Research and language of research

• Research - primarily focused on improving the quality of life by extending knowledge
• Research - shows how to make provisions of solutions to a problem in a scientific and methodological manner
• Research Process:

  1. It starts with a problem
  2. data gathering
  3. data analysis
  4. publication of results
• Design - it is a plan how something will be done
• Quantitative research - is answered using numerical data
• Qualitative research - is answered using narrative data (words)
• Data - collected facts or information
• Significance - important data and meaningful findings in research
• Evidence - observations or information that can help solve a crime or show whether something is true or false
• Treatment - it is a cause of action designed for a research (you can do this if there is an experiment)
• Conclusion - summary of what has been learned or shown at the end of the study
• Observations - looking carefully at something (at an experiment)
• Statistical Analysis - application of mathematics to interpret results of the data gathering