Research in child development is about how something in the environment is related to something in the child. These two things are called factors. Imagine two factors that might relate to eachother 1) One must be an aspect of the environment and 2) One must be an aspect of the child's development or behavior. How do you think they are related? Do you think the environmental factor causes positive or negative change in the child? Now form your thoughts into a research question that can be studied. The question must be specific enough so that you know exactly what you are assessing in both the environment and the child.The question should be general enough that you can get variation, meaning differences in the environmental variable between the people you study, for example if you want to know how exercise affects energy level you need to study people who do different amounts of exercise, if they all do the same amount you won't be able to make any comparisons. Research
part 1: Think of 2 factors that might be related relevant to child development:
Write a research question that inlcudes those 2 factors. State which 2
variables make up your question Journal
1: All the questions # 1-3 in detail.For the last question make sure to be specific about your study's design, describe how you would carry out a specific study to answer the questions about how something in the classroom affects something about the children.
1. Why might 2
studies examining the same factors have opposite results? Imagine you wanted to
understand something about the way the classroom environment affects the
children in the class.
2. List your research question
with the variable from the classroom environment and the variable from the
children, then list some confounds
3. Write out exactly how you would design a study based on one of your research questions.
Child
development involves the multivariate growth of a human being up to
adolescence. These variables include emotional, physical, social, cognitive,
and academic growth. During this period of growth, children spend most of their
time in classrooms. Hence, various physical factors associated with the
classroom environment can produce different results for different growth
elements. For instance, crowding in classrooms and other physical spaces
affects children's social and academic growth. Hence, it is critical to
determine the relationship between crowding as an environmental factor and
children's social and academic development.