WebQuest Step 3

What?

I really didn't know or remember anything about these types of research until we discussed them in class. It was a very nice refresher for me... I learned that the Action Research uses any of the other types of research. In descriptive and correlational research, there isn't any change or it will become experimental because you would be changing one of the variables. We also talked about that if you were to do some type of research with your class that part of the class would feel left out or that you would have parents that didn't appreciate that their child got the not so pleasant side of the research study. This really made me think because i never thought of things like that. I guess I have never really had to think of ways that would be fair for the whole class or that students wouldn't feel left out. This was very important because now I can be thinking about it and be thinking of ways that I could incorporate diffrent things but still have every student not feel left out.

So What?

I'm still not way sure of why we had to learn the different types of research. I know that it will be useful knowledge one day but I'm still not 100% sure of what I can use this information for. I'm sure i'll have to use it in the science section of my teaching, hence why i'm learning in Psychology(science class), but I can't think of a way that i would be able to describe the processes or what they are to elementary students. I know that there is a way, I just can't think of it at the moment. There are going to be ways that i'll probably have to do one of these types of research my class without them knowing it. That way I can get more accurate answeres because the students won't be trying to do what they think I want them to do.

Now What?

1) I'm not exactly sure what I still need to learn about educational research. I'm sure, well I know, that there is a lot that I need to learn because I really can't think of what I don't know or that I do know. I do know that there is a lot of information out there and i'm not sure if i'll be able to learn or comprehend everything but i'm going to try!

2) Well sometime in my teaching career i'm pretty sure that i'm going to have to do some type of research, which will be the Action research and Action research can involve any of the types of research. So it's very good to know all 4 types and what they involve or how to go about doing them. I'm sure that i'll be doing the other types of research with my students as well. That's really all that I can think of right now...