Week 5 Assignment 2 Shawnay Freeman

Hello classmates:))) This weeks research was kind of difficult. I could not find any research in the leatherby libraries on empirical reviews. I believe the reason was because I really did not understand how to research for these reviews. Before I started researching I read and looked over the lecture notes. So in the lecture it says "Subject specific Database" so I click on that link and it takes me to a link that says this page does not exit. So I am  like here we go and this is how my research went. I used the leather by libraries to look up my research , I tried to do an advance search but no luck , then I went to the research box on the right, clicked on  Google scholars and clicked search and it took me to Google. I proceeded to put empirical review psychology and all kinds of articles popped up. This was the easy part and it actually was empirical reviews. I thought I was going to have difficulties finding any information on empirical articles. I believe researching this week was difficult but very informative and will help me better understand the different ways to help and diagnosis a preschool and adolescent child. These articles have a lot of information on testing and different evaluations that they do on preschool age children and adolescents. These articles tells you how ADHD is diagnosed and how children act that have this disorder. I believe my researching will get a lot better in the future while researching. I learned something different this week also. The difference between preschool age children and adolescent children who have ADHD.

Week 4 Assignment 1a Shawnay Freeman

While researching the leatherby libraries  I found a lot of journals that were not about my topic.I also found several articles by doing an advanced search in the leatherby libraries,  in the journal search. Many of the articles that were on my subject did not talk about certain testing in assessing underage children. So I had to further my search . I found two articles that were very similar to my subject. One of those articles were "Test an evaluation of performance in typically developing and clinically referred children" In reviewing this article and others gave me a better understanding of children who are assessed by testing , and other forms of testing. The most helpful research strategy I believe was using the leatherby Journal search. It was pretty simple. I just went  to the library homepage went to journal finder click advance search, entered psychological assessment and several journals came up. I searched over many journals before I found one that was similar to my subject. I did experience some difficulties.I could not tell if it was an academic journal, if it was just a journal, or if there was a difference. I hope that made sense. While further researching my topic I hope to find out if psychological assessments can determine if underage/preschool age children have (ADHD)

Week 3 Assignment 2 Shawnay Freeman

Hello everyone this blogging is really something very new to me. I guess it will grow on me soon. I hope:) Well this week was very intense if I do say so my self. Upon doing my research I used the letherby libraries and I found it a little difficult at first but when I put certain topics or sentences in I found somethings could be found and some could not be found. I put my title in and I came up with nothing but when I put keywords in and only entered Psychological Assessments I found 24 results.  I talk to one of the librarians she showed me how to research through their library and I found that to be very helpful. They welcome us all to call and take a connect meeting. It was very helpful. I am not saying I am a pro at it but it is getting a lot easier. I started out with a different book in my last paper we wrote so my book has changed. My topic is still on the Psychological assessment of under age children but I am now using Understanding Children by  Schickedanz, Schickedanz, Hansen, and Forsyth . I choose this book because the book I found online through the leatherby libraries would not get to me in time to turn in this weeks assignment. I found that this book helped me better understand the different stages that a child's mind develops at. The development of a child goes through certain processes and development is on going. The book talks about assessing children, how they are assessed and what level or degree the assessments go. The assessments that are used in assessing children and there are three parts to this assessment. Researching as helped me better understand my topic in so many ways. I love the development of the mind and this books shows and takes you through a journey of the under age, school age and adolescent age mind. This book has so much research on my topic it is unbelievable. Researching this week has showed me so many different ways children develop. The brain is like a sponge and when dealing with under age children they pick up everything and they absorb it quickly.

Week 2

Hello class I have learned a lot about blogging and researching while doing this assignment. This is really my first time having a research class and understanding research in detail. I have never blogged so this is really foreign to me but interesting. I am not a research person and I do not like citing. When researching it is sometimes hard to find things but while doing assignment one, I have learned some different ways of researching.
While researching Psychological assessments for under age children I found that children are assessed first because this helps in determining the individuals strengths and weaknesses. I also found that assessments are sometimes the only way in determining a under age child's behavior. When I started my research I went to the  Google search, enter my topic. I found some information , so I wanted to further my search so I  went to the news events  on Google and searched my subject  and this helped me further my search. I did not know this so that was a good source I found. In furthering my search on my topic I would want to search about the brain development in under age children.

Welcome

Hello welcome to my blog my name is shawnay Freeman. I am a Early Childhood Education major with a minor in psychology. I have been attending Brandman University since fall 1 and this is my first semester attending Brandman. I am very excited and motivated to move on to Fall 2 and so ready to get my Bachelors degree that I can taste it. I am also in the process of opening up a child care center in Apple Valley in the near future. This is one of my career goals. I am also thinking about entering in the psychology masters progress after I receive my BA in Early childhood Education. I feel I can become a better scholar researcher and use of information in this class by using the resources that the book gives me to find the information I am looking for. I believe this class will show me how to effectively find information and that the information is credible.  The book tells me that  the ACRL 2000 is based on the Association of College & Research Libraries'. The ACRL is defined in this book as the ability " to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and use effectively the needed information. (Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, page 2) This will also teach me how to use the information effectively and accurately