When I Think of Research...

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.