Application Assignment: Entering the Research Process

Note: Your Application Assignment this week has two parts.
Part 1: Reading Research
Professionals in all disciplines keep their knowledge of the field current. There are various ways to accomplish this, such as attending conferences or networking with other professionals. However, the most efficient way to learn about new developments on an ongoing and relatively cost-effective basis is to read published research articles. Yet, this option is heavily underutilized by a great number of professionals in all fields. The common reason stated across disciplines is that for those who are not trained researchers, such publications are too difficult to read because of the complex language and the statistics involved.
While these assumptions are factually correct, they do not need to keep you from being comfortable and fluent reading research. The solution is to learn to identify and then focus on strategic pieces of information within each article. “A Practical Guide to Reading Research Articles,” in the resources this week, is a tool to help you learn this process. This assignment provides you with an opportunity to use this reading as a tool to practice and hone your research reading skills. Step-by-step instructions will guide you through the reading process so that you learn to apply this tool in a systematic manner.
Follow the steps below to complete this portion of the application assignment:
Review the article “A Practical Guide to Reading Research Articles”
Keep the Appendix in the course text nearby and use it as a guide to terminology that might be new to you and that you may encounter when reading research articles
Chose one of the research articles listed below.
Click on the link below and follow the instructions.

“Analysis of a Research Article”

Submit your completed document
Research Articles
Note: Some research articles, especially those that report on studies using qualitative methods, are written in less formal styles and usually do not need special reading skills. The focus of this assignment is exclusively on learning to read studies that use quantitative methods and a formal style of describing the research process.
Article: Lisonbee, J. A., Mize, J., Payne, A. L., & Granger, D. A. (2008). Children’s cortisol and the quality of teacher–child relationships in child care. Child Development, 79(6), 1818–1832. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Academic Search Complete database. Elevated Cortisol levels can be a symptom of anxiety or other stress. The focus of this study was to find out what may influence a change in Cortisol levels in very young children.
Article: Over, H., & Carpenter, M. (2009). Eighteen-month-old infants show increased helping following priming with affiliation. Psychological Science (Wiley-Blackwell), 20(10), 1189–1193. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Academic Search Complete database. This study with 18-month-old infants explores circumstances under which their willingness to help another person changes.
Article: Sayfan, L., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2009). Scaring the monster away: What children know about managing fears of real and imaginary creatures. Child Development, 80(6), 1756–1774. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Academic Search Complete database. As the title promises, this is a study of what very young children know about how different people experience fear and what one can do to not be overwhelmed by fear.
Article: Strand, P. S., Cerna, S., & Downs, A. (2008). Shyness and emotion-processing skills in preschoolers: A 6-month longitudinal study. Infant & Child Development, 17(2), 109–120. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Academic Search Complete database. This is a rather complex study: it involves several data collection points over a period of time; it shows the application of more than one data collection instrument; and it involves results that are to some degree ambiguous. This is often the case when the topic of the research, as in this study, involves the investigation of aspects of socio-emotional factors related to children. The results of this study are surprising and of practical importance for anybody interested in fostering healthy socio-emotional development in young children.
Article: Slaughter, V., & Griffiths, M. (2007). Death understanding and fear of death in young children. Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 12(4), 525–535. Retrieved from the Walden Library using Sage Premier 2010 database. This study describes the degree to which children between 4 and 8 years understanding death, their fear of death, and in what specific ways these concepts and fears change over the course of development. The results of this study provide some guidance for ways to discuss death with young children.
Submit this assignment by Sunday of this week.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Application Assignment: Entering the Research Process
Note: Your Application Assignment this week has two parts.
Part 2: Beginning Your Research Simulation—From General Topic to Subtopics
Through simulations people become familiar with processes, try them out safely, and understand them more clearly. This week, you begin the creation of a “Research Simulation” that will build continually throughout this course. The overall intent of this assignment is to provide you with the practical, hands-on experience of doing research. This experience will also enhance your ability to be a critical consumer of research.
The first step in conducting research is identifying a research topic. You took this first step when you reflected on and shared the general early childhood topic in which you are interested in the Discussion. Take time to consider this topic again. As you begin this series of research simulations, your first task, too, is to narrow this general topic into three subtopics. For instance, if the topic you are interested in is social-emotional development, you might narrow it down to these three subtopics: 1. Ways to foster healthy social emotional development in toddlers 2. How the arts help children develop social-emotionally in healthy ways 3. The influence of sibling relationships on preschool children’s social-emotional development.
Listen closely to yourself, to the questions you want to ask about young children or families or early childhood in general, and choose sub topics that reflect and are supported by your professional and/or personal passion.
For this Assignment, prepare a document that contains the following elements:
Restate your general early childhood research topic
Articulate three related subtopics
Explain:
Your professional and personal reason(s) for choosing these three subtopics
Three ways you anticipate that researching these topics might be significant for young children, their families, and/or the field of early childhoodThe TOPIC I CHOSE WAS : THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND HOW THEY DEVELOP
Assignment length: Approximately 1 page
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