration the guardians as well as any other
people who might be relating to the child participant(s) during the study. The
insight on including qualified personal to carry out the research whom are
either trained in child development or even better, who work with the children already
to be able to collect real information from children when they are acting normal around people they are accustom
to.
From comments from the teacher I have learned that I must
choose a specific age and not a range. I started to do my simulation research
on children 0-5yrs then from 3 - 5yrs. I have narrowed my participants to 3 yr
olds. This gives a more precise outcome as I can relate it to just one age and
not have to account for extraneous variables like developmental milestones of
an older or younger population.
A challenge I came across
was finding a research topic that had not been already researched. I wanted to
be really creative and choose a new topic. I was able to overcome this by choosing
an always new topic (technology) and work off of current researchers
limitations. I used their extraneous variables as part of my independent
variable.
My perception of an early childhood has made me be more sure
that we should feel and be viewed as professionals in our field. The fact that
I have learned about research and that I have read many article an research
done by people from our field, well it raises the bar since we can have an open
dialog with scientists, doctors and neuroscientist. Being able to understand
their terminology makes use that more versatile and we are needed to in adding
our expertise on child development wear these professionals would lack experience.
