research

• Qualitative data collection techniques include interviews, focus groups, observation, document analysis, and case studies.
• Inquiry is defined as a seeking for truth, information or knowledge, and is sought through questioning.
• The exploratory nature of inquiry allows individuals, particularly students, to grapple with different ways of looking at ideas and issues and to think creatively about problems that do not possess simple answers.
• The word research is derived from the old French word cerchier, which means to “seek or search”.
• Research is defined as careful, systematic study in the field of knowledge, undertaken to discover or establish facts or principles.
• Research is defined as a scientific investigation of phenomena which includes collection, analysis and interpretation of facts.
• Research is the systematic investigation and study of materials and sources to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
• In quantitative research, raw data are numbers and data analysis is performed at the end of the study, involving statistics to come to conclusions.
• In scientific method, exploratory or bottom-up involves the researcher generating a new hypothesis and theory from the data collected, while confirmatory or top-down involves the researcher testing the hypothesis and theory with the data.
• In qualitative research, the focus can be wide-angle lens which examines the breadth and depth of phenomena, or narrow-angle lens which tests specific hypotheses.
• In qualitative research, raw data are in words and data analysis is essentially ongoing, involving using observations/comments to come to a conclusion.
• In qualitative research, the final report can be a report with narrative contextual description and direct quotations from research participants, or a statistical report with correlations, comparisons of means, and statistical significance of findings.
• In qualitative research, the nature of observation can be study behavior in a natural environment or behavior under controlled conditions.
• Research is the collection of data in a rigorously controlled situation for the purpose of prediction or explanation; a more formal, systematic and intensive process of carrying on a scientific method of analysis.
• Thomas Edison, probably the greatest inventor in American History, was criticized by his teachers for being too slow and hard to handle.
• Films, Videos, and Photography provide visual records of events.
• A research problem must be relevant, feasible, clear, and ethical.
• Total immersion in the natural setting of the research can be time-consuming, tedious, and resource-draining.
• Writing a research title should be original, clear, concise, and specific.
• Narratology is the study of narrative inquiry, which involves storytelling, retelling, and reliving of personal experiences.
• The personal-self and the researcher-self are inseparable, so, subjectivity, on the part of the researcher, can happen.
• Qualitative Research offers the best light on or best answers to certain phenomena, results are exhaustive, offers several avenues to understand phenomena, behavior, human conditions, and can build on, or through consistent themes, categories, relationships.
• Content Analysis is a systematic examination of forms of communication to document patterns objectively.
• Sources of research topics can include pressing issues on an individual, organizational, or societal level, success stories, wide reading/critical film viewing, social networking, and replication (theses and dissertations).
• At the age of 10, Thomas Edison set up his first chemistry laboratory.
• Thomas Edison’s inexhaustible energy and genius (1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration) led to the invention of the light bulb after 2,000 experiments.
• More than a century ago, rural folks used coconut oil lamp to lighten their houses.
• A century ago, Filipinos found difficulty in communicating with their relatives and friends here and abroad.
• A century or two ago, our great grandparents found difficulty in going to far places because they used bamboo rafts which took several months to reach their destination, from Mindanao to Manila.
• Manila can be reached in just an hour or two due to the invention of airplanes and fast ships.
• Electricity was discovered and used to provide light.
• Televisions and movies were invented to solve the problem of seeing and hearing events that happen at a distance.
• The problem of communication has been greatly reduced by new communication facilities such as the telephone, fax machines, cellphones, computers and many others which make possible even instant communication over long distance.
• Research is an action (verb), both physical and mental activity, and everybody commits mistakes, failed but it’s ok.
• Be a novice (neophyte) first, then eventually become an expert (professional).
• Comparative descriptive design is a comparative survey where the researcher considers at least two entities.
• Descriptive design includes survey, evaluative, and comparative types.
• Evaluative descriptive design is to appraise carefully the worthiness of the current study.
• Experimental design is a problem-solving approach that the study is described in the future on what will be when certain variables are carefully controlled or manipulated.
• Correlational study is designed to determine the relationship of two variables.