Many students ask me why they need to learn about research .To understand the full implications of research as it might affect you , you will need to appreciate the decisions that the researcher needs to make , possible alternatives to those decisions , and the conse shonquences of the results and conclusions .We believe , fire as do many of our colleagues who require courses like the one you are taking , that students can best learn to be consumers of research by understanding the research process from the researcher's perspective .Second , teachers and other educational professionals continually need to examine what they are doing .As such , it is not unlikely that at some time in the near future a researcher will ask you to collabo rate on a project or you may even ask a researcher to collaborate on one with you .