The ability to accurately locate, read, and understand research is applicable across a wide range of careers, including any field with an evidence-based component for potentia

 The ability to accurately locate, read, and understand research is applicable across a wide range of careers, including any field with an evidence-based component for potential outcomes. Critically analyzing research beyond the undergraduate level is a skill that carries over this strategy of evidence gathering to practical and research-based levels of employment. In this assessment, you will gain a better understanding of a research study, including its potential ethical considerations and the methodology used to achieve results. 

 that you are employed as a research assistant at a pediatric office, and you are asked to analyze a study on child development. 

" How do you learn to walk? Thousands of steps and dozens of falls per day” 

• Describe the study.
• What was the hypothesis?
• What methods were used to test the hypothesis?
• What were the results?
• Provide your opinion on whether the benefits outweigh the risks.
• Describe what you would have done differently and what you would have done the same if you were conducting this research.
• Provide an analysis of the ethical considerations.