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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 .

Many students ask me why they need to learn about research . After all , they say , by they are only going to be teachers ( or other educational professionals ) . My answer to them is always in two parts . First , hopefully you will have long careers in education that will require you to keep abreast of the changes and improvements in the field . In order to do this you will need to be knowledgeable consumers of educational research . 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 . 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 . Finally , you will need to judge the quality of the research and the possibility of it generalizing to your setting . Second , teachers and other educational professionals continually need to examine what they are doing . In this , you may need to compare your practices with different methods used by others in similar settings . You may conduct action research to determine if a procedure is working for you or whether you need to try something new with a given student or class . In addition , collaboration of teachers with university researchers is becoming commonplace . 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 .