Saturday, May 12, 2012

Personal Research Journey

During my research journey, I decided to research cognitive development in children birth through age eight. I'm specifically interested in six through eight year old children. Because these are the beginning years of formal school and I want to know how they learn, recall, and retain information. I eight grand children, and two of them are in the same grade. One of them is having problems in school with learning. Their are a lot of factors that may contribrite to the situation, but I'm interested in how he comprehends and learns.

During our resources this past two weeks, I've been somewhat confused. But I kept reading the information until it made some sense to me. The information is very informative actually. Expecially, how the resources break down evaluating research. Once I began to reconstruct the research chart using key terms, it helped me to understand part of the research process. It seems to be coming along, a bit slow but coming along.  One resource that seemed interesting to me Ebsco host, which is a search engine that Walden uses for its students. The NAEYC website is also interesting when research children and guidelines for policies. Is their any websites that you feel may be helpful for my research, or maybe you would like to share some information about the sites that you've chosen.

Good Luck! I look forward to collaborating with you in the future.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Theresa, you have a great topic to research. Especially using the Ebsco host database you will plenty of credible articles to support your topic. When start the resource process I felt a little confused too. As the assignments builds on top of each other, I’m feeling a little less apprehensive. My advice is to stay confident and continue to work through the research process.

    Good Luck,
    Andrea

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  2. Theresa,

    Thanks for sharing the useful information in your blog. I will use Ebsco for articles that are credible for my topic. If I come across any other good sites I am willing to share them with you.

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