1. I have gained a considerable amount of knowledge and interest from taking this course. Learning about the many factors of ethics involved research, how children are involved and their rights, the different types of data collection, how to better plan and strive for equity in research design.
2. My ideas are changed in that I have more respect for what it takes to design, plan and perform research. There are many considerations to make when a researcher plans to conduct a study.
3. I learned that planning research is a very well thought out process. A person can't just say they have a question and want to find out why something is. They have to plan the participants, what kind of research they want to perform, qualitative or quantitative, the methods used to collect data. When conducting research, the guidelines of the research and how the research is carried out need to be considered as well.
4.Some of the challenges encountered were fully understanding some of the issues in research and how they applied to the type of study that I wanted to perform. It helped having colleagues point of view and explanations of how things made sense to them. the articles also helped to make sense of how issues in research.
5. How I can use research to better service the children and families in my care and to help me really understand the issues they face.
