the importance of early years
Introduction:
The following essay will explain why it is important for us to do research within early years. Research within early years is important as it supports the children’s care, learning and development. To do this I will be looking at the different types of methodologies including quantative and qualitative information and which is the better one to use. I will also be looking at the previous EPPE report and indentify the purpose of it. I will then give my opinion of why I think the purpose of research in early years is important using evidence to back my case.
By carrying out research on early years we can use the results to make recommendations for the future to help with things such as child development, we can also use the results to highlight flaws or positives in early years therefore we can see where we need to develop meaning we can relate and improve our practice.
“Quantitative information is gathered in the form of numbers” (Squire, 2007) Quantitative information can be things such as questionnaires, surveys or percentage of children attending school. “Qualitative information is gathered in narrative (non-numeric) form.” (Squire, 2007) This type of information can be collected in the form of interviews or one-to-one talks with who may be concerned.
Although both ways are good at collecting the information you need to use qualitative as it is the better way to collect the information as you can get a better understanding of what it is you are researching. Quantitative data will only give us the results in a numeric way e.g. 8/10 or 9%, this does not give us much information about what is being researched, for example 69% of students have hot school dinners. This gives us the result of how many children have school dinners however it does not tell us the age range of the children or what the weather may be like. It may be a warm day therefore some children may want a cold dinner rather than a hot one.
“A methodology shows how research
The following essay will explain why it is important for us to do research within early years. Research within early years is important as it supports the children’s care, learning and development. To do this I will be looking at the different types of methodologies including quantative and qualitative information and which is the better one to use. I will also be looking at the previous EPPE report and indentify the purpose of it. I will then give my opinion of why I think the purpose of research in early years is important using evidence to back my case.
By carrying out research on early years we can use the results to make recommendations for the future to help with things such as child development, we can also use the results to highlight flaws or positives in early years therefore we can see where we need to develop meaning we can relate and improve our practice.
“Quantitative information is gathered in the form of numbers” (Squire, 2007) Quantitative information can be things such as questionnaires, surveys or percentage of children attending school. “Qualitative information is gathered in narrative (non-numeric) form.” (Squire, 2007) This type of information can be collected in the form of interviews or one-to-one talks with who may be concerned.
Although both ways are good at collecting the information you need to use qualitative as it is the better way to collect the information as you can get a better understanding of what it is you are researching. Quantitative data will only give us the results in a numeric way e.g. 8/10 or 9%, this does not give us much information about what is being researched, for example 69% of students have hot school dinners. This gives us the result of how many children have school dinners however it does not tell us the age range of the children or what the weather may be like. It may be a warm day therefore some children may want a cold dinner rather than a hot one.
“A methodology shows how research