Final blog assignment

First I want to thank you for being my classmate this semester and commenting on both my blog and discussion post. Each comment has given me more to think about each week. 

Now to the question.

The insights I have gained in this course is that researcher spend more time designing most of their project than doing them, unless it is a longitudinal study. 
The nature of research project has not change for me. I do not have the patients for a long term project mine are the quick in the classroom situations. Like if this happens then what are the results.
The lessons I learn about each step in research is to be clear about what is to happen and to be able to write everything out so it can be reproduced by other students or researchers.
The challenge I faces was too many variables.  I narrowed it downed to one and made sure that each child had a secure attachment as part of their condition of being in the research project.
My perception has not change we still need good research but now when I look at the research articles I will know what to look for to see if there is a valid project and results.

International Research

The website I choose was the Early Childhood Australia.  The site can be a bit confusing in trying to find research but I found it.

What I found most of their topic on was teacher education and how to teach different subjects.  There were topics on behavior management and how to test young children. One topic that caught my eye was the ones about play.  They write about how play is disappearing from kindergarten and how more play needs to be in a child's day.

 It is interesting to note that the same topics that we struggle with here in the United States they are struggling with also. Play, teacher trainings and how to stay on age level so the child is ready for school.  
Resources:
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/