Mostly Concerning Quantitative Research

What new insights have you gained? What have you learned that will make a difference to you as a researcher?
I enjoyed reading a quantitative research article for my final research summary chart.  I read a lot of qualitative and it was interesting to think about comparing and contrasting the two.  It made me think about how different they are and I spent a little time thinking about which I would like to conduct.  They are both extremely interesting to me, and I would enjoy either, but I think I would like to do a quantitative study just because of the concrete results you get.  I will try both, but I think I would like a quantitative better.
 
What do you understand about research, or components of research that you didn’t know before?   
I loved the article I read this week it had some great ideas that I would like to see become the norm.  It was about teachers being trained by interactive, multimedia DVDs.  I thought this was particularly interesting since it eliminates the need for a person to train the teachers.  It sounded like the DVDs gave a very clear picture of how teachers should tackle teaching different reading strategies.  It seems like such a good idea because the teachers could do it on their own time.  I would love to eliminate some meetings and learn at my own pace!! Every corporate job I have ever had has used DVDs to train, it is pretty nice to watch them at your own pace so you can stop and re-watch if needed.


What else do you want to learn about designing and conducting research?
I would like to learn more about the methods of analysis used for the collection of quantitative data.  I guess that means I would need to take a statistics course...not sure how well that would go for me. Math is definitely not my strongest academic area, but I could try!