As part of my Building Research Competencies class we were asked to come up with a a possible research simulation that I could do. The research simulation question I came up with was to determine how parents choose the type of childcare they put their children in. I choose to break it down further by looking at if state funded child care assistance was not available would so many children be in childcare centers. I know that child care assistance is a vital component when parents are thinking about child care. Sorry to say that many families probably wouldn't be able to afford to send their children to daycare.
I have learned after starting this research process that research does take a long time. You are not just looking at what you know or think but what information is out there. You have to be able to support your findings with other people's work. I found that you have to take your time and look around. Making sure a source is credible can take up some of your time. You don't want to quote people who are not creditable because then it makes your work look bad.
I find research to be very time consuming, but if we want to report validating information we must take the time and steps in doing so. We do want our research to be creditable to others so that they can build upon our findings. I just wish the process in doing so was quicker. But what's the saying...we get out of it, what we put into it ((:
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