Unit 4 Research in the Early Years Sector

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Why do we research? To inform... (3 reasons)
1) Practice 2) Professionals 3) Parents/Carers
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Why do we research? (in terms of issues)
Research contributes to this because it informs people about how previous legislation lead to certain issues being missed or certain societal/ethical reasoning faulting children's learning and development (or there overall outcomes).
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Primary Research
Done yourself. Conduct surveys or observing
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Secondary Research
Using research that has been created by other individuals
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Qualitative Data
Collecting data in a written form.
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Quantitative Data
A form of data based on statistics
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Covert
Doesn't know being observed
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Overt
Aware of the observation be conducted on them
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Particpant
Self-explained
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Onlooker
Self-explained
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Interviews
Structured, semi or unstructured.
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Case Studies
Indepth investigation, mainly subjective
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Scientific Experiment
Structured around a hypothesis, detailed series of steps to test this.
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Questionnaires
Quick to compare, may not be fully answeerd or viable, might have lies, not personal.
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Checklist
Provides general guidelines.
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Rationale
Reasoning for research piece
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SMART objectives
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-related
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Target group
could be set or not, influenced by sampling
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Random Sampling
No patterning
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Systemic Sampling
System to picking random particpants
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Stratified sampling
Specific participants chosen during strategy.
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Voluntary sampling
Self-explanatory, can receive a biased group
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Ethical
Morals, values, protecting partipcants, appropriate conditions to treat fair including confidentiality of information to prevent exposure as an act of safeguarding (consent is important for using research information, clear conditions of consent)
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Viability
Twisted results? Results should not be singled out or adapted to fit ideal outcome. Viability could regard primary or secondary research. Huge case such as Andrew Wakefield.
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Plagiarism
Originality of research or clear references to original work.
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Legislation
Data protection act 1998, freedom of information act 2000, UNCRC, Human Rights Act 1998, NSPCC
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