Analyze and Critique Research

Running head: MODULE 01 ASSIGNMENT – ANALYZE AND CRITIQUE RESEARCH 1

MODULE O1 ASSIGNMENT – ANALYZE AND CRITIQUE RESEARCH 2

Analyze and Critique Research

Rasmussen College

EXAMPLE

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on August 11, 2018, for Jamie Wendt’s EEC4485 Early Childhood Advocacy, research, and Policy course.

Analyze and Critique Research

How wonderful it is to watch a child’s physical growth as she learns to lift her head, turnover and crawl into toddlerhood where she can now master standing up and begin to walk. From all of the research I have read, brain development from birth to age five is more aggressive than at any other point in a person’s life, even though our brains continue to grow throughout adulthood. Research tells us that high-quality, interactive relationships, between a child and her parents, caregivers, and teachers are vital to making the most out of this developmental phase, but we cannot believe everything we read. For this assignment, I will identify a quality early childhood education article online from a quality source. In a one to two-page paper, I will analyze and critique the article.

The source of the article is Zero To Three, an organization that plays a key role in ensuring that babies and toddlers get a strong start in life by supporting parents with practical resources, professionals with knowledge, and policymakers in advancing comprehensive and coherent family-friendly policies. The article selected is Supporting Growth and Development of Babies in Child Care: What Does the Research Say? The research focuses on how child care licensing, subsidy policies, and quality can increase the odds that babies and toddlers have positive early learning experiences. The article can be retrieved from the Zero To Three website through their search engine and downloaded at that time. The five-page report is easy to follow, written in English, and at a level that any early childhood professional and most parents can understand. Each section starts with boldface captions so that the reader will know the content underneath.

The research was conducted by two well-known agencies, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and Zero To Three’s Policy Center. The data was collected through a rigorous, large-scale, random-assignment evaluation of parents enrolled in the Head Start Program. The large, diverse group located in different demographical areas rendered more reliability than the use of a small group in the same location. The research participant’s identities, locations, program affiliation or origin were not disclosed.

The purpose of the research is explained in the first paragraph of the report. In the next few paragraphs data is provided about the number of infants and toddlers in non-parental care arrangements highlighting the researchers use of developmental research method which uses information that is already known but sets out to improve or create something new.

The article made recommendation based off of their findings. State policies can support the quality and continuity of relationships in child care by doing the following: Increasing choices for low-income working families, establishing higher standards for caregiving environments, strengthening the workforce and supporting caregivers, and linking health and family services to child care settings.

The article has an accurate and impressive number of twenty-seven references in a five-page report. The piece is free of errors and the use of jargon. The article comes from a reliable and trusted website. The researchers are highly qualified in this area of research, and I deem this piece credible and valuable.

References

Goldstein, A., Hamm, K., & Schumacher, R. (2016, February 19). Supporting growth and development of babies in child care: What does the research say? [PDF]. Retrieved from https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/208-supporting-growth-and-development-of-babies-in-child-care-what-does-the-research-say

Zero To Three. (n.d.). About us. Retrieved August 12, 2018, from https://www.zerotothree.org/about/about-us